Well done to all the Onthank pupils at Caroline’s Dance Academy who performed Matilda.
Month: March 2018
Eggcellent Designs by P5
Primary 5 enjoyed the last day of term by making some eggcellent designs. They had to design a character or personality using hard boiled eggs and a backdrop to go along with it.
All of our designs were outstanding but congratulations to our 1st and 2nd place winners, Olivia, Rebecca and Emily.
Happy Easter from all in P5!
Dancefest 2018
This year, Onthank Primary took part in DanceFest 2018. It was choreographed by Mrs Granger. All of the P7’s that took part had lots of fun getting ready and performing to the audience.
Post written by Lucie Corrigan, Kyle Speirs, Abby Coulter and Heather Anderson.
60 Celebrations!
We are looking for ideas to celebrate Onthank’s 60th birthday. We are gathering ideas on post-its at Parents’ Night. Three members of staff are also 60 this year!
However if you missed this opportunity feel free to add your ideas below.
Improving Attendance
When you miss school …you miss out!
All parents/carers should have received an attendance print out with their child’s report card.
We have a number of children who have less than 90% attendance and too many absences recorded as an unauthorised absence (this will appear as a U on the printout).
For those children with less than 90 % or children with unauthorised absences we would like to speak to you about ways we can work together to improve this. We are hoping this will reduce the percentage of children throughout the school who are below 90% Please find attached EAC guidelines which maybe of help. We sent this leaflet with the last newsletter.
Alison Wright
Sport Relief Zumba
Check out the video of all our P4, 5, 6 and 7 performing Zumba led by our very own Steven Swan. More pics and videos will follow from our Sport Relief Day!
School Holiday Options
Please see attached appendices indicating the options for the format of holidays for East Ayrshire schools for academic session 2019-2020. Parents/Carers are asked which option they prefer. Please complete:
STEM in the Real World
As part of our STEM Fortnight, we were very lucky to have lots of visitors in our school. Our STEM family and friends came in to carry out experiments and hold presentations with the kids to give them a taste of how STEM works in the real world.
Onthank Family Engagement Survey
P3 Dean Park Visit
Take a look at some photos of our day out to Dean Park where we were Nature Detectives, looking for animal tracks and signs of spring as our trip out coincided with the first day of spring.
We also tried out the new park facilities at Dean Park and gave them a big thumbs up. Especially the slide which was really speedy.
NSPCC Visit
NSPCC visited Onthank and delivered assemblies to all pupils encouraging pupils to Stand Up and Speak Out.
Sport Relief
Primary 6 and 7 pupils were lucky enough to meet some Team GB Paralympic Boccia players! Jamie and Scott McCowan (brothers) came in to Onthank to show us how to play Boccia. Some pupils got the chance to have a go and even the teachers got the opportunity to play against each other.
P5 Maths
Mr McIlwraith’s maths group have been using concrete materials to show their understanding of a tenth also being represented as a decimal. We can now convert tenths into decimal fractions and understand that these are part of a whole number.
P7 and P1 STEM
Primary 7 pupils went a walk with P1 Buddies to help them collect sticks and leaves for their STEM Challenge. Primary ones have to build a dragon’s nest.
STEM continued
In our groups we added corners and wheels to our cars.
We met new Bloggers
P7 Gargieston pupils visited us today to share their Glow Blogs with us. We met new friends and worked with younger pupils to share information with them.
P5 STEM models
Our P5s have created a model to transport tomatoes from the mountain to the market. We used lots of resources including K’Nex, Lego, art straws, cups and much more. We think they look great.
STEM Car Building in P7
As an introduction to STEM Fortnight P7 pupils started on the road to car building.
STEM in P5
Primary 5 have been completing their first STEM challenge for STEM Fortnight. The children have to design a model to transport tomatoes from the mountains to the market. Our finished products will be uploaded soon.
More from World Book Day!
Here are some more photographs from some of our World Book Day activities. Primary 1 and 2 were lucky enough to have a visit from Mrs Claus and some classes also had Britain’s Got Talent Winner, Jai McDowall, visit and read a book. A huge thank you to all of our guests who came along on the day. 
Heartstart training
As part of Health and Wellbeing, Mrs Williams and Miss Smith have been teaching all classes how to help in an emergency situation. The pupils already know how to make an ambulance call, put a casualty in the Recovery Position and they can help someone who has bad bleeding. By the end of the course pupils will be able to perform and recognise signs of a heart attack and perform CPR.
World Book Day in Onthank
Here are just a few of the pictures we took today. Well done to everyone who dressed up as their favourite character. Great fun was had by all and thank you to our special guests who read to children today.
Waste Week
We kicked off our week at Onthank with an assembly all about waste. Mrs Merrick and the Eco team will be leading this. Look out for more posts to see what we get up to.
Winter Olympics
