Onthank Christmas Fayre????

Our Christmas Fayre is on Tuesday 4 December from 9.15am-12.00pm.  All classes in school will be busy making crafts and items to be sold on the day. Each class will have their own stall and will be manned by class helpers.  There will be many other stalls  including toys, soft toys , books, games , raffles and tea/coffee will be available.

We are being eco friendly and recycling toys, book, games etc. If you are having a clear out please send in any unwanted toys etc for our Christmas Fayre. Thank you in advance. Please come along and join us. The class timetable is on the December calendar.

This Week’s Star Pupils

 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

P5E Christmas Fayre reminder

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! 🙂

P7 Parents’ Information Evening

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!

P2 Come Dine With Us

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.

 

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Dyslexia Friendly Schools

Recently during Dyslexia Awareness Week all classes enjoyed a range of inclusive learning activities including an assembly and workshop led by P6K.

Thank you to all parents/carers who came along to support the children.  It was a huge success and the feedback has been extremely positive.

If you would like to be involved in any future DFS events, discussions or form part of a parent group please complete the form below.

Thank you again for your support as we continue to work towards achieving our DFS Silver Award.

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P7 Parents’ Information Evening

The P7 information evening for parents/carers takes place on Tuesday 11th 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.

Active Learning in P3

We are all enjoying being active in our learning!

Sometimes we learn best when we are cooperating with others, using interactive Maths materials, learning our phonemes through games and simply…having fun while learning!

P3C have been beginning to divide. They have been learning about the concept of sharing.

P3W have been consolidating various phonemes through rotational tasks.

Owl Magic

P3 are doing a novel study on ‘The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark’. We have been learning about owls, habitats, food webs and nocturnal animals.

We had a visit from ‘Owl Magic’. Davie brought 6 owls into the school. We were able to ask questions and we had the opportunity to hold an owl.

Christine who is a Ranger at Dean Park came to visit yesterday and she gave us even more information. We are all owl experts now.

P4M Number Talks & Active Maths

Hard at work thinking about the best strategy to use.
Calum Brown and Lucas Baird are keen to explain their answers.
Ellie is the new teacher in P4M !
Christopher and Mitchell are working as a pair .
Lucie in Jodie and thinking of new strategies to use.
Showing the class hand signals to communicate an understanding of maths .

 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.

P5B Painting and Decorating

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 Image result for male and female elf

Christmas Appeal

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

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.

P5E 2D shape active maths -tiling and tangrams

Today P5E were continuing to explore 2D shapes. We took part in 3 stations. These 2 stations focused on tiling or tesselation using 2 D shapes:

This station focused on the Ancient Chinese tangram puzzles where the same 7 2D shapes are used to create different pictures:

The class really enjoyed these activities and said they would like to do them again.

This Week’s Star Pupils

 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

P5E 2D shapes – right angles and tiling

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

Primary 4’s Christmas Album

It’s here! The biggest Christmas album of 2018 will be available to buy exclusively at the Onthank Christmas Fayre on Tuesday the 4th of December.  Just to get you excited we are offering some clips of the recordings to the Onthank Bloggers. Enjoy!

 

P5 trip to Dick Institute

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

This Week’s Star Pupils

 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

 

‘No School Bells’ Trial

From Monday 19th November 2019 we are going to try having no school bells to signal the start and end of the school day. At 9am, pupils will not line up in the playground but instead will make their own way to their classroom similar to a ‘Wet Day’ routine. Teachers and our P7 perfects will guide our pupils to their class at 9am.

Pupils will also follow the same procedure at the end of break and at lunch.

The’ No School Bells’ trial is part of our DFS Award and also enables our school to become a more autism friendly environment.
Thank you,
Senior Leadership Team.

P5 trip to the Dick Institute

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