We celebrated World Children’s Day by taking part in an online UNICEF Assembly with over 25o schools across Scotland. We learned about the importance of Climate Change and how this links to Children’s Rights.
We worked in groups to brainstorm our ideas. We are keen to encourage our School and Community to take action!
Well done to all our Primary 5 staff and pupils for 4 fantastic performances of Charlie and the Onthank Chocolate Factory.All performances were very well supported. 👏Everyone who was lucky to get a ticket gave us very positive feedback. Thank you to everyone involved.⭐️
The whole school was invited to our Scottish Poetry Competition. We listened to a Finalist from each class. Everyone recited their poems brilliantly. They performed with excellent expression and confidence.👏Well done to all of our Finalists.
Thank you for your continued support as we, like the rest of the country, respond to the situation in relation to Coronavirus. I am very grateful for the measured, appropriate and cooperative response of parents/carers in helping us to manage this situation.
https://www.nhsinform.scot/coronavirus
Following a Headteacher meeting on Friday which focused on the impact of the Conorovirus, schools were asked to look at Digital solutions to keep in touch which staff and children who are self-isolating,
As a digital school, pupils at Onthank already use digital technology in a variety of ways such as Bug Club, Active Maths and children’s individual blogs. We plan to continue and extend our use of Digital technology. At this time we have created a Microsoft Team for each class from Primary 5 to 7. We will be giving tutorials to classes over the next few days. Children in these classes have been assigned a survey to complete.
Dear P5/6/7 Families,
We are having an excellent term so far at Youth Club with our young people creating the format of the sessions, providing activity choices and planning events! Unfortunately we don’t think a school sleepover can be accommodated!!
We would like to remind families Youth Club starts at 5.30pm and invite young people to arrive from 5.20pm at the earliest as adult supervision will not be provided until this time.
Thank you for your continued support!
#ouronthank #YouthClub
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.
This week our P5s – P7s are performing ‘Onthank’s Greatest Show’ and we want to know your views! Would you give it a 5 star rating?
Comment below and let us know what you thought about our performance!
Aiden P5E brought us his football trophies and medals to show us. He has done well??⚽.
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.
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 for pleasure was the order of the day. And not a pencil to be seen. All children participated fully in all aspects of their learning today – and had fun. We even had a visit from the SSPCA to round off our day.
PARENT’S EVENING appointments have been allocated and children should have a note of times in their school bags. Thanks to those who have responded and I look forward to meeting you all next Tuesday. There are still a few slots available between 4:30 and 5:50 if you haven’t been in touch yet.
DUNDONALD CASTLE. A super day is in store for all tomorrow. It is a fun packed day where children will dress up, act out and discover what life was like in medieval times. As we will be outdoors, children should wear rain jackets and school uniforms. Trainers are ideal for walking around the castle and grounds.
I hope you like the photos that helped capture how busy we all were today.
WOW! A whole school extravaganza in yellow. Children went NUTS for litter picking! Here are P5i with their P2S buddies doing their bit for the environment. Well done everyone and to P5i for being so supportive of the wee ones. Great examples of role models and responsible citizens.
Congratulations to Kayla and Carrie who both received awards for their skills in gymnastics?.
P5 visited the Glasgow Science Centre. They got to try out lots of different science experiments, went to the cinema to watch ‘Into the Arctic’ and of course visited the shop!
A big thank you to all of our parent helpers who also came along.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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!