Kirkcolm Primary School

Today marks the day that the hard working boys and girls of Kirkcolm Primary have received their belated awards from all their tremendous work the previous school year! All you are all well aware, due to the circumstances at the time we couldn’t go ahead with our usual big bang leaving ceremony but we still badly wanted to acknowledge these wee souls for all the hard work they had put in!

Our awards winners include;

• Phoebe Manson in P3 for achieving Gold in her STAR awards!
• Archie Ashton in P3 for achieving Gold in his STAR Awards AND for being the Kirkcolm STAR Reader in P2!
• Danny Dougan in P4 for being the Kirkcolm STAR Reader in P3 and achieving Gold in his STAR Awards!
• Olivia Johnstone in P5 for being the Kirkcolm STAR Reader in P4!
• Alexander MacPherson in P6 for achieving Gold in his STAR Awards!
• Olivia Turtle in P6 for being the Kirkcolm STAR Reader in P5!
• Zack Ashton for achieving Gold in his STAR Awards AND For being the P6 STAR Reader Across all 3 schools in the trio!

A massive congratulations to this fab bunch! You are all superstars and you deserve all your lovely little certificates and gifts for your hard work!

I hope you keep it up this year!

At last! – Kirkcolm primary was back open and filled to the brim with happy smiling faces. Teachers were delighted to have their classes full again after sitting empty for so long and pupils were over the moon to see their friends again and to get back to their old routines.

It was a bit strange for us all adjusting with these new rules set in place but all seemed to cope fine and we were just glad to be back and what a topper of a day to be back for! Lots of sun shining down on us all day long!

Pupils had an easy going day with a lovely stroll down the beach at the end of the day to create some sand art! Here you can see the photos of some of the amazing works done by pupils – we had everything from 3D sharks to mermaids to the Kirkcolm School emblem! Truly we are blessed here in this village with such beautiful surroundings everywhere…

We were delighted to welcome new pupils Caulder and Arran and returning pupil, Lexi back into the school!

Finally, a massive Kirkcolm welcome to our additional new 7 primary 1 pupils! Paige, Rebecca, Jessica, Cameron, Emilie, Harry and Callum are fab additions to our happy wee family here!

Here are some photos from the day…

Well Pupils and parents of Kirkcolm primary – that is us finally at the end of this weird and chaotic term! We have been through the strangest of times and we still come out the other side happy and smiling – just goes to show what a tough bunch we are.

All the pupils have been so hard working during this time and put their best effort in despite these conditions and us staff have been so proud of you all. While we are sad we won’t be saying goodbye the way we should at the end of the school year – we know we will see you all after the holidays and pick up where we left off!

Sadly – however – this is not a case for our lovely P7 pupils who won’t be joining us in August as they embark on new adventures at the Academy…

So we felt they deserved a special send off! We all gathered together staff, parents and pupil alike to think back on the good times we have had over the past few years and wish them well for the future! (socially distanced – of course!) 

Many a giggle was had, gifts were shared, glasses clinked and we got to enjoy photos of them through the ages as they passed through Kirkcolm and feel truly blessed that, even if this year wasn’t quite what it should of been, we are so thankful for the years passed we have spent together. 

Even though they may not be coming back to us in August – they know to check in with us as much as they can! What a bright happy bunch! We are terribly sad to lose you but you are ready for the next steps in life and the academy don’t know how lucky they are..! 

Click on this link for the p7 photo montage https://youtu.be/GT0xL0hkoD0

Best of luck from all of us here at Kirkcolm Primary !!!

Our wee team have very been creative during lockdown and all came together to create our special video.  Everyone was given a special word to create a piece of word art at home.  No-one knew what it would say when it all came together.  Once put together we have a fabulous poem and message to all.

Have a watch and you will see our creative, happy children in the glorious setting of their homes .

We are so proud of each and every person for the part they play in our family of schools.

Click here to see us in action 🙂

It’s been a whole week back already – can’t quite believe it! 

We are all missing the faces of the kids dearly but it’s been great to see what they have been up through all the photos pupils and parents are sending in – we love seeing all the happy faces hard at work and sharing their learning with us. 

Part of the online learning that was sent out was an art task by the lovely Mrs Copeland – she challenged pupils to get creative and make some Rainbows using any kind of medium they could find around the home and all of them have been absolutely fantastic. There has been such a wide variety and you could tell that every pupil has put their best effort in and I am delighted to share with you the fruit of their labours. 

Well done Boys and Girls – these Rainbows keep us all smiling! 

Stay Safe and look after each other!

So for the past 2 weeks we have all been on quite the journey! Teachers had to cope with not having their pupils in front of them, pupils had to cope with not coming into school and parents had to cope with under taking a new profession in a matter of minutes – Teaching! 

It’s been a bit of a crazy journey for us all but we here at Kirkcolm have been doing what we always do, taking it on the chin and getting on with it! There has been some exceptional hard work done by all these past 2 weeks and it really shows that in times of crisis we can all come together and do our best and even though we are all still finding our feet with this remote learning business, the results so far have been tremendous. 

This is just a wee blog post to show all of those part of the Kirkcolm School community and friends and families the hard work we have been achieving in some select photos and videos our pupils and parents have kindly shared with us. 

Hope you enjoy having a peek and all fingers crossed we will all be reunited and back to our original jobs and routines sooner rather than later. 

Hope everyone is staying safe and well!

-Your Kirkcolm Teacher Team 

Given everything going on in the world at the moment and the anticipated closure of schools, we here at Kirkcolm were very sad to be closing our doors to the wonderful students who make us laugh, smile, confuse us and every other emotion you can imagine on a daily basis!

We thought it only fitting we should go out for a bang and the pupils and teachers banded together determined that, despite factors outwith our control, we WOULD be putting on our school show – we had worked far too hard for too long to let it amount to nothing. So a couple weeks short of some practises, a whole lot of last minute costume decisions (Can’t thank Jemima Johnstone enough for managing to get everything from the drama club for us!) some panic moments and some ‘die laughing’ moments… We. Got. There.

So on Friday the 20th of March all of us Kirkcolm pupils, teachers and parents banded together to go out with a BANG  for the untimely end this term came to! I think we can all agree whole-heartedly that every single pupil gave it their best, tried their hardest to memorise all these lines and songs and put on a fantastic show for us all to enjoy!

I am so proud of the work our school has put in and the pupils really are the gems of it all. It was a fantastic end to this terms and I think we are all very excited for the day we get to come together again.

Thank you once again for all the help from parents during these hectic times and for coming it to see our kids shine! If you couldn’t make it to the performance – here are some shots of the day which I hope show you how special it was;

Here is a handy and easy to follow guide to allow pupils to access their GLOW Accounts and Microsoft Teams at home.

Pupils just need to search ‘Glow Scotland’ in their search engine to find the right login page which should look something like this;

Older pupils are aware of how to login and have done this repeatedly – passwords are well known and those who struggle have made note of them in their homework diary. Younger pupils may be more unfamiliar but have their GLOW username and passwords noted in their homework diaries.

Once in GLOW older pupils do have a Microsoft Teams account set up and this can be accessed using the tile on their GLOW homepage which looks like this;

Pupils can then go on to select the appropriate team. P5-7’s team tile looks like this;

Once in teams there are a variety of different options;

You can;

View messages from myself in the general forum – these could lead be to links and will be a primary form of communication with pupils.  

View any files uploaded by me.

View any assignments. 

Hope this helps – do not hesitate to contact the school or myself through the Class Dojo messenger if you have any questions about how this works! 🙂

Our library monitors, Taylor and Lydia, worked very hard to organise a real life ‘Where’s Wally Treasure Hunt’ around the school as part of our World Book Day celebrations. All pupils who got the answers correct were put into a prize draw. Two names were picked out, one for each class, and the winners were…. Alfie in P1-4 and Scott in P5-7!! Both boys received extra World Book Day tokens so they can purchase some free books (or put the tokens towards a more expensive book in WHSmith) and got to choose a book to take home as a prize. Have a peek below at our worthy winners who were very chuffed with themselves!

Today Kirkcolm Primary swung open its doors to invite in the lovely parents of our pupils to participate in our Science activities in celebration of British Science Week! This was a great opportunity to promote Science in the school and we did this through a variety of activities throughout the school – some had a STEM feel to them and encouraged the pupils (and parents) to think hard, problem solve and theorise. 

The activities available were; 

• The Code and Go Mouse (can you guild him through a maze you designed?)
• A look at www.sciencekids.co.nz – where the kids were able to explore some science based games that they could also access at home should they be so keen to expand their knowledge!
• An engineering challenge to build something creative using any of the materials laid out.
• The classic egg drop – who can protect their egg the best and save it from a fall!?
• Looking at sound and vibration using cups and string (I’m still amazed by this one!)

We all had a fantastic time rotating around the stations, we got to flex our science muscles as we thought hard about what we were doing and we even got to see how fantastically we all work together in our wee school

Many thanks to all the parents/grans etc. who came in to help out with the pupils and to those who weren’t able to make it I hope you get a good feel for the day and see what your little one was up to through the photos!