We are keen to teach our pupils all about the ‘World of Work’ and are looking for support from parents to help with this.  If you are able to come in to school either the week beginning the 15th May or the week beginning 22nd May to speak to some of our classes about your work/role in the community it would be greatly appreciated.

Please complete the form below to let us know when you would be available to come in to school and we will get in touch with you to arrange your visit.

https://forms.office.com/e/pRWhe6LgHf

Thank you for your continued support.

Click here for more information!

Sign up here: https://forms.office.com/r/uW3TL6ttv3

Families,

It is with great excitement, we offer two further after school activities to our programme:

Monday 3pm – 4pm – The TECH BUS (IT/Gaming) available for P4/5/6/7 – starting Monday 31 October to Monday 12 December 

Thursday 3pm – 4pm – Christmas Choir available for P6/7 – starting Thursday 3rd November to Thursday 15 December 

If your child would like to attend please complete the link – https://forms.office.com/r/kk1g9vRUXB

Mr Swan will issue confirmation via email to all families before the end of this week. For any crossover between activities, your child is welcome to sign up for multiple and choose weekly which activity they wish to attend.

#thewheelsonthebus #12DaysofChristmas

Please complete our form for the Pupil Council.

https://forms.office.com/r/RtNTemvALr

Please click on link below for more info on our Macmillan Coffee Day:

MACMILLAN COFFEE DAY – SEPT 2022

Please find attached our September 2022 Litter Pick timetable.  All parents/carers are invited to attend along with their child’s class.

Litter Pick – September 2022

Primary 1

All children for having a super start to P1

Primary 2

2C – Eman – for showing great responsibility as a classroom helper this week

2E – Sharan – for being a kind and helpful friend to all classmates

2G – Elspeth – for being kind and helpful at every opportunity

Primary 3

3M – Chelsey – is very caring and responsible when taking care of the plants

3N – Olivia – School Value – achievement and respect. I have noticed fantastic listening and super answering questions during  lessons! Well done!

3S – Emily – for achievement – she found the 9 letter word from our class daily word puzzle. Well done!

Primary 4

4C – Ava – for working hard in all areas of the curriculum

4W – For settling in so well to P4W. Superstars!

Primary 6

6A – Mia – for an excellent attitude to her learning

6N – Methum – you have worked diligently throughout the first week of P6! Keep up this effort – I am so proud of you!

Primary 7 

7F – Ella – Respect – Ella has shown impeccable manners and respect to her classmates and school staff throughout the week! A huge well done Ella, and keep up your high standards

7M – Adam – has done some great work in class by being kind and respectful towards his peers

7Mc – Kaylah – for confidently answering questions in class

Deputy Head Teacher’s Special Award 

Lucy – 6F – being a TV star and promoting girls football

We would like to offer you an opportunity to come into school to meet your child’s teacher and to hear some important information about the class. Please come along to school at the following times: 
 
Primary 1    from 2.00pm – 2.45pm 
Primary 2    from 9:45am – 10.30am 
Primary 3    from 2:00m – 2:45pm 
Primary 4    from 1.45pm – 2.30pm 
Primary 5    from 9.30am – 10.15am 
Primary 6    from 11.15am – 12.00pm 
Primary 7    from 11.00am – 11.45am 
Centre         from 9.30am – 10.15am 
 
There will be tea/coffee available in the main hall during the day along with stalls from Bikers As Friends, Parent Council and other partners! This will give you the chance to meet with other parents/carers over a cuppa.  If you are unable to attend at these times you can come with your child to look around the school between 3pm and 6pm on this day.  

Senior Leadership Team
Mrs Wright, Mrs Findlay, Mr McIlwraith

Congratulations to our prize winners who were awarded books at Prizegiving. We are proud of everyones’ achievements in Onthank Primary.👏👏

🏅What a week for #OurOnthank as our young people and whole school community are recognised at the East Ayrshire Council #EANetZero celebration! 🏅 We are the only school in the authority to be awarded Bronze & Silver Awards for our work embedding the Clean Green Ayrshire ethos across our school community!

We also received the Special Recognition Award for Outstanding Achievement towards Climate Change. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Thank you Linda, Elaine, Claire and colleagues for another special Onthank memory. ❤️

2023 we are #GoingForGold!!

The P7s are going to The Garage on Tuesday 28 June to play a game of 10 Pin Bowling and have a Disco / Lunch.

They will leave the school around 11.10 am and walk to The Garage.  Children should be picked up from The Garage between 2.30 pm – 2.45 pm however, if this time is unsuitable your child will walk back to school with staff.

The cost of this outing should be £10 per pupil.  The school will subsidise this by paying half making the amount to be paid £5.00 per pupil to be paid through ParentPay.

Please complete form below stating who will be collecting your child.

Does your child have a school uniform that they have outgrown? Then why not drop into our school swap shop and swap it for another!

Based at the school reception, our swap shop is a great way for parents to donate or swap any school uniforms, jackets, bags, etc.

If you have any school uniform items, jackets, bags you wish to donate then please hand these into the school office by Monday 27th June 2022. Any donations of new, unopened underwear and socks we also be welcome.

There is a great selection of school jumpers, cardigans, polo shirts, etc. already on display so come in and take your pick!

We are celebrating receiving our 6th Green Flag by having a

Green Eco Day on Thursday 16th June 2022.

We are asking you to wear something

green or a green accessory if possible. 

The Eco committee have organised some

activities- eg: water obstacle course, outside disco and time

trials.

Bring in your bike or scooter if you have one for the time trials.

P7 pupils and staff set off for Lockerbie Manor. They are away for a busy fun packed weekend. Trying to pack the bus for 66 pupils’ luggage was not an easy task. Thank you to parents who helped solve this. We hope everyone has a great time.😎

Primary 1

1C – Calvin – for trying hard to listen to instructions

1K – Skyla – for having a great start to P1

1M – Ben – for carefully and responsibly controlling the Dash Bots

Primary 2

2E – Scott – for being extra kind to his friends

2K – Porsha – for sharing her feelings during check ins

2S – Mikey – kind & caring pupil who is great in PE

Primary 3

3B – Oliver – for working hard

3N – Kevin – a great first week settling into school

3S – Ava – amazing numeracy

Oliver – excellent effort and amazing homework

3T – Fallon – her hard work in all tasks

Emma – always being so kind, caring and hardworking

Primary 4

4E – Sophie – for showing great improvement in her reading

4M – Whole class – for writing letters to Christopher Blanchett BBC Weather

4W – Callum – Fantastic effort in his Maths assessment

Primary 5

5AK – Keira – for trying her best with her design task

Primary 6 

6F – David James – engaging well in every lesson

Devlin – trying really hard in maths

6IS – Rebecca – being a kind pupil

Taylor – always diving his best during numeracy

6N – James –  for showing excellent understanding of fractions, decimals and percentages

Layla – showing great understanding of percentages

Primary 7 

7C – Rudy – excellent work in numeracy

Mason – Super Book review on Divided City

7M – Callum – for his dedication to being part of The Rotary Quiz Team

7Mc – Molly – Excellent work on calculating mean, median, mode and range

Calum – for excellent team work during basketball lessons

Deputy Head Teacher’s Award

Mrs McCall and Primary 4M for writing letters to Christopher Blanchett BBC Weather

Jack and Jack for representing Onthank in the District Team

We are so glad our wider community could join us this morning for our P6 sports.  Our pupils showed great sportsmanship and competed in a variety of races.  A thoroughly enjoyable morning for all!

P6 is visiting ‘Amazonia’ at M&D’s in Glasgow on Friday 17 June. The bus will leave school at 9.15 am and return by 3.00 pm. Pupils should wear school sweatshirt, casual bottoms and bring a snack and a packed lunch (if your child receives free meals the school will provide a packed lunch). The cost of this outing is £15 per pupil including a game of 10 Pin Bowling. Please pay through ParentPay or call in to the office for a Barcode letter.

If you are able to go on this outing as a parent helper please complete form below.  We will only contact you if you are required to help.

Our Rights Respecting Schools ambassadors worked hard to create our ‘pawsome’ new playground charter. Primary 3T then designed the graphic which was then transferred onto our lovely new signs, huge thank you to John Imrie Signs.

To launch our new charter and house points, each class in the school participated in a Paddington Hunt where they searched for marmalade jars and clues leading them to the big reveal! Primary 1s and 2s even got to stamp Paddington’s passport.

Check it out in the video below and keep your eyes peeled for Onthank’s very own mini-Paddington bear!

Please click on link below for info on our Walk To School Week:

WALK TO SCHOOL WEEK 16-20 MAY 2022

P3 are visiting Calderglen Country Park on the following dates:

P3B & P3S – Thursday 19 May 2022

P3N & P3T – Thursday 26 May 2022

The cost of this outing is £7.00 per pupil to be paid through ParentPay.  Pupils should bring a non fizzy drink, a snack and a packed lunch.  If your child requires a packed lunch from the school please contact the school office on 01563525477.  Pupils should wear casual bottoms and school sweathshirts / jackets.

Primary 1

1A  Lochlan – for tidying up the lunch table

Primary 2

2E – Bella – wonderful handwriting

2K – Alissia – for great and kind sharing of spelling resources

2S – Olivia – writing stories independently

Primary 3 

3B – Emma – for always doing hr best

3S – Kacie – for fantastic general knowledge

3T – Lucy – for fantastic multiplication and division work and use of mental strategies

Primary 5

5AK – Shanai – for trying really hard with maths work

5B – Ella – for working well in our grammar lessons, when we have been learning about speech marks

5M – Josh – for always displaying a positive attitude and trying his best

Primary 7

P7M – Holly – for always displaying school values

7MC- Lucy – for her consistent enthusiasm and displaying our school values

Class 1 – Spencer – for being able to follow instructions and share how he is feeling

Class 3 – Corey – for working hard and listening well

Deputy Head Teacher’s Award

Millie & Ellie – for competing in the Tigers Acro competition and gaining Silver Medals! Well done Girls

Primary 1

1A – Anna – fabulous maths

1C – Niamh – excellent work when subitising numbers

1K – All of 1K – for working hard at their story writing

1M – Sharan – for fabulous phonics skills

Primary 2

2E – Noah – for working hard to follow instructions

2K – Kaydi – excellent active listening

2S – Amber – completing all tasks independently

Primary 3

3B – Olivier – super division

3N – Jack – for being incredibly brave

3S – Rose – amazing imagination when writing

Primary 4

4E –  All of 4E – fabulous effort with their Titanic cabins

4M – Dylan – coming to class with a cheerful positive attitude

Primary 5

5M – Harris – for consistently working hard and trying his best

Primary 6

6A – John – very polite and helpful worked well in all activities

6F – Macie – getting involved in everything at college

6IS – Violet – for brightening up everyone’s day

6N – Whole class – being very responsible and great participants at the college

7M – Blake – for showing positive attitudes towards all his classmates

7Mc – Megan – consistent hard work & effort

Deputy Head Teacher’s Award 

Miss Telford and 3T for organising our new Playground Charter! Thank you!