We are so grateful for everyone who donated to Down’s Syndrome Scotland when we took part in their odd socks campaign. We raised £130 for the charity. Well done Team New Cumnock!
Category Archives: Whole school
NCPS Mental Health Week 13-17th May 2024
13/5/24 Mental Health Awareness Week Scotland
From Monday 13th until Friday 17th May, we will be hosting activities for each class in support of Mental Health Awareness Week. The theme this year is “Movement: Moving more for our mental health”
Please remember when a gym kit is required – this must include your child bringing a change of footwear (trainers or plimsoles which can be worn indoors) and bringing (or wearing) shorts/leggings/joggers. We would encourage our upper children to have a change of top too, to keep them feeling fresh after physical activity.
Pinafores or school trousers being worn and footwear worn they have come to school in will result in your child being unable to take part.
Monday 13th May
· All children will need gym kit and jewellery removed as there will be sport sessions for everyone in the gym hall. Please bring a water bottle.
· P1, P1/2, P3/4 & P4/5 Lagoon walks – weather appropriate footwear and clothing please.
Tuesday 14th May
· All children will need gym kit and jewellery removed as there will be fitness sessions for everyone in the gym hall. Please bring a water bottle.
· P2, P3, P5, P6 Lagoon walks – weather appropriate footwear and clothing please.
Wednesday 15th May
· P7 Lagoon walk – weather appropriate footwear and clothing please.
· P4/5 & P5/6 children will need gym kit and jewellery removed as there will be games sessions in the gym hall. Please bring a water bottle.
Thursday 16th May
· All children will need gym kit and jewellery removed as there will be karate for the middle to upper school and yoga sessions for everyone. Please bring a water bottle.
Friday 17th May
· All children will need gym kit and jewellery removed as there will be games sessions for everyone. Please bring a water bottle.
Many thanks for your support in this,
Kind Regards
Miss McQueen
PE Kit
Parents/carers,
PE kit is required for all children in the school in order to participate in PE lessons. Lately, we have had more and more children missing out on PE lessons due to not having the correct kit to safely take part.
This includes:
- a change of shoes to be worn indoors
- shorts/joggers to change into
- a change of t-shirt (this is more for our upper children who will be sweating during sessions and will want a fresh top to change back in to to wear for the remainder of the day)
- long hair must be tied back
- earrings must be out to participate in lessons too.
These items can be left in a bag on your child’s peg for safekeeping in school.
Your child’s PE days are noted on our blog. Please be mindful on these days that your child is arriving at school prepared to take part when possible (this includes ensuring they are not wearing pinafores/jumpsuits which means they do not have a T-shirt in school.)
If you have any shorts/joggers or trainers/plimsoles that your child has outgrown, we would happily accept them in school to create a bank of clothing for our young people should they need to access it.
May Day Holiday Football Camp
The May Day holiday is coming up, and the New Cumnock Development Trust have wonderful Football opportunities on for all ages. Please see below for more information and how to book your child a place.
Themed Lunch Menu 25/4/24
RSHP Parent Workshop 22/4/24
Parents/carers,
Prior to the holiday, we shared with you via the app and school blog that in Term 4, we will be delivering Relationships, Sexual Health and Parenting (RSHP), as part of our Health and Wellbeing curriculum, across all stages of the school.
In line with East Ayrshire guidance, we contacted you to inform you of this.
The programme of study is generated in accordance with National guidelines. The contents of which, form a key element of personal, social and health education in our school and is an important part of children’s preparations for adult life.
Parental guidance letters can be found on the original post or within the Curriculum – Health and Wellbeing – RSHP tab on our school blog.
I write to invite you attend a Parent Workshop session where we can discuss the content of this curricular area at each stage and share with you the resources our staff will be using to support its delivery.
This will be held on Monday 22nd April 4-5pm.
I hope you can make it. Should you be unable to attend and would like to meet to discuss at another point, please contact me via email to let me know. danielle.mcnulty@eastayrshire.org.uk
Kind regards,
Mrs McNulty
New Cumnock Primary School’s Anti-Bullying ‘respectme’ Scottish Government Initiative
If you remember, we posted a parental questionnaire at the beginning of our ‘respectme’ journey last year, and now we are asking for this to be done again as we need to measure impact and change based on responses across the whole school community. The questionnaires are not lengthy and shouldn’t take long to complete – so PLEASE could you spare five minutes for this, as we need this data to apply for the ‘respectme’ school award. We really appreciate your help and support.
We will have a stand/workshop at Parent’s afternoon/evening that will be supervised by our parent group members and prefects. They will be there to share the good work that has been going on in school to promote this initiative and to answer any questions you may have. They will have fliers for the website and media channels, which contain a wealth of excellent resources. As well as this, there will be iPads available should you wish to complete the questionnaire after familiarising yourselves with what we’ve been working on as a whole school community.
As well as the questionnaire, we have posted below, our ‘respectme’ policy statement for New Cumnock Primary School. This will be available to all staff, children, parents/carers and visitors to the school.
We appreciate your time and support – many thanks,
Miss McQueen
Mrs Armour
PARENTAL/CARER Questionnaire:
Parent Council Easter Competitions
Our Easter drawing competitions and Dress Down Day, which were organised by our Parent Council, were a huge success raising £265 for school funds!
Our prize winners were announced at Get Together today.
P1-3 drawing competition
1st Leela F
2nd Harper P
3rd Lottie J
P4-7 drawing competition
1st Tyler M
2nd Lucy G
3rd Hanna-Rose S
Easter hamper raffle winners
Well done to Blaine M and Lewis J!
Thank you to everyone for taking part!
Earth Hour 2024
Today, our Accreditation Rich Tasks groups participated in Windy’s Earth Hour by getting outside and enjoying lots of screen free fun together!
We felt it was important that everyone got involved, in order to spread the Earth Hour message, not just our Clean Green Team. It was great to see so many children having fun outside with not a piece of technology to be found!
(Apart from Mrs McNulty’s phone making an appearance to capture the proof! Ha!)
The official Earth Hour is tomorrow, Saturday 23rd March at 8.30pm.
We ask that for 1 hour tomorrow evening, our families take time to switch off and dedicate an hour to help bring our world back to life. You can do this in any way you like, by spending 60 minutes doing something positive for our planet. Need inspiration? Click on the link below to view some ideas.
Give an Hour for Earth | Earth Hour
If you choose to take part, please evidence what you choose to do and upload it as a Parental Contribution to your child’s Learning Journal. We will showcase these entries at Monday’s Get Together and award house points to all our participants.
Active Schools Easter Sports Camp
EASTER SPORTS CAMP
Active Schools in partnership with Cumnock Juniors Community Enterprise are running a FREE multisport camp over Easter in your area!
To register please follow the link attached – https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/NewCumnockEast/
To find out what is running across East Ayrshire please follow the attached link – East Ayrshire Council Events | (east-ayrshire.gov.uk)
If you have any query’s please contact Courtney.Cartner@east-ayrshire.gov.uk
