Onthank Primary School

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March 6, 2025
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World Book Day📚⚽️

We were delighted to welcome Captain Conker and Darryl to our school to read to our P1 and P2 pupils. They left us copies of  Captain Conker and The Dastardly Plan to read ourselves. Lots of other activities took place … Continue reading

June 24, 2023
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Sky Arts Access all Arts

Many of our pupils took part in lessons as part of Sky Arts Access all Arts School Week.  We have been experiencing music, drama, poetry and art, to name just a few. Here is some of the pupils at work. … Continue reading

February 3, 2023
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Parent Council sponsored ‘READ-A-THON’ #WorldBookDay

Families, We are excited to share on behalf of our Parent Council their ‘Sponsored READ-A-THON Challenge’ to celebrate World Book Day (Thursday 2 March), promote reading in school and at home and raise funds for new library/topic books for our … Continue reading

March 5, 2020
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World Book Day 2020

P4 have had a great day celebrating World Book Day 2020. We had dress up fun, shared our favourites stories and books, did book related tasks and some of us enjoyed paired reading with our buddies in P3. P4K our … Continue reading

January 17, 2020
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First Minister’s Reading Challenge – Dyslexia Friendly Schools

Today our DFS ambassadors (P4K) have been busy organising the launch of the First Minister’s Reading Challenge. It is believed that reading has the power to change lives and that developing a love of reading in childhood can have a huge … Continue reading

November 29, 2019
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McCoo Author Visit

Shirley Husband,  author of the McCoo Books  read Nan McCoo to P1/2s and then she read Angus McCoo to P3/4s. Everyone was excited to hear the stories. Primary 1s  made pictures of Betty , Angus and Nan McCoo. What a … Continue reading

March 5, 2019
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Dyslexia Friendly Pupil Group

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 … Continue reading

November 27, 2018
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Active Learning in P3

We are all enjoying being active in our learning! Sometimes we learn best when we are cooperating with others, using interactive Maths materials, learning our phonemes through games and simply…having fun while learning! P3C have been beginning to divide. They … Continue reading

October 3, 2018
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No Pens Day Wednesday

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.

October 3, 2018
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P5i No Pens Day – and other news

How did we cope without pens today? Well going by the enthusiastic response of the pupils, very well actually. With the help of snap cards, jigsaws, dominoes,  division cards, general  knowledge quiz, literacy criterion,  problem solving, critical thinking,  and teamwork, learning … Continue reading

October 3, 2018
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We’re collecting Scottish Sun Book Tokens – start collecting yours from Sept 24th

After helping the Scottish Sun to launch their new Free Books for Schools campaign, we will be collecting book tokens from the paper. Between September 24th and November 18th, the Scottish Sun and Scottish Sun on Sunday will be printing book tokens … Continue reading

June 22, 2018
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Active phonics in P1

P1A and P1C were very busy reading, writing and spelling this morning with a mixture of activities outside and inside. Some children used water or chalk to write letters and words, while others played in groups with board games, flash … Continue reading

June 5, 2018
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P6 John Muir Award Celebration

P6 had a great turnout for Onthank’s first ever John Muir Award Celebration this afternoon. Our P6s have been learning that John Muir was a Scottish born conservationalist, who lived in the late 1800s and later moved to America to … Continue reading

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