Kirkcolm Primary School

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! 🎉

The boys and girls changed into their festive finery this afternoon for our annual Christmas Party, all organise by our very able House Captains, Ivan and Phoebe. We played games including Christmas Corners, Musical Bumps and a Balloon Race in teams; there was LOTS of dancing and there was even an appearance from Santa himself, who gave each child in the school a personalised winter hat.

We had a great afternoon! A huge thank-you to our House Captains for a fun-filled festive afternoon and to Santa for taking time out of his busy schedule at this time of year to visit us.

On the 12.19.24 Leswalt primary school held a play at Leswalt hall. The Leswalt show felt like a once in a life opportunity, the costumes had so much detail. Kirkcolm was invited over at the hall and after wards they played at their school playground. Thank you for inviting Kirkcolm primary school to your school play!

by, Alistair swan and Lyle

Huge congratulations to our P6 and P7 boys; Arran & Ivan! These pair ahieved some success last week at the Badminton competition at the Ryan Centre. Arran came third in the P6 heats and Ivan secured 1st place in the P7 heats which means both boys will go on to compete in the Wigtownshire competition! 

Hopefully this sporty duo can smash it out the park again! 

PC Mc Gregor paid a visit to Kirkcolm Primary today to collect all the donations from the children for their Police Scotland Youth Volunteers Christmas appeal.

The boys and girls had brought in lots of items such as pasta, beans, biscuits and rice. These items will be made up into mini hampers and distributed amongst elderly people in the community.

The photograph shows the Eco Committee handing over the goodies to PC Mc Gregor.  Well done to all at Kirkcolm Primary for thinking of others at this time of year.