We are super excited and delighted to tell you that we have been awarded Gold Rights Respecting School status. Thank to everyone for helping us achieve this fantastic award.👏⭐️

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. GLOBAL GOAL 6. Thank you to all the Parents/Carers who came along to help us. … Continue reading →

We were invited to Rugby Park to take part in a focus group to discuss existing programmes and ideas for improvement. We were delighted to have a museum tour and we had a photo opportunity on the pitch.

Despite the sun hiding we all had a fun time during lunch time at our Beach Party. We sat on our picnic blankets with our friends to eat our lunch. We loved the ice lollies and listening to the music.🍭 … Continue reading →

Well done to our pupils who received Perfect Attendance certificates today.👏👏💯

We were so excited to welcome Jordan and Captain Cocker to our school. They brought us The Scottish Championship Cup which were were delighted to see. Jaxon and Shaw from P6 presented their Kilmarnock PowerPoint at assembly and we learned … Continue reading →

Well done to Hazel for winning the SKGB Grand Prix Champion Award for karate. We are so proud of you👏👏 Well done to Dean Thistle boys who won medals at a tournament in Ayr.  We can’t wait till you play … Continue reading →

We had a super day to end our Positive Choices Week. Fiona , our Catering Manager told P1s what she uses to make their lunches. They loved seeing the huge block of cheese. Alan & Freddie from Ayrshire College organised … Continue reading →

We had a great day with lots of outside activities.☀️Kilmarnock Football Club brought their HEXAGOAL for P5, P6 and P7s. They loved their time on it. ⚽️ Louise Hannah and Lisa were doing Multisports with P1, P2 and P3s. They … Continue reading →

Thank you to our visitors today. We had Tracy Smith, Tesco Community Champion in to tell Primary 3s about shopping in store. She read them a story  and we asked her lots of questions about her job. She gave us delicious … Continue reading →

We welcomed more visitors to our school today. David Haggerty came to talk to P1 P2 and P3s about his job in the Fire Service. He showed us fire equipment and allowed some teachers to try it on. ⭐️ Mr Swan … Continue reading →

We had a busy first day to kick off Positive Choices Week. Our Primary Two classes visited Spar Onthank and were shown round the shop.” I really liked working at the till,” Ava. Mr Hoynes gave us all a packet of … Continue reading →

We celebrated Kindness Day and designed cups for our school and Community. We delivered Kindness Posters  to our Community: they were gratefully received by everyone. Look out for our posters on display 💙.  

We are delighted to present our Pupil Voice groups with lanyards to show their responsibility group in school. Here are some photographs from our groups: Pupil Council, Rights Respecting School, Eco Committee, Health & Safety Officers, Lost Property Detectives, Digital … Continue reading →

Well done to all our class finalists who performed their poem to the whole school through Teams. They were all fantastic. Classes voted for the top 3 overall winners. Congratulations to Ellie P1M , Abigail P4W and Molly P6N 👏👏. … Continue reading →

We celebrated Burns’ Day by wearing tartan, enjoying poetry and doing lots of Burns related activities.  We had a special Scottish menu at lunch time.  

We wished Mrs Wright all the best on her 50th birthday . Everyone dressed in blue / white or Killie clothes to help celebrate. Captain Conker was our surprise visitor . We also sang our own Onthank version of Paper … Continue reading →

We had fun wearing our Christmas Jumpers. We all looked very festive.🎅🏼🤶🏼 P7C had fun decorating our Christmas Tree which is outside for all to see. We hope you enjoy looking at it.

At the James Hamilton Hub today we created our Rights Respecting School poster to support Key Workers. Pupils from Hillhead PS and Murray from Vibrant Communities helped us. We will display the poster in Onthank when we get back.

Paddington Bear is Onthank Primary School Rights Respecting School Mascot. Oliver in P1C designed our mascot. Paddington is all around the school to remind us about our rights in the UNCRC and to remind us to be respectful. As a … Continue reading →

Thank you to everyone who donated to our Christmas Jumper Day. You all looked very festive in your Christmas Clothes.???

Everyone looked fabulous in their Pudsey /Spotty clothes at school today. Thank  you to all who brought in a donation today. We were delighted Pudsey came  to visit us and join us in our whole school  Joe Wicks Big Morning … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

We supported Save the Children and wore our Christmas jumpers to school. Thank you to everyone who brought in a donation for this charity?

Well done to our Rights Respecting School’s ambassadors who presented to  East Ayrshire’s Children and Young People’s Strategic Partnership.  Hayley ,Olivia  and Molly spoke to the group about Onthank’s silver award and anti-bullying.