Burns Celebrations

We are very proud of our pupils who enthusiastically learned their Burns’/Scottish poems. A winner was chosen

from each class and they recited their poems at our Burns’ Competition on Friday 10 February. They were

awarded with a certificate and a medal. Class winners were: P1A Zoe McCracken, P1C Dylan Walker, P1M Lucas

Deeny, P1MCK Georgie Skinner, P2B Shaw Saxelby, P2G Zak McReynolds, P2H Tulisa Webb, P2K Brooke Miller,

P3C/S Emily McPhail, P3E Ellie Archibald, P3S Emily Skinner, P4F Sharice Dunn, P4K Logan Wallace, P4M Mia

Duff, P4W Gemma Davidson, P5D/I Lotte I’Anson, P5E Lucy Wilson, P5M Tom Sneddon, P6A

Amie-Leigh McIlvanney, P6K Alix Hartley, P6M Katie Wood, P7B Kaitlin Bennett, P7C Kyle

Paterson, P7S Freya Rafferty, P1-3G Nicolas Morson, Layla Cassidy and P4-7G Emma Cassidy.

Overall P1-P3 winner was Emily Skinner, overall P4/P5 winner was Tom Sneddon and overall P6/7

winner was Freya Rafferty. Thanks to 5 members of the Rotary Club who helped with the

judging. P7s organised a Burns Supper, the haggis was piped in by Mr Murphy. All pupils and

some parents enjoyed haggis, neeps and tatties. Entertainment was poetry, dancing and

singing by P7 pupils. Thanks to Kilmarnock Standard for wonderful photographs.

Water Bottles

Pupils are encouraged to drink water

during the school day to help promote

physical and mental well being. We would be

grateful if you would ensure that your

child has a named water bottle to use in school.

Drop In Sessions Prior to the Parents’ appointments workshops will be

available on Tuesday 6 March at 6.00 pm – 6.30 pm

and Thursday 8 March at 3.30 pm – 4.00 pm and

6.00 pm – 6.30 pm. This is intended to share new

tracking levels which are on the report and give

further insight into how you can support your child.

Nut Allergies

We are committed to a whole school approach to

the Health and Safety of all pupils. We have two

pupils in school who have severe nut allergies. We

ask that pupils do not bring nuts/or nut related

products to school. Please note Nutella is a nut

related product.

Rotary Quiz—Winners

4 x P7 pupils Kyle Paterson, Ross Duncan, Daniel

Hettrick and Callum Baird took part in Kilmarnock

District Rotary Quiz along with 15 other schools and

they did very well. They won and now go forward to

the West of Scotland heat in May.

Absence

If your child is going to be absent from school please

contact the office by 9.15 am on 525477. If we

haven’t heard from you by 9.15 am you will receive a

text message in the first instance and if

you are unavailable we will contact the

emergency contact. All Data Forms have

been updated with new contact details, if

this changes at any time throughout the

session, please let us know. Athletics—Winners

Well done to Onthank Athletics Team. They have

been training hard with Miss Anderson and Mrs

Granger. They won the East Ayrshire heat in

September and went to Linwood

last week to take part in the

West of Scotland final. They

came 3rd which is a fantastic

achievement! Well done to

everyone!

Uniform/Labelling Clothes

Please ensure your child’s name and class

are clearly marked on all jackets,

sweatshirts, trousers, packed lunch

boxes etc. We are asking that packed

lunch boxes are taken home every day.

Medication

If your child requires medication during the school

day, please call into the office to complete the

necessary permission slip and hand in the medication.

We ask that you do not give your child medication to

take unsupervised by themselves.

Rotary

Our volunteer reading partners from the

Rotary Club have continued to visit every Thursday

morning. Both children and Rotarians enjoy this time

and teachers are noticing an improvement in the

children’s confidence and engagement with reading.

We are very grateful for this support.

GLOW Update

We are issuing pupils with their GLOW login and

password. P7 are taking a lead role and children are

training children. Already children from

P5, P6 and P7 have logged in. We would

encourage you to ask your child to show

you what it can do.

Facebook Page

The school Facebook page is now up and running.

Please follow our page to keep up to date with school

news and events. Please note there are a few pages

that have used the school name, our official page has

East Ayrshire’s logo as our profile picture.

RRS Ambassadors

Well done to our Rights Respecting School's

Ambassadors who presented to East Ayrshire's

Children and Young People’s

Strategic Partnership. Hayley,

Olivia and Molly spoke to the

group about Onthank's silver

award and anti-bullying.

P6/P7 Girls’ Football Team

P6 and P7 girls took part in an East

Ayrshire football festival. This was

the girls first time playing as a

team and they did not disappoint.

They won all of their games -

scoring 11 and conceding 0. Well

done girls!

Gaelic Classes

The pupils in the Gaelic Classes and Gaelic Early Child-

hood Centre will be leaving Onthank to go to the new

William Mcilvanney Campus after Easter. They are

leaving us on Tuesday 27 March. They will be having a

Farewell Tea Party on Monday 26 March and a Fun Time

for their last day on Tuesday 27 March. More details

to follow. New uniform logos:

Fairtrade Fortnight

Fairtrade Fortnight has started at Onthank Primary

School and as we are a Fairtrade School, we will be

raising awareness until Sunday 11 March. We have

lots of great lessons and games for everyone to take

part in as well as presentations to every class. If your

child brings in a Fairtrade

snack, remind them to let

their teacher know as we will

have a Fairtrade champion

class at the end of the

event.

STEM Fortnight

STEM Fortnight will run from Monday 12 March—

Friday 23 March. The fortnight will focus on children

engaging with STEM related

activities across the school.

We will also have volunteers

presenting to each class on

Wednesday 21 March.

Primary 1: Max Rorison, Khayri Laghzal, Sadie Farmer, Sophie Brown, Alexander Cairns, Lewis Stirling, Elina

Bruce, Lucas Deeny, Josh Boax, Roan Ferguson, Darcy Green, Robbie Cassidy, Tyler Curran.

Primary 2: Mollie Brown, Airen Townsley, Rebecca Cummings, Riley Hunter, Shae Smith, Lily Brown, Layla Duffy,

Dylan Graham, Asmaa Altamr, Noah Richmond, Alfie Kirkwood,

Primary 3: Oliver Smith, Ellie Archibald, Holly Nimbley, Aaron Harper, Lucas Baird, Emily Skinner, Lukas

Chisholm, Kayla Thomson, Megan Hamilton, Mahmoud Zen, Aimee Smith.

Primary 4: Mia Russell, Mila Vandal, Steven Black, Eve Stirling, Faye Armstrong, Alfie Campbell, Rachel Ruth-

erford, Niamh Lochrie, Ashleigh Sharpe, Maya Drury, Ellie Gan, Cameron Love, Rhonwen Morson.

Primary 5: Katie McIntyre, Aidan McCreadie, James McIlvanney, Luke McCall, Lucy Wilson, Tom Sneddon, Jamie

Salisbury, Kirsten Robertson.

Primary 6: Niamh McDonald, Aaron Osei, Torin Maclachlan, Isla Tonner, Dylan Fulton, Katie Wood, Rhys Maitland,

Alexia Sneddon, Nathan Wilson.

Primary 7: Kaitlin Bennett, Jack Chudleigh, Freya Rafferty, Heather Anderson, Gordon McPheator, Callum Baird.

Mrs Findlay’s Star Award: P1MCK Nicole Hamrol, P7s Kyle Paterson, Callum Baird, Ross Duncan, Daniel

Hettrick, Jessica Harris, Charlie Gray, Molly Sneddon, Lauren Wood, Allie Rogerson.

Mrs Wright’s Star Award: P7s Hayley Coull, Olivia O’Neill, Molly Sneddon.

March 2018

Tuesday 6 March Drop In Session 6.00 pm—6.30 pm

Thursday 8 March World Book Day!

Thursday 8 March Parents’ Afternoon/Evening for P3C/S, P7C & Gaelic Classes

Thursday 8 March Drop In Session 3.30 pm—4.00 pm & 6.00 pm—6.30 pm

Monday 12 March STEM Fortnight

Wednesday 14 March P6s to Amazonia

Monday 19 March STEM Fortnight—2nd Week

Wednesday 21 March STEM Afternoon 1.00 pm—3.00 pm

Thursday 22 March Parents’ Evening from 5.00 pm

Friday 23 March Shoogalie Road Production ‘Mary Poppins’ / Sports Relief

Tuesday 27 March Parents’ Afternoon from 3.10 pm

Thursday 29 March School closes 2.30 pm

April 2018

Monday 16 April School reopens 9.00 am

A. Wright / G. Findlay

Urgent call for New PTA Members Onthank PTA is struggling with a lack of Committee members, so much so that it may jeopardise our ability to run future planned events such as the bingo night and

the summer disco. If you are willing to be a part of the PTA and help the fundraising activity at the school please pass your details to the office, or to one of the PTA members. It would take only a few more parents to make a massive difference to the work of the PTA Committee.

PTA Newsletter

Bingo We are also hoping to run another of our very popular bingo nights some time in Spring. We will give out more information on that in the next newsletter.

We need lots of prizes for that event so would ask all parents, but particularly those who own a business, to consider whether they might be able to donate a prize, either in the form of goods, tickets or vouchers for a service. All donations will be very gratefully received.

Sally Buxton Clairvoyant Due to the snowy conditions last week, the PTAs event with Sally Buxton which was due to take place on Wednesday 28 February 2018, had to be cancelled. The PTA would like to apologise for the short notice but hope you will agree it was the best thing to do in the circumstances. We are planning to reschedule it over the next couple of months so please make sure you hold on to your tickets which will still be valid for the new date. We will issue a further update as soon as we know the new date.

Sally Buxton,

Clairvoyant