Primary 1

Emily Gardiner – using phonics to read words and draw pictures

Andrew Campbell – taking his time to carefully make paper chains

Rebecca Stirrat – having a growth mindset in the gym hall – great perseverance!

 Primary 2

Mia Dorrans – fab reporting on the Fayre

Harris Johnston – being a very kind and thoughtful friend!

Sadie Farmer – super shape work in Maths

Josh Wilson – increased effort in Reading and OPS P2ST

 Primary 3

Isla Duncan – excellent reading skills

Macie Campbell – beautiful singing

Nathan Jamieson – super singing during Carol Concert rehearsals

Violet Milloy – showing a great improvement in Phonics

 Primary 4

Lewis Jackson – writing a super descriptive story setting

Emily Skinner – an excellent Imaginative Story

Bailey Dobson – knowing the story of the birth of Jesus and answering questions confidently in Church!

 Primary 5

Leah Henderson – an excellent Africa presentation

Katie Brown – displaying super behaviour

Ellie Gan – problem solving

Millie Gower – always following school rules and working hard

 Primary 6

Kyle Hamilton – his super singing during GSM rehearsals

Carrie Lithgow – being kind and caring

Ben McLean – working hard in all areas every day

 Primary 7

Aaron Osei – a fantastic use of VCOP when writing

Adam Paterson – a respectful Onthank Citizen

Taylor Cree – working hard in Maths

Lee Milne – being a responsible citizen in class and around the school

 Star Award

Onthank Brass Band – playing at the Christmas Fayre

Thank you to SSVP Mount Carmel for a generous donation of Christmas Hampers which were gifted to some families.

After a number of parental requests, we have decided to film tomorrow evening’s performance. If you would not like your child to be filmed in ‘Onthank’s Greatest Show’ tomorrow evening please complete the form below.

Thank you for your continued support.

Please only complete this form if you do not give permission for your child to be filmed.

A massive congratulations to Onthank P7 on their successful bid for a grant to help fund their Inverclyde Residential Trip.

A cheque of £1000 was handed over from members of the North West Community Action Group.

Thank you to all who voted to make this possible and well done to the P7s who performed a snippet of their show- ‘Onthank’s Greatest Show’ to members of our North West community.

We look forward to building more relationships within our community in the New Year.

As part of the P5/6/7 show ‘Onthank’s Greatest Show’, Primary 5 and Primary 6 will form the choir.

In order for the choir to be dressed in a similar style, we ask that your child wears their white Onthank polo shirt/ blouse. In addition to wearing white, children are welcome to wear any Christmas attire, for example, Christmas earrings, tinsel, hats, headbands etc. If you have any of these items at home, it would be appreciated if you would allow your child to bring these into school for the show. Please do not purchase any of these items.

Your child should arrive to the performances wearing these items.

Could all Primary 5 and Primary 6 choir children please arrive at school on Monday 10th December and Thursday 13th December at 6.30pm ready for a 7pm start.

Children should be collected from school at the end of the show for 8.45pm.

Primary 7 children are asked to arrive at school for 6pm on both nights of the evening performance. It is also asked that Primary 7 children are collected at the end of the show.

Please complete below permission slip to allow your child to attend the evening performances.

Thank you for your continued support.

Christmas Lunch is on Friday 7 December – all P1-P3 pupils receive free school meals so no cost.  P4-P7 cost £2.10 (pay through ParentPay) except for children in receipt of free school meals.

Main Meal

Roast Turkey with Trimmings / Steak Pie / Vegetable Stroganoff

Meals served with Roast/Mash Potatoes & Peas/Carrots/Brussels

Sweet

Scottish Trifle / Strawberry Cheesecake / Christmas Ice-Cream

Juice, Milk or Milkshake provided with all meals

Please complete form below if your child will be having a Christmas Lunch and also stating what they would like for their Main Meal.

Primary 7 pupils have been asked to perform as part of the North West Kilmarnock Community event on Thursday 6th December.

This event will be held in Onthank Primary School where there will be a display of different North West Community groups applying for funding for various different causes. Primary 7 pupils have put together a funding application in order to raise funds for our upcoming residential trip to Inverclyde Sports Centre.

We strongly encourage anyone to attend this event to vote for Onthank Primary’s bid.

For this event, children are allowed to vote so we would like to get as many children and parents to this event as possible.

Children will stay at school from 3pm and prepare for the performance which will be delivered at approx. 3.30pm. It is then asked that children are picked up by an appropriate adult at 4.30pm. This allows the children time to perform and then vote for our funding proposal. It would greatly appreciated if you could come in and vote for our funding proposal when you collect your child at 4.30pm. This would only take a few minutes and helps reduce the cost of our residential trip.

Could you please complete the below permission form to allow your child to attend this event.

Onthank Christmas Fayre well underway today. Come along and join us.

P1 homework has been posted to the Primary 1 class page – please check this out!!

Last week, pupils regaled their peers with facts and details about the different countries they had been researching. Some children researched a lot of information and spent a lot of time putting their presentations together. I also enjoyed learning new facts from our mini experts.

 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

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! 🙂

Onthank’s Elf has arrived and was introduced to pupils today at assembly. Pupils will be voting today to choose her name and we will let you know Onthank’s choice from Holly, Merry, Jingle, Noelle, Star and Snowflake. ??

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!

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.

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

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.

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

Logan in P5E brought in his football medals and trophies to show his class-well done , we are very proud of you!

Calum in P5E brought in his collection of football medals to show his class – well done, we are very proud of you!

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 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.

 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

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

P7 became professional musicians, coders and programmers to invent their own musical instruments!

They used a touch sensitive keyboard and sensor inputs and connected them to various conductive objects.

They ‘played’ fruits, aluminium foil and play dough!

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 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

Primary 5B have been creating pointillism portraits in class. After studying famous Africans, we decided to create a portrait of Nelson Mandela using the Pointilism technique. We used a variety of crayons, pencils and felt tip pens to create the effect.

Please complete the form below to give permission for your child to participate in our dance performance at Hillhead PS next Monday  19th November as part of the North West Kilmarnock Action Plan Launch. This is a great opportunity for P7 pupils to showcase their talents to the North West Kilmarnock community.

We would like to invite as many North West Kilmarnock Community friends and family along to this event as possible.

Update

We politely ask that your child is picked up at Hillhead PS at 4.30pm

#chooserespect

Please give us a follow on twitter as another way of keeping up to date with the latest news in Onthank Primary School.

The twitter page is in the link below.

Tweets by OnthankSchool

We were lucky enough to have our Community Police Officer PC Calum Scott at our school today to help promote our Anti- Bullying week. PC Scott had the opportunity to visit lots of our classes and meet lots of our pupils as well as meeting some parents in the playground.

P6 Football squad will be competing in the Junior 7s football competition tomorrow at Grange Academy Astro 3pm – 5pm.

Please complete the permission form below.

 Primary 1

Lana Richmond, Harry Muir, James, Nelson, Amelia Wallace

 Primay 2

Eoghan Williamson, Tyler Curran, Lucy Hunter, Max Rorison

 Primary 3

Amy McArthur, Jessica Rodgers, Brodie Callaghan, Millie Brown

 Primary 4

Rio Quinn, Zak Richmond, Calum Brown

 Primary 5

Lucie Callaghan, Kyra McGaw, Kerr McDowall, Joshua McCurry

 Primary 6

Luke Fairbairn, all of P6K, Calum McNaughton

 Primary 7

Holly Fleming, Leighah Campbell, Lee Milne

 Special Award

Emily MacDonald P6M

Congratulations to our swimming team, who represented our school on Saturday at the Citadel in Ayr. All the children swam brilliantly and made us feel proud!

We had a very successful ‘Welly Wednesday’ phoneme hunt! We were looking for things which contained the phonemes ‘ck’ and ‘ai’.
We were very lucky to begin our hunt by spotting the most beautiful ‘rainbow’. By the end of the hunt we were very ‘mucky’ but we had so much fun!

Sophie in P5B won 2 Bronze medals on Sunday 4th November at Bellahouston Leisure Centre in Glasgow in the City of Glasgow Gymnastics Club Floor & Vault Competition. Sophie won one of her medals in the team event and went on to win overall for the floor and vault competition.

Well done Sophie, we are all very proud of you!

The Eco Committee are looking for any unwanted plastic or cardboard boxes  to help recycling within the classes.  Every class recycles plastic and paper.

Any donations to the front office would be gratefully received.

Thank you

The ECO Committee

P3 and P4 are going to the Odeon Cinema to see ‘Peter Rabbit’ on Tuesday 13 November.  The bus will leave school at 9.15 am and return by lunchtime.  Pupils should bring a Cinema snack and a non-fizzy drink.  The cost of this outing is £3 per pupil to be paid through ParentPay.

P3 and P4 are going to the Odeon Cinema to see ‘Peter Rabbit’ on Tuesday 13 November.  The bus will leave school at 9.15 am and return by lunchtime.  Pupils should bring a Cinema snack and a non-fizzy drink.  The cost of this outing is £3 per pupil to be paid through ParentPay.

P6 are visiting the Odeon Cinema on Friday 9 November to see ‘Zoo’.  The bus will leave school at 9.15 am and return by lunchtime.  Can pupils please bring a Cinema snack and a non-fizzy drink.  The cost of this outing is £3 per pupil to be paid through ParentPay.

If you are able to come along as a parent helper please contact the school on 01563 525477.

 Primary 1

Sophie Mitchell, Dylan Millar, Casey Allen, Liam Rankin

 Primary2

Millie Hogg, Mylie McClung, Max Muirhead, Jessica Dickie

 Primary 3

Ross Golightly, Alistair Krupp, Jorgie Chisholm, Lauchlan Dunn

 Primary4

Rudy O’Brien, Amy Bicker, Lucas Baird

 Primary 5

Fraser Ritchie, Daniel Harvey, Sarah Robertson, Sophie Henderson

 Primary 6

Adam Ferrell, Joshua Baird, Rebecca Henderson

 Primary 7

Reece Elder, Liam MacMillan, Isla Tonner

 Star Award

P6 Girls

Thank you to Lewis, Luke and Saul for fabulous presentations about World War 1.

Congratulations to Isla Tonner on 3rd place today at Ayrshire Athletics Arena. Jack Edgar and Lucas Bryden placed 4th and 5th respectively in their category. Well done to the whole team for giving their all and also thanks to the parents for coming along to cheer us on.

Our school photographer will be visiting on Tuesday 6 and Wednesday 7 November to take individual and/or family photographs.  If you have a child not at Onthank Primary and want them to be photographed with elder brother or sister please come to the main office from 9.30 am on Tuesday 6 November.  The photographer has emphasised to the school that there is no obligation to buy the photographs.  Please contact the school on 525477 if you do not want your child to be photographed.

PC Scott came to Assembly this morning to introduce himself to us. He will be in school to help us.

We presented  our Junior Road Safety Officers with their certificates. Well done to Fraser, Katie and Dylan for their hard work?

Our special Award this week was presented to Caitlin for being very brave?

 Primary 1

Kayla Richmond, Callum Caldwell, Olivia Harrison, Callum Gardiner

 Primary 2

Nazli Mete, Lewis Mackie, Ruari Boyd, Tj White

 Primary 3

Evan Popplewell, Leyla McEwan, Liam Paterson, Jack McArthur

 Primary 4

Oliver Smith, Emily Brodie, Jodie Fleming

 Primary 5

Lily Nimbley, Calum Hamilton, Max Black, Kalib McLean

 Primary 6

Erin Williams, Jay Richmond, Katie McIntyre

 Primary 7

Kenzie McGonigal, Ellie Rogers

 Star Award

Caitling Clugston – P4E

Date: Tuesday 30th October 2018

Venue: Ayrshire Athletics Arena

Registration time: 9.45am – 10.15am

Event time: 10.30 – 11.30am

Pupils will be transported to the event by bus.

We had 3 busy discos with Onthank pupils unrecognisable, dressed in super  costumes?. Thank you to PTA and all volunteers who helped to make the night a success! Happy Hallowe’en?

Reminder for P1,2 and 3 pupils: You are asked to come to school dresssed up on Friday to take part in a Hallowe’en Parade. Please make sure your outfit is comfortable to wear all day. ??

On Friday 26 October P1, P2 and P3 pupils are asked to come to school dressed in their Hallowe’en costumes.  Please try to make sure costumes are suitable for children to wear all day or can be removed easily.  Children will be involved in a Hallowe’en Parade and activities in the morning.  We are also having a Hallowe’en menu in our dining hall.  The menu is blood red soup (tomato), cauldron curry with rice (chicken), wiggly worms with salad (veg noodles), witch’s fingers in the graveyard with mash and veg (sausage in gravy) and wizard cupcakes.

Well done to our P7 girls who won medals at the Ayrshire Harriers event?⭐

It was nice welcoming all the children back this morning and I hope everyone had a lovely break.

Spelling homework for this week ( due on Friday)  is the sound ‘ae’ and the many different combinations that make this sound,                 as in:     ‘ai’  ‘ay’  ‘ey’  ‘ei’  ‘a-e’ …

Maths homework ( due on Thursday) is the 6 times table and a recap of fractions taught in P4 –  which should be completed neatly in homework jotters.

Could I also ask parents to support their children as they continue to  learn their times tables and improve their weekly ‘Learn Its’ score. As discussed on Parent’s Night, children are expected to recall number facts on sight and therefore need much more practice as they are accumulated each week.

Last week’s Learn Its were:     8+9; 3+8; 4+5; 6+7; 5+11

This week’s Learn Its are:        9+3; 12-8; 4+8; 5+7; 12-7

Mrs Irving

A reminder for all P6 pupils to come to school tomorrow wearing full outdoor clothing to work again with the Dean Park Rangers. The weather looks to be wet tomorrow so could the children please have a full change of school uniform and shoes in their bags.

Adults are encouraged to join the classes. Please complete the form below if you are able to accompany any of the classes.

P6K 9.15 – 10.45
P6A 11.15 – 12.30
P6M 1.30 – 2.45

We dressed up as our favourite famous Americans for USA Day. Here are some of our costumes. Can you guess who we are ?

We used recycled materials and all created unique buildings to represent an authentic New York skyline. We are sure you will agree that every building is amazing ! A big thanks to the grown ups for helping us at home.

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Today the children in P4E were rounding numbers to the nearest thousand!! We played Hullabaloo rounding cards with our friends and playing card BANG!! Where we round our 4 playing cards to the nearest thousand. Well done P4E.

Our P6 classes will be working with the Dean Park Rangers again and will be heading outdoors for another session.

Children should come to school dressed in outdoor clothing, have wellies/boots, waterproof jacket  and their school uniform in their school bag to change in to, as a back up.

Thanks to the adults who came out and joined the children in the first session. We’d love for more of you to come and join us in our next session on Tuesday 23rd October. Complete the form if you are able to join us.

P6K – 9.15 – 10.45
P6A – 11 – 12.30
P6M – 1.30 – 3pm

P5B have been making a variety of fantastic Knights and Castles creations at home. We have had some excellent castles, maces, shields and swords. We also had a super PowerPoint from Oliver and an interesting fact file from Logan.

Well done to all the children and parents/grandparents who helped with the creations – Miss Black was very impressed!

WOW!

What creative children, mums and dads we have. Some of the models and presentations were fab-u-lous!

Winner Sammie and Runners-Up, Steven, Jennifer and Sarah

Thank you to all the children who did the challenge and well done to the winner Sammie Miller for her stupendous castle and the 3  runners up – chosen by Mr Mcleod.