Category Archives: Curriculum

Community Partnership, Health and Wellbeing, Whole school

New Cumnock Community Sports Hub – Football Camp

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New Cumnock Community Sports Hub presents our Easter Football Camp!
Open to all young people from age 3 to 12 and all levels of skill.  We cant wait for you to come and join in!   Fun filled football skills, drills and games then finishing off with a “congratulations presentation”
  • When – 8th April 2025
  • Time – Mini Kickers(Age 3/5) @ 9.30am to 10.30am and Big Kids Camp (Ages 6/12) 11am to 4pm
  • Where – Greenhead Playing Fields, New Cumnock
  • How Much – £3pp for mini kickers and £10pp for Big Kids
*Coaches PVG checked* *Please note mini kickers must be accompanied by an adult*
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/new-cumnck-development-trust/t-ojdrxja
Achievements, Burns competitions, Expressive Arts, Literacy, Wider Achievement

Ayrshire Schools Burns Competition Success 2025

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We couldn’t be more proud of Team New Cumnock today! ❤️

Each and every one of our pupils who represented the school at the Regional Ayrshire Burns Schools Competition is a superstar. The performances they gave in front of a large audience and the feedback from the judges on their adjudication sheets is testament to that.

We are delighted to be bringing home the following prizes:

3rd place P1-3 Verse Speaking: Alice M

3rd place P4/5 Verse Speaking: Stewart Y

1st place P6/7  Verse Speaking: Adele M

1st place P6/7  Singing: Arabella S

Millar S was also in the top 6 who had to compete again in a head to head for the P1-3 Verse Speaking.

Our P1-3 Verse Speaking entries – Millar S, Alice M and Annika S

Our P4/5 Verse Speaking entries – Daisy M, Connie B, Stewart Y, Olivia M and Lewis J

Our P6/7 Verse Speaking entries – Adele M and Harry W

Our P6/7 Singing entries – Paige Y, Jorja K, Arabella S and Adele M

Also a huge well done to our former pupils who are now at Robert Burns Academy and bringing home the following prizes to New Cumnock:

3rd place S1/2 Verse Speaking: Amy J

3rd place S1/2 Singing: Aleesha C

2nd place S3/4 Verse Speaking: Emma Y

3rd place S3/4 Verse Speaking: Emma J

1st place S3/4 Singing: Emma J

1st place S5/6 Verse Speaking: Adana W

Well done everyone, you are all stars! ⭐️

Mrs McNulty would like to extend her thanks to Mrs Wilson for coming in to school to accompany our singers to help them rehearse on the run up to the competition. ❤️

We are delighted that our 1st and 2nd place winners have now been invited to attend the National Burns Competitions in Dumfries to represent Ayrshire later this year! 🤩

Literacy, Whole school

World Book Day 2025

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World book day will be celebrated in school on THURSDAY 6TH MARCH!  We would like to invite all our children to come to school that day either dressed up as a book character or snuggled up dressed in their pyjamas for a bedtime story.
In the lead up to World Book Day we will be hosting our annual Scholastic Book Fair.  Children will have the opportunity to visit the fair with their class and write their “wish list” of books.  If you wish to purchase books from your child’s wish list you can do so by following instructions to online payment that will be given out to children at the book fair.

Finally, it wouldn’t be World Book Day without a story themed competition!  Our Reading Schools Ambassadors are setting a challenge for children to CREATE A CHARACTER TATTIE!  At home, find your best looking tattie and transform it into a literary character… a Harry Potter tattie, a Gruffalo tattie, maybe even a Tracey Beaker tattie… use your imagination and get creative!  Please bring all finished tatties to school for judging by WEDNESDAY 5TH MARCH!  There will be a winner and a runner up from our infant school (P1, P1/2, P2/3), our middle school (P3/4, P4, P4/5), and our senior school (P5, P6, P7) so plenty of prizes up for grabs!

Happy reading!

Achievements, Numeracy, Whole school

TTRS – NSPCC Rocks!

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Dear parent/carer,

As part of our commitment to make maths exciting and high profile in our school, we are taking part in a friendly competition involving schools in across the UK. The competition runs from 07:30 GMT Friday 7th February 2025 to 19:30 GMT Friday 7th February 2025. It’s all done online via play.ttrockstars.com.

Children can play in any gamemode with every correct answer to a multiplication or division question, earning themselves, their class and the school a point. The Times Tables Rock Stars platform will calculate the class average (the number of correct answers per pupil in the class who play during the competition hours, subject to a daily 60-minute limit (see below)). Winning classes in the school and in the competition as a whole will be the ones with the highest average.

To support player wellbeing, there is a daily time limit of 60-minutes per player. In other words, each player can earn competition points for up to 60-minutes between 07:30 GMT and 19:30 GMT on 07:30 GMT Friday 7th February 2025 to 19:30 GMT Friday 7th February 2025. Once the player goes beyond 60-minutes of play on that day, they will still earn coins but will no longer earn points towards the competition.

In the spirit of the competition, please don’t play on their behalf but by all means encourage and support them to the extent that it doesn’t cause high stress levels or impact on family plans.

Community Partnership, Health and Wellbeing, Primary 6, Primary 7

P6/7 Fitfest Ambassadors

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🤩 #Fitfest Ambassadors 🤩
Calling all NCPS Primary 6s and 7s how would you like the opportunity to become a “Fitfest Ambassador” – well now is your chance.
In partnership with NCPS, NCDT are looking to recruit a group of young people in either P6 or P7 to help with the planning and organisational side of Fitfest! This Includes having your own portion of budget to spend on an activity or event at #FitFest2025 and of course a tshirt and hoodie!
So if you have a passion for all things #fitfest and are keen to be involved in the NC community then we would love to hear from you.
Young people will be asked to complete an application form and also attend a short interview so we can learn and hear lots about them.
Here is some key information for anyone who may be interested in applying:
⭐️ 27/01/25 – Tammy from NCDT & Geraldine 🦒will attend NCPS Get Together to explain #fitfest ambassadors to the whole school.  Application forms will be given to the P6 and P7 teachers to distribute to anyone who wishes to apply.
⭐️ 30/01/25 – Completed applications must be returned to the NCDT Office (21 Castle) no later than 4pm on this day.
⭐️ 03/02/25 – All young people will be notified as to whether they have reached interview stage or not.
⭐️ 04/02/25 – Interviews will take place in NCPS.
Most importantly any young person wishing to be involved must be available to attend Fitfest on 25/05/25 and have permission from a parent/guardian.
We know how much the young people in our community LOVE #fitfest and we cannot wait for them to be involved in making 2025 EVEN better!
Please like, share and tag any young people who you think would be a great addition to our team!
#fitfest2025
#teamnewcumnock
Health and Wellbeing, Uncategorized, Whole school

Winter Support 2025

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As we approach Christmas 2025, here at New Cumnock Primary School,  we are very aware that it can be a difficult time for some of our families. If you feel you would benefit from extra support in the form of vouchers, gifts for the children or food parcels please complete the form in the link below and we will add your name to our family database. This information is completely confidential and in such times as we are provided with the above support, you will be contacted as a matter of priority to receive this help.

Kind RegardsAlways be kind

Tracey Bradford

Home-Link Practitioner

01290 338404/07788124474

eatracey.bradford@glow.sch.uk

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Achievements, Football, Health and Wellbeing

Girls Football Tournament 1/10/24

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We are looking for a further 4 girls from P5-7 to attend a girl’s football event at Cumnock Juniors Park, Townhead, Cumnock on Tuesday 1st October from 3-5pm.

The community minibus will leave school at 2.45pm and return to school for 5.15pm. Please complete the form below if your child wishes to attend. It will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. Letters will be sent home soon after.

Achievements, Expressive Arts, Wider Achievement

High School Musical JR Success!!!

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And that’s a wrap on our 2024 school show!

A huge well done to everyone involved in our High School Musical production. What an absolutely smashing bunch you are!

Please click on the tab to our school show at the top of our blog page to view all the wonderful photos captured of you all.

We are looking forward to celebrating all your hard work with our wrap party tomorrow and we are already thinking about which show we can do next year!

GO WILDCATS!!!

Mrs McNulty & Mrs Clarke