Kirkcolm Primary School

The boys and girls at Kirkcolm Primary have been hard at the Christmas graft this week. As a gesture of thanks for all the support and generosity they have recently had from their local community this year so far, they made some lovely Christmas cards during class and their lunch time and handed them out to community on their way back from the church! If you did not receive one then please know, we all wish you a very merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! 🎉

The boys and girls changed into their festive finery this afternoon for our annual Christmas Party, all organise by our very able House Captains, Ivan and Phoebe. We played games including Christmas Corners, Musical Bumps and a Balloon Race in teams; there was LOTS of dancing and there was even an appearance from Santa himself, who gave each child in the school a personalised winter hat.

We had a great afternoon! A huge thank-you to our House Captains for a fun-filled festive afternoon and to Santa for taking time out of his busy schedule at this time of year to visit us.

On the 12.19.24 Leswalt primary school held a play at Leswalt hall. The Leswalt show felt like a once in a life opportunity, the costumes had so much detail. Kirkcolm was invited over at the hall and after wards they played at their school playground. Thank you for inviting Kirkcolm primary school to your school play!

by, Alistair swan and Lyle

Huge congratulations to our P6 and P7 boys; Arran & Ivan! These pair ahieved some success last week at the Badminton competition at the Ryan Centre. Arran came third in the P6 heats and Ivan secured 1st place in the P7 heats which means both boys will go on to compete in the Wigtownshire competition! 

Hopefully this sporty duo can smash it out the park again! 

PC Mc Gregor paid a visit to Kirkcolm Primary today to collect all the donations from the children for their Police Scotland Youth Volunteers Christmas appeal.

The boys and girls had brought in lots of items such as pasta, beans, biscuits and rice. These items will be made up into mini hampers and distributed amongst elderly people in the community.

The photograph shows the Eco Committee handing over the goodies to PC Mc Gregor.  Well done to all at Kirkcolm Primary for thinking of others at this time of year.

To add to our Christmas Spirit, today was marked by one of our favourite events of the year… Christmas Dinner Day! Michelle has worked hard to deliver, yet another, stand out lunch for us all. Pupils were sure to don their Christmas jumpers this morning to help get them in the festive spirits and we sat down to dine in on our turkey and pull our crackers together, with the Christmas tunes pumping out in the background!

As you can see from the photos, we had a lot of paper hats, full tummies and smiling faces! The countdown is well and truly on now! 

We were happy to welcome back Owain from Scripture Union to deliver his Christmas Unwrapped session with the class. This is a great opportunity during this Festive period to remind the pupils of the true religious story that is behind Christmas and Owain manages to dispel some common Christmas Myths that we all fall for! 

Pupils learned a lot during this input! Such as classic tradition dictates that you should put up your Christmas Tree on Christmas Eve, or how many ACTUAL wise men and shepherds were present during the birth of Jesus Christ? Owain does a great job of getting the pupils doubting themselves and thinking hard! Finally pupils had the opportunity to create their own little Christmas tiles which you can marvel at when they come home with them… 

A very successful morning into the spirit of things! Thank you to Owain for always visiting us in our little corner of Scotland. 

Helen from Lighthouse Musicians came in this afternoon to work with P1-4 to help develop their musical talents! We started off with a game similar to musical statues, but when the music stopped, we had to get into groups depending on the number that Helen shouted out. This helped to develop our listening and team work!

We then recapped and learned some new Italian musical terms for speed, including accelerando (speeding up) and ritardando (slowing down). Using this knowledge, we sang the Grand Old Duke of York at different speeds – and realised how tricky it is to pronounce words when you are singing so quickly!!

To help us get into the festive spirit, we then sang the 12 Days of Christmas and created our own class version with suggestions from the boys and girls.

To finish off our session, we recapped some musical terms for dynamics, and played a matching game where the word and definition were on different cards, and we had to walk around the room to find our partner.

Thank-you to Helen for taking the time to come in today – we had a wonderful afternoon!

Kirkcolm Parent council had put a great deal of preparation into organising their Christmas coffee morning which took place on Saturday.  Even Storm Darragh could not deter the support for this fabulous fundraising event!

Lots of family and friends of Kirkcolm Primary braved the very strong winds to come out and enjoy the tasty home baking on offer.   Many people even had to take detours to reach Kirkcolm – to avoid all the fallen trees on the roads.

There was a great raffle with lots and lots of fabulous prizes.  There was a variety of Christmas arts and crafts for the children to enjoy in a classroom. The pupils of the school also sold their Christmas crafts and entertained with some Christmas songs.  Santa was on hand, in his amazing grotto to give all the good boys and girls of Kirkcolm some treats too.

This combined team work, led by Sheila, Marie and the Parent council generated the amazing sum of  £1218.16!

Well done, and thank you all.  Thank you to those who baked, helped, bought raffle  tickets, crafts and came along on the day.  This money will help benefit all the children at school.

Today both classes at Kirkcolm had a input from Lisa Cope – who educated the pupils all about budgeting. We learned what budgeting is and why it is an essential skill to have throughout life! Little ones looked at budgeting for a day out where as the older pupils looked at budgeting for a birthday party, with a few curve balls thrown in there along the way! 

This was a great session to examine how budgeting works and our spending habits! Pupils were scandalised when some of them realised they had overspent beyond their means!