A huge thank you to New Cumnock Burns Club for their kind gifts to our children and Mrs McNulty today!
We had the best time performing at their Community Concert last month and look forward to working together again soon! 🌟
Ayrshire Burns Schools Competition 2023
We couldn’t be more proud of Team New Cumnock today! ❤️
Each and every one of our pupils who represented the school at the Regional Ayrshire Burns Schools Competition is a superstar. The performances they gave in front of a large audience and the feedback from the judges on their adjudication sheets is testament to that!
We are delighted to be bringing home the following prizes:
🏆🥇1st place P4/5 Singing: Adele M
🥈2nd place P6/7 Singing: Aleesha C
🥉3rd place P6/7 Verse Speaking: Arran J
🥈2nd place P6/7 Instrumental: Devan B
🥉3rd place P6/7 Instrumental: Aleesha C
Also a huge well done to our former pupils who are now at Robert Burns Academy and bringing home the following prizes to New Cumnock:
🏆🥇1st place S1/2 Verse Speaking: Emma J
🥈2nd place S3/4 Verse Speaking: Adana W
🥈2nd place S1/2 Singing: Emma J
Well done everyone, you are all stars! ⭐️
Mrs McNulty would like to extend her thanks to Mrs Wilson for coming in to school to accompany our singers to help them rehearse on the run up to the competition. ❤️
We are delighted that our 1st and 2nd place winners have now been invited to attend the National Burns Competitions to represent Ayrshire later this year! 🤩
Communication Friendly Schools – Sign of the Fortnight
So far, we have shared the following signs with you – see previous posts:
- thank you
- sorry
- well done
- help you
- help me
- numbers 0-10
- 5 vowels
The new signs for this week are the alphabet finger spelling signs – this is a fundamental sign in BSL and if you know the finger spelling then you can communicate at a simple level with a deaf person through spelling out the words.
also we have added a video to share the days of the week signs too.
Stars of the Week 3/3/23
3/3/23
Well done to our Stars of the Week who demonstrated one of our school VALUES this week! We are extremely proud of you all for working hard to display our school values.
P1 – Skye J for DETERMINATION
P1/2 – Isla M for DETERMINATION
P2 – Ben A for DETERMINATION
P3 – Rayna L for RESPONSIBILITY
P3/4 – Taylor W for RESPONSIBILITY
P4/5 – Lucas F for DETERMINATION
P5 – Fleur A for DETERMINATION
P6 – Shivani RS for MUTUAL RESPECT
P7 – Thomas W for RESPONSIBILITY
Our Clean Green Schools Team have weekly awards to share too:
Our Fuel Free Friday winners this week are: Primary 6
Our Waste Winners this week are: Primary 6
This week’s Times Table Rock Stars class winners are:
Primary 3/4
Primary 4/5
Primary 5
Primary 6
Primary 7
Speech and Language Therapy – Top Tips
We have a very close link with the Speech and Language Therapy (SLT)service here at the School and they share top tips on their social media platforms. I will highlight these as a when appropriate.
If you have ANY concerns regarding your child’s speech and language, please do not hesitate to contact the team – see contact details below: –
Please see below the top tips recently shared by the SLT recently – please make use of these if appropriate for your child.
Burns Candlelight Tea Success!
Last week we hosted our first School Burns Supper with a Candlelight Tea theme! It was a hugely successful and enjoyable evening. We are extremely grateful to the support shown by our families and partner agencies such as the New Cumnock Burns Club and the Ayrshire Burns Association for attending. We were thoroughly entertained by a variety of songs, instruments and verse speaking. What an array of talent we have in New Cumnock! We feel this will be the first of many Burns events hosted in our school! 🏴🤩
A huge thank you to Emma J for capturing these images for us on the night!
Scottish Parliament Recognition!
New Cumnock Primary School would like to extend our sincerest thanks to Sharon Dowey MSP for her recognition of our pupil’s hard work achieving our Bronze Clean Green Schools award with special recognition for Energy, our Climate Champion East Ayrshire Youth award and our 5th Green Flag award!
We received a copy of the Motion which was read out in the Scottish Parliament!
Stars of the Week 24/2/23
24/2/23
Well done to our Stars of the Week who demonstrated one of our school VALUES this week! We are extremely proud of you all for working hard to display our school values.
P1 – Kaylah M for MUTUAL RESPECT
P1/2 – Lloyd D for DETERMINATION
P2 – Nathan M for DETERMINATION
P3 – Iniya P for DETERMINATION
P3/4 – Arabella S for DETERMINATION
P4/5 – Kal M for AMBITION
P5 – Harry T for AMBITION
P6 – Aleesha C for AMBITION
P7 – Ciara B for MUTUAL RESPECT
Our Clean Green Schools Team have weekly awards to share too!
Our Fuel Free Friday winners this week are: Primary 1
Our Waste Winners this week are: Primary 3/4
World Book Day 2/3/23
Next Thursday 2nd March, we will be celebrating World Book Day. We have lots of fun activities in store for that day, but we are also inviting pupils to dress up!
There is not cost for this. We are asking children to come to school dressed as either their favourite character from a book, or dressed in their pyjamas and to bring along their favourite bedtime story.
Please note, we do not want this to be an added expense to our families, in what is already a difficult financial climate, we simply want to celebrate our love of books and have a fun day doing so! Please see below some inexpensive costume ideas and how we can support you…
103 easy World Book Day homemade costume ideas 2023 with pictures | MadeForMums
75 Easy World Book Day Costume Ideas 2022 – tried and tested by parents | Mumsnet
To support out families, we are asking if you have any donations of clothing which would be suitable for dressing up as a book character or pyjamas, we would welcome these to be added to our clothing bank located within the school, which will then be made available to our families.
If you can help us, please send you donations into school and these will be made available to our families from the reception area next Tuesday and Wednesday whilst the children are off school due to Industrial Action. Simply come along to the main entrance, and a member of staff present will help you.
P4/5 – Donations Wanted!
Primary 4/5 is looking to collect cardboard to help them build 3D models of a shopping trolley as part of their Food and Health topic.
If you have any cardboard or any tubes from tinfoil rolls etc. we could use, this would be greatly appreciated.
