All staff and pupils dressed up in their wedding finery to celebrate Harry and Meghan’s wedding. Everyone looks fabulous in their lovely outfits. We celebrated by having wedding cake and aqua juice.
The P7 Football team competed in the South and West area finals today; winning 5 games and drawing 1. This meant they won the tournament and now progress to the National Finals where there are only 8 teams left from the whole of Scotland.
The P5/6 team were also competing in this tournament and were unlucky in the games that they played in not to get more from them.
Both teams were a massive credit to the school!
Our P1s and their P7 buddies were set the challenge today of designing a suit and wedding dress for Prince Harry and Meghan to wear to the Royal Wedding. Pupils experimented with our new iPads to create the designs. Which one would you like to wear?
Primary 1
Max Rorison, Khayri Laghzal, Sadie Farmer, Sophie Brown, Lewis Stirling, Elina Bruce, Lucas Deeny, Josh Boax, Roan Ferguson, Darcy Green, Robbie Cassidy, Tyler Curran, Kaden MacKillop, Ruari Boyd, Mylie McClung, Derryn Cree, Alex Ferguson, Bradley Black, Tj White, Leo Dalley, Josh Wilson, Millie Hogg, Alysha Anderson, Harris Johnston, Stan Robertson, Ava Balmer, Thomas McColl, Lucas Deeny, Brandon Grant, Robert Campbell, Eubha Napier, Connie McIlvanney, Sarah Gibson, Lilly Hilton.
Primary 2
Mollie Brown, Airen Townsley, Rebecca Cummings, Riley Hunter, Shae Smith, Lily Brown, Layla Duffy, Dylan Graham, Asmaa Altamr, Noah Richmond, Alfie Kirkwood, Jaxon Hopkins, Katie King, Lennon Brown, Haleigh Hume, Eden Longmuir, Liam Paterson, Luca Borrelli, Lara Dougan, Macy McFarlane, Saskia Markac, Erin O’Connor, Reece Hamilton, Alfie James, Shaw Saxelby, Blake Gorrie, Brooke Hannah, David-James Kiltie, all of P2K.
Primary 3
Oliver Smith, Ellie Archibald, Holly Nimbley, Aaron Harper, Lucas Baird, Emily Skinner, Kayla Thomson, Megan Hamilton, Mahmoud Zen, Isla Brown, Tyler McCourt, Rhona-Mae Borthwick, Caitlin Clugston, Mitchell Birtles, Zak Richmond, Jamie McDowall, Ryan Ritchie, Kal McGonigale, Jamie McDowall, Ami Murray, Ellie Nicol, Baillie McFarlane, Lucie Gower, Blake Cunningham, Danny Hughes, Alex Nelson, Rory Hunter.
Primary 4
Mia Russell, Mila Vandal, Steven Black, Eve Stirling, Faye Armstrong, Alfie Campbell, Rachel Rutherford, Niamh Lochrie, Aimee Smith, Maya Drury, Ellie Gan, Cameron Love, Chloe Kirkwood, Logan Wallace, Declan Angus, Liam Downs, Oliver Mayes, Aiden Ritchie, Hannah Phillips, Melody Longmuir, Sam Skilling, Sammie Miller, Tom Baird, Calum Hamilton, Matthew McDonald, Aaron Johnstone, Mason Wyper, Emma Gillies, Frankie Brown, Sophie Malone, Daniel Harvey, Emily-Rose Walker.
Primary 5
Katie McIntyre, Aidan McCreadie, James McIlvanney, Luke McCall, Lucy Wilson, Tom Sneddon, Jamie Salisbury, Kirsten Robertson, Erin Mooney, Andrew Scott, Jack Edgar, Lucas Bryden, all of P5E, James McIlvanney, Dylan Peebles, Glen Duncan, Erin Tonner, Erin Williams, Ben McLean, Millie Allan, Kaedin O’Neil, Thomas Urquhart, Kieron Queay, Leon Milne.
Primary 6
Niamh McDonald, Aaron Osei, Torin Maclachlan, Isla Tonner, Dylan Fulton, Katie Wood, Rhys Maitland, Alexia Sneddon, Nathan Wilson, Owen Thomas, Bonnie Kerr, Rebecca Devlin, Lewis Mitchell, all of P6K, Jamie Marshall, Ashton McLauchlan, Erin Duffy, Sean McGhee, Derek Drummond, Liam Ross, Dylan Fulton, Jack Murphy, Abbie Stevenson, Ethan Martin, Nikola Pawlowska.
Primary 7
Kaitlin Bennett, Jack Chudleigh, Freya Rafferty, Heather Anderson, Gordon McPheator, Callum Baird, Olivia O’Neil, Charlie Gray, Josh Thomson, Aaron Fulton, Thomas Dunlop, Allie Rogerson, Demi McNeill, Kyle Paterson, Jessica Harris, Darren Tait, Logan McInally, Alex Kirkpatrick, Ruby Newlands, Daniel Boyd, Abbey Stewart, Pearse Shields, Greg Robertson.
Mrs Findlay’s Star Pupils
Nicole Hamrol P1MCK, P7 Rotary Quiz Team – Kyle Paterson, Callum Baird, Daniel Hettrick and Ross Duncan, Charlie Gray, Molly Sneddon, Lauren Wood, Allie Rogerson, Jessica Harris, Tj White P1A, P6 Euro Quiz Team – Matthew Wallace, Adam Thomson, Lewis Mitchell, Torin Maclachlan, all staff and pupils in the Gaelic Classes, Onthank Primary School Swimming Team, all of P5M.
Mrs Wright’s Star Pupils
Hayley Coull, Olivia O’Neil, Molly Sneddon.
Primary 3 had a very special visitor today – a Viking!
He told us all about Viking life and about being a Beserker! Some children were allowed to try out his shield and weapons. Mrs Easter even tried to attack him with his own sword. It was really fascinating and brought our Viking topic to life.
As part of National Digital Week, Primary 7 visited Kilmarnock College to take part in a ‘Coding lecture’. Children enjoyed finding out about Coding and by the end of it were Coding Champions.
These Primary 7 classes will now return to school and teach other classes and stages to become Coding experts as part of our aim in becoming a Digital School.
Tonight Onthank are having a digital bingo night. Lots of people have turned up and lots of bingo numbers are being shouted. This year we are randomly picking digital numbers are part of digital week. Mrs Wright is calling the numbers, Mrs Findlay is the checker and the PTA have organised the event, helping sell the raffle tickets. Eyes down!
Reported by Ruby Newlands who attended the event.
The P5/6 and P7 Football Teams have been busy recently. Firstly, the P7 team were successful in the East Ayrshire heat of the National tournament last Tuesday; winning all of their games and progressing to the South West Regional Finals in Dumfries on Thursday. The P5/6 team were also successful in the Ayrshire heats and will compete in the South West Regional Finals in Dumfries on Wednesday. Finally, the P7 team played their Ayrshire Cup Quarter Final match tonight against Heathfield Primary and won 4-2.
Well done to all boys and girls!
Our P6 Euro Quiz team headed to the Scottish Parliament today. They competed against 31 other schools from around Scotland, in the final of this year’s quiz. While not coming top 3, our team answered many challenging questions. Huge congratulations to the boys for their hard work in studying for the quiz. Everyone is very proud of you!
Working together to improve our local environment. Look out for Onthank Primary in the Kilmarnock Standard. The picture above is one of our new P1 children who will be starting in August.
Primary 3 pupils invited parents and carers to come and dine with us.
We got the chance to talk to many of you during our ‘Come Dine with Us’. We were able to discuss a variety of topics and were delighted that many parents offered their time to work with us to improve our school. Please look out for the opportunity to volunteer with our 60 minute make-overs.
If you are a Primary 3 parent please give us feedback below –
Following our consultation we would like everyone to learn our shared values.
P6A headed out to garden to look at the colours, scents and textures in nature. The children selected natural items and stuck them to their ‘Nature Palette’.
Rhys said, ‘I was surprised by how soft the leaves were.’
Owen shared, ‘When I was looking at the flowers, I saw lavender and it smelt so good!’
Once back in the classroom, Liam interviewed Ellie and they discussed the lesson and heard more about Ellie’s choices for her Nature Palette. Watch the video below.
We had a special visitor at assembly to represent National Pet Month and to introduce our school values. Mrs Wright brought Bailey to school to meet us and help us to remember our School Values. 
Well done to all the Onthank swimmers who took part in Swimathon on Friday . They all worked as a team and did us proud! They received the Head Teacher’s Award at assembly on Monday?
All pupils in Onthank Primary have now undergone Heartstart training. Mrs Williams and Miss Smith have been working with all classes during Health lessons and children now know how to respond in an emergency situation.
P6/7 Football training resumed last week and there was an excellent turnout as per usual. There are lots of fixtures coming up and there will also be an opportunity for P5 and P6 pupils to trial for the P5/6 Regional tournament on 10th May. The first trial will be held Thursday 3rd May at lunch time.
With help from our PTA, Mrs Carten and Mrs Saxelby were able to purchase Fit 15 resources for every stage. All children have thoroughly enjoyed playing with the equipment. Thank you!
P6K enjoyed their recent trip to Amazonia at M&D’s Scotland’s Theme Park. The handling session was a definite favourite for most of the children.
P1M And P7C got together to share a reading session. The primary 7s enjoyed reading to their buddies and the primary 1s loved listening and asking questions.
P3E have been making Viking tunics today using pillowcases. When they are working on their Viking topic they are all going to be wearing their tunics – even Mrs Easter!
Please see attached letter for info. regarding our ‘Big Pedal 2018’.
Let’s try and win some fantastic prizes.
East Ayrshire Libraries are delighted to be working in collaboration with the SPFL Trust and Kilmarnock Football club to bring the 4-4-2 Reading Challenge to local children.
As a reward for reading and using the library we are offering free tickets to Kilmarnock home games.
All that primary aged children need to do is borrow 4 books from the library (on their own card, not a group card) and when they return the fourth book they get a card stamped which they take to Rugby Park to exchange for 1 free child ticket and 1 discounted adult ticket on selected home games. The challenge runs until the end of May but completed vouchers can be redeemed until the end of October.
Well done to all the Onthank pupils at Caroline’s Dance Academy who performed Matilda.
Primary 5 enjoyed the last day of term by making some eggcellent designs. They had to design a character or personality using hard boiled eggs and a backdrop to go along with it.
All of our designs were outstanding but congratulations to our 1st and 2nd place winners, Olivia, Rebecca and Emily.
Happy Easter from all in P5!
This year, Onthank Primary took part in DanceFest 2018. It was choreographed by Mrs Granger. All of the P7’s that took part had lots of fun getting ready and performing to the audience.
Post written by Lucie Corrigan, Kyle Speirs, Abby Coulter and Heather Anderson.
We are looking for ideas to celebrate Onthank’s 60th birthday. We are gathering ideas on post-its at Parents’ Night. Three members of staff are also 60 this year!
However if you missed this opportunity feel free to add your ideas below.
Alison Wright
Check out the video of all our P4, 5, 6 and 7 performing Zumba led by our very own Steven Swan. More pics and videos will follow from our Sport Relief Day!
