Onthank Primary School

Many classes celebrated 80th Anniversary of VE Day. P2/1 hoisted a VE Day flag to mark the occasion.Thank you to Isaac’s family for donating the flag to us.

Thank you to everyone who took part in Red Nose Day . We saw lots of fabulous outfits. Thank you to Mr Swan for leading us in dance sessions.

We celebrated World Thinking Day and some pupils came to school in their club uniforms. We were proud to celebrate with you.

Well done to all pupils who learned their Scottish Poems and recited them in class. We held our Class Winners’ Competition and everyone was excellent. Thank you to all Pupil Council Reps and all Rights Respecting School Ambassadors for their part in voting. Thank you to our Chairs: Lucy, Olivia, Abigail and Shannon for playing their part in the competition.

We are delighted to inform you that we have a new Partner School in Uganda. We look forward to sharing our school news and finding out about Abbey Foundation Nursery and Primary School. 

We were delighted to welcome Santa to our school. He delivered presents for all of our P1-P3 pupils. Thank you to our generous Parent Council for helping Santa to choose  books for all our P1-P3 pupils. Thank you also to Santa’s Elves for helping to wrap them all. The whole school was outside to sing/dance with Santa. Merry Christmas to all.

Thank you to Jordan Alison from Kilmarnock Football Club for coming to share his presentation about Show Racism the Red Card.

Thank you to everyone who  kindly donated towards our Harvest Collection. You were very generous. We delivered some bags in the Community and Knockinlaw Community Garden collected lots to be distributed in the Community.

Thank you to everyone for your kind donations towards Mary’s Meals Charity. We had the opportunity to taste porridge in school this morning. Thank you to Mr Swan’s Dance Group who gave us a contribution towards our total of £145.08. Thank you also to Marisa from Mary’s Meals who came to  give a talk in P5s and to our P6 and P7 Ambassadors. Thank you to Fiona (Catering Manager) for making porridge to taste. Thank you.

Super Tattie birthday celebrations.🎂

Thank you to everyone for your kind and generous donations of baking. Thank you also for the money donations towards Macmillan Cancer Care: we are overwhelmed to announce that we have raised £1002 for this worthwhile charity. Thank you to Mossgeil Farm for donating our milk for this morning.🥛Many thanks to our Parent Helpers who gave us their time this morning to support our Primary 6s in organising the event. Well done to everyone☕️☕️☕️👏👏⭐️.

Our P6 & P7 RRS Ambassadors met to discuss and create our Gold Action Plan. We are looking forward to sharing all the exciting activities with our School Community.

Class Charters

At the start of each new school year, each class works with their teacher to create a class charter.  They choose focused Articles from the UNCRC to explore and include in their charter, however they do investigate all rights through various lessons.  The class charter is a way of ensuring that we work together to ensure everyone is able to enjoy their rights. Here are some examples of Class Charters.

Celebrating Success –Wider Achievement

In Onthank Primary we celebrate achievement in a variety of ways. All classrooms have systems for celebrating accomplishments and pupils are encouraged to share successes from out with school at our weekly, Monday Assembly. Parents/Carers are encouraged to email photos and updates of achievements from home: eg taking part in charity events, winning medals; we love to hear about our pupils’ successes and wider achievements. Photos and information will be displayed on our Wider Achievement Wall. It is important to acknowledge that learning takes place outside the classroom, at home and in the wider community:

• helping in the home and in the community
• hobbies and interests, such as participating in a sport/hobby
• achieving an award: medal, certificate, cup
• Charity events 🙂 

  Please use the form below to record details of your child’s achievement.                                                                      https://forms.office.com/e/X3TJcLiTwq  

  If you would like to email us a photograph related to the achievement, please send to glynis.findlay@eastayrshire.org.uk and include your child’s name and class.

  

Does your child have a uniform that they have outgrown? Please drop it off into our School  Swap shop. The shop is in our school reception area or hand it to  a member of staff or send it into school. This is a great way for pupils to donate their school uniforms. There is a great selection of cardigans , jumpers, dresses on display so please come along and help yourself. Thank you.

Thank you to our P7s who organised Fun Day for everyone. Thanks also to all visitors who helped make this a wonderful memorable day for our pupils.

Thank you to everyone who came along to our Summer Community Night. ⭐️

We celebrated our PATHs Model School Award by having an outdoor disco, football, scavenger hunt and lots of PATHs related activities. We held our Celebration Assembly with invited guests and the whole school involved. We had a visit from Twiggle. Well done and thank you to Mrs Milligan and our PATHs Team for leading this wonderful day. 👏

Thank you to everyone who donated towards Comic Relief for wearing PJs , wearing red or Red Nose Clothes.We raised the fantastic amount of £250 and still counting. 👏

Our new Primary 1 pupils visited school this morning for their third transition meeting. We welcomed many boys and girls from lots of ECCs who had a great time meeting new friends. 😀

We were very proud of all our pupils who wore their organisation uniforms to school to celebrate World Thinking Day👏🌏. Amy from New Laigh Kirk also came to our Assembly .

Thank you to everyone who came to support our Santa Dash. The children had a great time and enjoyed the run despite the rain. We had a lot of Soggy Santas.🎅🏼🧑🏼‍🎄

Wider Achievement

We are so proud of all our pupils who were recognised at assembly this week.

Sarah from P4K would like to share the news that she’s achieved a new level in her swimming lessons. Well done.

Olivia from P4W competed in a dance competition in Grangemouth on Sunday 5th November, dancing in teams, freestyle solo, hip hop solo and hip hop solo. She danced in an u10s freestyle section with two heats and made the final. She came away with 1st place for freestyle solo. Well done.

Ailish from P6H as part of East Ayrshire Youth Theatre, starring in Pantodimonium this Saturday at the Palace Theatre as one of the wicked witches! Her 3rd show with them. Good luck!

Eilidh from P4W has spent a number of weeks writing and editing a story for the BBC 500 word challenge. She finally completed this on Monday and submitted it for judging. She has worked really hard at using adjectives to make her story more interesting. Editing was a particular challenge to keep it down to 500 words but she showed perseverance and got there in the end. She has a certificate and a copy of her story to show. Good luck!

On Friday 3rd November Zak  from P5MB had his Bonnyton 2015 football team awards night. He received trophy for good attendance and working very hard as a team player at training and matches. Well done.

Robbie from P7A challenged himself to run 1x5km per day for 50days!! He began this on 8th October 2023 and will complete his challenge on Sunday 26th November. He decided this would be a great opportunity to raise some money for a great cause. He’s running for The Biggart Hospital, Prestwick. His Great Aunt passed away in April of this year and she was care for by the nurses and volunteers there. Well done!

Hazel from P6A won a  bronze medal at JKS Scotland kumite competition. She is competing every weekend this month with the JKS Scotland Squad.Good luck and well done .

During October Nathan from P2CN took part and completed a 30mile walking challenge. He actually finished early on the 15th of the month. He walked to and from school every day and joined in with family walks as I ( his Mum) was completing the Race at Your Pace 300 mile walking challenge for October and Nathan wanted to take part to so joined the children’s challenge. Well done.

Congratulations to Bradley, Jay and Josh who have been selected to represent Onthank Primary in the East Ayrshire District Football team. We are so proud of you. Good luck!

Jordan from Kilmarnock Football Club came to school to do a workshop on Show Racism the Red Card and Killie Captain Kyle Vassel visited our school and participated in Q& A session. P7M were delighted to be part of this experience and P5MB when Kyle joined in their PE lesson while he was being filmed for SKY SPORTS.

We are so proud of all our pupils who have achieved recognition out of school.

Sophie from P3S & Kyle from P1K attended a drop off session at the Killie Community hub to learn life saving CPR from local NHS staff which was a very meaningful event. Well done.

Cara from P5MB received a Silver medal in Gymnastics for grade 2 trio Ayrshire Gymnastics. Well done

Lucy from P5MB received 3rd place for her   gymnastics pair routine at Lunar Competition. Well done

Ailah from P5KI received a gold medal at the Lunar competition.  What an achievement – well done

Holly from P5MB was selected to be a Ball Girl at a professional tennis tournament in Glasgow last week with lots of the big stars of British tennis playing as well as some international players

She is in the Scotland National training squad, she’s represented South of Scotland County at her age group and the age group above, she is the 2023 Ayrshire Short tennis 9U and 10U champion and the Kilmarnock Tennis Club 9U champion and her bedroom is brimming with other medals and trophies.

Cara from P4M received a cup and trophies for Martial Arts. She has done done very well.

Thank you for donating items for our Harvest Collection. We have handed this over to Knockinlaw Community Larder.

Thank you to everyone who donated to Mary’s Meals for our World Porridge Day this year. Many pupils tasted porridge in school this morning. We have counted £80.94-this is a fantastic amount .👏

Thank you to everyone who came along to our fabulous Community Night.We had a wonderful time. Looking forward to the next one.😊

Thank you to everyone who visited our Macmillan Coffee Morning. We are delighted to say that we have raised lots of money for Macmillan Cancer Care. Our P6 pupils did a wonderful job helping and thanks to staff who helped and to Nicola, our catering manager for her delicious baking. I will confirm our final Onthank total next week.👏☕️

Alfie from P5M won the Halo Sustainability Competition with his fabulous painting of the Halo. He went to visit The Halo and was given a warm welcome by Marie and her team.  He won a fabulous prize and was presented with a Halo medal. He was treated like a VIP . Thank you.

Our 2023/24  P5-7 Rights Respecting School Ambassadors met and introduced themselves. They were given their RRS lanyards to show everyone that they are RRS Ambassadors. Some of the group put themself forward for a position of leadership: Chair Vice Chair and Secretary. They presented their  profile to the whole school at assembly. P4-7s were given a vote. This will be announced next week after the count! Good luck everyone.

Thank you to Theresa and Asda , Kilmarnock for their kind donations of new uniforms to our School Uniform Bank. If you would like  any items of school clothing, please call into our school office and we can show you sizes . We also have new school bags – donated by New Laigh Kirk available for pupils to collect. We also appreciate the many uniform donations to our Swap Shop.

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Does your child have a school uniform that they have outgrown? Then why not drop into our school swap shop and swap it for another!

Based at the school reception, our Swap Shop is a great way for parents to donate or swap any school uniforms, jackets, bags etc.

If you have any school uniform items, jackets, bags or packed lunch boxes you wish to donate then please hand these into the school office or leave in Reception Area during the school holiday. Thank you. RRS Ambassadors.