Today 3 of our fabulous Primary 7’s, Colin, James and Rebecca had the exciting opportunity to take part in the Enterprising Maths Challenge at Douglas Ewart High School in Newton Stewart. They joined 11 other teams from the Rhins and Machars to show off their amazing maths brains! 🧠 The challenge was made up of three different activities, designed to really get their maths brains thinking and applying what they’ve
We are having lots of fun celebrating British Science Week this week in school. This afternoon, we welcomed parent into school to join in with some exciting experiments and investigations. Pupils and their parents rotated around 4 sciency stations; Fizzy exploding hands! 🧤 (because it wouldn’t be science week without some explosions.)An age-old crowd pleaser, where we saw vinegar and baking soda react to blow up a rubber glove!💥 Rapid
We were very proud of our two confident individuals, Jorgie and Colin last night. They stepped on the stage at the Ryan centre, in front of a packed audience and recited their Scots poetry word perfect, with great expression. It was a great evening of entertainment and both Jorgie and Colin represented our school so very well. Well done to both our stars! 👏👏👏
Our Primary 6 and 7 pupils recently had an amazing time during their residential trip to Edinburgh . They crammed so much into their two days away, and were so very well behaved. Several people commented on what delightful pupils they were and how they represented the school impeccably. Well done all – we are very proud of you . Many thanks must got to he staff for supporting the
Without the company of the P6 and 7s today our Primary 1-5s has plenty of fun celebrating World Book Day! We started the day by listening to some audio books while designing our book covers then after break tuned into the CBBC live lesson where we followed the reading map to explore lots of different ✨reading vibes✨ We ended the day cuddled up with a story with biscuits and hot
Today P4-7 welcomed back Niamh, the school’s Rugby Development Coach back to start a block of lessons to develop our Rugby skills. We started off with a game of ‘Capture the Flag’ which aimed to support our tactical thinking and ‘Switch’ to practise changing positions and avoiding opponents. 😄 Afterwards, we headed away from the comfort of the concrete to grass to practise some ‘contact’ activities on a soft surface.
Today, P1-3 were very excited to welcome Ailsa Buchanan into school to talk us about her job as a Vet, especially given the number of aspiring vets we have in the school!🐾 Ailsa told us all about the skills and qualities she needed to become a vet. She explained that in order to be a vet, you must have a kind and caring personality and love animals! Which was great
Yesterday, P 4-7 Star Bakers Rebecca, Rachael and James celebrated their bake off success with a trip to The Coffee Bean in Stranraer with Miss Douglas! We decided that it was only right, after their hard work, to sample what cakes the Coffee Bean had to offer😄. They enjoyed a luxury hot chocolate, with cream and marshmallows (or course) and a slice of Malteser traybake. The critics gave the Coffee
Yesterday, P1-3 welcomed some special visitors into school to get VERY hands on exploring their health and well-being topic – People Who Help Us! Part of this was looking at people who can help us when we find ourselves in danger and need urgent assistance and thus… Emergency Services Afternoon was made! Big thank you to Mrs Warwick for her excellent work in co-coordinating all these kind volunteers to come to
This afternoon we were delighted to welcome three lovely gentlemen from Stranraer Rotary Club in to speak to us about litter and the importance of keeping our wee community clean!🚮 Ben and Murray were pleased to see Donald McColm that they’d met at the Rotary Lunch again and were excited to see that he had brought along some of the hi-vis vests they had modelled at the lunch along with
