Kirkcolm Primary School

After an application process led by Mrs Henry, the new pupil council for this session at Kirkcolm Primary school has been appointed;

P1- Daniel Dougan

P2 – James Turtle

P3 – Alba White

p4 -Emma Bailey

P5 – Danny Lyon

P6 – Jack Barrett

P7 – Davey Walker and Katie Butler  (both were strong applicants and Mrs Henry offered them both the position!)

Well done to all.  Their photographs and successful applications are now on display for all to see in the school foyer. 

Hello and welcome everyone to session 2017-2018!

Rested, energised and bright-eyed and bushy-tailed ……..and that’s just the teachers (!) We are ready and raring to go!

Lots of exciting, fun things  are planned  – and a fabulous team of staff and pupils makes for a winning combination to ensure this is going to be a brilliant year.

We are delighted to welcome Alfie, Danny, Jack, Lydia and Sally to Kirkcolm Primary and we know they are going to have the best time with us all. : )

The end of term closing ceremony took place at Kirkcolm Primary school this afternoon.  A range of awards were presented and the pupils sang beautifully to the assembled audience.  The afternoon concluded with a farewell to the Primary 7 pupils, who are moving onto Stranraer Academy.

All the pupils from Portpatrick, Leswalt and Kirckolm came together to get to know one another better today.  A beach clean and a sports day was planned, but due to the weather, we quickly improvised.  The children performed a range of songs to entertain their audience and then played outside together.

The boys and girls were happy to be split into primary groups and mix with their peers from the other two schools.  Each class arranged purposeful activities.  The lower school played true or false ‘get to know you’ questioning, learned and performed an action song and participated in a social P.E game. The upper school engaged in STEM engineering challenges.  They had to work collaboratively to design and build a helicopter using basic materials.  The teams were then tasked with constructing a structure from paper straws that was capable of supporting weight.  The children had many creative ideas to meet the brief.

After lunch, we all walked down to the beach where we created beach art using natural materials.

Throughout the day, the children had the opportunity to mix and form friendships between schools.   

On Friday 23rd June, all of Kirkcolm Primary enjoyed a full on day of activity at Galloway Activity Centre.  Pupils all got a chance to participate in a range of activities.  Have a look at the photographs to see all the fun!

Everyone had a great afternoon competing in a range of events on our sports day. The rain stayed away and the sun  came out. 

The winning houses and sports champions will be announced at the end of term closing ceremony, next week.

Primary 6 and 7 undertook a STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Maths) challenge in class last week.  Provided only with marshmallows and spaghetti the children had to plan, design and later construct the tallest tower they could in 30 minutes.  This challenge involved collaboration and teamwork.  Have a  look at how they got on!

Harriet and Ellie were very enterprising and set up their own stall at the Gala day to help raise fund for the school.  They sold a variety of home made goodies and helped raise over £100 for school funds.  Well done girls!

Primary 7 enjoyed a special last lunch – one which they had picked as their favourite school dinner.  They then go to be the centre of attention and sat in the middle to enjoy it with all the rest of the school around them.

Kirkcolm Primary school football team had a fabulous weekend of football.  Yesterday, they played at Kirkcolm Gala day and made it through to the final.  Sadly, they were beaten by Belmont Primary in the final to finish runners up at the tournament.

Today, Kirkcolm Primary  football team finished off the Summer season of fun days on winning form.  They won every game to get through to the final at the Sandhead tournament – against their new trio partnership schools of Leswalt /Portpatrick .

It was a very tense final, with Mrs Baillie being very diplomatic on the sidelines and avoiding showing allegiance to any one of her schools.  At full time the score was 0:0.  The tension was further heightened as it went to a penalty shoot off to decide the winners.  Kirkcolm Primary went on to  win on penalties.   Well done to all involved!  Many thanks must go to Mr Agnew for coaching the boys all season.  

Runners up  Kirkcolm fun day 2017

Winners at Sandhead football tournament 2017