June 24, 2025
by Miss Douglas
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June 23, 2025
by Mrs Morrison
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A Very Zen Afternoon!
Today we welcomed Ashley (Arran’s mum!) in to tell us all about Buddhism! Ashley actually grew up in a household where Buddhism is practised and she has been all around the world and in her travels has visited some Buddhist Monastery’s so she had some excellent first hand information and artefacts for us all to learn about!
It was extremely interesting to hear all the diverse and niche knowledge that we would not be able to access online ourselves and listening to her own personal recounts of her time in Mongolia and Japan! We learn about looked at Mala (prayer beads), Katas (prayer shawls that can be blessed by a monk) and all the ways we could generate some good karma in Buddhism!
The boys and girls had a low of questions for Ashley and she did a fab job at answering them. We are so grateful she took the time out of her day for us!
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Article 14 – Freedom of Thought, Belief and Religion
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June 23, 2025
by Mrs Morrison
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An Outdoor Treat!
As promised, Richard remembered us and arrived back this morning for some marshmallow toasting fun!
Richard got the fire going for us and the boys and girls has their marshmallows speared ready for some toasting (and perhaps a bit of melted chocolate?!)
A huge thank you to Richard for this, it was a really special way to start the week. 🍫🔥♥
June 16, 2025
by Mrs Morrison
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Week 6 of Forest Schools – Stir Fry!
Our final week of Forest Schools has finally came upon us! We are so grateful to Richard for these past 6 weeks and all the fun things we have gotten up to together in all sorts of weather climates!
This week, we got the fire going (Deepest apologies if your child comes home smelling of smoke!) and we got to work on our stir fry! Both classes banded together for this and prepped the vegetables while we waited for the fire to get hot enough to cook the chicken 🔥🍗🥕🌶 As well as having the stir fry on offer, pupils also had stations where they could strip the bark from the wood and chop wood into kindling!🪓 Thankfully all fingers remain on hands 🤝🏼
Richard has actually very kindly agreed to possibly pop back to us next week to toast some marshmallows so watch this space for a special bonus Forest Schools!
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Article 6 – Life, Survival & Development
Article 17 – Access to Information
Article 24 – Health, Food, Water & Environment
June 16, 2025
by Mrs Morrison
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A Monday Morning Musical Treat
Wow! What an entertaining treat for us this Monday morning! We were able to welcome the lovely folk of the Lighthouse Musicians into the hall – we had… Gillian on piano, Helen on the Violin and John on the Bagpipes and the small pipes! They serenaded our morning with a combination of some Traditional Scottish songs mixed in with some Disney tunes and more modern Taylor Swift numbers! 🎷🎹🎻
Gillian also gave the boys and girls opportunities to ask any questions about what a concert is like and they told us how we would get ourselves prepped for attending a concert. 🎤
This was a great opportunity for teachers to flex their vocal cords to some Love Story 💕and for the pupils to practise clapping along to the tunes! Thanks for coming in and we hope to welcome you back soon! 🎼
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Article 31 – Rest, Play & Culture
June 13, 2025
by Miss Douglas
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Driving Trains and Building Brains – James Neil’s Careers in the Community Assembly





June 13, 2025
by Mrs Morrison
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Fallon and Ewan Go To Parliament!
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 –
- On our way
- Percy Pig stop
- Where we stayed
- Getting to know each other
- Preparing artwork
- Practising our speeches
- Lunch!
- The kitchen
- Cards game
- Pool
- Talking to members of the government
- Finished!
- Fish supper in Girvan
- Almost home
All of them!
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June 12, 2025
by Mrs Morrison
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Final Visit With Matthew Robinson
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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Article 6 – Life, Survival & Development
June 9, 2025
by Mrs Morrison
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New Netball Bibs!
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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 😊
June 9, 2025
by Mrs Morrison
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Well Done Henry!
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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Article 6 – Life, Survival & Development
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