Category Archives: Parental Engagement
Parent Council AGM 9/6/21
This Wednesday 9th June, our Parent Council are hosting their annual AGM meeting at 6pm.
The meeting will be held online via Zoom, meaning you can join us from the comfort of your own home.
In order to be sent the access code to the Zoom meeting, please fill in the contact form below and the code will be emailed out to you prior to the meeting.
Each year, we hope to gain new Parent Council members who will help support and drive forward our school. Our Parent Council are an invaluable resource to our school community, and you could so easily be part of that!
Take a look at the video below for all the ways our Parent Council help support our young people…
Please complete this contact form, to enable Mrs McNulty to email the code out to you prior to the meeting.
We hope you can join us on Wednesday!
Team New Cumnock ❤️
P1-3 Learning Journals Pilot
A huge thank you again to our families who have agreed to be part of our pilot of Learning Journals.
Stories
This fortnight, our staff are going to focus on sharing ‘STORIES‘ with you about your child whilst in school. It would be really useful and beneficial to both your child and their class teacher if you are able to login and respond to these posts with either a ‘thumbs up’ or a comment. The children love to know their work is being shared with you.
Parental Contributions
In addition to this, we are encouraging our parents/carers to add ‘PARENTAL CONTRIBUTIONS‘. This is where you can share any learning or achievements from home, with the class teacher. This information is invaluable and gives us a further insight into our young people.
Login Information
If you have forgotten your log in information and need this to be reset, please email Mrs McNulty at danielle.mcnulty@eastayrshire.org.uk and she will assist you.
Additional parent logins
We are also able to assign more than 1 parent to your child’s account so if you wish to do so, please complete the contact form below.
Family Support Database
Here at New Cumnock Primary School we are keen to support our families in any way we can.
In order for us to create a record of our families who require support such as food provision, clothes, money, vouchers or even advice as to which agency support you can receive, please complete the contact form below.
This information will be strictly 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.
Alternatively, please contact our Home Link Practitioner, Mrs Bradford, on 07934162412.
Weekly Round Up 5/3/21
This week we continue to be amazed by the wonderful work going on both in school and at home from our young people!
Don’t forget to check our class blogs too for photos of the learning taking place each week.
FREE online fitness sessions the people of New Cumnock for ALL ages!
FREE online fitness sessions for the people of New Cumnock for ALL ages!
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Numeracy Support for Parents/Carers

Please visit our Parent Zone of the school blog where we have added new resources designed to support our parents/carers. (Click on the link below or click on the Parent Zone tab in the menu above) Please note the new addition of resources from the Scottish Attainment Challenge Team which shares Family Learning Activities designed to provide information and links to help parents, families and children enjoy maths activities together.
In addition to this they have also created a series of videos which share some of the approaches to teaching and learning in numeracy, calculation strategies and terminology currently being developed across schools in East Ayrshire.
Numeracy Support | New Cumnock Primary School (glowscotland.org.uk)
How to access class homework…
We have had a few queries recently as to how and where to access your child’s class homework.
As we are minimising the items being passed between school and home, each class will be setting homework tasks weekly through their class blogs.
These can be found in the CLASSES AND STAFF tab on our school blog.
https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/ea/newcumnockprimaryschoolea/
Once you select your child’s class, you must click on the link within that page which will take you directly to your child’s class blog. Once there you must select the HOMEWORK tab. All homework tasks will be posted here for you to refer to. Your child may be asked to submit tasks via email/Teams but will be instructed to do so by their class teacher if this is a requirement.
A quick ‘how to’ guide to access homework can be found in the video below.
If you have any further questions or queries, please notify a member of the Senior Leadership team. Their contact details can be found below.
joanna.mcmurdo@eastayrshire.org.uk
Parent Focus Group – Relationships Policy
As you know we are developing our Relationships Policy this session. This involves exploring our current practice with regards to developing positive relationships within the school community, managing behaviour and promoting our school vision and values.
A big thank you to those parents who managed to attend our focus group last week. As you know we are keen to involve the whole school community in school improvement opportunities and appreciate your time and commitment.



