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Christmas Events at Kells

M&M Productions will be performing the pantomime ‘Dick Whittington’ in the school hall on the afternoon of Monday 9th December. Dalry Primary pupils wills be joining us and the children from Dalry Nursery have also been invited.

Our Christmas Lunch will be on Wednesday 11th December at the cost of £1.75. Please contact the school office or Mrs McSkimming if you would like to order a Christmas Lunch for your child.

The Christmas Nativity will be on Monday 16th December. As usual there will be an afternoon and evening performance. This year it is the turn of P1-4 and they will be performing ‘Hey Ewe!’ Refreshments will be available after both performances. Raffle tickets will be on sale for the chance to win the Christmas Hamper.

The PTA are currently organising a Coffee & Cake afternoon in the school hall. This will take place on Thursday 19th December. There will also be games for the children to play as well as the ever popular cake stall. The raffle will be drawn to find out who has won the Christmas Hamper. Please come along and support the school.

On Friday 20th December there will be a Christmas Service at Dalry Church for Carspairn, Dalry and Kells pupils. Pupils will then walk back to Dalry School for hot chocolate and homemade shortbread after the service.

The date and time of the Christmas Party has still to be confirmed. We are still waiting for confirmation from Santa!

Children in Need 2013

The Pupil Council decided to hold a ‘Wear What You Want Day’ to raise money for this very worthy charity. Pupils were dressed casually, in ‘onesies’ and also some in fancy dress. Evie, Amy, Laura, Florrie, Georgiana and Jasmin were very enterprising and baked cakes to sell to pupils at break time, as well as organising a luck dip. They raised £42.43. Well done girls!

In total the school raised £78.43 for Children in Need this year. Thank you to everyone who helped support this event.

Finance Education Workshops

All pupils at Kells have recently been involved in Finance Education workshops.  Bev Wilkinson, Finance Education Training Officer,  delivered the ‘Money Box’ workshops to P1-4 and ‘Money Talks’ workshops to P4-7. Here are some photographs of the P4-7 pupils finding out about the different types of bank and store cards available in society. P4-7 pupils completed a series of tasks in their ‘Money Talks’ workbook and then were tested on what they had learned by participating in a quiz. The winner was Bronnen, second was Murray and third was Jasmin.

Individual keypad used in the interactive quiz
Quiz Winners

Live Music Now!

Primary 5-7 enjoyed a visit from Live Music Now on Monday 11th November. Live Music Now are delivering a project in Dumfries & Galloway schools which is titled ‘Pitch, Pulse and Magic.’ The pupils listened to Elanor Gunn playing the violin and Julia Wagner playing the cello. They discussed in detail the different types of music they play as well as demonstrating some of the techniques used to create sound on their particular instrument. They also taught the class a few songs.

Dalry Small School Sports

Kells entered a Rounders and a Netball team in this year’s Dalry Sports which were held on the morning of Tuesday 5th November. All Kells pupils participated well and thoroughly enjoyed the experience. The netball team were successful in retaining the shield for another year. Unfortunately the rounders team could not repeat the win they achieved in the Crossmichael Sports in June of this year. Well done to all pupils involved!

Rounders Team
Home run coming up!
She shoots, she scores!
Jump!
Netball Winners 2013

Macmillan Coffee Morning Final Total

£1,235.33 was the final total raised for the Macmillan charity this year. Since 1993 Kells Primary has raised £10,671.80 for this very worthy cause.

Angela McCormack, Fundraising Manager for Macmillan, visited the school to receive the cheque from the primary 7 pupils and to thank them personally for all their hard work.

Well done to all the pupils involved in raising this tremendous amount of money. Thanks again to all of the parents and friends of the school who supported the pupils in this event.

Halloween Party

On the afternoon of Thursday 31st October Kells Primary held their Halloween Party in the hall. Pupils and staff dressed up in scary costumes and enjoyed some Halloween games as well as some ‘spooky’ dancing.

P.1,2,3 & 4 Costume Winners
P.5, 6 & 7 Costume Winners

Harvest Assembly

Our Harvest Assembly was held on Friday 11th October in the school hall. The pupils brought in lots of food for our Harvest Table as you can see from the photographs below. Our School Chaplain, Dr Bartholomew,  told the pupils the Bible story about the loaves and fishes. P1-4 recited a poem about Harvest time and the whole school sang ‘Autumn Days’ and ‘I Have Seen the Golden Sunshine.’ After break time pupils from P5-7 delivered 26 harvest parcels to the elderly in New Galloway.