New Cumnock Primary School Prize Giving 2020

Today we are delighted to share our Prize Giving ceremony with you all.  It is not how we envisaged our ceremony to be, as we love it when we all gather in the church at this time of year to celebrate your successes.  Nevertheless, we have worked together to mark this momentous day in our school calendar and we hope you enjoy it!  So sit down, get a cup of tea and enjoy our Prize Giving ceremony from the comfort of your own home.

We will begin with Mrs McMurdo’s Head Teacher Speech.

No Prize Giving is complete without a few words (or a tune) from our beloved Minister, Rev. Cuthbert.

Thank you to all our certificate winners for coming to school last Friday to be awarded with their certificates.  We are delighted to share these with you now.

Now onto our Hunter award winners.  Each year, one child from each class is awarded this prestigious award.  Listen carefully as each teacher shares their reasons for choosing their award winner this year.  We want to extend a huge thank you to The Hunter Foundation for their continued support of our school and our annual Prize Giving.

And now onto our wonderful P7s.  This is certainly not the way we wanted your school years with us to end.  We are extremely proud of you all and cannot wait till we can have you all back to celebrate your time with us.  We wish you all the very best of luck in your future.

Some final words for our P7 Leavers.  A huge thank you to Mrs McTurk for sharing this poem with us, it is wonderful! Click on the link below if you wish to download a copy to keep.

P7 Leavers Poem

Last but not least, we are sadly saying goodbye to 4 members of staff this session.  A huge virtual hug goes out to Mrs Morton, Miss White, Mrs Sussman-Bryden and Miss Ritchie.  We have loved having you all as part of Team New Cumnock and hope our paths cross again one day.

And this marks the end of our Virtual Prize Giving ceremony.  Thank you for tuning in.  We hope you all have a lovely, relaxing summer holiday and we look forward to seeing you all again in August.

Stay safe everyone.

Team New Cumnock x

Waste Week

Hello my eco warriors! I hope you are all well!

When we finished up in March the eco group had started to plan ‘Waste Week’. As we missed out in school I have some activities for you to complete at home if you would like to. Once again anything you do will help our Green flag application so I would be very grateful if you could give it a go and send me your findings.

Today’s activities focus on energy. They will help you to understand ways we waste energy in our homes and what we can do to save energy.

This first activity is suitable for P1-7

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This second activity might be a bit tricker for P1-3 so they would need the support of a grown up. P4-7 should manage.

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If you complete any of these then please send your teacher or myself a picture of your work.

eacorrine.mason@glow.sch.uk

I hope you enjoy completing these missions and look out for more!

Technology Competition First Round Winners!

We were delighted to receive some great news this morning! Our P5-7’s have been taking part in The Institution of Engineering & Technology (IET) Faraday Competition and so far we have 3 first round winners!

The competition is being run by the IET and Airbus. The challenge is to design a new technology to help a disaster zone in the world.

Well done to Brooke Murray, Emma Johnstone and Emma Young.

Brooke designed a PPE vending machine for use in the current Covid-19 global pandemic.

         

 

Emma J designed an all terrain rescue vehicle which can be a boat or a land vehicle powered by a quad, fully fitted to provide emergency medical treatment .

       

Emma Y designed a hurricane shelter equipped with resources needed to survive. Emma’s shelter can be moved anywhere by plane and lowered into an area using a winch line.

     

Well done girls – we are all really proud of you! We eagerly await to see if your entries are selected for the next round.

P5-7’s you can still enter the competition until the end of this week.

Ayrshire Schools Burns Competition 2020

On Saturday 7th March, Mrs McNulty, parents/carers and 33 of our pupils attended Irvine Royal Academy to participate in the Ayrshire Schools Burns Competition.

We had pupils entered in Verse Speaking, Singing and Instrumental sections.

For the first time ever there was a P1-3 Verse Speaking section and we were not restricted to how many entries we could submit so Mrs McNulty thought, the more the merrier!

A lot of work goes on behind the scenes to get our children ready for this competition, a huge well done to our pupils and parents/carers for the work you have put into being prepared.

A great day was had by all. The standard of talent was exceptionally high and not only did our pupils shine with their singing, speaking and musical talents, but also with their positive attitudes and excellent behaviour! We couldn’t be prouder of you all! A huge well done to all our participants.

Under normal circumstances, our 1st and 2nd place prize winners Alex M and Lucy W would represent Ayrshire at the National Competition in Carluke, however, due to COVID-19, unfortunately there will not be a Nationals Competition this year.

Team New Cumnock!

Our Verse Speaking performers

Our Singing performers

Our Instrumental performers

We were delighted to enter 2 former pupils, who are now at Cumnock Academy. Casey K was entered in S1/2 singing and Adana W was entered in S1/2 Verse Speaking

Emma Y made it to the final 6 in P4/5 Verse Speaking and got to perform again in front of a big audience

Lucy W made it to the final 6 in P6/7 Verse Speaking and got to perform again in front of a big audience

As we weren’t able to track down everyone for photos at the event, it was a great excuse for Mrs McNulty to have another photo shoot with us all back at school!

Our proud Verse Speakers with their certificates

Our proud Singers with their certificates

Our proud Instrumentalists with their certificates

Our proud prize winners! 

1st place P4/5 Singing – Alex M

2nd place P6/7 Verse Speaking – Lucy W

3rd place Instrumental – Hayley C

Certificate of Merit P4/5 Verse Speaking – Emma Y

Mrs McNulty hopes to get copies of the official photos taken on the day and will get these to you all when she does.

Glow Support

To support our children and families during the upcoming weeks we have sent children home with Learning Packs filled with activities and access to online resources to support their learning.

In addition to this, we will be using our class blogs within the school website to upload materials and share information with you all.

To access your child’s class blog, select the menu tab as shown below…

Select your child’s class from the drop down menu…

Within their class page, click on the live link to take you to their class blog…

Here you will see the feed of posts from the class, uploaded by their class teacher…

Within the blog, there are further pages, one of which is a ‘HOMEWORK’ tab. The class teacher will upload information and tasks here if the closure of school is prolonged…

In addition to the Class Blogs, we have also been very fortunate to receive a wealth of resources to support our learners in the event of school closure. Please select the ‘Home Learning’ tab found in the main menu…

Within this page there are a wealth of resources, sorted by level and curricular area. We hope these will be of use to our children in a spell of absence from school…

Not one to miss out on the blogging fun, Mrs Bradford, our Home Link Worker, has her own page within our school website. Her page can be accessed as shown below, within the Parent Zone tab of the main menu…

Here, Mrs Bradford will post useful links and contact information for any families needing support during the school closure period…

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