Enrolment Dates

Session 2026/27

Early Learning and Childcare (3 and 4 year olds)

• To register for and Early Learning and Childcare care place for all children born between

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.

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.

Welcome back to the new school term. The staff and I hope you all had an enjoyable and fun Easter break.

Mrs Horsburgh

Red Nose Day

Thank you to everyone who kindly donated through our JustGiving page for Red Nose Day and cash donations. We raised an amazing £43 for the charity.

World Book Day

P1-P7 will be taking part in ‘World Book Day’ on Thursday 6th March. The children are invited to dress up as their favourite character from a book or wear pyjamas. Activities are planned for the children to take part in.

ParentPay

Please remember to make bookings in advance for your children’s lunches, if bookings are not made by 8.00am, children will be offered a meal, if they have not brought a packed lunch. It is important to book in advance so the kitchen has enough stock for each day.

Welcome back everyone, we hope you all had a lovely Christmas break and are ready for the new term.

Christmas Performance and Church Service

Thank you to everyone for their support and fantastic feedback after the children performed the ‘The Fleece Force’ and ‘Christmas Around the World,’ in the school hall last month. It was lovely to see so many of you in Ayton Parish Church. Many thanks to all staff, Mrs Susan Patterson, Primary 7 pupils, and Mr. Graham Dolan for their support during these events.

Parent Council Christmas Raffle

PFA looking for donations this years Christmas Raffle, if you have a donation could you please hand it into school by the 6th of December. Monies raised by the raffle will go towards the cost of transport for various activities throughout the school year.

Curriculum Overviews

Curriculum Overviews for P1-2, P3-4, P5 and P6-7 will be issued by Groupcall/Xpressions on Friday 1st November. If you have any questions please contact Mrs Pearson, Mrs Lannagan, Miss Thom or Mrs MacLeod.

Attendance

If your child is unable to attend school for whatever reason, please contact the main school office using telephone phone number (01890 781350) or send us a message using Xpressions. If your child is absent from school please notify the school office as soon as you can. If not you will receive a Groupcall message. If your child is booked in for a lunch on ParentPay please ensure the meal is cancelled online, or you may be charged.

We are looking forward to seeing as many of you as possible at our open event on Wednesday 4th September 6–7pm. 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.

Welcome back to the new school term. The staff and I hope you all had an enjoyable and fun Easter break.

Mrs Horsburgh

Red Nose Day

Thank you to everyone who kindly donated through our JustGiving page for Red Nose Day. We raised an amazing £38.00 for the charity.

World Book Day

P1–P7 will be taking part in ‘World Book Day’ on Thursday 7th March. The children are invited to dress up as their favourite character from a book or wear pyjamas. Activities are planned for the children in afternoon in their ‘houses’ with the P7 House captains.

ParentPay

Please remember to make bookings in advance for your children’s lunches, if bookings are not made by 8:00am, children will be offered soup, a sandwich, and a piece of fruit if they have not brought a packed lunch.

Welcome back everyone, we hope you all had a lovely Christmas break and are ready for the new term.

Christmas Performance and Church Service

Thank you to everyone for their support and fantastic feedback after the children performed the ‘Wriggly Nativity’ and the P4-7 Christmas Cracker, in the school hall last month. It was lovely to see so many of you in Ayton Parish Church. The PFA raised a wonderful £425.90 with raffle sales and book sales, this is going towards funding for the Trim Trail. Many thanks for all the support with fundraising.

Curriculum Overviews

Curriculum Overviews for P1–3, P4–5 and P6–7 will be issued by Groupcall/Xpressions on Friday 27th October, your child will also be given a paper copy in their school bag for you to retain for information. If you have any questions please contact Mrs Pearson, Mrs Lannagan or Mrs MacLeod.

Our School Handbook can be found by clicking the link below.

Please see the below file for the School Improvement Plan

Review of Progress 2022-23

Context of the setting

Ayton Primary School is a small rural school in Berwickshire which is part of the Eyemouth Learning Community Schools. The catchment area includes Ayton village, Foulden village and the surrounding communities. We have some children who are placement requests from Burnmouth, Eyemouth and Chirnside. Pupils either walk to school or travel by car or school transport.

Attendance

If your child is unable to attend school for whatever reason, please contact the main school office using telephone phone number 018907 81350 or send us a message using Xpressions. If your child is absent from school please notify the school office as soon as you can. If not you will receive a Groupcall message. If your child is booked in for a lunch on ParentPay please ensure the meal is cancelled online, or you may be charged.

It was lovely to see many of you at our recent open afternoon on 31st August. We enjoyed welcoming you all back in to school and showing you 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.

Staffing Update

Mrs MacLeod will be returning to work in the coming weeks. As a change to her previous role working across 3 schools (Ayton, Coldingham and Co’path), Mrs MacLeod will be based at Ayton Primary where she is needed to take on a class teaching responsibility.

P5-7 Cross Country

Niamh, our Active Schools co-ordinator has organised the P5-7 cross country to take place on Wednesday 22nd February from 10am until 12 noon. Transport will be provided and children will be back in school for lunchtime. Children should come dressed in warm outdoor P.E. clothes with a water bottle and snack.