Kirkcolm Primary School

After an early start this morning we arrived at Ernespie and enjoyed a little snack to fill us with energy from our day of fun ahead! We split into groups and all headed to different activities. Miss D and her gang headed on a farm tour first, the tour guide was extremely impressed with all of their farming chat and even managed to teach her a thing or two about calves and cows!

Miss McMorran and her troops headed to the soft play first where they unleashed their inner toddler! Mrs MacPherson and her wee crew headed into the animal petting where they met Gizmo, Gus, Ringo and Oreo the little guinea pigs along with ducks, rabbits emus, goats and chickens! (Much to her delight we almost left Orla with the other bunnies) The combine shed was also a big hit with our farming dafties!
After rotating through the different activities we met for lunch and a wee catch up before heading outdoors with our ice lollies for some fun in the sun – thank you so much Mrs Baillie

The bus was a lot quieter on the way home, plenty of sleepy heads after a fun- filled day of banter and laughs!

Mrs MacPherson, Miss Gordon and Miss McAuley had the very difficult job identifying 1st, 2nd and 3rd place in each of our sports day races, and believe me some of the races were so close it was like splitting hairs! 🥇🏃‍♂️ Children ended the day covered in stickers but most importantly wearing a smile on their little faces! 

After much anticipation.. THE RESULTS ARE IN.. 

Race Year

SPRINT P 1 all 1st Orla 2nd Parker 3rd Harlow

SPRINT P 2 all 1st Henry 2nd Vlad 3rd Sally

SPRINT P 3 all 1st Freddie 2nd Ian 3rd Joey

SPRINT P 4 all 1st Paige 2nd Callum 3rd Cameron

SPRINT P 5 all 1st Lyle 2nd Sophie 3rd Ruby

SPRINT P 6 all 1st Ivan 2nd Phoebe 3rd Archie

SPRINT P 7 all 1st Jack 2nd Alfie 3rd Danny

SKIPPING P 1 all 1st Parker 2nd Harlow 3rd Orla

SKIPPING P 2 all 1st Sally 2nd Henry 3rd James

SKIPPING P 3 all 1st Gregor 2nd Joey 3rd Ross

SKIPPING P 4 all 1st Callum 2nd Paige 3rd Jessica

SKIPPING P 5 all 1st Lyle 2nd Sophie 3rd Arran

SKIPPING P 6 all 1st Ivan 2nd Archie 3rd Rebecca

SKIPPING P 7 all 1st Sally 2nd Danny 3rd Lydia

SACK P 1 all 1st Harlow/Orla/Parker

SACK P 2 all 1st Ewan 2nd Sally 3rd Henry

SACK P 3 all 1st Ian 2nd Joey 3rd Freddie

SACK P 4 all 1st Cameron 2nd Callum 3rd Paige

SACK P 5 all 1st Lyle 2nd Arran 3rd Ruby/ Sophie

SACK P 6 all 1st Phoebe 2nd Alistair 3rd Ivan

SACK P 7 all 1st Sally 2nd Danny 3rd Jack

EGG & SPOON P 1 all 1st Harlow/Orla/Parker

EGG & SPOON P 2 all 1st Henry 2nd Sally 3rd Ewan

EGG & SPOON P 3 all 1st Joey 2nd Rory 3rd Ross

EGG & SPOON P 4 all 1st Paige 2nd Jessica 3rd Cameron/Callum

EGG & SPOON P 5 all 1st Ruby 2nd Arran 3rd Lyle

EGG & SPOON P 6 all 1st Phoebe 2nd Ivan 3rd Archie

EGG & SPOON P 7 all 1st Danny 2nd Sally/Lydia 3rd Charlie

THROWING P 1 all 1st Parker 2nd Harlow 3rd Orla

THROWING P 2 all 1st Vlad 2nd Sally 3rd James

THROWING P 3 all 1st Freddie 2nd Gregor 3rd Robert

THROWING P 4 all 1st Paige 2nd Callum 3rd Cameron

THROWING P 5 all 1st Arran 2nd Lyle 3rd Ruby

THROWING P 6 all 1st Hayden 2nd Ivan 3rd Archie

THROWING P 7 all 1st Alfie 2nd Charlie/ Jack 3rd Danny

OBSTACLE P 1 all 1st Parker 2nd Harlow/Orla

OBSTACLE P 2 all 1st Vlad 2nd Henry 3rd Sally

OBSTACLE P 3 all 1st Joey 2nd Gregor 3rd Ian

OBSTACLE P 4 all 1st Paige 2nd Cameron/ Callum 3rd Jessica

OBSTACLE P 5 all 1st Lyle 2nd Sophie 3rd Ruby

OBSTACLE P 6 all 1st Ivan 2nd Phoebe 3rd Archie

OBSTACLE P 7 all 1st Danny 2nd Sally 3rd Alfie

DISTANCE P 1 all 1st Orla 2nd Parker 3rd Harlow

DISTANCE P 2 all 1st Sally 2nd Ewan 3rd Henry

DISTANCE P 3 all 1st Ian 2nd Freddie/Joey

DISTANCE P 4 all 1st Paige 2nd Rebecca 3rd Cameron/Callum

DISTANCE P 5 all 1st Lyle 2nd Arran 3rd Ruby

DISTANCE P 6 all 1st Ivan 2nd Phoebe 3rd Archie/Alistair

DISTANCE P 7 all 1st Alfie 2nd Jack 3rd Danny

Mums’ Race WINNER – Louise Cambridge 
Dads’ Race WINNER – Jamie Adams 

We are very much looking forward to having our new Primary 1 pupils starting in school . 

And, thanks to the digital skills of Mrs Mc Harg and the House captains we have an amazing  electronic book that will help explain more about Kirkcolm Primary.  It is just so good we had to share it with all of our parents. 

Click on the link here and I am sure you will be impressed with the information, photographs and videos – all about life at Kirkcolm Primary.

After taking part in a verification assessment yesterday, we are delighted to announce we have been awarded the new Digital Schools Scotland Accreditation.

Portpatrick, Kirkcolm and Leswalt are the first schools in Dumfries and Galloway to achieve this recognition for our ongoing commitment to digital technology learning and teaching.

Have a read of the report to see for yourself all the excellent work which has been recognised –

Dumfries & Galloway – Kirkcolm, Leswalt and Portpatrick Schools Validation Report 11.06.24 (1).pdf

UNCRC Rights of the Child – 28 Access to Education, 29 – Aims of Education

This morning we had a lovely visit from two of the community wardens who came to share some really exciting news! A few months back now the boys and girls were tasked with the job of creating posters for our local community by Andrew Hay. Today we got to see some of posters which had been professionally made, complete with cable ties to display in our lovely, wee village to help to keep it that way and litter free! 🚮 🚯

We were taken out into the playground and shown some of the lucky ones’ posters and then together we tied up the first of many right outside the school. The two wardens suggested we give out some extra homework (don’t worry its fun) to get our steps in and see who can find all of the posters in the community.. no prizes for finding Paige’s one though!! 📌 🚶‍♀️

Well done to all of the boys and girls of Kirkcolm Primary for being responsible citizens and effective contributors to our wee village and a huge thank you to Andrew Hay and the community wardens for bringing our fabulous deigns to life and displaying them for the world (or at least Kirkcolm’s visitors) to see!🌎

Article 13 – The right o have a voice and share our thoughts freely!

Our Primary 6 pupils headed off to Stair Park today to participate in Operation Safety – a whole day session involving different workshops provided by various agencies, including the emergency services.

Pupils had inputs from –

• Police Scotland, learning about drug and alcohol awareness and vandalism
• Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, learning about home safety
• Youth Work on internet safety
• Coastguard on water safety
• Scottish Ambulance Service on First Aid
• Community Safety Team, learning about anti-social behaviour
• and SP Energy Networks, learning about electrical safety

They learned a range of life skills to help keep them safe and healthy and had a brilliant time! Thank-you to everyone who helped to organise this very worthwhile day!

UNCRC Article 2 – Survival; Article 16 – Protection of Privacy; Article 17 – Access to Information; and Article 33 – Harmful Drugs