Kirkcolm Primary School

Today we welcomed the lovely people from the Children’s Parliament, they have been doing work in developing what their priority issues are for their Children’s Human Rights Defenders program.

This means they are working closely with a few selected schools across Scotland to find out what issues matter the most to children across the country and we have been selected to participate in this due to our lovely Fallon’s work with Children’s Parliament in representing children across Scotland. 🙌

Throughout the course of the day we explored all of the Rights children have in, and which rights pupils felt were being respected or disrespected. 🤯

Pupils selected the right which they felt was the most important to them and explained their reasons. They went on to jazz up their chosen right as a GEM 💎 to demonstrate how important it is to them.

There was a wide range of topics that were up for discussion over the course of the day! Pupils hotly debated social media for under 16’s, the effects of vaping, disability access in Scotland… 🗣️

Meta Skills

Focusing Fergus

Collaborating Cora

Leading Li 

Communicating Cate 

Sense Making Samira 

Critical Thinking Chris 

Integrity Imani 

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All of them! 🤗🤩

Primary 1-4 took a wee wander up the village today to sing for all at the “Welcome Wednesday” at Kirkcolm Hub today.

After a blustery walk up, and once the adults had finished their bacon rolls, the children burst into song with some of their favourites from the recent Easter concert.  Safe to say, the performance was enjoyed by all the adults, and children!

Well done to our younger pupils for being such confident individuals.

Today all of P5-7 embarked to Green Valley to participate in the Cross Country competition with all the local schools. Unfortunately – as is usually the case for the Cross Country event – the weather was NOT on our sides! Pupils still managed to make the most of this however and gave it their all out there on the grass! 👟

No medals this year but super proud of the excellent effort each pupils made, they really showcased their endurance and resilience during this event and we are so proud of them! 🥹🏅

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Focusing Fergus 

Leading Li 

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Article 24 – Health, Water, Food & Environment 

Article 31 – Rest, Play, Culture and Arts 

A massive thank you to Niamh from Wigtownshire Rugby Club for delivering 4 Rugby session with pupils the second half of this term. It was been great seeing the boys and girls getting stuck in and muddy in the playing field in all types of weather and practising a new sport! Hopefully this has inspired some new hobbies for the pupils!? 

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Focusing Fergus 

Collaborating Cora 

Adapting Aleksander 

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Article 31 – Rest, Play, Culture and Arts 

On Thursday morning the pupils of Kirkcolm have been outside enjoying a big spring clean🧹, P5-7 went up to Bayveiw Terrace and P1-4 stayed litter picking in our playground. They also went on  fishers lane, and surprisingly picked up more litter than P5-7 🫢

On the downside 👎when we counted the litter we found out that there was more litter in the playground and that they barely found any down fishers lane.😬

So can you please keep our village and playground clean.🙏

By Ross & Paige (Digital Leaders!)

After weeks upon weeks of hard work, line learning, song singing and Mrs Morrison yapping about costume and props – we were finally able to show all the lovely mums and dads and grannies, grandads etc. the fruits of our labours! 

The pupils put on, not just 1, but 2(!!!) spectacular performances yesterday at 1:30pm and 7pm! Our School Sports Day themed play had the audience in fits and giggles as we explored the dynamics of competition parents, the horrors of the lost property box and trials and tribulations that come with visits to the local swimming pool (all tongue in cheek – of course!) 

We are so incredibly proud of the boys and girls of Kirkcolm Primary for the hard work they put into this! They really smashed it, particularly at the nighttime performance, and they never let us down. Thank you to all who attended and bought raffle tickets – we always make sure your pennies go on something special for the pupils. 

Here is a link to the performance on Youtube for anybody who wants a second watch or who couldn’t make it on the night! 

Reach for the sky

Only 2 more days until the Easter Holiday and these pupils have well and truly earned their break! 

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Focusing Fergus 

Creativity Cassidy 

Initiative Ivy 

Leading Li

Sense Making Samira 

Adapting Aleksander 

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Article 31 – Rest, Play, Culture and Arts 

Today, Kirkcolm school was filled with so many creative costumes and so much laughter🤭! Pupils were asked to dress as something beginning with the first letter of their name, and they certainly rose to the challenge! We had astronaut Andrew🧑‍🚀 , Orla the ostrich 🐦Aila the Amazon package 📦 Emilie the Eagle 🦅Lyle the lollipop man🍭 so many other hilarious costumes too! Staff couldn’t resist the chance to get stuck in with the fun as well. We had Batman Baillie, Cowboy Campbell, Mrs Morrison the Magician, Granny Gordon, Miss Agnew the athlete and Mrs Adams as Aldi… and together we all made for the most random collection of people and things🤪

After spending most of breakfast club time crying with laughter, we snapped some funny pictures to mark what we all agreed was “one of the best dress up days we’ve had” with some photos and celebrate all the effort and hard work that has clearly went into planning and making the costumes. We even had a community member comment on how inclusive our school was after observing a ‘gigantic chicken playing football’.. however it was in fact an eagle 😂😂 

A huge big thank you to everyone for getting into the spirit and making such an effort with their costumes! We hope that all our fun, and red nose sales has raised awareness for the wonderful charity Comic Relief and the hard work they do for children living in poverty!

Well done Team Kirkcolm! YouTube video link to all the fab costumes is here  📽️ 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5lbFdySHXU