Please see below for information about Football training opportunities for our young people with Kilmarnock FC.
Category Archives: Whole school
New Cumnock Primary Parent’s Group 13/9/23
Parents/carers, you are invited to attend our weekly Parents Group from 2-3pm, in the Parents Room. (Please enter via the main entrance)
For the next 8 weeks, our Parent’s Group will participate in the Families Connect programme, led by Mrs Bradford, our Home Link Practitioner.
Week 1 will run 2-3pm.
Weeks 2-8, we encourage your children to join us 3-3.30pm.
Families Connect is a programme created by “Save the Children” which looks to provide support in:
- numeracy
- emotional language development
- literacy/language development
It builds on parent’s skills and knowledge, providing them with the confidence to support their child’s learning in the home. The programme aims to build relationships between parents and school and provides opportunities for parents to share their parenting experiences with others.
Over the 8 week programme, parents will be encouraged to discuss aspects of their children’s learning during informal workshops. They will be introduced to a series of adaptable techniques, activities and games that they can do with their children to support their children’s learning in the 3 key areas noted above.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION – Parking at school
Parking around our school has always been a huge issue for us. Being on a busy main road, we are often faced with parents/carers parking their cars on the pavements, creating a hazard for our children walking to and from school.
Yesterday morning, one of our pupils was injured by a car on his way to school. Therefore, we are forced to raise awareness of this dangerous issue again.
Parents/carers are not permitted to park in our school car park. Children walking to the playground via the front entrance should enter via the gates at the front of the school and walk round using the allocated pavements. At no point, should anyone be walking across the staff car park to enter or leave the school premises.
We ask for parents/carers to please use the various car park areas situated near our school such as, the local swimming pool or ground next to the Premier store and then walk your child to school using the pedestrian crossings. Under no circumstances should cars be mounted on pavements near the school. This is dangerous and obstructs the pavements for those children walking to and from school.
The health and safety of our children is of the upmost importance, therefore your support and cooperation with this very serious matter is greatly appreciated.
Parent Council Meeting 12/9/23
Please join us for our Parent Council meeting on Tuesday 12th September at 6pm.
Enter via the main entrance.
All are welcome!
We are a NUT FREE school!
People who suffer from nut allergies can develop a severe, potentially life-threatening allergic reaction.
If someone has a nut allergy it is not just eating nuts that can cause a severe reaction, just being touched on the skin or smelling the breath of someone who has had nuts or a product containing nuts can trigger an allergic reaction which can cause breathing and swallowing difficulties.
Our school staff are trained to use Epi-pens (an injection of adrenalin) which are required immediately if this happens.
We cannot have nuts in school in any form, so please do not put any nut products in your child’s lunch box.
The following items must not be included in children’s packed lunches:
There are many other products that can present a risk, so please check the packaging of products closely.
We appreciate that this is an additional thing to check but we know that you recognise the importance of it.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to speak to a member of the Senior Leadership Team.
RRS – Article 24 (Food Bank donations wanted)
This fortnight our Rights Respecting Article we are focusing on is ARTICLE 24- THE RIGHT TO CLEAN WATER, NUTRITIOUS FOOD AND GOOD HEALTH CARE. To support our learning about this article we are asking our families for donations for Ayrshire Food Bank. Please send donations in with your child before Friday 15th September, or drop donations into our front office.
We are a Trailblazing School!
The Trailblazers initiative developed by Ayrshire Roads Alliance has arrived in New Cumnock. Around the village you will see lampposts with signs that say 5 or 10. This indicates either a 5 or 10 minute walk to the school from that point.
We are encouraging anyone who doesn’t fully walk/ cycle or scoot to school (where possible) to park and stride from these points.
You can use a phone to scan the QR codes on these signs daily to answer road safety questions.
What’s the purpose? We want to encourage as many people to actively travel to school! This has lots benefits for health and well-being as well as for our planet.
Each day we will carry out a quick survey and record anyone who has actively travelled the whole way or from the designated points around the village. It would be very much appreciated if you can support this initiative as much as you possibly can!
Fitfest New Cumnock
Child Flu Vaccine
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| Flu can be serious. Even healthy children can become seriously ill with flu. That’s why the flu vaccine is offered to all preschool children aged 2 years or over and all primary and secondary school children in Scotland. | ||||||
| Getting your child vaccinated is the most effective way to reduce the risk of them getting flu and having to take time off nursery or school or spreading it to friends and family who are at greater risk this winter.
To help raise awareness of the child flu vaccine, Public Health Scotland has developed a social media toolkit with approved assets and captions for nurseries, primary and secondary schools, Health Boards and other stakeholders to share on your social media channels.
We hope you can share these assets on your social media channels and use the hashtag #ChildFluScot. There is also a range of resources on the Public Health Scotland website including:
Please don’t forward this email on to parents or carers. For more information visit www.nhsinform.scot/childflu Your support is much appreciated. |
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Contact Information
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Contact For further information please contact Public Health Scotland’s Communications Team on 0131 275 6105 or email phs.comms@phs.scot |
Safer Schools Scotland App Workshop 28/8/23
We will be hosting a parent/carer information session to support our families with the use of our Safer School Scotland App.
A wee reminder to please join us on Monday 28th August from 3-4pm in the school gym hall. Entry will be via the Community Entrance.
Please bring your device with you and Mrs McNulty will be at hand to help you with how to navigate the new app and share it features.
