Welcome to Ayton Primary School!
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Our school is for children in P1-P7 for children from Ayton and the surrounding area. Our head teacher is Mrs Horsburgh, who is also the head teacher of neighbouring Reston Primary School.
For the 2025-2026 academic year we will have three classes: P1–3, P3–6, and P6–7. See our staff page for more information.
We are part of the Eyemouth Learning Community (“Eyemouth cluster”) – children from Ayton, Coldingham, Cockburnspath, Eyemouth and Reston primary schools move up together to Eyemouth High School.
News from school 📚
September 2025 Newsletter
Children have had a settled start to the new school session and are enjoying their new learning environments.
We are looking forward to seeing as many of you as possible at our open event on Wednesday 17th September 2-3pm. This is an opportunity for you to meet staff and see the different learning environments and resources we use to support teaching and learning. There will be further opportunities for this type of experience throughout the session.
June 2025 Newsletter
Parents Portal — Primary aged children only
Parents Portal is a new system that has been introduced by Scottish Borders Council, with the goal of being a single hub for all communication between parents / carers and schools. It is a platform which allows you to update your child’s information through the annual data check, give permissions for various trips and activities, and receive notifications about school events and activities via the school calendar. It will also allow you to link ParentPay and other useful services to your home page.
Digital Ninjas blog 🥷💻
Flower Show
Saturday 6th September is the annual Ayton Flower Show. The event is open from 1pm-4pm. Come along and see the wonderful entries as well as entertainment and teas and coffees in the bowling club. All welcome.
P5.6.7 Cross Country Day
On Thursday the 6th of February primary 5/6/7 went to cross country, they went on a bus to Eyemouth, they had to lap around all 3 fields twice. It was a very long way! They were split up into boys and girls races for each year group. Some of the people from Ayton came in the top ten. Everyone was really supportive and it was team bonding time. Everyone represented Ayton brilliantly. #smallbutmighty
Dates for your diary 🗓️
Wednesday 17th September School Open Afternoon, 2-3pm
Monday 22nd September Parents Evening Booking System (PEBS) goes live at 9am.
Monday 22nd September PFA meeting 8pm on Zoom.
Friday 3rd October PEBS closes for parents evening bookings at 12.30pm
Monday 6th October Parents Consultations 6-7.30pm
Thursday 9th October Parents Consultations 3.30-6pm
Thursday 9th October Harvest Assembly in School Hall
Monday 13th to Friday 17th October October Holiday
Monday 20th October Staff In-service Day – school closed to pupils
Tuesday 21st October Pupils resume
School timings 🕣
Monday–Thursday: 08:45–15:10, lunch 12:15–12:55
Friday: 08:45–12:30
The playground is staffed from 08:30.
PE days are Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Term dates 🗓️
Note the additional holidays listed under the ‘Eyemouth’ section of ‘Casual Holidays’
Breakfast club 🥣
Breakfast club runs from 08:15 to 08:30, and costs 50p (payable via ParentPay). Please pay in advance for this service.
Please make sure you receive messages from the school via email or Xpressions for any updates to the schedule.