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Coffee Afternoon Showcase of Work for 150 years

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There was a tremendous turn out of people at the coffee afternoon on Saturday to mark the end of the celebrations for 150 years. The mosaic was unveiled by Kate Anderson, local artist, who was thanked by Mrs Caldwell for all her hard work and presented with flowers. Old photographs were displayed in one of the classrooms for people to reminisce together and a baking stall, tombola and commemorative items were sold in another of the classrooms. “Tall Tales and Short Trousers: An unofficial history of Kirkcowan School” was a great seller, and on its release sold close to 100 copies!

Altogether an incredible £800 was raised from this event. Thank you so much to everyone who donated, helped and/or ran around tirelessly on the day ensuring eveything went so well!

Ecology Talks Support Class Topics

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Visitors from SSE and Gael Force were in school on Friday morning and delivered presentations to the whole school on Wind Turbine Construction and Ecology and Biodiversity. The pupils got an opportunity to ask lots of questions about how wind turbines are built and about how ecologists can put measures in place to save the environment in which they are placed. Both presentations supported the topics of ‘Habitats’ and ‘Endangered Planet’ currently being covered in classes.

Following the presentations, the school were donated model construction vehicles and bird tables by the two companies.

Diamond Jubilee Celebrations

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On Monday 4th June the school and nursery pupils dressed in red, white and blue colours to mark the occasion of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. In classes they designed and made crowns which were then judged by all staff. The winners were:

Hugh – Nursery

Torin – P1/2

Fern – P3/4/5

Abby – P6/7

A party was held in the school hall with lots of goodies given to the pupils, including a Diamond Jubilee pencil and ruler. A great celebration was had by all.

Carlingwark

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P 6/7 visited carlingwark for two days on Monday and tuesday and a great time was had by all.

The weather was excellent and some great outdoor activities were experienced.

We all got the opportunity to go kayaking, sailing, rock climbing and mountain biking.

Swimming in the Loch to cool down.

Rock climbing was great fun, but a little scary to come back down!

We were all a little exhausted by the end.

From Pastures to Plate

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Below is a photograph of P6/7 handing over their ‘Pastures to Plate’ calendar and receiving a collage of photographs on the topic of food and farming from Wigtown Primary School. This was part of a regional initiative project in association with RHET (Royal Horticultural Educational Trust) where every school in the region produced a piece of work to present to a neighbouring school. Regrettably the tractor ran out of time to visit Kirkcowan School.