We are participating in ‘No Pens Day’ on Wednesday 29th November to raise awareness of the importance of communication skills in our school.

This national day is set to help improve children and young people’s communication skills through a day of talking and listening activities – starting with the biggest ever show and tell!

Why is your child’s school taking part in No Pens Day 2023: Show and tell?
• Teachers estimate that, in the UK today, 1.9 million children struggle with talking and understanding words. Without the right support, they face huge hurdles in learning, making friends and staying in good mental health.
• It’s a chance for your child to improve their speech, language and communication skills through a day of talking and listening activities – starting with the biggest ever show and tell!

Show and tell focus – MY HOBBY – please encourage your child to bring an object to help them share about their hobby with the class.  This could be – a pair of dancing shoes, a karate belt, a colouring book, a reading book…. please do not send anything of extreme value and no need for lots of items – only 1 item to help them share their hobby with their friends.

We will also be encouraging British Sign Language practise throughout the day too as a way of communicating.

We are not asking for money directly but if any parent would like to support this charity, all money raised will go to Speech and Language UK – a charity that supports children who struggle with talking and understanding words.

Follow the following link or scan the QR code to access the site if you wish to donate.

https://donate.speechandlanguage.org.uk/NPD23/~my-donation 

Thank

Any questions, don’t hesitate to ask, Thank you for your continued support.

Mrs Johnstone

Communication Friendly Schools Champion.

As we approach Christmas 2023, NCPS recognises that it can be a difficult time for some of our families, for various reasons. If you feel you would benefit from extra support with 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. Information is 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.

Kind Regards

Tracey Bradford

Home-Link Practitioner

01290 338404

eatracey.bradford@glow.sch.uk

Winter support

As we start our new session 2023-2024 we will be continuing with reporting to parents using the Learning Journals approach.

we want to ensure all parents have access as this will update you weekly as to learning taking place in class.

Already signed up

If you have already signed up to Learning Journals but are unable to remember your password, please complete the form below and in a few days you will receive an email with password reset instructions.

Not already signed up / adding more people to view pupil profiles

If you haven’t signed up please complete the form below and in a few days you will receive an email with instructions to set up a profile.

More than one person can be linked to children’s profiles (grandparents etc…)  and if you wish this, please complete this form too with their email address and this will be set up too.

Thank You.

Happy holidays to all our families!

Thank you for all your support for another hugely successful year for Team New Cumnock!

We hope you have a lovely, safe and relaxing summer and we look forward to welcoming our pupils back on Monday 21st August!

Welcome

Dear Parent/Carer,

After the summer break, New Cumnock Primary School will be participating in the Trailblazers trial – a joint Ayrshire project looking to improve road safety and increase active and sustainable travel to school. Ahead of the trial launching, a short survey has been prepared to understand current travel behaviours and attitudes around active and sustainable travel to school. I would be most grateful if you could take a few minutes to share your thoughts via the short survey provided at the following link:

Trailblazers Parent Questionnaire (snapsurveys.com)

The deadline for survey response is the 30^th of June.

Could all parents/carers please take a minute to complete this form regarding possible new groups etc which we might be able to run in school next session.

Thank You

Tracey Bradford

Home-Link Practitioner

We would appreciate parents/carers of Primary 1 and Primary 1/2 would complete the following questionnaire to help us with your views on the Play Approaches used in the classroom.

Thank you, your support is valued.