Elspeth Hall from the D&G STEM team visited school today to provide the pupils with a fun, hands-on maths workshops – and they certainly weren’t disappointed! The infant class has their session this morning and the upper class went this … Continue reading →

Today P5-7 took part in a live Coding Session and got their first experience using the Microbit! A Microbit is a small pocket sized computer developed by the BBC, it has a number of amazing tiny outputs all over it … Continue reading →

Love a bit of alliteration..! What an amazing day we have had today at Kirkcolm, we have been lucky enough to partake in an afternoon of farming innovation and fun on a glorious sunny autumn day! This is all thanks … Continue reading →

We were visited today by Frances Wallace from ‘Make It Happen’ who came to explain to the pupils about a competition that her company is running to design an app. The pupils had a think about what they use apps … Continue reading →

Digital Leaders from Kirkcolm, Leswalt and Portpatrick came together for a training session today. Our Capable Team Getting To Grips With Email                   The children covered a lot of areas as part … Continue reading →

Today was meant to be our day of Harvest Festival Fun from our potatoes given to us by the kind people of the Dandelion Project! Pupils made hard efforts at growing these potatoes both at home and in school and … Continue reading →

Today the boys and girls of Kirkcolm got a little visit and a chat from the Community Safety Team for the West of Dumfries and Galloway! The Safety Officers took this opportunity to remind pupils about how they can stay … Continue reading →

Finally managed to pin down this crazy wee crew… Phew! The pupils and staff here at Kirkcolm are delighted to welcome our new precious wee P1’s that started with us at the beginning of the term! We have got James, … Continue reading →

On Monday this week, we were very lucky to have Neve from Wigtownshire Rugby Club coming in to coach the pupils of P5-7 in some rugby skills! Neve taught us some new rugby skills and got us developing our throwing … Continue reading →

Starting off our new school year, we are pleased to announce we have been awarded our RSPB Wild Challenge Silver Award.  This is as a result of all the hard work of our pupils in promoting biodiversity in our school … Continue reading →