As part of our School Improvement Plan, we value the views and ideas of our parents and carers. Your feedback is valuable and will help us identify strengths and areas for improvement as we develop our School Improvement Plan for session 2026/2027. Please click on the link below to provide your feedback.

School Improvement Plan 2026/27

In order for us to share all our photographs and videos from our celebration week, we have created a special 50th Celebration Blog. This can be accessed through the link below or via our school website, through the tab created on the home page.

Ochiltree Primary 50 Years Celebration

We would like to thank all our guests who have attended so far, thank you to the Parent Council for the ice cream van this afternoon and to Councillor Kyle for attending today. Reminder that tomorrow morning we have our Strings performance at 9:00am and our community afternoon tea at 1:30pm. All families and guests welcome!

Our QR code hunt is now live in the community. Please find attached a copy of the map if you wish to participate and find out information created by our Primary 5/6 class.

Reminder that our Art and Photography competition closes tomorrow at 3pm. Please hand any entries into the school with your name on the back.

Maps for QR codes

East Ayrshire’s Maths Contest is now live on Sumdog. The contest will run from Monday 15th June until Friday 19th June at 12:00pm.

The contest will automatically appear on your child’s dashboard when they log in. They will see their progress as they answer questions – when they get to 70,  175, 350 and 525 correct answers they get rewards. Click ‘start‘ and select a game from the games page. The questions answered in the games will count towards the contest.

Answering questions in a contest

Students can answer questions at any time during the period of the contest, including outside of schools hours. As they answer the questions they’ll be able to see the number of questions they’ve gotten correct out of the number of questions they’ve answered in total.

Every child can answer up to 700 questions. When this number is reached, their answers will stop counting towards the leaderboard but they can continue answering math questions!

Students participating in a Contest can earn a range of prizes.

There are several types of prizes that students and classes can earn.

Coins and special items for the house will appear automatically in the recipient’s inventory.

Certificates can be awarded to the First Place Class, Daily Winning Class and Top 10 Students.

We are encouraging all pupils to take part in this contest. Good Luck!

Our Rocket Readers Leadership Group are inviting members of our local community who grew up during the 1970s to visit our school and read your favourite childhood stories with our pupils during our 50^th celebration week.

If you would be interested in joining us, we would be delighted to hear from you. Please contact the school office to let us know when you are available and which class/classes you would like to read to.

We are planning on having an afternoon of Potted Sports tomorrow as part of our House Challenge. Children are welcome to come to school wearing their house colours. Please ensure they have plenty of suncream on, a hat (if possible) and plenty of water.

This Friday, we will be offering healthy breakfast session before school from 8:30am as part of Health Week. Children who wish to attend will have the opportunity to try a selection of healthy breakfast foods, including tasters of overnight oats, natural yoghurt and a variety of fruit. If you wish your child to take part but have alternative dietary requirements, please contact the school.

As part of our transition activities, the children will take part in a “Bump Up Afternoon” today, where they will have the opportunity to spend time with their potential new year group and experience some of the routines and learning for next year. We also look forward to welcoming our new Primary 1 pupils who will be joining us for this session too.

At this stage, classes have not yet been finalised due to staffing arrangements. Therefore, children may not necessarily be with their final class peers and class teacher during this session. Final class information will be shared with families as soon as possible.

Thank you for your understanding and support.

We look forward to hosting our next achievement assembly on Friday 29th May.

If your child has celebrated any achievements out-with school e.g. earned a swimming badge, learned to ride their bike, gained badges at a hobby etc., then they are able to bring in such items to share at this special assembly. Alternatively if you would like us to share any photographs or videos of your child’s achievements, please email these to eaochiltree.ps@eastayrshire.org.uk by 3pm on Thursday 28^th May.

We look forward to celebrating the success of our pupils!

During this last term, we will be looking at Relationships, Sexual Health and Parenthood across all stages of the school in an age-appropriate way as part of the Health and Wellbeing Curriculum. This will look at healthy relationships, respect as well as growing and changing. If you require a further breakdown of this coverage, please feel free to contact the school.

Well done to all our pupil who received an award or shared an achievement at today’s achievement assembly. Please see the Powerpoint below for all our achievements. Next achievement assembly will be on Friday 29th May 2026.

Achievement Assembly 8.5.26

We look forward to hosting our next achievement assembly on Friday 8^th May.

If your child has celebrated any achievements out-with school e.g. earned a swimming badge, learned to ride their bike, gained badges at a hobby etc., then they are able to bring in such items to share at this special assembly. Alternatively if you would like us to share any photographs or videos of your child’s achievements, please email these to eaochiltree.ps@eastayrshire.org.uk by 3pm on Thursday 7^th May.

We look forward to celebrating the success of our pupils!

We are looking forward to our upcoming P7 residential trip next week and hope the children are excited for the experience ahead.

This is a reminder that the final payment for the trip is due by Monday 4th May. Please ensure this is completed by the deadline.

Please also find attached a copy of the programme of activities, the lunch/dinner menu and a suggested list of what to bring (please note mobile phones should not be brought on the trip)

Permission forms have been issued to pupils today. Please complete and return these as soon as possible to ensure all necessary arrangements can be finalised.

All Primary 6 pupils will be with Miss Murray on both Wednesday and Friday, and all Primary 5 pupils will be with Mrs Cunningham on Wednesday and Mrs Rooney on Friday. Those Primary 7 pupils not attending the residential will be with Miss Murray on Wednesday and Mrs Rooney on Friday.

Inverclyde Residential – 6th-8th May 2026

Yesterday, our Keep It Clean Crew joined the Greener Communities to participate in a litter pick around Ochiltree.

Over the last few weeks, Miss Murray has been hosting a lunchtime Chess Club for Primary 4-7 and to finish the block, they held a chess tournament.

Well done to our winners, Dan and Erik!

Well done to all our pupil who received an award or shared an achievement at today’s achievement assembly. Please see the app for the Sway for all our achievements. Next achievement assembly will be on Friday 8th May 2026.

East Ayrshire’s Maths Contest is now live on Sumdog. The contest will run from Monday 23^rd March until Friday 27^th March at 12:00pm.

The contest will automatically appear on your child’s dashboard when they log in. They will see their progress as they answer questions – when they get to 70,  175, 350 and 525 correct answers they get rewards. Click ‘start‘ and select a game from the games page. The questions answered in the games will count towards the contest.

Answering questions in a contest

Students can answer questions at any time during the period of the contest, including outside of schools hours. As they answer the questions they’ll be able to see the number of questions they’ve gotten correct out of the number of questions they’ve answered in total.

Every child can answer up to 700 questions. When this number is reached, their answers will stop counting towards the leaderboard but they can continue answering math questions!

Students participating in a Contest can earn a range of prizes.

There are several types of prizes that students and classes can earn.

Coins and special items for the house will appear automatically in the recipient’s inventory.

Certificates can be awarded to the First Place Class, Daily Winning Class and Top 10 Students.

We are encouraging all pupils to take part in this contest. Good Luck!

We look forward to hosting our next achievement assembly on Friday 27th March.

If your child has celebrated any achievements out-with school e.g. earned a swimming badge, learned to ride their bike, gained badges at a hobby etc., then they are able to bring in such items to share at this special assembly. Alternatively, if you would like us to share any photographs or videos of your child’s achievements, please email these to eaochiltree.ps@eastayrshire.org.uk by 3pm on Thursday 26^th March.

We look forward to celebrating the success of our pupils!