P1 Enrolment Flier 2019

A reminder that Parents and Carers are invited to join us tomorrow morning for the P2 Nativity- “The Christmas Star”.  Please be seated for a 10am start.

We look forward to seeing you there.

December Calendar 2018

 Primary 1

James Lyall – persevering and building a tall tower that stood without support

Reem Altamr – knowing lots of sounds and trying to read words

Luke Sloan – amazing addition skills!

Corey Mitchell – super football skills at Fit 15

 Primary 2

Maddison Neill – super school representative at Morrisons

Sophie Brown – great effort making her spelling words

Jay McFadzean – sensible and mature attitude

Keira Morton – working hard at Reading

 Primary 3

Imogen Mooney – always trys her best at school

Tyler Livingstone – being confident in the P3 Concert

Macy McFarlane – beautiful singing of ‘Four Calling Birds’

Lily Roy – excellent singing during the P3 Carol Concert

 Primary 4

Milo Horner – always choosing a challenge in Maths

Lennon McPartland – Great Reading Comprehension

Luke Callaghan – an amazing effort with Spelling.                                    You are a Super Star!

 Primary 5

Ethan Craigen – super Christmas art work

P5E Choir – super performance in the P7 Show

Steven Black – being a mannerly messenger

Sophie Malone – having confidence  to showcase her art work

 Primary 6

P6A – outstanding singing during Onthank’s Greatest Show

Callum McAvoy – super effort at all times!

Glen Duncan – working well and making good progress

 Primary 7

All of P7 for fantastic performances of ‘Onthank’s Greatest Show’

 Special Award

Rebecca Devlin – for being a Responsible Prefect

 Primary 1

Emily Gardiner – using phonics to read words and draw pictures

Andrew Campbell – taking his time to carefully make paper chains

Rebecca Stirrat – having a growth mindset in the gym hall – great perseverance!

 Primary 2

Mia Dorrans – fab reporting on the Fayre

Harris Johnston – being a very kind and thoughtful friend!

Sadie Farmer – super shape work in Maths

Josh Wilson – increased effort in Reading and OPS P2ST

 Primary 3

Isla Duncan – excellent reading skills

Macie Campbell – beautiful singing

Nathan Jamieson – super singing during Carol Concert rehearsals

Violet Milloy – showing a great improvement in Phonics

 Primary 4

Lewis Jackson – writing a super descriptive story setting

Emily Skinner – an excellent Imaginative Story

Bailey Dobson – knowing the story of the birth of Jesus and answering questions confidently in Church!

 Primary 5

Leah Henderson – an excellent Africa presentation

Katie Brown – displaying super behaviour

Ellie Gan – problem solving

Millie Gower – always following school rules and working hard

 Primary 6

Kyle Hamilton – his super singing during GSM rehearsals

Carrie Lithgow – being kind and caring

Ben McLean – working hard in all areas every day

 Primary 7

Aaron Osei – a fantastic use of VCOP when writing

Adam Paterson – a respectful Onthank Citizen

Taylor Cree – working hard in Maths

Lee Milne – being a responsible citizen in class and around the school

 Star Award

Onthank Brass Band – playing at the Christmas Fayre

Thank you to SSVP Mount Carmel for a generous donation of Christmas Hampers which were gifted to some families.

After a number of parental requests, we have decided to film tomorrow evening’s performance. If you would not like your child to be filmed in ‘Onthank’s Greatest Show’ tomorrow evening please complete the form below.

Thank you for your continued support.

Please only complete this form if you do not give permission for your child to be filmed.

A massive congratulations to Onthank P7 on their successful bid for a grant to help fund their Inverclyde Residential Trip.

A cheque of £1000 was handed over from members of the North West Community Action Group.

Thank you to all who voted to make this possible and well done to the P7s who performed a snippet of their show- ‘Onthank’s Greatest Show’ to members of our North West community.

We look forward to building more relationships within our community in the New Year.

As part of the P5/6/7 show ‘Onthank’s Greatest Show’, Primary 5 and Primary 6 will form the choir.

In order for the choir to be dressed in a similar style, we ask that your child wears their white Onthank polo shirt/ blouse. In addition to wearing white, children are welcome to wear any Christmas attire, for example, Christmas earrings, tinsel, hats, headbands etc. If you have any of these items at home, it would be appreciated if you would allow your child to bring these into school for the show. Please do not purchase any of these items.

Your child should arrive to the performances wearing these items.

Could all Primary 5 and Primary 6 choir children please arrive at school on Monday 10th December and Thursday 13th December at 6.30pm ready for a 7pm start.

Children should be collected from school at the end of the show for 8.45pm.

Primary 7 children are asked to arrive at school for 6pm on both nights of the evening performance. It is also asked that Primary 7 children are collected at the end of the show.

Please complete below permission slip to allow your child to attend the evening performances.

Thank you for your continued support.

Christmas Lunch is on Friday 7 December – all P1-P3 pupils receive free school meals so no cost.  P4-P7 cost £2.10 (pay through ParentPay) except for children in receipt of free school meals.

Main Meal

Roast Turkey with Trimmings / Steak Pie / Vegetable Stroganoff

Meals served with Roast/Mash Potatoes & Peas/Carrots/Brussels

Sweet

Scottish Trifle / Strawberry Cheesecake / Christmas Ice-Cream

Juice, Milk or Milkshake provided with all meals

Please complete form below if your child will be having a Christmas Lunch and also stating what they would like for their Main Meal.

Primary 7 pupils have been asked to perform as part of the North West Kilmarnock Community event on Thursday 6th December.

This event will be held in Onthank Primary School where there will be a display of different North West Community groups applying for funding for various different causes. Primary 7 pupils have put together a funding application in order to raise funds for our upcoming residential trip to Inverclyde Sports Centre.

We strongly encourage anyone to attend this event to vote for Onthank Primary’s bid.

For this event, children are allowed to vote so we would like to get as many children and parents to this event as possible.

Children will stay at school from 3pm and prepare for the performance which will be delivered at approx. 3.30pm. It is then asked that children are picked up by an appropriate adult at 4.30pm. This allows the children time to perform and then vote for our funding proposal. It would greatly appreciated if you could come in and vote for our funding proposal when you collect your child at 4.30pm. This would only take a few minutes and helps reduce the cost of our residential trip.

Could you please complete the below permission form to allow your child to attend this event.

Onthank Christmas Fayre well underway today. Come along and join us.

P1 homework has been posted to the Primary 1 class page – please check this out!!

Last week, pupils regaled their peers with facts and details about the different countries they had been researching. Some children researched a lot of information and spent a lot of time putting their presentations together. I also enjoyed learning new facts from our mini experts.

 Primary 1

Jessica Muirhead – used magazines to write a list for Santa

Sophia Douglas – making lots of words on the Magnetic Boards!

Zak McLean – achieving a personal target – great effort!

Ashley McIlvanney – super effort at writing ‘g’

 Primary 2

Mylie Boyd – super sounds

Ben Love – excellent effort making Christmas Crafts for the Fayre – great results!

Ollie Tonner – giving us joy and being kind

Nathan Stoddart – always smiling and trying hard

Andrew Paton – concentration and effort

 Primary 3

P3C – being such a lovely and hard working class

Stuart Mair – super effort in our Active Literacy Jobs

Alfie Kirkwood – trying really hard during Active Literacy Tasks

Luca Borrelli – working so had at his times tables and division sums

 Primary 4

Robbie Sim – being the class winner for the P4 Christmas CD Cover

Peyton Morrison – adding and subtracting without help

Lucie Gower – welcoming everybody in to school with a big smile.  Great first ever person to be our “class welcomer”

 Primary 5

Tom Baird – super decimal work

Ellie Cummings – super behaviour and excellent tiling in Maths

Jade Graham – concentration and effort

Lexi Mackie – being an effective contributor in our Christmas Crafts

 Primary 6

Kirsten Robertson – great work with multiples and factors during Maths lesson

P6K – meeting our Target!!

Isla McMahon – wonderful effort at all times

 Primary 7

Bonnie Kerr – excelling in confidence

Luke Edgar – excellent effort in Literacy

Lewis Cowan – involving other pupils in his presentation

 Special Award

Liam Ross P7S – polite, mannerly and helpful

Just a wee reminder that all P5 classes will be visiting the fayre at 10.15am tomorrow.  Pupils should bring money in a purse or money bag and a plastic carrier bag to hold the items they buy.

P5E have been working hard getting their clay pinch pots ready.  They can be bought for £1 and decorated for free using sparkly gems at the stall.

Anna Ellis has also kindly donated some knitted items such as sparkly cushions £5, baby/lap blankets £4, retro ties/belts £2 and knitted balls: large £1, small 50p.

Sparkly cushions only £5.

We hope to see you tomorrow! 🙂

Onthank’s Elf has arrived and was introduced to pupils today at assembly. Pupils will be voting today to choose her name and we will let you know Onthank’s choice from Holly, Merry, Jingle, Noelle, Star and Snowflake. ??

The Kilmarnock Academy P7 information evening for parents/carers takes place on Tuesday 11 December @ 7.00 pm at Kilmarnock Academy.  This is a great opportunity to get some information about starting S1 and about the school.  It’s also a chance to see the new school and meet teachers and other key staff.  They hope to see you there!

We would like to invite you to Come Dine With Us on Friday 30 November in the dining hall at the following times:

P2H @ 11.45am, P2K @ 11.55am, P2S @ 12.05pm, P2ST @ 12.15pm

Starter

Scotch Broth

Main Course

Haggis, Neeps &Tatties

Steak Pie, New Potatoes & Carrots

Scottish Salmon, Pasta & Salad

Dessert

Strawberry Shortcake

Scotch Trifle

The cost of the meal is £2.40 per adult and free for pupils.  Please bring the money on the day.  If you would like to join us please complete form below.

The P7 information evening for parents/carers takes place on Tuesday 11^th December 7pm at Kilmarnock Academy. This is a great opportunity to get some information about starting S1 and about the school. It’s also a chance to see the new school and meet teachers and other key staff.

 P4M have been working hard to learn different strategies to help solve addition calculations. Here we are at work today. See if you can spot the strategies we are using.

Tomorrow (Wednesday 28th November) P5B will begin to make their Christmas craft. As we will be painting and using PVA glue/glitter, children are more than welcome to bring in an old t-shirt to put over their school uniform so not to get it dirty or sticky.

We will be hard working little elves getting ready for Christmas

Logan in P5E brought in his football medals and trophies to show his class-well done , we are very proud of you!

Calum in P5E brought in his collection of football medals to show his class – well done, we are very proud of you!

The ladies of the Masonic Club, London Road, Kilmarnock hold a toy appeal every year.  Donations go to families who are struggling in Ayrshire.  If you know of anyone needing help this festive period send them along to the Masonic Club on Thursday 13 December between 11.00 am and 4.00 pm.  Childcare professionals are welcome to attend to represent families they care for.  Their only goal is to ensure no child in Ayrshire will be without a toy this Christmas.

If any further information is required please contact:

Christine Oliver – 07799353197

Tracey Stewart – 07879450545

Parent/child family learning opportunity for those who don’t have access to computers/laptops/internet at home starting on Monday 19 November every day from 3.00 pm – 4.00 pm.  Also an opportunity to talk with a member of staff about homework.  Mrs Lobban (Classroom Assistant) will be there to support.

 Primary 1

Logan Morgan – knowing that stamp begins with ‘s’

Austin Tucker – being able to read lots and lots of words

Sophie Graham – thinking like an engineer – well done for ‘sniffing out a pattern’

Cherelle Campbell – writing the ‘m’ sound in the salt tray

 Primary 2

Stan Robertson – fab phonics

Finlay Mayes – a really good effort to complete his classwork well

Christopher Johnson – joining in all tasks

Luca Vandal – super effort

 Primary 3

Sophia McIlvanney – using her reading strategies to decode tricky words

Haleigh Hume – working hard in all class tasks

Tajveer Kaur – excellent effort at all times

Erin O’Connor – super writing

 Primary 4

Cameron McMurray – being very helpful

Rae Warnes – always working extremely hard

Robyn Orr – being a fantastic Music Maestro

 Primary 5

Lucie Deery – lovely presentation of Maths work

Aran Cowan – supporting his classmate during claywork in Art

Cerys Elder – more confident in Maths

Tom Reid – working hard across the curriculum

 Primary 6

Miller Davidson – super effort to planning his imaginative Rainforest story

Lucy Wilson – being conscientious and hard working

Kaedin O’Neil – a fantastic attitude in class and kindness

 Primary 7

Robbie Qua – being an Effective Contributor when designing musical instruments

Clayton Marshall – improvement in effort and work ethic

Lewis McIntosh – using his initiative to support P1 pupils

 Special Award

Oliver Smith – P4E – being kind and thoughtful

P5 E have been exploring the properties of 2D shapes.

Pupils are being encouraged to look for right angles and tiling in the real world – please encourage your child to spot these at home and when you are out and about.

Pupils can share with the class what they have seen by talking about it (you could make a list), taking pictures to show us (you can bring in a pen drive, upload on to your own e-portfolio, print it out) or maybe even illustrate/draw it.

Thank you!

Miss Ellis