This is a brilliant website for neurodivergent children and their families. Lots of fantastic resources, workshops and details of support services available in our area. If you would like to speak to someone in school about any concerns you might have, feel free to make contact. https://www.nest.scot/

Tracey Bradford

Home-Link Practitioner

tracey.bradford@eastayrshire.org.uk

Our leadership group have been recapping the various signs that are useful to learn. We have created a short video to share these with you again and refresh your memory. We hope you can use them and support with communication with others.

We are delighted, at New Cumnock Primary School, to be officially presented with our Communication Friendly Schools status.

Hayley from the Speech and Language Team came to our school Get Together to present our plaque to members of our Communication Friendly Schools Pupil Leadership Team.

Jorja and Paige were delighted to accept it on behalf of the school. We have worked hard as a school over the past 2 years to achieve this status and we are so proud.

Tonight our school choir sang at Cumnock Hospital for the Ayrshire Hospice.

What a truly amazing place the Hospice is, with exceptional staff!

We felt so privileged to sing for all the patients and staff tonight to spread Christmas cheer.

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

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!

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