Kirkcolm Primary School

Wow – what a performance this afternoon! P1-4 have been working very hard these past 10 weeks, learning about rhythm, beat, music and the tin whistle! Today they were able to show off all this hard work in a final performance to the P5-7 class! 

We were amazed at how those little hands managed to move over the holes of the tin whistle and create some good music to the tunes of Baby Shark and Ally Bally! A huge thank you to Helen from Ram Tam from delivering this with the class 🎶😀

Meta Skills

Focusing Fergus 

Creativity Cassidy 

Initiative Ivy 

Articles

Article 31 – Rest, Play, Culture and Arts 

Well done to Arran ,Ruby, Allyssa and Fallon (last minute stand in!) for their participation at the Rotary Quiz last night! The questions were tough but they gave an excellent effort – even if a win wasn’t in the cards for this year! 

Perhaps next year we will take it for Kirkcolm… 

Meta Skills:

Focusing Fergus

Collaborating Cora

Communicating Cate

Sense Making Samira

Wowowow! A huge well done to our very own Primary 5 – Rory Calvert. Who attended the Galloway Music Festival last week and managed to win first place in the Primary 4-5 Prose Reading!

This was a fantastic achievement, and having seen his score card, I can assure you he scored extremely highly and was commended for his excellent reading efforts. No surprises there from such a literacy super star! 

Meta Skills

Leading Li 

Focusing Fergus 

Articles

Article 31 – Rest, Play, Culture and Arts 

This was a lovely and soothing Friday afternoon going to the Ryan Centre with our friends from Leswalt to listen to a clarinet quartet! Music for All is a fantastic input which can inspire pupils about the wide variety of talents these lovely musical individuals have! 

We heard animal impersonations, Toy Story renditions, We Don’t Talk About Bruno and the magic of a Clarinet getting pulled apart – but somehow still playable!? 

Thank you to the Team who allow this to happen every year for pupils – it is a joy to witness 🎼🎵🎶

Meta Skills

Focusing Fergus 

Creativity Cassidy 

Curiosity Carlos 

Articles

Article 31 – Rest, Play, Culture and Arts 

Meta Skills:

Curiosity Carlos

Collaborating Cora

Communicating cate

Focusing Fergus

Articles:

Article 28 – Access to Education

Article 29 – Aims of Education

This week has been Science Week Scotland! Although we are very busy little bees right now preparing for our School Show Performance – we couldn’t miss an opportunity to invite all the special people around us into the school to celebrate Science with us with some experiments! 🔬🧪🔍

Station 1: Building Bridges! 🌉

Mrs Adams manned the bridge building station in the hall – parents and pupils were challenge to construct a bridge out of different materials (such as spaghetti, marshmallows, paper, tin foil… etc.) and this bridge had to support a 1kg weight on top of it! This was a fantastic challenge to get people thinking and seeing if they can reinforce their structures to support that weight! 

Station 2: Sailing Boat! ⛵

Miss Agnew led a boat building station in her class – the challenge was to construct a boat that could; 

a. Float! 

b. Hold the most marbles while continuing (!) to float! 

They were given materials like tinfoil, straws, paper etc. to try and complete this challenge! ⚓

Station 3: Microbits 💻

The tech experts – Paige and Ross, digtal leader extraordinaries – led a programming MicroBits session in the P5-7 classroom. This gave pupils and parents a chance to program their MicroBits to undertake a variety of different jobs. This included jobs like; sunshine sensors, thermometers and compasses! ☀️🧭🌡️

Station 4: Fizzy Hands! 👐💥

We got to grips with some chemical experiments – seeing what would happen if we mixed up some common household items and the reaction that takes place from it! We got to see first hand the rather explosive outcome that took place! (thankfully we conducted this outside for minimal mess!) 

Overall it was a fantastic afternoon and we are so grateful for everyone who took time out of their day to come in and see us! We look forward to seeing you all again very soon for our yearly drama performance! 🎭

Meta Skills 

Curiosity Carlos 

Collaborating Cora 

Focusing Fergus 

Communicating Cate 

Articles

Article 28 – Right to Education 

Article 29 – Goals of Education 

We were very proud of our two confident individuals, Henry and Fallon last night.  They stepped on the stage at the Ryan centre, in front of a packed audience and recited their Scots poetry word perfect, with great expression.  It was a great evening of entertainment and both Henry and Fallon represented our school so very well.

We were delighted when the results were announced and Fallon was placed in 1st place for all the schools in the Stranraer area for her recitation of “The Moosie’s Prayer”.  She really gave it her all and was awarded an amazing 40 out of 40 for her faultless delivery! It was a very well deserved win!🤩

Well done to both our stars! 👏👏👏

Our netball team had their first outing last night at the inter-school, mixed netball league.  After school they all headed to the Ryan Centre to play against other local schools.

Many thanks must go to our coach, Mrs Meriel Dougan who is taking the after school club and supported them to a win at the netball league.  Thank you also to Rachael from our partnership school of Leswalt who came along and joined in to help our team from Kirkcolm.

Great teamwork!

UNCRC Article 15 – Every child has the right to meet with others and join groups.
Collaboration (Meta-Skill) – Working positively with others to achieve shared goals.
SHANARRI (Active & Included) – Encouraging every child to take part and feel valued as part of the team.