Football coaching for P6/7 Girls will begin on Tuesday 1st October – Tuesday 3rd December (3-4pm). The sessions will take place both indoor and outdoor so please bring suitable clothing.
Complete the consent form below if you wish your child to attend.
This week we announced and gave out badges to our new house captains. After canvassing for support our successful candidates are as follows:
Fleming (red) Captains: Erin and Jack , Vice Captains: Alicia and Thomas
Burns (blue) Captains: Lucy and Tom, Vice Captains: Neve and Kyle
Livingstone (yellow) Captains: Erin and Joe, Vice Captains Gregor and Rhiannon
Scott (green) Captains: Lucy and Miller, Vice Captains: Alex and Lotte
Thank you to everyone who came along to our Macmillan Coffee Day. We had a fantastic turnout and we collected £980 from donations for Macmillan Cancer Support. ☕?
Thank you to Heather and her staff for their delicious cakes?. Thanks also to Mrs Jones for being the “tea lady” and also to P6s for being super helpers⭐️.
P1B and P7S have been using our Buddying time to familiarise ourselves with all the gym equipment. P7S have been setting the hall up and taking P1B through all the different stations in a block of Gymnastics.
Our P6/7 team competed against the top cross country runners in East Ayrshire primary schools. We had some fantastic results at the event that was held at the Ayrshire Athletics Arena in conjunction with Kilmarnock Harriers.
Leah H – 3rd
Erin W – 4th
Jack E – 4th
Daniel H – 6th
Well done to all the pupils that competed and a big thank you to all the family members that attended to support our athletes.
As part of our Rights Respecting Schools Programme P6s will be organising our coffee morning for Macmillan Cancer Support on Friday 27 September from 9.05 am till 2.20 pm in the main hall. Tea, coffee, hot chocolate, juice and baking will be available for a donation. P3, P4, P5 and P7 pupils can attend for a donation. Please come along and support this worthwhile cause . All proceeds will go to Macmillan Cancer Support. On this occasion money can be brought to school. Timetable below if you want to visit when your child’s class is visiting/helping. If your child is in P1/P2 and you would like them to join you, please ask at the office for him/her to be collected.
9.05 am P6A Miss Anderson’s class to help
9.10 am P4 Scissors (Rotation Group) to visit
9.20 am P7M Mrs Mills’s class to visit
9.30 am P7MC Mr McNichol’s class to visit
9.40 am P7S Mr Simpson’s class to visit
9.50 am P6F Mr Franchi’s class to visit
10.00 am P6F Mr Franch’s class to help
10.10 am P6A Miss Anderson’s class to visit
10.15 am P5I Mrs Irving’s class to visit
10.20 am P5K Mrs Kilpatrick’s class to visit
10.30 am P5T Miss Telford’s class to visit
11.00 am P6M Mrs Merrick’s class to visit
11.10 am P6M Mrs Merrick’s class to help
11.20 am P4 Paper (Rotation Group) class to visit
11.40 am P4 Rocks (Rotation Group) class to visit
1.20 pm P6N Mrs Newall’s class to help
1.30 pm P3C Mrs Carten’s class to visit
1.40 pm P3H Miss Hamilton’s class to visit
1.50 pm P3M Mrs McCall’s class to visit
2.00 pm P3S Mrs Smith’s class to visit
2.10 pm P6N Mrs Newall’s class to visit
NOT ON BETWEEN 12.30PM & 1.15PM
RRS Article 29: Your education should help you to use and develop your talents and abilities. It should also help you to learn to live peacefully, protect the environment and respect others.
Onthank has been awarded the sportscotland Silver School Sport Award for 2019-2020.
The Silver Award highlights that our school has shown improvement across the core areas of the Award and demonstrated an on-going commitment to increase young people’s opportunities and engagement in physical education, school sport and leadership and provide clear pathways to life-long participation in sport.
Going for Gold!?
#SchoolSportAward
@sportscotland
Here at Onthank Primary we believe that our strong relationship with our Parents and Carers is the key to having positive outcomes for our children and young people.
It is important for Parents and Carers to understand the curriculum their child will be following, in order to be able to support their child’s education.
3 ‘Nutshells’ have today been launched by the Scottish Government to provide an overview for Parents and Carers regarding their child’s learning.
Please have a read of the link below to see how we can strengthen the link between home and the classroom.
Any queries please do not hesitate to contact the school directly.
Well done to everyone for a super effort in helping with our Whole School and Community Litter Pick. We enjoyed being with our Class Buddies. We chatted to each other while we were walking.?? Thank you to all parents/ carers who joined us.
Our P7 Athletics Team will be participating in their heat Wednesday 2 October at the Athletics Arena. The team will leave school at 11.45am and return at approx 2.45pm.
Children should wear sports clothes and athletics T-shirt to school that day. If possible, please bring a packed lunch. A packed lunch will be provided for anyone entitled to one. A non fizzy drink and healthy snack can be taken to the competition.
At this stage of the competition, parents/careers are not required to attend.
Please note, there is no athletics training next week.
We worked with our Buddies on Thursday to pick up litter from the garden at the front of the school. We then went for a walk around the school to see some of our local area.
We have collected 112 stickers so far and require 188 to reach the magic number of 300. Remember to ask family, friends, work colleagues and neighbours to collect stickers for our school.
Primary 1
Hallie – working hard and persevering at a task!
Cara – working hard in numeracy activities
Adrian – standing up and telling the class “t is for table”
Willow – maximum effort at all times
Primary 2
Kye – beautiful artwork
Kaleb – great storywriting ideas
Llyle – reading and spelling common words
Cherelle – fantastic phonics
Primary 3
Leo – always working hard and presenting his work beautifully
Robbie – super sentences
Eabha – great manners and a lovely attitude to school!
Alfie – being a brave brother
Primary 4
Evan – working hard in Maths
Stuart – starting his daily work each morning showing more confidence
Erin – always trying her best!
Layla – super ‘Egyptian’ research at home
Primary 5
Lucie – always giving her best
Millie – super effort in Literacy
Lennon – excellence in PE
Primary 6
Sophie – having an extremely hard working approach to her learning
Kyle – Perfect Diacritical Marking
Callum – perseverance and a kind attitude
Sophie – working really hard and gaining confidence with her numeracy work
Primary 7
Tegan – hard work in Numeracy
Theo – working hard at developing a positive P7 mindset and attitude! Keep it up!
Neve – displaying a positive attitude at all times
Special Award
Lucie – always being polite and mannerly
A huge well done to Jay in P7Mc who raised over £250 doing a sponsored silence and donated the money to a dyspraxia charity.
Over 400 young people attended our second Community Night.
Thank you very much for the kind donations- over £200 was collected on the night. ? Thank to all who helped and thank you to all who came along.
We look forward to the next one on Wednesday 30 October?
Congratulations to Rhona-Mae on her super collection of skating badges. ⛸⛸. She also brought in her collection of swimming badges. Well done- you’re a super sport. ?♂️
Emma in P1B was awarded a certificate for being a Super Stretcher at gymnastics. Well done ?.
Please see attached flyer for an exciting opportunity in our Onthank Community organised by ‘Branching Out Community Group’.
Primary 1
Ailah – participating very well in class discussions!
Emma – super number work
Ava – being a kind and caring friend and helper in the class
Alfie – super substraction skills!
Primary 2
Leah – always doing her best at Onthank Primary
Max – great answering in sentences with super vocabulary
Ollie – writing a wonderful story!
Rowan – her amazing Art work
Primary 3
Bradley – answering well in class
Harris – super sound work
Tj – starting to take his jacket off more regularly. Keep trying hard!
Nazli – super Spelling!
Primary 4
Ross – writing a scary sarcophagus story
Macie – being able to identify tools that help her learn
Shaw – great participation in all activities
Ollie – trying so hard to write a super story
Primary 5
Callum – positive critical thinking
Milo – showing interest and motivation in our topic
Ami – his enthusiasm during CANI Training
Primary 6
Tom – being a helpful and encouraging learning partner
Ellie – being brave
Leah – a good attitude and great effort in her work
Max – consistently working hard
Primary 7
Kyle – putting himself forward for Sports Captain
Millie – developing and maintaining a positive attitude to all her school work
Kyle – displaying good manners across the school
Special Award
Lily (P4E) – for having 10 inches cut off her hair for Little Princess Charity
The following pupils have been selected to represent the school at the annual championships:
P6 Girls
Jessica A
Leah H
Faye A
Sophie H
Alex D
P6 Boys
Daniel H
Lewis K
Logan W
Tom R
Liam R
P7 Girls
Neve R
Orlaith H
Erin W
Erin T
Lotte I
P7 Boys
Jack E
Tyler Q
Theo M
Campbell N
Joshua B
The event will take place on Thursday 26th September at the Ayrshire Athletics Arena. Family members are invited to come along and support our athletes from 9.45am. Pupils should bring water and a snack. Pupils should wear their running outfit to school that day. The pupils will be transported to the event by bus and will return for lunch. Please complete the consent below to allow your child to attend.
We were delighted to welcome parents/carers to our classes this afternoon. Mrs Wright and Mrs Findlay got a chance to speak with many of you. Comments included-
” Really good opportunity to see what is going on in the class.”
” Liked the opportunity to work together. The task was really challenging”
“After speaking with the school there have been really positive changes in the class. My child is very happy in school.”
Recent surveys tell us that most parents find school staff approachable and have many opportunities for families to be involved with the school. However most parents surveyed wanted guidance on how they could help their child learn at home. We hope today offered an opportunity to see how children learn within the classroom and we will plan further workshops which will give parents this information. We have already planned this for P1 parents on Monday 30 September from 2.00 pm to meet the teachers and receive information about your child’s learning.
P7 are going to Sportscotland Inverclyde on Monday 2 March to Friday 6 March 2020. The cost of the visit will be approximately £330. We will be asking for a non-refundable deposit of £40 to be paid by end of October. The remainder of the balance can be paid in instalments through ParentPay and must be paid by the end of February. If the cost of this trip is stopping your child considering going to Inverclyde please contact the school. In the words of a P7 child last year “we want to make sure all our friends have a chance to experience this trip, cost should not be a barrier”. We aim to fundraise to help reduce the cost. Further info will follow.
There will be an information evening in school on Tuesday 8 October at 6.00 pm. Gareth Turner from Inverclyde will deliver a presentation on the visit and will answer any questions you may have.
If you would like your child to attend the residential visit please complete the form below:
Dear Parents and carers of Onthank Primary School,
It has come to our attention that people are parking where we get our deliveries .
It is risking a child’s life. So we are kindly asking you to stop parking in that area.
It is also a danger for children walking to and from school.
If we stop parking in this area we will also stop car accidents happening.
Thank you for listening.
From the JRSO Team
Please come along and join our Community Litter Pick.
Onthank School Community,
After the success of our first Community Night in June, where we welcomed over 600 members of our school and North West community, we are excited to announce – back by popular demand – our next Community Night event!
DATE: THURSDAY 12 SEPTEMBER 6PM – 7:30PM
We warmly invite you and your family to join us for another evening of fun, laughter and friendship – just complete the form so we know you are coming!
We are incredibly lucky at Onthank Primary for the amount of parental volunteers who make events such as this possible. If you would like to get involved with our Community Night, or any other school event, please speak to Steven Swan. Thank you in advance for your support! #whatateam #legends
Bring on the fun!
“I gotta feeling…that tonight’s gonna be a good night…tonight’s gonna be a good, good night”
We are so proud of Katie in P4E- she had her lovely long hair cut and donated it to The Little Princess Trust. This is a charity which uses hair donations to make wigs for children with hair loss. Everyone in Onthank was proud to see Katie receive the Special Award at Assembly.?
The children have now settled in their new classes and we would like to offer you the opportunity to visit your child’s classroom and meet their teacher(s).
Primary 1 – Primary 7
The open afternoon for P1 to P7 classes will take place on Monday 16 September from 1.45 pm. Please come to the school reception and you will be escorted to the relevant area of the school.
We are sure you will find this a worthwhile experience which will provide you with information on the learning through displays. It will also give you an opportunity to meet your child’s teacher(s).
There will be the formal Parents’ Afternoon / Evening on Thursday 10 October when you will have an individual meeting with your child’s teacher to discuss their progress and areas for development.
Primary 1
You are invited to an information session on Monday 30 September from 2.00 pm to meet the teachers and receive information about your child’s learning.
Please do not hesitate to contact the school if you have any questions.
P4 will be visiting the Dick Institute to take part in Wacky World of Walliams workshops in their rotation groups on the following days:
Tuesday 17 September – Rocks
Wednesday 18 September – Paper
Friday 27 September – Scissors
The bus will leave the school at 9.30 am and will return by 3.00 pm. Pupils should wear school uniform and bring a snack, a non fizzy drink and a packed lunch (if your child is entitled to free meals a packed lunch can be provided by the school).
If you are able to come along on this outing as a parent helper please call the school office on 525477.
Your child will have a slip in their bag telling you which rotation group they are in and what day they will be going.
Caitlin and Millie from P5 both spoke to their assemblies today about awards and badges they’ve earned at their after school activities. Caitlin showed off all her badges she’s earned at Brownies while Millietold everyone about her ice-skating badges. Well done both of you, what a pair of Onthank Super Stars!
