Kirkcolm Primary School

As part of their Castles topic P1-4 took the bus into town with their friends from Leswalt to look at our very own ‘toon’ castle! The Castle of St Johns sits squarely in the middle of Stranraer town centre so they got the grand tour of the castle today! 

They learned all about the different uses for the castle over the many many years it has stood standing and what life was like for the prisoners who were kept there. After that they walked up the centre of the town to the museum where they engaged in a scavenger hunt which let them look at all the wonders of the towns history located in the museum! 

A fab and informative morning for all! 

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This Thursday marks the start of a bowling input for the upper school from Kirkcolm Bowling Club. As you may recall – last year the men from the bowling club volunteered their own time to work with P1-4 class for a bowling input, now this year they have invited the older pupils down! It could not have been a more perfect day for bowling – the sun was shining and green was looking very green indeed! 

Most of the pupils had never turned their hands to bowls before and they were quick to realise that it was not as easy as it appeared! Definitely a lot of skill required to make the bowls behave the way you want them too! Many of the pupils came away really enjoying their session and hopefully this inspires some future bowling champs of the area!? 

Looking forward to more weeks refining these skills and a huge thank you to the men of the bowling club for volunteering their time for us! 

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Thursday was sadly the final input this year from Matthew Robsinson from Youth Work D&G. We have welcomed Matthew into our school the past couple of years to help deliver Health and Wellbeing inputs with pupils and transition in Term 4 for the P7 pupils heading to the Academy! 

With his work done for this year – we are sure to be seeing him in class again the following school year!

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A huge well done to all the footballers who represented the school at the Rephad Fun Day on Friday afternoon. Once again, they came out and gave it their all and were 1 of only 3 teams present at the competition! A massive thank you to pupils for their efforts, Miss Agnew for training sessions and supporting them and, finally, to the parents for dropping them off/collecting them either side! Fabulous effort guys! 

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Done for another year! Thank you to all the parent helpers, pupils and staff alike to cobbled together to ensure another successful year of the Mini Walk over with for 2026! 💨

We are so proud of the hard effort the boys and girls put into running this year, the sportsmanship was as prevalent as the competitiveness! Excellent qualities to see in our young people! They all smashed it whether it be a walk or a run and the weather held up and rain held OFF! Despite some last minute course changes a solid 5km was completed by all 💪 Then we got to enjoy some yummy ice lollies as a reward for their efforts. 🍭

A huge thank you to Sheila McGrory and all the Parent Councils hard work in pulling together this active fundraiser event for the pupils. Hopefully all the money raised can go towards lots of goodies for the boys and girls! 💰

The results for our top finishers are as follows…

Boys:

1^st – Freddie Adams 🥇

2^nd – Ian Buzasi 🥈

3^rd – Ewan Clarke 🥉

Girls:

1^st – Paige Neill 🥇

2^nd – Kendall Alexander 🥈

3^rd – Fallon Farquhar

This morning we had a lovely morning spent with the P1-3 from Leswalt as the fabulously knowledgeable Kathryn Purchase from History Alive told them every they needed to know about Castles! Over the course of this term, the lower classes in both schools have been studying Castles and learning about all things Medieval as part of their social studies topic and today was the perfect day to bring the topic alive for them and let them get to grips with the props! ⛓️🗡️🏹

Pupils learned all about the different types of Castles and where we could fine them, with some castles on cliffs, islands, up mountains or down in valleys! They learned about the different people who lived in these castles, like the lords and ladies and their servants – even the blacksmith lived there too with his forgery on hand! ⚔️

As part of it they also looked at knights and all their armour – blowing their minds when they found out that a knight, completely suited up, would have an extra 5 pounds of weight added on to them in just armour alone! 😯

The boys and girls at beautifully for this and a huge thank you to Kathryn for always making the trip down the A77 to see us and for another superb input. As you can see in the photos – the boys and girls loved it! 📸

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Today our P6 pupils across both schools dotted off to Operation Safety at Stair Park today for a wide variety of different safety inputs!🆘All helping them get clued up before their senior year! 

Pupils moved around 7 stations, each with their own focus;

1. Fire safety – can they spot the fire hazards in a home and how to manage these! 🧯🔥🚒
2. The Coastguard! (very important for this time of year in this area…) what to do if they spot somebody drowning and how to keep themselves safe in water. 🥽🚣‍♀️
3. Electricity with Scottish Power – spotting electrical hazards in the home and how to prevent these ⚡💡🔌
4. Youth Work came and did an input on Internet Safety – teaching pupils how to stay safe online and what they should or shouldn’t share online. 👍
5. Drugs and Alcohol – what are the harmful effects of drugs and alcohol 👎
6. Community, Council & Criminal – looking at certain acts and who is responsible for preventing and managing these! Is it a criminal problem for the police? A problem for the community to manage themselves? Or something we should turn to the council to help prevent? 🧐🤔
7. Vandalism in the community! Pupils built giant Jenga Towers before they were cruelly destroyed in front of them. This taught pupils how it feels to have something of value that others can take upon themselves to deface! 🖌🎨

After  the whopping 7 inputs over the course of the day – safe to say our P6 pupils are pretty clued up ! Thank you to all the organisations in the community for making this happen every year and to Mrs MacPherson for accompanying pupils today and playing the role of photographer to document the day! 

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Today our Primary 7s from both schools took the opportunity to have a little jaunt to Stranraer Academy where they got to get a feel for the building as well as participate in some lessons! Today they got to get stuck into some Home Economics with Miss Jamieson making cheese and ham toasties and Art & Design with Mrs Thompson where they made their own superheroes! 

This was a fantastic opportunity to start getting the P7 Leavers familiar with the layout of the building, some of the staff they will be encountering during their time there and the food available in the lunch hall! Safe to say – nobody was about to turn down some free hot food! 🍔There was talks of pizza, brownies and cheese toasties when they got back. 

The boys and girls had a fab time and are very excited for their next steps after summer! (Hopefully they are also still a bit sad about leaving us in all the excitement!) 

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Our fabulous partnership football team took part in the Sheuchan Fun Day football tournament this past Friday! This term, during their Friday evenings after school, many of the pupils have been participating in some football training with the wonderful Miss Agnew and felt ready to take on some tournaments together… 

Every single of them gave it their best on Friday, 110% effort! ⚽ Despite no wins – they had a blast and enjoyed getting to meet boys and girls from the different schools. I also heard there were half time tangerines🍊 and plenty of sunshine 🌞

An excellent way to round off the week…