On Wednesday afternoon the nine finalists from our Scots poetry competition visited the Autumn Club to entertain community members with recitals of their poems. The pupils thoroughly enjoyed their visit, especially the goodies they were rewarded with at the end!
At long last, excitement was in the air in P3/4/5 today as the much awaited panda prizes arrived from the Glow Team. Back in December the pupils entered a competition to design a leaflet for Edinburgh Zoo to promote the arrival of Scotland’s two giant pandas, Tian Tian and Yang Guan. The school heard the fantastic news in January that several pupils had been successful and had come runners up in the competition and that one of our pupils had also won First Prize! Such a big achievement to have so many winners from a small school in a national competition!
Below is a photograph of the overall winner with her cuddly panda and runners up with their T-shirts, along with their leaflet designs.
As you are aware, Kirkcowan School will celebrate 150 years in May 2012. I am pleased to present the final programme of events.
Main Events
Thurs 19th April: Whole School Photograph to commemorate the event. Photographs will be available for families to purchase at a cost of £7.50.
Friday 11th May: Peek at the Past Pupils will be invited to dress up from a chosen period and experience school as it was then.
Saturday 12th May : Celebratory Tea Dance St Couan’s Hall, Kirkcowan at 2pm. Tickets: £3 per adult/£1 per child
Friday 18th May: Time Capsule Ceremony Kirkcowan School at 2pm. Regrettably due to fire regulations/capacity, this event will be by invitation only.
Saturday 26th May: Reunion Ceilidh St Couan’s Hall, Kirkcowan 7-11pm. Tickets: £5 per adult/£2 per child. A buffet will be provided.
Saturday 16th June: Coffee Afternoon/Showcase of Children’s Work and Display of Old Photographs. St Couan’s Hall, Kirkcowan, 2-4pm.
Getting Involved
Tall Tales and Short Trousers, An Unofficial History of Kirkcowan School Primary 6 & 7 pupils will be collecting and collating stories and memories from former pupils and staff to record an unofficial history of Kirkcowan School entitled ‘Tall Tales and Short Trousers’. If you have any amusing, inspiring or heart-filled stories you would like to share we’d love to hear from you.
News Release Pupils from primaries 3-5 will be recording the events to prepare a press release in June. This work will also be showcased at the Coffee Afternoon.
Commemorative Garden Children from the nursery and primary 1 & 2 will be creating a garden to commemorate the event.
Please keep an eye on this blog for updates.
On Wednesday 22nd February P3/4/5 entertained a large audience of parents and family members as they shared what they have learned from their Knights and Castles topic. The pupils also sang (and some acted!) a song about a handsome knight and set up activities for their parents to do based on the topic afterwards. Galloway Falconry arrived later and the pupils and parents had a chance to handle the birds of prey, including a white tailed sea eagle with an 8ft wingspan, falcon and owl. The visitors were a fantastic way to finish the topic. Below are photographs of work by the pupils displayed in the classroom and the falconry display.
Well done P3/4/5 what a lot of hard work and effort!
Today was our whole school best work assembly, a chance for all the classes to share the work that has been going on. P6/7 presented work on the Jacobites and Internet Safety, finishing off with an action song that the whole school joined in with. P3/4/5 presented their winning panda leafelts and castles work. P1/2 shared a clapping song that they had learned as part of their topic on playground games in the past. Nursery shared their Chinese New Year celebrations and Hugh Ferguson from nursery told the school all about Earthquakes!
Nursery children presenting their chinese New Year Lanterns and lucky fish.
P6/7 presenting their work on Jacobites and showing the famous battles on the map of Scotland.
P6/7 having fun with their action song.
P1/2 performing their clapping song.
Pupils being awarded their Head Teacher Award certificate and pencil.
P3/4/5 presenting their panda leaflets.
Pupils reading out their Autobiographies and Biographies of famous Scottish Kings and Queens.
Pupils reading out facts from their individual castle factfiles.
Self portraits transformed into Scottish Kings and Queens.
The cookery masterclass, led by parent volunteers Steve Brown and Catrina Adams, was a huge hit for pupils throughout the whole school. The finale was the pupils prepared a buffet for all the volunteer helpers at the masterclasses (which have been running since January). The photograph shows the delicious sandwiches, finger food and cakes enjoyed by the helpers and very happy pupils with their certificates and chef hats. The next block of Masterclasses are coming soon and include golf, introduction to recorder, knitting and back by popular demand… cookery! Watch this space for more photographs.
On Friday 27th January we celebtated Burns’ day by holding a Scottish afternoon for the whole School. P3-7 organised the afternoon and a full programme was delivered as can be seen above. Everyone had a thorourghly enjoyable time and it was evident the many talented individuals we have at Kirkcowan School.
Scottish Dancing action shot
‘Address to a Haggis’
Scots’ poem winners receiving their goody bags
Some of our talented musicians…more to follow on videos
P6/7 reciting ‘Tam O’Shanter’
Thank you to everyone who took part. Mrs Stevenson & Miss Skilling
P3/4/5 were selling stars in December for the pupils to write Christmas messages on to their friends, instead of writing lots of individual cards. The stars were 20p each and were displayed on a huge Christmas tree in the corridor for all to see. The class took a vote and the money raised went to The Scottish Cot Death Trust – a total of £15.40! Welldone P3/4/5.
