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.👏☕️


Month: September 2023
P5/6/7 Girls Football Team – After School Club

Families,
We are excited to announce a Girls Football Team after school activity!
Day: Every Thursday
Time: 3pm – 4.15pm
Stage: P5/6/7 Girls
Dates: Thursday 5 Oct – Thursday 14 Dec
Training will start again in January. Info to be provided.
Please complete the form to sign up and you will receive an email of confirmation from Mr Swan at the start of next week.
https://forms.office.com/e/QzcEkPbPLh
Have a great weekend!
Wider Achievement
This week we are very proud of our pupils who have achieved awards out of school.
Blair from P3C joined Dean Thistle football club in April and loves it. Since then he has received 3 Gold Awards for different things such as scoring goals and displaying good team work.
Lewis from P4M recently had a taekwondo grading and he passed. He is now a yellow belt. He is also in Beavers and he will be moving up to the Cubs after the October holidays. Lewis has also become a Lodge Leader.
Emily from P6A has been doing gymnastics for a couple of years now and loves it. She has moved up a few levels since joining and is always doing hand stands and head stands in the house to practise.
She is also a member of The Little Art School. She recently got moved up to intermediate level and one of her paintings from last session was displayed on the club’s Facebook page. It demonstrated how well she used the watercolours in the painting. She has so many paintings there isn’t enough room to hang them all.
Sophia from P7M achieved her Bikeability Award . Well done
Ella from P2E has achieved her Level 1, Little Tiger Cubs orange stripe at Taekwondo.
Andrew P7A led the church in prayer at Harvest Service on Sunday for the first time. He had volunteered himself and practised all week at home and in the church itself and had lots of well done afterwards.
Georgie from P7A started ballet classes aged 3. Since then, she has progressed through the world renowned RAD ballet syllabus. During this progress, Georgie has worked very hard and shown determination to strengthen her core, legs and feet resulting in her now gaining her first pair of pointe shoes. A huge achievement in ballet.
Hazel from P6A achieved her 2nd kyu grade (brown and white belt) in karate on Saturday. On Sunday she competed, and although she didn’t win any medals this time, she was competing up a level and performed very well against very tough and experienced competitors and managed to beat a very experienced black belt who has achieved success in European competitions.
Gracie from P1S started gymnastics in June and has received 2 awards – Super Stretcher and Gym Star. She has been practising lots and showing off her new skills to her family.



Halo Winner⭐️
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.

Wider Achievement⭐️
This week we are so proud to celebrate the achievements of our pupils:
Cara from P4M was invited to join the Senior Leadership Programme at Taekwondo. She recently passed her grading and got her new leadership belt and her first weapons for her collar.⭐️
Arden from P1S achieved his orange stripe belt at Taekwondo. He had to demonstrate a variety of moves and break boards. This is Arden’s 5th grading.🌟
Morgan from P5T recently applied and was promoted to the role of a Sixer in the 37th Ayrshire Cub Pack. ⭐️
Fallon from P5MB completed Octopus 1,2 and3 swimming levels and is now a confident swimmer.🌟
Alyssa from P2C achieved her Super Stretcher Award from Ayrshire Gymnastics Academy after only her 3rd lesson.⭐️
Abbi from P7A received an EA Youth Award for unsung Hero: Covid Champion and was a finalist in the Awards Ceremony.🌟
Penny from P6H pushed herself to take part in the grading and even took part in one aspect that kids are not expected to do-3 Step Sparring. This is brilliant Penny.🌟
Blair from P3H participates in Parkrun by volunteering every Saturday and also he runs in junior Parkrun on a Sunday. Well done Blair.🌟
Carrick from P4K is currently competing in the Scottish Minimoto Championships and has been for the last year and a half. In the last round, held at Cults Race Track, he came 2nd in his category.
His next round will be at Knockhill and then Crail in October and he will also take part in the display at the annual Fireworks event held at Knockhill on the 4th Nov.🌟
Finlay fromP2C with his Team Leader badge which he got last week from his Anchor boys at boys brigade.( His brother Jacob has also snuck in the photo)Well done Finlay.🌟



Litter Pick
We all took part in a whole School and Community Litter Pick. Thank you to everyone and also to the many parents who helped us. Our school grounds are looking very clean- let’s pledge to keep it that way💯.

Rights Respecting School Ambassadors
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.



Uniform Donations
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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