Onthank Primary School

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February 8, 2025
by Mrs Findlay
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Scottish Poetry

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.

January 26, 2025
by Mrs Findlay
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New Partner School in Uganda

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. 

Please see email from HT : Kayto Abbey
Abbey Foundation Nursery and Primary School is our school that provides education and care for orphans in Sourthern Uganda. 
The school caters to both orphans and some local paying students and is located just a few kilometers outside of the town of Lwengo.  The student population is mostly from Southern Uganda where many children have been affected by HIV/AIDS. Many of the students’ parents were killed by AIDS.
 Our vision is to have a sustainable school providing much needed education with continuity from pre-school to vocational courses. With a stimulating environment, innovative resources and a dedicated team of staff and volunteers.
 Our school enriches the lives of children and families in the greater Lwengo region and help form future leaders for Uganda.
The news of partnering with your school through British council website were received with joy!!
We look forward to hearing from you again and working together for a strong partnership between our schools.
I am grateful

January 6, 2025
by eanicola.newall@glow
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P1 Enrolment

P1 Registration

For children who turn age of 5 years between 1 March 2025 and 28 February 2026 and whose parents and carers wish them to attend school should be registered for education during the week Monday 13 January 2025 until Friday 17 January 2025.  To register you should complete an online application and submit no later than Friday 17 January 2025.  Register at: – https://www.east-ayrshire.gov.uk/schooladmissions

To register your child you will require to upload a copy of your child’s birth certificate and two proofs of your residence in the catchment area in the form of a Council Tax Notice or Utility Bill.  Should you require a copy of your child’s birth certificate for Registration, this can be obtained at www.certificates.scot

If you are unable to register online then please phone your local school who will assist you to register your child.

Placing Requests

Parents and carers who wish to make a placing request must first enrol their child/children at their catchment school.

Placing requests for the session beginning August 2025, should be received by 31 January 2025.  Requests must be completed and submitted online at: https://www.east-ayrshire.gov.uk/schoolplacingrequest

December 26, 2024
by Mrs Findlay
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Santa visited Onthank🎅🏼🧑🏼‍🎄

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.

 

November 29, 2024
by Mrs Findlay
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Onthank Christmas Fayre

Thank you to everyone who came along to our school Christmas Fayre. We were delighted to welcome so many visitors to our school. Thank you to all who gave their time to help out and to those who donated home baking, toys, books and games. Our pupils did a great job making their crafts and working their own stalls. They have worked hard over the last few weeks to get the Fayre ready. A huge thank you to our Community for supporting us. It definitely made us all feel Christmassy.

 

November 25, 2024
by Mrs Findlay
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Seeds of Change NLK

A huge well done and thank you to  Elise, Olivia, Thea, Lewis and Hayden who who represented  our school at the Fellowship of Kilmarnock Churches event  at the New Laigh Kirk. The theme of the event was ‘Seeds of Change: Caring for Our Environment’. We were able to share with the congregation what we do as an Eco School.  All pupils were a credit to the school.  We sent in posters which were displayed in the church. Well  done to our poster winners: Thea, Thomas & Clara.  

October 10, 2024
by Mrs Findlay
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World Porridge Day

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.


 

September 27, 2024
by Mrs Findlay
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Macmillan Coffee Morning☕️

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☕️☕️☕️👏👏⭐️.

 

September 17, 2024
by Mrs Findlay
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Onthank Bingo 👀

Thank you to the many families who came along to our Parent Council Ongo’s Bingo Event. Everyone had fun : dancing and playing Bingo. Thank you for the donations towards our Pupil Fund . 👏👏

September 1, 2024
by Mrs Findlay
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Rights Respecting School

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.

June 16, 2024
by Mrs Findlay
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Uniform Swap shop -recycle and reuse your uniforms.

 

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.

June 15, 2024
by Mrs Findlay
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Onthank Euros⚽️

Every class in school has been given a country to follow during the Euros. We started our celebrations early with our own class tournaments. We had Rose Reilly to visit during our assembly. Blair Gray from Football Fun Factory gave us his time and lots of pupils visited his activities. We had staff v pupils football game. Everyone came to school in football clothes or sporty clothes to take part in our activities. Well done to all – we had fun despite the weather.👏⚽️🏆

April 17, 2024
by Mrs Findlay
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PATHs Celebration Day🌟

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. 👏

March 27, 2024
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PATHs Celebration Ceremony

Did you know that we are a PATHs model school?

We are celebrating our wonderful achievement on Wednesday 17th April in a special celebration ceremony and we have some special golden tickets up for grabs for our parents/ carers!

If you are interested please, click the link and fill out the form:  https://forms.office.com/e/mWcekGqP3q

Our lucky winners will be drawn on Monday 15th April! We would love to see you there, submit your interest now!!

If you’d like to watch our promo video by our wonderful Primary 7’s please click the image below.

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March 1, 2024
by Mrs Findlay
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Wider Achievement🥇🏅🥈🥉


Congratulations to all our Star Pupils who have received medals, cups and awards from their clubs. If you have achieved anything and would like to be celebrated at our assembly please use the link on our app or email glyn