Kirkcolm Primary School

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

Its that time of the year again… the annual Kirkcolm Primary Mini Walk – and what a cracking afternoon of weather we had too, the sun was shining, the kids were smiling and most importantly the vibes were good! 🌞

The little class set off first, getting a slight head start (not that they needed it) followed closely behind by the older class. They tore up through the village, tackling the dreaded hill before making their way around the Corsewall route, finishing with a jaunt up Fishers Lane and along the Scar. Some ran, some jogged and some took it easy with a lovely walk, taking in the fabulous views – but everyone took part and that what counts! 🙂 🏃‍♀️ 🏃‍♂️ 

Many parents and friends of the school came to join in and help with this event, walking with their little person, marshalling the route and cheering everyone on! We had some four-legged friends and even had our youngest ever competitor join the race – little James Morrison 👶

As the boys and girls made it around the course they were met with smiles from the marshals and a rewarding ice-lolly from Sara (these went down a treat) followed by a certificate and medal organised by the parent council at the finishing line! 🏅

At the finishing line Miss McMorran and Sheila McGrory had the very difficult job of keeping note of the times and this year there were some great ones!! But with an absolutely outstanding time, this year’s winner was no other than… Mr Ivan Turtle!! 👏The results are as follows:

Boys
1st – Ivan (P6) – 41:21

2^nd Freddie (P3)- 47:05

3^rd Ian (P3)- 47:49

Girls

1^st – Phoebe (P6) – 53:47

2^nd – Lydia (P7) + Sally D(P7) -57:45

3^rd – Sally W (P2) – 61:01

A huge thank you to our Parent Council for all of the time and effort that went into organising the school fundraiser event; all our fabulous marshals for their words of encouragement; the parents and friends of the school who took parent and anyone who kindly donated to the event, we can’t thank you enough for your support 🙂

A massive well done to all of the boys and girls for taking part in the walk/jog/run – you can take 2 days off now as a reward for your efforts! 😂 Same again next year? 

Our wonderful gardening club, headed up by the fantastic Mrs Richardson, introduced chickens to the school garden yesterday. Don’t worry, our feathered friends are not running around the playground freely – Mrs Richardson received some funding to purchase a chick coop, and some kind community volunteers (Mark & Dave) offered to build it for us.

We now have a total of 4 chickens in the school garden and, only 1 day in, we have already collected 3 eggs! We plan to setup a rota to ensure that the chickens are looked after, including an egg collection rota. The eggs will be sold as a little enterprise project, with the money going towards the cost of feeding and caring for the chickens.

We are running a competition to name our new chickens – watch this space! Also, if you have any spare egg boxes at home, please send them into the school. Thank-you!

Here is a run down of what our wonderful garden volunteers have been up to after school and at weekends. Thank you to Mrs Richardson for leading them all and her hard work in this.

18 April  – What a lovely evening for gardening club, we planted our sunflower seeds and started weeding, in-between exploring the new chicken hut!

20 April – A great day was had  building the school chicken run and coop along with gardening. We had a lovely team of parent helpers and invaluable help from locals Mark and Dave.. we couldn’t of done it without you, thank you to everyone

24 April – The weather was ideal for gardening club today .. we split in to groups and finished off what the school started in the afternoon. This was checking on all the hedgerow plants that were planted nearly 2 years ago. We put a cardboard base around them ( to stop weeds etc) then mulched them my adding cut grass on to the cardboard. This was very popular!

Miss Douglas and Primary 1-4 had a real life game of “guess who” today. 

This afternoon the class were set the task of working in groups to describe people in class and the others had to guess who was who.   This was part of their science learning and teaching all about physical attributes.  BUT, without telling the class the REAL Miss Douglas left the classroom and was replaced by the OTHER Miss Douglas – her identical twin sister!  The other Miss Douglas is also a Primary teacher and was talking the class for this activity this afternoon.  The other Miss Douglas is currently teaching in Australia but paid a visit to the class at Kirkcolm this afternoon.

Mrs Baillie and Mrs Macpherson were in on this trick and kept a close eye on proceedings as some of the more observant pupils began to question if there had been a change of teacher. 

Both Miss Douglas’ were wearing exactly the same outfit and hairstyles.  But some children spotted a slight change in the voice of Miss Douglas (the second).  Others were oblivious to the fact that their temporary class teacher was a completely different person!

The big reveal came as one pupil described Miss Douglas their class teacher, and others had to guess who it was.  Miss Douglas, the Kirkcolm teacher, then jumped into the room saying “it’s me!” – to which many pupils were confused doing a double take- looking at them both!

Have a look at the photographs – can you tell which one is the Miss Douglas you have all of the time at Kirkcolm?

Which Miss Douglas is which?

Is the real Miss Douglas on the the right, or on the left?!