Well done to everyone who took part in OGT 2018. Everyone performed brilliantly in front of the whole school and invited parents. They did themselves proud and all received certificates. In third place was Leighah?, in second place was Leon? and the winner was Ashton?. A very difficult job for our judges today.Thank you to everyone who wore green and brought in an item for the Rag Bag Collection. Global Goal 12??.
The rock painting craze is taking over at the moment. Mrs Carten’s class have painted some rocks for Whiteley’s Retreat Rock Garden just outside Ayr. Whiteley’s Retreat is a holiday home for children, young people and their families who have cancer or other life altering illnesses. The rocks will be delivered to Whiteley’s on the 16th June.
If anyone wishes to donate decorated rocks they can bring them to Mrs Carten’s classroom before 15th June. All rocks should be bright, cheery and uplifting. Thank you.
Congratulations to Onthank Football Team: they won their final 4-1 and lifted the Ayrshire Schools’ Cup for the second year in a row?. Well done team and to all our supporters and also to our super coaches Mr Boyd and Mr Simpson⚽.
All pupils, staff and many parents took part in Onthank’s Race for Life. Well done to everyone and thank you for your donations. We have raised £470.31.?Everyone who ran the route received a medal and a certificate. Thank you to Ann Smith ,Tesco Community Champion from Tesco, Glasgow Road for donating the oranges for the event. ? A super event organised by Mrs Williams and Miss Smith.⭐
Good luck to our P7 Football team who have played very well to reach the Ayrshire Cup final tonight. We are looking forward to our game against Annanhill.
P7B and P7S decide to make the most of the good weather and take their Numeracy lesson outside. Children split the playground into four sections and worked in groups using playground chalk to showcase their Number Talks strategies they have been learning for each of the four basic operations.
P5 visited the Glasgow Science Centre. They got to try out lots of different science experiments, went to the cinema to watch ‘Into the Arctic’ and of course visited the shop!
A big thank you to all of our parent helpers who also came along.
P3 had a fantastic trip to Ayr Farm Park today. The sun was shining and the children got to see lots of animals and play on all of the different apparatus. Thank you to all of our parent helpers who also came along!
Race for Life will take place this Friday 1st June (weather permitting).
Our Race for Life is a pupil event this year, however, if you wish to accompany your child please come to the school reception where you will be shown to the starting line within the school playground.
The starting time for each race is detailed below. Each stage will run for approximately 10-20 minutes.
Pupils from the Eco Committee were invited to join the representatives from the community along with Provost Jim Todd and Councillor McKay to plant the boxes at the bus terminus. Thank you to everyone for allowing us to be involved. We look forward to seeing the flowers bloom.???
Pupils from P6 and P7 have been practising their cycling skills and road sense in preparation for their Cycling Test this week. Thank you to Karen Paterson for her time preparing everyone. Good luck??♀️??♂️
We were very lucky with the weather this year for our sports days. Everyone took part in the event and we had fun. We raced to win points for our team. Well done to all the competitors???!
The Parent Council and school would like to write a joint letter to you about the incident reported in the Kilmarnock Standard this week which happened in April last term.
Parent Council
The Parent Council has reviewed the incident with EAC and agree with the conclusions that the school acted promptly to locate and retrieve the children concerned. We know and are concerned that this can happen in any school. However, we are confident that we will all learn from this unfortunate incident to ensure that we limit the possibility of a re occurrence happening again.
School
As a school we have worked with both families to reassure them of how seriously we viewed the matter and feel it is important to protect the anonymity of the children. As the incident has been reported in the press it is important that you know the relevant information has been given to parents concerned. At our last Parent Council meeting we reported this Health and Safety incident occurring during a lunchtime and described the actions that have been taken by the local authority and school working together. We have consulted with the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service and Health and Safety team. Already there have been improvements to gates and a new gate has been purchased. As you are probably aware staff have been monitoring the gates until the new one is fitted. As a school we have ensured our pupil Health and Safety team have been working with adults and the steps they have introduced include safety circles and safety lines. Staff speak to the children regularly about the importance of staying within the school grounds for their own safety and about road safety near to the school.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Parent Council and the wider school community for their support and for the work you all do at home to reinforce this important message. The school and Parent Council continue to work in partnership and have a meeting planned for next week.
If you have any concerns we can discuss them at our weekly Wednesday morning drop in. I would also like to invite all of our parents and carers to attend a safety talk at the school on Wednesday 30th May. We had already scheduled an Online Safety Workshop from 3.15pm to 4.15pm and I can answer any questions you may have about security within the school and our playgrounds at this event.
Well done to Callum Walton who received our Depute Head Teacher’s Award this week. He was a responsible individual who supported his mum during an emergency situation at home. Well done!
Pupils from Onthank Primary were playing at Tesco in Kilmarnock on Saturday to raise money for their band. Use the comments below to tell us what you like to do in your spare time.
We took a short break from our Royal Wedding celebrations on Friday to visit Crossgates Care Home. The staff are working hard in preparation for the care home reopening its doors, so we thought we’d take them some wedding cake to have during a well deserved break!
We had a lovely time eating wedding cake and sitting with our buddies on the grass for a Picnic in the Park. We also had a special Royal Wedding Menu at lunchtime. We all enjoyed our day.??
Primary 1
Pupils from Onthank Primary were playing at Tesco in Kilmarnock on Saturday to raise money for their band. Use the comments below to tell us what you like to do in your spare time.
