A huge thank you to our friends at EAC’s Community Payback Team who have been spending the past few weekends upcycling our benches at the front of the school. We love the Onthank colours and we hope you agree they have done a wonderful job!
Dear Families,
What a year 2020 has been!
Onthank Primary extends our sincere thanks not only for ensuring the safety of our full school community, but your unwavering support and understanding during these unforeseen times. In true #OurOnthank style our young people have continued to shine and progress in their life and learning journey.
To ensure our community continue to maintain government guidelines on physical distancing and stay safe, please see the document below which informs you of our pick up times on the last day of term, Friday 18th December 2020.
Please click here to view: End of Term – December
Merry Christmas and here’s to 2021!
Stay safe.
Mrs Wright, Mrs Findlay & Mr McIlwraith
Senior Leadership Team Â
#OurOnthank Christmas Assembly is now LIVE! Watch with your family at home and see what we have been up to this festive season. Our assembly was created by our young people, for our young people. Our assembly includes the EAC #LoveIs campaign, BSL performances, 2020 Highlights and an appearance from BGT Winner Jai McDowall.
Watch our assembly here:
Today we welcomed our first day of Christmas Lunches at Onthank! Primary 1, 2 and 3 had a great time celebrating Christmas and eating some traditional festive food. Many thanks to Heather and the Catering Team for facilitating our Christmas Lunches during this time.
Love is…ensuring our young people share the experience of Christmas during this time.
Love is…Onthank. Going above and beyond.Â
Has your child outgrown their Christmas jumper?
As part of our commitment to our Eco-School status, we are collecting the following items during and after the festive season:
These will be available for anyone to use during this year and available for our families next Christmas! Perfect for the next Christmas Jumper Day!
Any donations can be dropped into the school office where they will be quarantined following Government guidance. Uniforms which have been donated are also available all year round at the school office – please feel free to take any items which may be of use for your family.
Dear Families,
With Christmas, and the end of a challenging year approaching, Onthank Primary will be offering a range of supports to our full school and wider community as we share the importance of kindness, care and coming together.
We’re here to help.
All enquiries are in complete confidence as we help and signpost in any way we can. Working closely with all our partners, we can arrange any other possible assistance you require.
Our supports may come in the form of:
You can nominate yourself or any other family/friend/school attending family living in the North West Onthank Community. Our Home Link Worker Steven Swan will be in touch with families reminding you there is no expectation, stigma or stereotypes surrounding this support, we are here for you if you need or want us. Mr Swan will contact you for more information if you are nominating someone else for this act of kindness.
We would be grateful if you would complete the attached form as your voice is respected and vital to our safe progression into the New Year.
Only 4 weeks until Christmas – please continue to stay safe.
Onthank Primary Team
We would like to thank all of our families for their continued effort in adhering to social distancing guidelines and the systems that are in place around our playgrounds during drop off and collection times. We are aware that there are drainage issues on some paths at the back of the school. During adverse weather flooding prevents the one-way system. This problem has been reported and staff will redirect families. In the occasion that you need to exit the gate that you entered, can you please ensure you wait for the exit to clear avoiding any congestion.
As we are now in Tier 4, we ask that adults to continue to wear face coverings and follow all rules. Please continue to maintain 2 metre distance from other families and staff, with our young people being dropped off or collected promptly at the start and end of each day. We politely request that families do not gather at the gates at drop off and collection times.
#Caring #King #Connected
Our young people and staff had a fantastic end to the week with our Hallowe’en festivities! The classes were full of ghouls, frightening creatures, and some scary faces…and that was only the staff! The activities included; Outdoor Learning with Dean Park Rangers creating bird feeders and studying bats and other creepy crawlies, dance and disco with Mr Swan who kept us all moving, a special spooky lunch menu and class themed activities and games!
Our school was alive and full of excitement, joy and happiness, with many of our young people commenting on how much they enjoyed the day! Thank you to everyone that helped to organise the activities – it made our Hallowe’en week extra special and we all had fantastic fun! 🎃👻
To all of our families,
We may not be able to come together physically just now, but why not join us in watching our Virtual Harvest Festival?
Going live on Friday 9th October 2020 at 10am, we will be participating in the first virtual harvest festival. Alongside Eco-Schools and the Wildlife Trusts, the Harvest festival is all about teaching the nation’s next generation what it takes to grow the food we all love and enjoy so much!
