P3W were excited to take ownership of counting and distributing leaflets to all stages today.
All pupils have been given a ‘Digital Parenting’ leaflet to take home. This leaflet contains some very valuable information about keeping up to speed with the latest digital technology and wellbeing issues so that families can get the most out of the online world.
Five Primary 5 pupils were invited to Brownings the Bakers to take part in a Bake Off with pupils from Galston Primary . They decorated empire biscuits, made cream donuts, filled strawberry tarts, decorated and filled yum yums. They were shown how to decorate cup cakes by a very famous cake Queen: Mich Turner MBE. Everyone had a great time and got to take their cakes home. They also received a goody bag. Thank you to John Gall of Brownings the Bakers for inviting us.
Hello,
We are the DFS pupil group for Onthank Primary School. We organise events like the DFS workshop and whole school assembly. We invited all pupils and parents/carers to come to the DFS workshop. There were lots of fun activities for everyone to do.
We have already achieved our Bronze Award and are currently working towards our Silver accreditation.
Our DFS school mascot is Dom the DFS Diamond. Keep an eye out for him around the school!
Four of our good friends have made a movie called DFS A Wider World using IMovie trailer. You will be able to check it out at a later date by scanning a QR code.
Written by Lucy, Emily, Thomas and Stuart P6K
Congratulations to Carly Inglis P6A our Be Safe Be Seen competition winner and to Emily Tosh P6K and Ashton Walker P7S our runners up. Well done for your super safe design ideas.
Our Primary 6 classes worked with PACE Theatre yesterday morning to produce a short anti bullying play which was performed to the P5 year group and our P6 parents.
The children worked extremely hard in the morning to learn actions, lines and stage directions. The show delivered a strong anti bullying message and encouraged to reach their full potential.
Thank you to all the adults who were able to join us for the performance. It was great to see so many people there. We’d love to hear your comments about the show below.
Thank you to Mrs Williams for organising this excellent experience. ?
Click below to see a short video from the performance.
On Thursday 17th January, our P6 classes will be working with the PACE Theatre group to perform a short (approx 25mins) anti-bullying show called ‘Being Me’.
P6 Parents/Carers are welcome to join us to watch the performance at 11.40am with tea and coffee being served in the dinner hall from 11.25am.
Please complete the form below if you would like to attend our short performance by Monday 14th January.
See our P6 blog for more information.
Aiden P5E brought us his football trophies and medals to show us. He has done well??⚽.
We are asking pupils to be SPOTACULAR– DO YOUR OWN THING! Dress to impress in your spotty outfits or wear Pudsey clothes. We would appreciate a small donation towards this charity. We have Children In Need wristbands for sale £1. Please buy from the office.
We have invited Pudsey to visit Onthank Primary School?
RRS Article: Your right to become the best you can be.
P3C are enjoying PE sessions this year led by three students from Ayrshire College.
Ryan, Baillie and Declan will be with us until Easter to help us to develop our skills in many sports.
The boys are also offering lunchtime clubs and an after school club.
A reminder that East Ayrshire Council do not permit the wearing of any jewellery during physical education lessons or extra-curricular activities. This includes all piercings, rings, watches and wrist accessories. Any items of jewellery will not be covered up and should be removed by the child or not worn on PE days.
Thank you for your support with this.
A big thank you to all pupils and parents who donated and participated in our ‘Onthank Danceathon’.
We all enjoyed sessions led by the dance coach Claire Adam who has appeared on the reality TV programme “Got to Dance”.
We raised an amazing total of £469.42 for the STV Children’s Appeal 2018!!
P6A have had a great first term! The children have worked hard and have made good progress!
One the highlights has been the game, Hoop Hop. Here’s the class in action!
Have a super holiday! See you for an action packed Term 2!
We celebrated World Porridge Day by offering everyone a taste of porridge. We watched a film from Mary’s Meals about children in Malawi who don’t have a choice of menu at meal times. Thank you to everyone who brought in “ loose change” to Mary’s Meals.?
Thank you to everyone who took part in today’s Danceathon. Thank you for your donations( we haven’t counted them yet). We will let you know how much we raised. ??
Today P6A headed to Dumfries House to visit Valentin Farm. The children had a great day and learned lots along away. Highlights from today were ‘milking’ a cow, feeding the animals and holding chicks.
Thanks to our parent helpers for their fantastic assistance today!
Today as part of our Dyslexia Friendly Schools journey, the whole school was involved in NO PENS DAY WEDNESDAY. This is a national speaking and listening event which encourages exciting classroom discussion. Check out the blog for class photos.
All P3 pupils have been participating in ‘Growth Mindset’ challenges. Pupils showed great determination as they tackled five different challenges which can often be difficult or frustrating.
P5 pupils assisted at the ‘tying shoelaces’ challenge and many P3 pupils were successful.
Some groups managed to build very tall towers with plastic cups! We needed to have steady hands!
‘Beat the Buzzer’ was really tricky but we had lots of fun and plenty of laughs.
We tried drawing pictures and writing with our opposite hand. Some people discovered that they can do this very well and others decided that they would need to keep trying to get better at it.
We had fun playing ‘Jenga’. Again, we had to concentrate and take our time so that we were successful.
We now know that having a ‘Growth Mindset’ makes learning more fun!
When we learn something new we are happy, motivated and determined.
Katie and Erin were so happy to now be able to tie their shoe laces. They made a new ‘pathway’ and they can now help others!
Primary 1
Sophie Henderson, Mason Paterson, Hazel Paterson.
Primary 2
Ella O’Neil, Lucy McLean, Rachel McTaggart, Leo Massantini.
Primary 3
Dylan Graham, Mya Stebbings, Elle Barclay.
Primary 4
Calum Cairns, Kal McGonigale, Ryan Ritchie.
Primary 5
Faye Armstrong, Callum Milligan, Emily Thomson.
Primary 6
Shannon MacLeod, Stuart Anderson, Jamie Salisbury.
Primary 7
Rebecca Forrest, Liam Armstrong.
Special Award
P7 Athletics Team.
Congratulations to P7 Athletics Team on winning East Ayrshire Sportshall Athletics Trophy. They all took part in many different events and worked well as a team. Thanks to all the parents and friends who came along to cheer the team. Thanks also to Miss Anderson & Mrs Klein for their super coaching skills?.Go Team Onthank⭐
For P7 Athletics Team Members Only
The Athletics Final takes place at the Athletics Arena, Friday 28th September. The children have to arrive at the arena at 6pm sharp and the competition should run from 6.30-8.30pm.
The children should wear black or dark coloured shorts/leggings and their athletics t-shirt. The children should also bring water and healthy snack. Warm clothing is also encouraged as the arena can be cold at this time of year.
Parents are welcome to attend this event to cheer the team on! Seating is roughly calculated at one adult per child but if two adults attend or brothers and sisters need to come for childcare purposes I’m sure it’ll be ok.
Please complete this form in advance of the competition.
We look forward to seeing you on Friday night! Let’s go Onthank!
Miss Anderson and Mrs Klein
Older class to collect younger class. Collect bibs, pickers, gloves and bags at the back car park door.
9.15 am – P3S+P4E – Front of school grassy area
9.30 am – P2H+P6M – Front of school grassy area at side of hall
9.50 am – P2ST+P5I – Back car park area / garden
10.00 am – P3W+P4F+P4M – Front of school garden
10.10 am – P3C+P5M – Back path along P3/4 playground
10.20 am – P2K+P6A – P3/4 playground
11.10 am – P1M+P7B – P1/2 playground
11.10 am – P1C+P6K – Path round side of ECC
11.20 am – P1A+P7M – Grassy area at school entrance and path
11.30 am – P1W+P7S – Centre playground
11.40 am – P3K+P5B – Back path towards garages
11.50 am – P2S+P5E – Back path towards Southcraigs
As a school we have registered with Keep Scotland Beautiful and signed the pledge.
‘I pledge to do my bit to Clean Up Scotland’
For Primary 7 Athletics Team only. These children know who they are and have spoken to Miss Anderson about completing this form:
Permission for training at the Athletics Arena on Thursday 20th and 17th September, 4-5pm.
P6K have been finding out a little bit more about each other. The pupils presented a solo talk all about themselves and brought in an interesting item from home to show the class. 
Sensei Liam from Senjokai Karate Dojo in Stewarton came into school to give us a taster session . We all enjoyed this activity. ??
If you require your child to be given medication during school time please call into the office to complete the necessary paperwork and hand in the medication.
Breakfast Club is on every morning from 8.15 am – 8.45 am. The cost is 90p for 1st child and 60p for 2 or more children. The Breakfast Club is free to children who are in receipt of free school meals. This session children come to Breakfast Club through our main entrance.
Our P7 Athletics team participated in their heat of the Sportshall Athletics and competed against James Hamilton Primary, Whatriggs Primary and Crosshouse Primary. The team performed incredibly well and comfortably won the heat. They will find out next week if they have qualified for the final at the end of September.
Well done to all involved! Go Team Onthank!
Our P3 pupils have had a visit from ‘Try’atops the Growth Mindset dinosaur.
Tryatops has been encouraging the pupils to develop a positive attitude towards learning and to understand that making mistakes is part of the learning process.
Pupils are learning the importance of the word ‘YET’. Instead of saying “I can’t do it” we should say “I can’t do it YET”.
We want all pupils to feel comfortable and happy in their learning environment.
Over the next few weeks during our Health and Wellbeing lessons we will be facing some challenges and showing how determined we are to succeed.
P3W pupils chose a motivational phrase to write on the classroom pencils.
