Glow Blogs – Dumfries and Galloway

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• 🏴 Sharing Scots Songs and Poems at Skills Station 🏴

  Recently, our pupils had the lovely opportunity to visit Skills Station to share their Scots poems and songs with the residents there. It was a truly special visit and a wonderful way to extend our Scots learning beyond the classroom. ❤️ The children performed a selection of their Scots poems, as well as the Scots songs they had been practising, and they did so with great confidence and bravery. Performing in a new environment can be daunting, but every pupil rose to the challenge and represented our school beautifully. 🌟 The residents were delighted by the performances and showed their<br><br><a class="more-link" href="https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/dg/stjosephsprimary/?p=5996">Read More</a>

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• Burns, Bairns an’ Braw Talent

  This afternoon we were delighted to welcome families into school to celebrate our Scots learning. 🤩 Throughout the month, pupils have been busy perfecting their Scots poems in their neatest handwriting and creating wonderfully imaginative artwork to bring their poems to life. Today we finally got to showcase all their hard work — and announce our winners for this year who were judged earlier in the week by our the lovely Mrs Marie Turtle who is no stranger to Kirkcolm Scots Poetry competition! In between the announcement of the winners and certificate hand outs audience enjoyed Scots songs from both …

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  Kirkcolm Primary School

• ⚡ Hands-On STEM at the College – P5–7! ⚡

  On Thursday, our P5–7 pupils, along with Portpatrick P5–7, enjoyed an exciting full day of hands-on STEM learning at the College and it was brilliant from start to finish! 🔧🔋 The focus of the day was electrical circuits, and pupils took part in a range of practical activities and experiments that brought their science learning to life. They explored how circuits work, tested different components, and worked collaboratively to solve problems and make things happen – quite literally! 💡 There was lots of curiosity, teamwork, and experimenting throughout the day, with pupils confidently handling equipment and discussing what worked, what<br><br><a class="more-link" href="https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/dg/stjosephsprimary/?p=5992">Read More</a>

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• 🏴 Scots Celebration Showcase 🏴

  On Wednesday 28th January, we were delighted to welcome families into school for our Scots Celebration Showcase, a wonderful afternoon celebrating Scots language, culture, and creativity. It was a joyful, proud occasion and so well attended – thank you so much to all families who came along to support our pupils. In the lead-up to the showcase, pupils took part in three Scots competitions:✍️ Handwriting – writing their Scots poem in their very best handwriting🎨 Creative Art – creating a piece of artwork inspired by their poem🎤 Poetry Reciting – confidently learning and performing their Scots poem We were very<br><br><a class="more-link" href="https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/dg/stjosephsprimary/?p=5989">Read More</a>

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• 🎵 Soundtrap Music Sessions with P5–7 🎧

  We were delighted to welcome the Soundtrap team into our P5–7 class for the first of a series of music sessions on Tuesday 20th January and it was a huge hit! 😊 During the session, pupils were introduced to Soundtrap, an online music and audio platform that allows them to create, record, and edit music digitally. We started by working together as a class to create a shared song. Pupils explored different sounds, beats, and instruments, learning how tracks can be built up layer by layer. There was lots of discussion, experimenting, and listening to each other’s ideas – brilliant<br><br><a class="more-link" href="https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/dg/stjosephsprimary/?p=5985">Read More</a>

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• Burns Supper

  Today we had our annual schools Burns supper to celebrate the much loved Rabbie Burns in school! Pupils have been working very hard this entire January at learning their poems, creating their art work and beautiful handwriting and the effort has been fab to see – all shall be revealed on Friday’s assembly at 2:15 so please pop down to see the winners of the recitation, art and handwriting competitions if you are free!  Today we toasted our cups and ate some haggis, neeps and tatties to celebrate Burns! Random pupils were selected from each class to say their poems …

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  Kirkcolm Primary School