Please watch the video below to find out about our whole school campaign against dog fouling!
Step by Step Poo Bag Share Station:
Right of the Fortnight: Article 38
This weeks right of the fortnight is:
Article 38: Governments must do all they can to protect and care for children affected by war. Governments must not allow children under the age of 15 to take part in war or join the armed forces!
Here is Emma from P6-7 explaining what this right is:
& here is an excellent example of an informative poster by Mary highlighting the key parts from the article:
Dress To Express – Children’s Mental Health Week 2021
A huge well done to everyone who took part in Mrs McMurdo’s Wider Achievement Challenge of Dress to Express last week. We loved seeing photos and videos of you all dressed to reflect how you feel and your explanations were super!
Apologies that these photos were missed from our video, but they are too good not to share! Thank you Mary and Miss Mason for your fabulous entries!
Big Schools Bird Watch – Tuesday 9th Feb
Welcome to day two of our Big Schools Bird Watch! What a beautiful clear day for bird watching yesterday, what did you spot? I saw lots of lovely birds in our garden including robins, blue tits, great tits and sparrows!
Please complete the form to tell me what you saw.
I hope you can find 10 minutes in your day today to have a little look for the birds around you. It’s a wonderful relaxing activity to take part in and you can do it on your own or with someone, even your whole household!
Our bird of the day is brought to you by P2/3.
Today it is the Blue Tit!
The first activity idea I have for you today is a story. It is very cold outside this week so snuggle up and enjoy a wee story with someone in your house. They are about our bird of the day, a very common bird we see where we live, a blue tit.
There are three stories to choose from using the links below. The third is an audio story.
https://www.rspb.org.uk/fun-and-learning/for-kids/kids-stories/the-blue-tit-and-the-caterpillar/
https://www.rspb.org.uk/fun-and-learning/for-kids/kids-stories/little-orphan-blue-tit/
https://www.rspb.org.uk/fun-and-learning/for-kids/kids-stories/bedtime-stories-audiobooks/
Once you’ve listened to a story I’d love to see any art you could do to show me your favourite part. Maybe you could draw a picture or make the characters using play dough. Please send them to your teacher or to me at corrine.mason@eastayrshire.org.uk
Here are a couple of online bird games for you to try…
Feather Frenzy | Learning Game for Kids – The RSPB
I look forward to seeing your masterpieces and what birds you spotted today!
Rights Respecting Schools: Dog Fouling Campaign!
Rights Respecting Schools: Dog Fouling Campaign!
As a whole school, we are going to fight against the smelly dog poo that gets left on the streets of New Cumnock. As the week progresses, I will release a video explaining in more detail as to what the campaign is. However, the first thing we need to do is to choose a poster that is going to go alongside the campaign. Below are a couple of super examples that other communities have used.. but we want to have a bit of New Cumnock to ours so be as creative as you possibly can! Your teacher will send your poster to Mr McClure and he will then put the best posters to a vote to decide which one we will use! Good luck!
Rights Respecting Schools Weekly Activity!
This week at NCPS, we are looking at two very important rights. The breakdown of both of the rights are above in the pictures. Our focus this week is going to be Safer Internet Day. I have attached a PowerPoint below that provides a couple of super activities that I would love for you to complete.
If you complete any of the activities please send pictures to: john.mcclure@eastayrshire.org.uk
PE with Mr Hastings (Week 3)
LO. I am learning to improve my balance.Â
When you click on the link below, it will take you to a video with today’s PE lesson focusing on Balance. Take part in the activities and remember to share examples of your learning to Mr Hastings; gary.hastings@eastayrshire.org.uk or share on your Teams Page.
P4-7: Please watch full video and complete all activities (Tasks 1 and 2).Â
P1-3 Infants: Complete Task 2 (Skip to 10mins40Secs). Optional: Complete Tasks 1 and 2 (Full Video)
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Eco-Committee – Recruitment
Good day everyone!
I have a very exciting opportunity for those of you who are up for a challenge!
As you know we are an eco school and currently hold our Green Flag Award which was renewed in July 2020. With the current challenges we face, getting up and running as a new committee has been put on hold but we are now ready to move forward with our next action plan. I am looking to form a new eco committee which will represent all stages across the school as well as the community.
Our Eco-Committee play a very important role in looking after our environment at a school, community and world level. It is up to us to think of ways to take care of the world around us and do things in the interests of the environment.
If you or your grown up are interested in becoming part of New Cumnock Primary School Eco-Committee then please complete the form below by Friday 5th February. I look forward to reading your application and hopefully forming a new committee very soon!
As the Eco-Committee, it will be our job to work with the other children in our school to make it a more environmentally friendly place.
As part of this you will need to:
Share ideas in weekly Eco-Committee meetings
Carry out an environmental review to measure our school’s performance against the Eco topics
Help create a plan for how we can make New Cumnock P.S eco-friendlier in the next year
Speak to other members of the school community, which might include parents, pupils, members of the public and teachers
Bring ideas from your class to the meetings and also feedback what we have discussed
Be willing to speak in school assemblies
Help write articles for the newsletter
Help the school be more energy effective during its daily running e.g. switching off lights
Help the school achieve an Eco-Schools Award
Wider Achievement Challenges – Week 3!
CLICK ON THE VIDEO LINK OR WORD DOCUMENT BELOW TO HEAR ABOUT THIS WEEK’S CHALLENGES!
RRS: We Need You!
At NCPS, we try to integrate Rights Respecting Schools into all areas of our curriculum. Before lockdown, Mr McClure’s class were responsible for rolling out the programme of learning this year…. However, now we are looking for some super support from across the school. This will look like:
- creative ways in visualising the different articles;
- completing the different tasks that will be posted on here;
- creating a video describing the right of the fortnight!
Here is examples of some amazing visualisations:
This weeks focus is on the Holocaust Memorial Day. Please follow the link below and click on the download button for suggested activities for infants and uppers. If you complete any of the activities can you please email the work to: john.mcclure@eastayrshire.org.uk 🤪!
