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Link with School in Nepal gets Underway

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On Friday (8.2.13) pupils enjoyed a visit from Linda Greenhill, a member of the local community, who is due to visit a remote area of Nepal at Easter Time. This will be Linda’s second visit to the area. Linda talked about life in Nepal and pupils learned a lot from her very interesting slideshow. Kirkcowan Primary School is hoping to link with a school in Nepal and following Linda’s visit pupils began thinking about how they could introduce themselves to the pupils at the school.

It has been decided that pencil cases will be collected and sent out with Linda along with introductory letters written by the pupils. The reach out committee have produced a poster to give further details about the pencil case appeal which can be seen below. Also a powerpoint link is below which gives details about Nepal for pupils and parents. Did you know the Nepal flag is not rectangular? Do you know what the two triangular shapes of the flag represent?

Nepalposter

Nepalpresentation

Annual Scottish Afternoon Enjoyed by Pupils

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A week later than scheduled, our Scottish afternoon got underway on Friday 1st February. P6/7 were responsible for organising the event and this included ordering and preparing food for the buffet (with homemade corn beef patties), recruiting talented musicians/ performers from each class, preparing and printing the programmes and making the announcements to ensure the afternoon ran smoothly. P4/5 started the afternoon with powerpoint presentations about Robert Burns (see Ellis’ group Jenni’sgroup Leah’sgroup Fern’sgroup) and a game to play with the whole school in Scots language called ‘Staun up, sit doon’.

Later in the afternoon P1-3 read out words in their ‘Scots Dictionary’ which they had created. Nursery entertained everyone with a confident performance of the poem ‘Ma Wee Rid Motor’.

Before the interval with Scottish Buffet, Libby read ‘The Selkirk Grace’ and several of P6/7 read the verses of ‘Address to a Haggis’. Throughout the afternoon pupils and staff were treated to musical performances including:

Libby and Callum dancing (Donald Where’s yer Troosers)

Abby on Violin (Auld Lang Syne)

Ruby on flute (Loch Lomond)

Dan on flute (Scotland the Brave)

Abbie and Ellis on violin and cello (Scottish lullaby duet)

Millie and Connie singing a duet (Cauld Blaws the wind)

Izzy on cornet (Amazing Grace) and accordion (Going Home)

Millie on recorder (Loch Lomond)

We even had a gymnastics finale thanks to Karen, Jenni, Connie and Cody and their choreographed routine to ‘Auld Lang Syne’ by the red hot chilli pipers.

In line with tradition, an important part of the afternoon was judging the finalists for the Scottish poetry recitals. All the finalists did extremely well and received runners up gifts. The overall winners received prizes and were as follows:

Molly P1

Connor P4

Dan P6

Welldone P6/7 and we look forward to the next one!

Health Showcase Highlights Important Messages For All

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On Thursday 31st January pupils from P1-P7 organised and presented a health showcase for parents. This included the pupils participating in various role play scenarios, creating a powerpoint on Internet Safety and follow up police talks. The topics covered included:

Car, needle and medicine safety (P1-3)

Anti-social behaviour (P4/5)

Bogus Callers and Internet Safety (P6/7)

The afternoon was well attended by parents and feedback was very positive. A big well done to all those involved!

P4/5 study Scots language ahead of Scottish afternoon

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P4/5 have been putting their literacy skills to good use over the last few weeks whilst finding out about Robert Burns and Scots language. They have worked collaboratively in small groups to prepare a powerpoint presentation on Robert Burns for the rest of the school to view on our Scottish afternoon. They have been practising their Scots poems and performed them in front of the class. Congratulations to Connor, Mackenzie and Callum who have been selected as finalists for the Scottish afternoon. The whole class have also rehearsed a game in Scots language called ‘Staun up, sit doon’, which they will teach to the rest of the school. Also, as part of their class writing P4/5 have experimented with the written word in Scots and produced some colour poems and descriptions of animals, all of which will be available to see on Parents night (7.2.13).

Unfortunately due to weather conditions on Friday our Scottish afternoon had to be postponed to 1.2.13. We are all looking forward to an afternoon of entertainment by the pupils.

Road Safety Week in School

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The Health and Wellbeing Committee organised Road Safety Week in school this week (19th-23rd Nov). On Monday Jamie (Chairperson), Connie and Callum gave a presentation about the importance of Road Safety. On Wednesday morning the police were arranged to come and give talks to each class and Wednesday afternoon was an activity afternoon with pupils decorating hi-vis vests, playing road safety games, completing a quiz and role-playing how to cross the road safely. During this week a competition was running to design a road sign, poster or fact file on Road Safety. The entries were judged by the committee on Friday and announced at assembly.

Free Press visit to see reports being printed

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Primary 3,4,5 visited the Free Press Office in Stranraer to learn all about how the paper is edited and printed. The pupils even got to see their very own centre page spread about 150 years celebrations hot off the press!

The end result…

Well done P3/4/5!

Unfortunately the bad weather meant that Agnew Park had to be postponed for another day but the pupils still had great fun at the Ryan Centre playing short tennis, badminton and football.

Scientists in P3/4/5 discover what barn owls eat for tea!

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P3/4/5 had a visit from Mr Jack Orchel, local barn owl expert, on Friday morning who brought with him some pellets. Pupils enjoyed being ‘scientists’ and dissected the pellets using tweezers, searching for small bones which would give clues to what the barn owls had eaten. Magnifying glasses helped pupils to examine the discoveries more closely and a key was used to identify the bones. Skulls of small mice, voles, shrews and even small birds were  found.