P7 Athletics Team are off to a flying start!

Our P7 Athletics team participated in their heat of the Sportshall Athletics and competed against James Hamilton Primary, Whatriggs Primary and Crosshouse Primary. The team performed incredibly well and comfortably won the heat. They will find out next week if they have qualified for the final at the end of September.

Well done to all involved! Go Team Onthank!

P3 Pupils have a ‘Growth Mindset’

Our P3 pupils have had a visit from ‘Try’atops the Growth Mindset dinosaur.

Tryatops has been encouraging the pupils to develop a positive attitude towards learning and to understand that making mistakes is part of the learning process.

Pupils are learning the importance of the word ‘YET’. Instead of saying “I can’t do it” we should say “I can’t do it YET”.

We want all pupils to feel comfortable and happy in their learning environment.

Over the next few weeks during our Health and Wellbeing lessons we will be facing some challenges and showing how determined we are to succeed.

P3W pupils chose a motivational phrase to write on the classroom pencils.

This Week’s Star Pupils

 Primary1

All of P1A, P1C, P1M and P1W

 Primary 2

Cameron Lindsay, Georgie Skinner, Lucas Deeny, Eabha Napier

 Primary 3

Molly McMahon, Nathan Nicol, All of P3S and P3W

 Primary 4

Millie McIntosh, Mahmoud Zen, Callum Wallace

 Primary 5

Sophie Hopkins, Kayla McDonald, Gabriella Fulton

 Primary 6

Jack Edgar, Euan Ramsay, Jonathon Harper

 Primary 7

All of P7B, Josh Barrowman

 Mrs Findlay’s Star Award

Derryn Cree

 

Onthank Assemblies

P3-7 classes had their first assembly of the new session today. Our school values were discussed and we all had great fun singing one of our favourite songs.

Our focus is on our Respect value this week and we look forward to seeing lots of good examples of respect being shown around the school.

 

Welcome Back!

 

We look forward to welcoming you back on Monday 20th August 2018.

For Primary 1, starting times on the first day are:-

P1A Miss Adam 9.30am – 9.50am

P1C Mrs Cree 9.50am – 10.10am

P1M Mrs McKie 9.30am – 9.50am

P1W Miss White 9.50am – 10.10am

Week beginning Monday 20th August will be a soft start for all P1 classes between 9am and 9.30am and finish at 2.30pm. Week beginning Monday 27th August school hours will be 9am – 3pm for P1.

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Class structure for 2018/2019:

P1A Miss Adam
P1C Mrs Cree
P1M Mrs McKie
P1W Miss White
P2H Miss Hamilton with P1C Mrs Cree’s class
P2K Mrs Kidd with P1MCK Mrs McKie’s class
P2S Mrs Saxelby with P1M Mrs Mylrea’s class
P2ST Mrs Strain with P1A Miss Adam’s class
P3C Mrs Carten with P2G Mrs Saxelby’s class
P3K Mrs Kilpatrick with P2K Miss Kerr’s class
P3S Mrs Smith with P2H Miss Hamilton’s class
P3W Mrs Williams with P2B Miss Black’s class
P4E Mrs Easter with P3C Mrs Carten’s class
P4F Mr Franchi with P3S Mrs Smith’s class
P4M Mrs McCall with P3E Mrs Easter’s class
P5B Miss Black with P4F Mr Franchi’s class
P5C Mr Macleod/Miss Cook with P4W Miss White’s class
P5E Miss Ellis with P4K Mrs Kilpatrick’s class
P5I Mrs Irving (M, T, W, Th) and Ms Dasgupta (F) with P4M Mrs McCall’s class
P6A Miss Anderson with P5M Mr McIlwraith’s class
P6K Mrs Klein with P5E Miss Ellis’s class
P6M Mrs Merrick with P5D/I Mrs Irving/Dasgupta’s class
P7B Mr Boyd with P6K Mrs Klein’s class
P7M Miss McGregor (M,T) and Mrs Mills (W, Th, F) with P6M Mrs Merrick’s class
P7S Mr Simpson with P6A Miss Anderson’s class

P1A and P1C Beach STEM

P1A and P1C have been busy in the sun doing STEM. We designed some new beach towels, made up new games to play at the beach, worked together to build ‘sand’castles and designed new beach buggies. We all worked really well together!!

Onthank is ‘Officially Amazing’

CONGRATULATIONS

As we approach the end of term we would like to say well done to all our pupils. We reflect on all their achievements and look forward to when we can view everybody’s  strengths and achievements through their Glow e-portfolio.

We all believe that Onthank pupils are …

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***We received a phone call this afternoon from an East Ayrshire employee to give us some very positive news. His parents were in Millport on Monday while our P7s were there and he told us the shopkeepers were praising Onthank pupils and staff. He said “The toy shop owners were saying Onthank pupils were the best school who had visited them this year”. Polite, mannerly and pleasant children.”?He said this was the same story in other places. “Kids and teachers from Onthank were a credit to the school”.

Well done P7s. I hope you all enjoyed your pizza today”.?

Pupils with 100% Attendance from August 2017 till June 2018

Luca Vandal P1A, Christina McNaughton P1M, Lewis Anderson P2B, Jack Blaney P2B, Brooke Hannah P2B,Lily Gilbert P2G, Macie Campbell P2K, Milo Horner P3C/S, Lucas Baird P3E, Mitchell Birtle P3E, Fraser Ritchie P4F, Aran Cowan P4K, Emma Gillies P4K, Daniel Harvey P4K, Lewis Kirk P4K, Sophie Ritchie P4K, Max Young P4K, Erin Mooney P5D/I, Emily tosh P5E, Marcus Hettrick P5N, Erin Williams P5N, Robbie Qua P6K, Katie Wood P6M, Katie O’Hare P7B, Aaron Clannachan P7C, Sarah Kirk P7S.

Super Cyclists?

Well done to everyone who took part in cycling training and passed their test. They received certificates and badges and are now very able to go on the road. Thank you to Karen Paterson for the time and effort she put into training the boys and girls to reach their level .?

Onthank Football Team Cup Double??

Congratulations to our football team- they won the Dunlop Trophy at Rugby Park. All season the team have played with a great attitude and entertaining football. This is the second year in a row we have won the Ayrshire Cup and the Dunlop Trophy. Thank you everyone for your continued support.??

Active phonics in P1

P1A and P1C were very busy reading, writing and spelling this morning with a mixture of activities outside and inside.

Some children used water or chalk to write letters and words, while others played in groups with board games, flash cards or play dough. Mrs Cree and I were very impressed by the children’s concentration!!

Onthank P7s’ Fun Day??‍♀️??‍♀️

Primary 7s planned, designed and created their own stall for Fun Day. They organised the stall and provided prizes and invited everyone to join in the fun. Thank you to all pupils, staff, parents and friends who visited us today. We made the fantastic total of £1160 . ?

P3 Rocks

Primary 3 have had a busy few weeks!

Last week children enjoyed our Water Fun Day and yesterday we all went down to the Dean Park to hide our decorated rocks. If you are at the Dean Park over the Summer holidays you may be able to find some of our rocks! #onthankrocks

P2H Get Silver Award

P2H were issued with their bronze and silver certificates in the RSPB Schools Challenge 2018 having completed 12 activities relating to nature and preservation of the countryside.  All the P2s took part in some way or another over the last few weeks.

World of Work

We have all been enjoying learning about ‘Our World of Work’.

We have shared ideas of careers which we think we might enjoy in the future and we have been considering what steps we would need to take to be able to do certain jobs.

Importantly, we have been discussing the strengths and talents we have already and how we can continue to develop these.

We have had lots of fun playing games, participating in roleplay and some of us have even tried to fill in application forms for our dream jobs.

P6K worked with Miss Smith to create a ‘World of Work’ Assembly. Through drama, music and dance they demonstrated that if you are determined and work hard you can achieve your dreams.

The whole school enjoyed the assembly on Monday and today we welcomed parents and relatives to watch.

Well done P6K!