Kirkcolm Primary School

Today P5-7 were lucky enough to be the first to receive an input today from Kelsey and Natalie from Alzheimer’s Scotland. They delivered an input called S.T.A.R.S with the boys and girls which all got them thinking about their brains and how amazing they can be!

We started off by learning some impressive brain facts; such as how octopus have 9 brains and jellyfish sadly have no brains, how brains grow until you’re 25 and how the brain has 83 billion neurons whizzing about in there.

We discussed the different ways we can look after our brain linked with the S.T.A.R.S acronym; 

S – Spending time with family and friends (not too much time alone!) 👩👨🏽‍🦱🧒🏼

T – Tucking into healthy food (we all know what to eat to make sure we stay healthy and active!) 🥗🥪🧀🥘

A – being Active and healthy! (making sure we keep moving and look after our body) 🏃🏼‍♂️🤸🏼‍♀️🏋🏽‍♀️

R – Rest and relaxation (you have to listen to your brain and body and rest them properly) 🛏📚

S – Safety! Wearing helmets and doing things to keep your heads and brains within them safe! ⛑

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Ansley from Kirkcolm Hub popped into school this morning to announce the winners of the Easter colouring in competition that was run before the holidays. Freddie was named victorious in P1-4 and Ivan in P5-7. Both received a chocolate Easter egg for their efforts – and were delighted! Thanks to Ansley for thinking of the school for this competition.

After prior years struggles – it was clear the weather Gods were smiling down on us this year from the annual Stranraer Cross Country event! 🌞 Kindly and extremely well organised by Alison Murray, this event takes place in our summer term at Greenvalley Golf Academy where pupils compete against peers from other schools in a P5, P6 and P7 race! 

This is a great opportunity to promote running and fitness and it’s a fantastic opportunity to get pupils to mingle with pupils from other schools. The pupils who ran did an excellent job and gave it their all and we are so proud of them! 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️💨

A special well done to Ivan Turtle who managed to secure 3rd place in the P7 boys race! 🥉

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Today, armed with litter-pickers and bin bags the pupils of Kirkcolm Primary decided to give their community a spring clean!

In groups they headed round the village to see what they could spot and tidy up.  The had some fun finds!  There were items of clothing and wiring tubing but nothing too special and no treasure! Groups divided off with the littlest of us tackling the playground, the middle the beach and the eldest trekking up into the village! 

Pupils managed to fill 2 huge bags full by the end! All and all, it was a successful morning out and about doing their bit for the community and environment!

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As a follow up from their Nutritionist Visit last week, P3,4 and 5 got left a big ole box of veggies to get stuck into some soup making with Mrs McPherson this afternoon! 🍵 They had some lovely fresh turnips, onions, leeks, potatoes and carrots to fling into their soup. Pupils really enjoyed this session and some of the older (more trusted ones!) got to get involved in some of the veg chopping! 🥕🥔🧅🥬

Here are some photos of the fruits of the labours! A tasty job well done! ✅

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Wow – what a special day we have had here at Kirkcolm Primary School promoting and raising money for Comic Relief! The House Captains, Ivan and Phoebe, have been hard at work organising today’s events!

Boys and girls came dressed in non-uniform and flashing their little pops of red to show their support for Comic Relief. We started the day off trying on our noses and learning about some of the fantastic work the people of Comic Relief do with their raised money to help children all over the world.💰🔴🌎

We ended the day with a talent show and my, oh my – what a talented bunch we have here! We were so proud of all the boys and girls who went up on the stage and blown away with all the hard work they had clearly put into each of their acts! We had singing, acting, instruments, jokes and miming?! 🎤

Our judges, Mary Buchanan and Ann Adams had a tough old decision ahead of them but they ultimately decided that every pupil deserved a prize for all their hard work! 🏆

Hayden, Emilie, Bryleigh, Ross, Alistair, Arran and Callum secured a joint third place.

Orla and Rory gained joint second place.

Finally, Henry Wilson stole the show with first place! 

And, every single member of Kirkcolm Primary school showed what talent the school had by giving the audience a sneaky peak of the school show by singing 2 songs from it.  We are all looking forward to seeing everyone perform next week!

Well done boys and girls – we are all so proud of you all!

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Today P3,4 and 5 got a visit this afternoon from a nutritionist who came to speak to the children about different types of fruit and vegetables! They started the afternoon with flashcards to see how many obscure and common veggies and fruits that the pupils knew already! These ranged from courgettes to okras! 🍉🍓🍊🥝🥥🥭

After this pupils got dressed up in their chef gear and prepped to chop and try a wide variety of fruit! For example, there was dragon fruit, pineapples and papayas! They learned about how to clean up properly and prep before handling food – it was a great afternoon! 👨🏻‍🍳

-Co-written by Fallon (P5) 

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