Dates for Your Diary

Please check your child’s school bag for a letter issued today outlining forthcoming dates for your diary for the remainder of this term and for the terms in the New Year.

You can also find the letter attached.

Thank you

Dates for Your Diary Nov 2025

Children in Need – Friday 14th November

Pupils are invited to either wear spots / Pudsey-themed clothing or accessories, or wear something yellow for Children in Need day.

Pupils can make a cash donation, collected by the Parent Council, on the day should they wish.

Thank you

!!! Halloween – Choking Hazard !!!

Dear Parent/Carers,

With Halloween coming up when sweet treats and bags of goodies will be eaten, we would like to highlight the risk of choking, particularly with small, spherical, gummy textured sweets.

We would encourage all parents to avoid sending in chocolate or jelly eyeballs, lollies or any other small round confectionaries for snack.

Given that pupils could be running around over break time these sweets can be incredibly dangerous.

Let’s help keep our pupils safe and avoid bringing this type of sweet to school.

Please remember we are also a NUT FREE school – this includes chocolate hazelnut spreads and fillings.

Thank you

Halloween Parties – Friday 31st October

Children are welcome to come to school dressed up on Friday or bring in a costume to change into. Staff in school will assist any child who needs help getting changed.

Please note that costumes / masks / make-up should not be too scary, and no props should be taken into school.

Thank you and Happy Halloween!!

Pumpkin Carving Competition

To decorate our school for Halloween, the pupil council are organising a pumpkin carving competition.

Pupils are invited to carve a pumpkin at home and bring it into school if they wish to enter.

Please bring carved pumpkins into school by Friday 31st October at the latest.

A winner will be chosen from each class.

Happy Carving!!

The Pupil Council

Posters were designed by Emily S, Alix, and Evie.

CHRISTMAS CARDS AND CHRISTMAS ITEMS ORDER 2025

The Parent Council have organised Minuteman Press to produce Christmas Cards and Items for this festive season, and the pupils have been working hard on their designs.  Please look out for the designs, covering letter and order form coming home in school bags today.

Your child’s artwork can be printed on the following items and the prices per item are:

Should you wish to place an order for any items, it is preferred that payments are made in full directly to the Parent Council at:

If there are any difficulties transferring funds to the Parent Council bank account, cash may be collected.  Please contact Margaret Donald, Chairperson to the Parent Council on 07743 117583 to make arrangements.

Please return your completed order form along with your child’s design to the school by

Tuesday 21st October 2025

Thank you

Christmas Order Form – 2025

Autumn Amble – Timetable

We are gearing up for our Autumn Amble sponsored walk on Wednesday 1st October.

Please make sure your child has warm and waterproof footwear and clothing suitable for the autumn weather conditions on the day.

Our pupils will be on their walk around the village as follows:

Give us a wave if you see us out and about.

Thank you

Autumn Amble – Sponsor Money

Please note that we are only able to collect sponsor money into the school on Monday 6th October.

Thank you for your assistance with this.

MacMillan Coffee Morning – Hosted by Ochiltree Primary School Pupils

Friday 3rd October 2025 at 09:30am – 11:00am

Ochiltree Primary School

Donations of shop bought cakes and sweet treats would be very welcome. Please note that this is a Nut-free school.

Come and join us for coffee, sweet treats and a chat, all raising money to support MacMillan Cancer Support.

We look forward to seeing you on Friday.

Parents Day / Evening – Thursday 9th October 2025

Our Parents Day / Evening will be held on Thursday 9th October 2025. Time slots are available between:

• 3:10pm – 4:50pm, and
• 6:00pm – 7:50pm.

To help allocate you to a time slot which best suits you, please complete the form at the link here: Parent’s Evening Time Slot Request Form, and we will try to accommodate your wishes.

Times are allocated on a first come, first served basis.

Thank you.

Dear Parent / Carer,

Change of Date – MacMillan Coffee Morning – Friday 3rd October

Please note that we have changed the date of the school coffee morning to Friday 3rd October; further details will be issued closer to that date.

Any shop bought biscuits, cakes, or other treat donations would be very gratefully received. No products containing nuts please.

Hope you are all able to join us then.

Thank you

Dear Parents/Carers,

Can you please complete the two attached forms as a matter of urgency if you have not already done so?

• Photographic consent – form for completion
• Acceptable Use of Computer/IT equipment – Form

Please ensure that both forms are completed.

Teachers are working on pulling together information for their class blogs and are unable to use pupil photographs until consent information has been received.

Thank you for your assistance.

Dear Parents and Carers,

You might have noticed things are a wee bit different here at Ochiltree Primary this session.

We have decided to remove the bells as part of our inclusive environment refresh.  By removing 30 bells a day !!! we are hoping to create a more calming relaxed environment for all our learners.

By allowing children to filter into school we can greet them with a smile rather than the tension of lining up. We can also remove the anxiety some pupils have about being late – it happens.

Please see the original letter attached announcing the appointment from Linda McAulay-Griffiths, Chief Education Officer –

Parents-Carers – Ochiltree PS

The following if copied from that letter:

Dear Parent/Carer,

I wish to provide an update to you on the leadership of Ochiltree Primary School. I am very grateful to Mrs Pamela Lockie who has led the school since Mrs Black’s departure earlier this year, and I am sure you will join me in thanking her for all of her hard work.

I can now advise that, following discussions with the Chair of the Parent Council, Mrs Denise MacColl has been appointed as the Head Teacher of Ochiltree Primary School. Mrs MacColl is an experienced Head Teacher and will be ably supported by Mrs Lockie as Depute Head Teacher.

I hope that you and your families enjoy the rest of the term and have a very restful and enjoyable summer break.

Yours sincerely,

LINDA McAULAY-GRIFFITHS

Chief Education Officer and Head of Education

Please note that there is a change to the menu for Monday 17th June.

The Super Tattie’s Tasty Tray will now come with an egg sandwich and not the chicken mayo baguette as noted on the ParentPay app.

Please also note that menus may be subject to change at short notice as we come to the end of the academic year.

Thank you

This is a reminder that Monday 27th May is a Public Holiday and Tuesday 28th May is an In-service day.

Pupils will return to school on Wednesday 29th May at 8:50am.

Enjoy a lovely long weekend

Party Time – It has been confirmed that the end of term disco will take place on Wednesday 26th June, 7:00pm until 8:30pm. The venue will be announced shortly.

It is hoped that the disco will be themed, watch this space, further details will follow.

This year’s cattle show has been another success for Ochiltree Primary School.

Pupils were asked to create a front cover design for this years’ show schedule and the winners were:

with the overall design winner being Lottie, P5/6; her design is pictured above.

Pupils also entered handicrafts to the show too, with the following successes:

The judges had a very difficult task selecting the winners in each class group. They were very impressed with the quality of the creations made for this year’s show and commented how talented all of our pupils are.

Stuart Watson, Chairman of the Ochiltree Cattle Show Committee, visited the school on Wednesday 8th May to present our winning pupils with their prizes at assembly. Thank you to Stuart for celebrating the pupils successes.

Ochiltree Cattle Show Committee thank all pupils and staff for their hard work producing such fantastic works of art for the show. Thanks also go to our lovely parents who encourage the young people to enter the handicrafts and animal showing sections; without everyone’s contributions, and the weather of course, the cattle show wouldn’t be the successful event it is each year.

Check out the Sway below for pictures of all of the pupils’ fabulous creations;

Ochiltree Cattle Show 2024

Congratulations to all pupils for their entries to the 2024 Ochiltree Cattle Show held Wednesday 24th April.

Go to this Sway