Shape Hunts, scavenger trails and some STEMazing kicked off our celebration of Maths Week Scotland! P1-4 held their very own shape hunt in school with Mrs Warwick. They went on a 2D shape hunt around the school, armed with an ipad and a tally mark sheet. Lots of circles and squares, the odd rectangle and 1 hexagon! They also joined in with the Cuthbert Sees Double interactive story and activity. They listened
By-passing secondary altogether, out intrepid team of maths superstars headed into the DGC Stranraer Campus today! On offer was an interactive morning of maths fun! And my oh my, it was a very a busy time with pupils involved in everything from (are you ready for quite a list…!)? following a recipe to make play dough reading instructions and measuring amounts to make up baby bottles using logic to solve
After almost 25 years working at Leswalt Primary school, Mrs Smith our fabulous learning assistant has called it a day. Leswalt pupils were sad to see her go, but all were happy to have had that special Mrs Smith sparkle in their life. She has worked so hard, for so many over the years. Sadly, she was off unwell on what should have been her final day on Friday –
In preparation for Maths Week Scotland next week, we all got to participate in a hands-on, fun maths workshop today led by Mrs Hall from the D&G STEM team and created by the Liverpool Mathematical Society. And it certainly lived up to its name – it was indeed MEGA! The P1-4 crew enjoyed their maths fun first thing; whilst the older bunch got their thinking caps on after breaktime. The
‘Farm to Fork’ is the title for this term’s topic in P1-4, and what better way to learn than meeting some local farmers and finding out more about what they do. We were lucky to have a nice sunny afternoon to welcome our visitors to Kirkcolm, and by kind permission of Jack Milroy, were able to use a field next to the school. First up was Grant Hurcomb, aka The
The children were excited to become App designers today! Francis Wallace, Principal Engineer of the Make It Happen Club joined us this morning to offer us the opportunity to take part in an exciting App Design challenge. The children have the chance to enter their own app design creations into a competition just for the North Rhins Partnership. The winning design from across our three schools will be made into reality
Digital Leaders from Kirkcolm, Leswalt and Portpatrick came together for a training session today. Our Capable Team Getting To Grips With Email The children covered a lot of areas as part of today’s agenda: Roles and Responsibilities Correctly handling, storing and charging devices Login – personal information, successfully accessing sites Bookmarking favourites and displaying our favourites bar Adding tiles to personal Glow launch
As a celebration of our tattie planting and harvest, today we planned to enjoy a day of tattie-related activities in conjunction with the Dandelion Growing Project! Our plans did alter slightly on hearing the sad news of the passing of our Queen yesterday. We felt it right that some time should be used this morning to talk about her life, death and lasting legacy. All pupils showed their respect by
P5-7 are enjoying a block of fun rugby sessions with Neve the Rugby Development Officer! Every Friday for 6 weeks, the pupils don their PE kit and head outside for an activity fuelled hour! Check out the photos below 😊
