Minuteman Press orders have been checked and delivered to the school today. Orders will be sent home with your child(ren) at home time.
Permission forms to go to the Pantomime at the Galleon in Kilmarnock on 17 December have been issued today. Please complete and return to the school as soon as possible.
*If your child is not going to the Pantomime, please inform the school office.
To keep up to date with what your child is doing in class, what homework they are requested to complete, or any other class information being sent out by class teachers, parents / carers are signposted to the class blogs.
These can be found on our school blog under the heading Classes (above), or can be found at this link – Class Blogs
Alternatively, you can access the blogs via the school app. At the home page where you see the blue square Latest News, swipe left and select the purple square Website, you will be directed to the school blog. Select the hamburger icon on the right-hand side, scroll down and select the heading Classes, or the class blog that you wish to view.
We hope this helps, but if you have any difficulties accessing this information, please feel free to contact the school office.
With Christmas lunch day fast approaching, if your child wishes a lunch ordered for them on Wednesday 10th December, can parents / carers please ensure that orders are placed via ParentPay as soon as possible.
Pupils may come to school dressed in festive attire and accessories for Christmas lunch day should they wish.
Please note that next Thursday, the 4th December, will be the last church lunch of the session.
We hope that our pupils will have the opportunity to go across again in the New Year, and we will write out asking for permissions at the start of the new term.
Following on from us submitting our writing pieces to the ‘I Have a Dream’ poetry competition, please look out for an envelope and certificate in your child’s bag from Young Writers .
Our story entries have been accepted to be included in a published book and we awaiting printing.
You will find details of how to give your permission for this to go ahead in the enclosed letter.
Permission needs to be given by Monday 7th December. Anyone without permission will not be included in the publication ‘I Have a Dream – From Creative Minds‘.
The countdown is on to our 2025 Nativity; only two weeks to go!!
Can all children with speaking parts in this year’s nativity please practice their script as often as possible at home.
Scripts are in bags and they should be brought to school every day.
Looking forward to seeing our pupils perform on Friday 12th December, 9:30am, Ochiltree Parish Church. Refreshments will be served at the school following the performance.
National Entitlement Card and Young Person’s National Entitlement Card – Free Bus Travel Scheme
The National Entitlement Card (NEC) is Scotland’s National Smartcard, offering access to many public services across the country. You may recognise or know the NEC as a bus pass, library card or Young Scot card, however this one card may be able to grant you access to multiple other services as well.
Especially for our P7 young people who are thinking ahead to transitioning to secondary school, if you have not already done so, an application for an NEC or Young Person’s NEC may be useful for free bus travel.
Applications can be made for all children between age 5 up to age 15. The application forms can be found on our school blog under School Information and Documents, Kidz Card / NEC Applications or by accessing this link:
You must complete the online P7 transfer application at http://eastayrshi.re/p7transfer no later than Friday 12 December 2025 to ensure your child is allocated a place within their secondary school.
Over the last three weeks, the pupils have enjoyed learning about testing pH levels, creating circuits to light Pudsey’s nose and investigating which shapes create stronger structures.
Referring to our earlier message, you may have had difficulties in ordering the Christmas Lunch for your child for Wednesday 10th December through ParentPay.
The Catering Team have advised that the system will be available on Monday, or perhaps over the weekend, to allow orders to be placed.
Orders have to be in by Wednesday 26th November to allow the catering team to make sure all pupils are given their selections.
Apologies for the tight timescale for ordering, but please feel free to contact the school on Monday morning if you have any difficulties or issues with the process.
This session, as part of our focus on school values, we have been gaining points for our houses.
We have decided to reward the winning house, each term, with a fun experience.
This term, with support from Into Film, we have received free cinema tickets and the winning house will be going to the Kilmarnock Odeon to see The Sloth Lane.
The points will be reset each term to give all the houses a chance to experience an extra curricular activity.
We will, however, gather the totals over the year to award the house cup at our summer celebration.
We hope, in this way, to further promote our values, alongside our new award system, based on the four curricular capacities:
Our P1/2 pupils will be doing a spot of gardening on Wednesday 19th November. They will go into our school garden and do some planting and tidying up of the garden area.
P1/2 pupils are requested to bring a bag with some old clothes that they can wear for the activity. Warm and waterproof jackets (and trouser too if you have some), and sturdy waterproof footwear is recommended as the grass and ground are likely to be very wet.
