P7 became professional musicians, coders and programmers to invent their own musical instruments!
They used a touch sensitive keyboard and sensor inputs and connected them to various conductive objects.
They ‘played’ fruits, aluminium foil and play dough!
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Reminder that all of P5 will be visiting the Dick Institute for the Imprint book festival on Wednesday 21st November.
Update on information- the workshop involves meeting an author, David MacPhail, who will discuss his work and how he develops his ideas.
P5I and P5E – coach leaves at 10.30 am and arrives back around 12.30 ish (pupils will have an early playtime in school)
P5M and P5B – coach leaves 1pm and arrives back before 3pm (pupils will have an early lunch at 12noon in school). This workshop is run by the Dick Institute but will take place in the Palace Theatre due to a clash in bookings.
There is no cost for the trip. No new consent forms were given out for this trip as it was covered in the annual consent form (a blue colour) given out and returned at the beginning of term 1.
Thank you
Team P5
Primary 1
Leah Marshall – using playdough to correctly sound out s-a-t and p-a-t
Penny McCormack – achieving a personal target
Myaa Cunningham – helping others with a challenge
Ella Crawford – super effort at numeracy
Primary 2
Darcy Green – fab story with descriptions
Nicole Hamrol – good effort and working hard in class
Hannah McAvoy – great effort
Primary 3
Kyle McIntyre – entering school quicker every morning
Alfie James – a super attitude to learning
Chloe Ronald – making a beautiful ‘owl’
Jack Blaney – showing great effort in all areas
Primary 4
Lily Taylor – great maths work
Rowan Bamford – beautifully presented work
Primary 5
Derry Brown – creating a super pointillism portrait
Breckin Wilson – being very helpful in class and supporting Miss Ellis and fellow pupils
Sophie Kerr – improving confidence
Niamh Lochrie – making others feel included
Primary 6
Lucy Murray – working hard at improving her mental maths strategies
Erin Tonner – being reliable and hardworking in class
Hollie Bryden – a positive and hardworking attitude
P6 Football Team – for winning their Tournament
Primary 7
Jamie Marshall – excellent effort when working with younger pupils
Aiden-Vee Taylor – being a responsible citizen in school
Star Award
P2K – superb walking in the corridor
All primary 5 classes will be visiting the Dick Institute on Wednesday 21st November. It is part of the Imprint book festival and pupils will be attending a workshop in the library:
Workshop 1 – P5I and P5E
Workshop 2 – P5M and P5B
Pupils will be travelling by coach. There is no cost for this trip. Pupils will be in school as normal for their break and lunch.
If you are able help on the trip please let you child’s class teacher know or contact the office.
Thank you.
Team P5
Primary 5B have been creating pointillism portraits in class. After studying famous Africans, we decided to create a portrait of Nelson Mandela using the Pointilism technique. We used a variety of crayons, pencils and felt tip pens to create the effect.
Please complete the form below to give permission for your child to participate in our dance performance at Hillhead PS next Monday 19th November as part of the North West Kilmarnock Action Plan Launch. This is a great opportunity for P7 pupils to showcase their talents to the North West Kilmarnock community.
We would like to invite as many North West Kilmarnock Community friends and family along to this event as possible.
Update
We politely ask that your child is picked up at Hillhead PS at 4.30pm
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.
Please give us a follow on twitter as another way of keeping up to date with the latest news in Onthank Primary School.
The twitter page is in the link below.
We were lucky enough to have our Community Police Officer PC Calum Scott at our school today to help promote our Anti- Bullying week. PC Scott had the opportunity to visit lots of our classes and meet lots of our pupils as well as meeting some parents in the playground.
P6 Football squad will be competing in the Junior 7s football competition tomorrow at Grange Academy Astro 3pm – 5pm.
Please complete the permission form below.
Primary 1
Lana Richmond, Harry Muir, James, Nelson, Amelia Wallace
Primay 2
Eoghan Williamson, Tyler Curran, Lucy Hunter, Max Rorison
Primary 3
Amy McArthur, Jessica Rodgers, Brodie Callaghan, Millie Brown
Primary 4
Rio Quinn, Zak Richmond, Calum Brown
Primary 5
Lucie Callaghan, Kyra McGaw, Kerr McDowall, Joshua McCurry
Primary 6
Luke Fairbairn, all of P6K, Calum McNaughton
Primary 7
Holly Fleming, Leighah Campbell, Lee Milne
Special Award
Emily MacDonald P6M
#ChooseRespect
Congratulations to our swimming team, who represented our school on Saturday at the Citadel in Ayr. All the children swam brilliantly and made us feel proud!
P5E were learning about the importance of Remembrance Day 2018 and designed medals in honour of those who fought in the war. They all made a super effort and created lovely designs. Miss Ellis was delighted with their hard work and creativity.
We had a very successful ‘Welly Wednesday’ phoneme hunt! We were looking for things which contained the phonemes ‘ck’ and ‘ai’.
We were very lucky to begin our hunt by spotting the most beautiful ‘rainbow’. By the end of the hunt we were very ‘mucky’ but we had so much fun!
Sophie in P5B won 2 Bronze medals on Sunday 4th November at Bellahouston Leisure Centre in Glasgow in the City of Glasgow Gymnastics Club Floor & Vault Competition. Sophie won one of her medals in the team event and went on to win overall for the floor and vault competition.
Well done Sophie, we are all very proud of you!
The Eco Committee are looking for any unwanted plastic or cardboard boxes to help recycling within the classes. Every class recycles plastic and paper.
Any donations to the front office would be gratefully received.
Thank you
The ECO Committee
P3 and P4 are going to the Odeon Cinema to see ‘Peter Rabbit’ on Tuesday 13 November. The bus will leave school at 9.15 am and return by lunchtime. Pupils should bring a Cinema snack and a non-fizzy drink. The cost of this outing is £3 per pupil to be paid through ParentPay.
P3 and P4 are going to the Odeon Cinema to see ‘Peter Rabbit’ on Tuesday 13 November. The bus will leave school at 9.15 am and return by lunchtime. Pupils should bring a Cinema snack and a non-fizzy drink. The cost of this outing is £3 per pupil to be paid through ParentPay.
P6 are visiting the Odeon Cinema on Friday 9 November to see ‘Zoo’. The bus will leave school at 9.15 am and return by lunchtime. Can pupils please bring a Cinema snack and a non-fizzy drink. The cost of this outing is £3 per pupil to be paid through ParentPay.
If you are able to come along as a parent helper please contact the school on 01563 525477.
Primary 1
Sophie Mitchell, Dylan Millar, Casey Allen, Liam Rankin
Primary2
Millie Hogg, Mylie McClung, Max Muirhead, Jessica Dickie
Primary 3
Ross Golightly, Alistair Krupp, Jorgie Chisholm, Lauchlan Dunn
Primary4
Rudy O’Brien, Amy Bicker, Lucas Baird
Primary 5
Fraser Ritchie, Daniel Harvey, Sarah Robertson, Sophie Henderson
Primary 6
Adam Ferrell, Joshua Baird, Rebecca Henderson
Primary 7
Reece Elder, Liam MacMillan, Isla Tonner
Star Award
P6 Girls
Thank you to Lewis, Luke and Saul for fabulous presentations about World War 1.
As part of P7 Literacy this term, our focus will be a film study based on ‘The Greatest Showman’. This ties in with our Christmas Show- Onthank’s Greatest Show.
Please fill in the form below to allow your child to watch this film.
5 week countdown until the show!
Congratulations to Isla Tonner on 3rd place today at Ayrshire Athletics Arena. Jack Edgar and Lucas Bryden placed 4th and 5th respectively in their category. Well done to the whole team for giving their all and also thanks to the parents for coming along to cheer us on.
Our school photographer will be visiting on Tuesday 6 and Wednesday 7 November to take individual and/or family photographs. If you have a child not at Onthank Primary and want them to be photographed with elder brother or sister please come to the main office from 9.30 am on Tuesday 6 November. The photographer has emphasised to the school that there is no obligation to buy the photographs. Please contact the school on 525477 if you do not want your child to be photographed.
PC Scott came to Assembly this morning to introduce himself to us. He will be in school to help us.
We presented our Junior Road Safety Officers with their certificates. Well done to Fraser, Katie and Dylan for their hard work?
Our special Award this week was presented to Caitlin for being very brave?
Primary 1
Kayla Richmond, Callum Caldwell, Olivia Harrison, Callum Gardiner
Primary 2
Nazli Mete, Lewis Mackie, Ruari Boyd, Tj White
Primary 3
Evan Popplewell, Leyla McEwan, Liam Paterson, Jack McArthur
Primary 4
Oliver Smith, Emily Brodie, Jodie Fleming
Primary 5
Lily Nimbley, Calum Hamilton, Max Black, Kalib McLean
Primary 6
Erin Williams, Jay Richmond, Katie McIntyre
Primary 7
Kenzie McGonigal, Ellie Rogers
Star Award
Caitling Clugston – P4E
Date: Tuesday 30th October 2018
Venue: Ayrshire Athletics Arena
Registration time: 9.45am – 10.15am
Event time: 10.30 – 11.30am
Pupils will be transported to the event by bus.
