Kirkcolm Primary School

As part of both schools ongoing work with The Children’s Parliament – Both Fallon (Kirkcolm) and Ewan (Leswalt) were selected to represent children’s voices and views at  the Scottish Government base at Atlantic Quay in Glasgow.  Fallon and Ewan and have been doing ongoing work with The Children’s Human Right Defenders. This has meant many video calls and a whole lot of information for them both to absorb and contribute to before presenting their hard work. This culminated in a Residential Trip last week, escorted up by Mrs Baillie herself.  They stayed near Edinburgh, and went from the Sunday morning until Tuesday evening.  There were 7 children representing the whole of Scotland at this residential – and two of them were ours!  Fallon and Ewan did us very proud – they were impeccably behaved, confident and articulate individuals.

Here is Fallon’s account of their days away – 

Today was the final session and a wrap on the work Mr Robinson has been doing with the boys and girls in the upper primary class. This term, the sessions have been focused on transition (with the Primary 7 pupils in mind given their big move up to the academy) but all the pupils have really benefitted from this over the term! 

Matthew has done some fantastic games with the pupils getting them to talk about their anxieties and how they deal with them when it comes to issues surrounding change and we have loved having him in class! Hopefully this isn’t the last time he comes to us for a session and there are many more inputs from him in the future! 😁

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The kids of the Netball Club would like to thank Parent Council for kindly buying us two sets of new bibs to play in. We very much appreciate your support (and it has made training a whole lot easier! 😅 )

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– Meriel 😊

A big congratulations to Henry Wilson who took part in the Water, Wheels and Wellbeing Festival competition and managed to win himself a prize! Henry filled out a wellbeing timetable and recorded all the activities he did over a span of a few days. This was then entered into a prize draw and anybody present at the Festival over the weekend was in with a chance of winning! 

Well done Henry – we hope you are chuffed with your new water bottle and thank you to Janet from Creative Stranraer for hosting the festival and getting us involved! 

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Today in forest schools we sought some shelter from the sprinklings of rain and we build some shelters! The P1-4 banded together as one giant resourceful group and create a huge den for them all to hide inside as we walked down! 

P5-7 had differing ideas so flanked off into 2 separate groups in a bid to execute these (one down a hole, the other against a tree…) This was also a prime opportunity to break out the saws and try and cut some wood to help shape our dens! (thank goodness for anti cut gloves…)🪓🌳

What a fab day spent outside. We are excited to see what Richard has in store for us in our final week 🤔🤗🐾

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Smashed another Sports Day on this sunny June afternoon! 😎☀🌞 

Today pupils got ready today for their annual Sports Day competition – we thankfully managed to select a date where the sun was shining and it wasn’t too warm so that the boys and girls weren’t hanging by a thread in the heat! 🥵

The day went by as smooth as ever and all the boys and girls gave it their best shot! It is lovely to see both the competitive nature of some pupils but also just the fun they have when they take part and the laughs too! Everyone had a fantastic sport day experience and we are proud of them all. ♥🥇🥈🥉

Excited to see how this effects our already very close House Points and who manages to secure Sports Champion boy and girl this year!? All will be revealed at the Closing Ceremony. 🏆🤔🤐

Results will be posted soon… Here are some cute action shots for now! 

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This week for Forest Schools – we explored some art using nature! Both classes had a very wide selection of cut offs to get their hands stuck in and created some very interesting 3D art work pieces with them! 

Miss Douglas’s class worked in 2 teams to create a house (mansion apparently?) and a tree! This was actually a slightly different outcome then the nemo and lighthouse they set out to do! Mrs Morrison’s class split into 3 groups and created a nest, bed and bunker using the branches. 

Another successful week outside! Thanks again for Richard for his fab ideas! 

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Our football team were playing again on Friday after school and managed to win 3 of their games, out of 5 played!

Well done team –  look how chuffed they were!

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Today, as part of their ongoing transition work, the nursery came up and joined P1-4 for a snack and play session! This meant P1-4 got to sneak outside and play with some of their soon-to-be new classmates! This is a great chance to familiarise the little nursery people with the school and staff! 😁

This week saw the final session of Bikeability for our P6/7’s. Pupils had a great time working with Mike and learned all about proper bike safety. This is a fantastic input for our pupils are a tad more rurally based so may depend on getting around via bike more than others! 🦺

Pupils developed skills in riding their bike, caring and looking after their bike and themselves and manoeuvring/riding safely through villages and roads, understanding signals and finally the rules of the road.  As a team they went a bike run out on the roads from Kirkcolm – and they covered over 5 miles together! 

This has seemed to really inspire some bike riding in pupils and I have noticed a lot more bikes parked at the door! 🚲🚲🚲

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