Kirkcolm Primary School

This morning we welcomed a visit from Norval Dampney from Incredible Edible into the school grounds! Many moons ago Norval worked with the upper school class to plant some trees creating a fruit orchard in the back corner of the school playground (clear of the football goals – thankfully!) and she has been working with us ever since to look after and maintain our little fledgling trees! 

Today pupils went out and used soaked cardboard to help mulch the existing trees as well as assess them for any damage caused during the storm and give them a good pruning. Norval also kindly brought us 3 new trees to plant to boys and girls were hard at work digging some holes for these! 

Thank you again to Norval for helping guide us in this! 

…The results are in and announced! 🎉

Huge well done to the effort from all of the pupils in the school – you all never fail to impress us when it comes to the Burns Day efforts! A huge thank you to Wilma Benson (who apparently cannot escape us) for returning to Kirkcolm to judge the handwriting, poetry and artwork. Wilma knew how hard a job it would be but nothing could have prepared her for this and she was very impressed with the effort from all pupils. 

What a wonderful opportunity to celebrate all this hard work at our Burns Assembly and we hope you enjoyed seeing all the lovely artwork and handwriting examples from the pupils as well as hearing the poems from the winners! 🏆

The results are follows… 

Kirkcolm Primary School Burns Results 2025

Class 1

Poem – Wee Red Motor

Recitation winners:

1. Jamie

2. Kendall

3. Frankie

Illustration winners:

1. Frankie

Handwriting winners:

1. Arryn

Class 2

Poem – The Elephant

Recitation winners:

1. Orla

2. Harlow

3. Parker

Illustration winners:

1. Parker

Handwriting winners:

1. Harlow

Class 3

Poem – The Circus

Recitation winners:

1. Henry

2. Sally

3. Ewan

Illustration winners:

1. Ewan

2. James

Handwriting winners:

1. Sally

2. Scott

Class 4

Poem – Magic Pizza

Recitation winners:

1. Ross

2. Rory

3. Joey

Illustration winners:

1. Rory

Handwriting winners:

1. Freddie

Class 5

Poem – Wee Freenly Dug

Recitation winners:

1. Fallon

2. Callum

3. Paige

Illustration winners:

1. Paige

Handwriting winners:

1. Callum

Class 6

Poem – A Dug a Dug

Recitation winners:

1. Lyle

2. Arran

3. Allyssa

Illustration winners:

1. Ruby

Handwriting winners:

1. Lyle

Class 7

Poem – Anything by Burns

Recitation winners:

1. Phoebe & Ivan (joint 1st)

2. Archie

3. Brooke

Illustration winners:

1. Alistair

Handwriting winners:

1. Ivan

It is that time of year again where we send our pupils off for a yummy lunch and a presentation talk at the North West Castle. Archie and Hayden were selected this year to represent Kirkcolm at The Rotary Lunch along with their Leswalt friends. Pupils sat down to a tasty treat of fish and chips and listened to Mr Alec Ross discuss the history of Rabbie Burns and ‘Tae a Mouse’. The boys had a smashing time, they found it really interesting and were grateful for the opportunity! 

Our Gardening club, led by Mrs Richardson, recently received some funding from the Galloway Association of Glasgow. This has went towards purchasing new protective aprons for the pupils to wear to save their clothing from getting muddy during all of their gardening escapades! The burgundy aprons match our school uniform and feature the gardening club logo.  All pupils in the school will benefit from this as there is a class set of 20 aprons, which can be used during any muddy class activities too!

A huge thanks to Mrs Dougan for her time in completing the funding application – pupils are already looking forward to donning their aprons and getting stuck in!

See below for a picture of some pupils modelling our new aprons –

Since the Red weather warning sadly put a stop to our Rabbie’ Burns celebrations planned for Friday, but we had the chance to make up for it today! Michelle got the haggis, neeps and tatties on the go and since the P7’s had done such a good job and put a lot of effort into their speeches, we had a little informal gathering where we got to hear our Toast to the Lads and Toast to the Lassies! 🎉

Fallon said the Selkirk Grace and Ivan learned Address to the Haggis for his Burns poetry recitation.   He kindly stood up and gave us the traditional address before we dished up the goods (along with some yummy ice cream, shortbread and toffee sauce!) .  We all  sat down to get stuck in! 😋

We hope to see you all Friday afternoon to continue the Scottish spirit as we gather together for an assembly to admire the hard work of the pupils and announce the winners of the Burns tasks…

Here are some photos of the Kirkcolm troops filling themselves up!

Today P5-7 had a visit from a familiar face in the form of Matthew Robinson – here to deliver their hard earned certificates from their participation and completion of their Living Life to the Full input which explored big emotions and how to deal with issues surrounding feelings and self esteem! 

We loved having Matthew back in for this short spell and we look forward to welcoming him back in term 4 to deliver an input on transition! 

We are very happy to welcome back Neve from Wigtownshire Rugby Club to our rather muddy playing field to do another 4 week input of rugby games with the pupils! The boys and girls amazed me today with how quickly they go stuck into the games and seemed to have zero issues with getting down and mucky outside…

Pupils had a smashing afternoon outside and hopefully this has inspired some others to go along on a Sunday and join in the rugby fun! 🏉😁🏉

Some new tech has arrived at Kirkcolm in the form of 3 new laptops! 💻💻💻

This is the first of some of the new technology that has been bought for the pupils at the school using the money raised by the kind donations from various people across the community through the fund raising efforts of the parent council. 

Boys and girls are over the moon with them and have gotten stuck into using them straight away! Many comments and exclamations of awe over ‘how fast they are’ and ‘I’m logged in already!!’ has made their week! 🙌🙌🙌

We are incredibly grateful for all this community does for us here at Kirkcolm Primary! 😊

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! 🎉