Macmillan Coffee Morning☕️

Thank you to everyone who visited our Macmillan Coffee Morning. We are delighted to say that we have raised lots of money for Macmillan Cancer Care. Our P6 pupils did a wonderful job helping and thanks to staff who helped and to Nicola, our catering manager for her delicious baking. I will confirm our final Onthank total next week.👏☕️

P5/6/7 Girls Football Team – After School Club

Families,

We are excited to announce a Girls Football Team after school activity!

Day: Every Thursday 

Time: 3pm – 4.15pm 

Stage: P5/6/7 Girls 

Dates: Thursday 5 Oct – Thursday 14 Dec 

Training will start again in January. Info to be provided.

Please complete the form to sign up and you will receive an email of confirmation from Mr Swan at the start of next week.

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

Have a great weekend!

 

Wider Achievement

This week we are  very proud of our pupils who have achieved awards out of school.

Blair from P3C joined Dean Thistle football club in April and loves it. Since then he has received 3 Gold Awards for different things such as scoring goals and displaying good team work.

Lewis from P4M recently had a taekwondo grading and he passed. He is now a yellow belt. He is also in Beavers and he will be moving up to the Cubs after the October holidays. Lewis has also become a Lodge Leader.

Emily from P6A has been doing gymnastics for a couple of years now and loves it. She has moved up a few levels since joining and is always doing hand stands and head stands in the house to practise.

She is also a member of The Little Art School. She recently got moved up to intermediate level and one of her paintings from last session was displayed on the club’s Facebook page. It demonstrated how well she used the watercolours in the painting. She has so many paintings there isn’t enough room to hang them all.

Sophia from P7M achieved her Bikeability Award . Well done

Ella from P2E has achieved her Level 1, Little Tiger Cubs orange stripe at Taekwondo.

Andrew P7A led the church in prayer at Harvest Service on Sunday for the first time. He had volunteered himself and practised all week at home and in the church itself and had lots of well done afterwards.

Georgie from P7A started ballet classes aged 3.  Since then, she has progressed through the world renowned RAD ballet syllabus.  During this progress, Georgie has worked very hard and shown determination to strengthen her core, legs and feet resulting in her now gaining her first pair of pointe shoes. A huge achievement in ballet.

Hazel from P6A achieved her 2nd kyu grade (brown and white belt) in karate on Saturday. On Sunday she competed,  and although she didn’t win any medals this time, she was competing up a level and performed very well against very tough and experienced competitors and managed to beat a very experienced black belt who has achieved success in European competitions.

Gracie from P1S started gymnastics in June and has received 2 awards – Super Stretcher and Gym Star.  She has been practising lots and showing off her new skills to her family.

                                                               

 

Halo Winner⭐️

Alfie from P5M won the Halo Sustainability Competition with his fabulous painting of the Halo. He went to visit The Halo and was given a warm welcome by Marie and her team.  He won a fabulous prize and was presented with a Halo medal. He was treated like a VIP . Thank you.

 

Wider Achievement⭐️

This week we are so proud to celebrate the achievements of our pupils:

Cara from P4M was  invited to join the Senior Leadership Programme at Taekwondo. She recently passed her grading and got her new leadership belt and her first weapons for her collar.⭐️
Arden from P1S achieved his orange stripe belt at Taekwondo. He had to demonstrate a variety of moves and break boards. This is Arden’s 5th grading.🌟

Morgan from P5T recently applied and was promoted to the role of a Sixer in the 37th Ayrshire Cub Pack. ⭐️
Fallon from P5MB completed Octopus 1,2 and3 swimming levels and is now a confident swimmer.🌟
Alyssa from P2C achieved her Super Stretcher Award from Ayrshire Gymnastics Academy after only her 3rd lesson.⭐️

Abbi from P7A received an EA Youth Award for unsung Hero: Covid Champion and was a finalist in the Awards Ceremony.🌟

Penny from P6H pushed herself to take part in the grading and even took part in one aspect that kids are not expected to do-3 Step Sparring. This is brilliant Penny.🌟

Blair from P3H participates in Parkrun by volunteering every Saturday and also he runs in junior Parkrun on a Sunday. Well done Blair.🌟

Carrick from P4K is currently competing in the Scottish Minimoto Championships and has been for the last year and a half.  In the last round, held at Cults Race Track, he came 2nd in his category.
His next round will be at Knockhill and then Crail in October and he will also take part in the display at the annual Fireworks event held at Knockhill on the 4th Nov.🌟

Finlay fromP2C with his Team Leader badge which he got last week from his Anchor boys at boys brigade.( His brother Jacob has also snuck in the photo)Well done Finlay.🌟

     

Rights Respecting School Ambassadors

Our 2023/24  P5-7 Rights Respecting School Ambassadors met and introduced themselves. They were given their RRS lanyards to show everyone that they are RRS Ambassadors. Some of the group put themself forward for a position of leadership: Chair Vice Chair and Secretary. They presented their  profile to the whole school at assembly. P4-7s were given a vote. This will be announced next week after the count! Good luck everyone.

Uniform Donations

Thank you to Theresa and Asda , Kilmarnock for their kind donations of new uniforms to our School Uniform Bank. If you would like  any items of school clothing, please call into our school office and we can show you sizes . We also have new school bags – donated by New Laigh Kirk available for pupils to collect. We also appreciate the many uniform donations to our Swap Shop.

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Community Resource Shout Out – Can you help us?

#OurOnthank Families,

What a great fortnight we have shared with our young people settling into their new stage.

To advance outdoor learning experiences, we would like to give a community shout out for the following resources:

  1. Welly Boots (variety of child sizes)
  2. Old Pots & Pans
  3. Old Baking Trays
  4. Musical Instruments (no longer in use)
  5. Digging Tools – shovels/spades

We are looking to create an outdoor music zone, and would welcome any other resources you feel would contribute well to this.

We thank you in advance for this act of kindness. Any resources can be handed in to the main office.

Thank you,

#OurOnthank

Halo Visit to meet Dr Rubins-astronaut from NASA🧑🏻‍🚀

 

We were privileged to be invited to The Halo to be part of an audience to hear from and meet their special guests : Dr Kathleen Rubins – an astronaut from NASA and Jack Hillmeyer, Consul General at US Consulate General Edinburgh. Thank you to Dr Marie Macklin for our warm welcome.


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Onthank Leavers⭐️

School Uniform Recycle Reuse

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 or packed lunch boxes you wish to donate then please hand these into the school office or leave in Reception Area during the school holiday. Thank you. RRS Ambassadors.

P4 Heritage Heroes

As part of our Heritage Heroes award, Primary 4 pupils invited ex members of staff to come back into school for a tour. Our visitors answered questions about differences in the school as it is today. They were so enthusiastic to be back and loved the warm welcome they received. Everyone enjoyed looking at our photos and having a catch up. We were very proud of our pupils who were able to talk about our school and give an interesting tour.Well done everyone.👏

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Onthank’s Got TALENT! Sign Up NOW!

Onthank’s Got Talent – Thursday 22 June @ 6.30pm

Families,

‘Onthank’s Got Talent’ is back and we are excited to share information with you.

We are always amazed at the talent within #OurOnthank community and what better way to showcase this, than in an end of year performance!

 

How will OGT work?

 

  1. Audition Day – Friday 9 June

Young people are invited to decide what talent they are going to showcase and prepare a short 1 minute audition. Auditions will be performed on Friday 9 June for the whole primary stage, for example, if you are in P1 you will showcase your talent for all four of the P1 classes.

 

FOLLOW THE LINK TO SIGN YOUR CHILD UP FOR OGT AUDITIONS: 

https://forms.office.com/e/t9vJYmhyjd

Please complete the short ‘Audition Sign Up’ form by Wednesday 7 June.

 

  1. The Vote

After the auditions have taken place, 2 winners from each class will be selected by the young people and staff from that stage with classes voting for each other and celebrating their achievements. Class teachers will be given 1 Golden Buzzer in addition to this to use for a young person from a different class.

 

  1. OGT Performances

 

Thursday 22 June (during school hours) – The 2 winners and Golden Buzzer winners from each class will perform their talent at our whole school assembly. Along with special guest judges, we will all vote for our school daytime champion.

 

Thursday 22 June @ 6.30pm – Families, friends and community members are invited to this celebration performance where all class winners and Golden Buzzer winners will perform for you. Audience vote alone will select our evening champion.

 

  1. Taking Part

We want to remind our young people taking part in OGT is voluntary and not something everyone must do. Any young people not wishing to perform a talent or participate will form part of our cheering audience.

 

  1. Class Winners & Golden Buzzer Winners

More information will be issued following your class win for the final performances.

 

We can’t wait to celebrate the wonderful talent at Onthank Primary School!