Kirkcolm Primary School

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

Over the course of the term Primary 1 and 2  have been learning about Earth Science and chemical reactions. Our young learners decided we should trial our experiment before we conduct the BIG EXPLOSION of our own paper mache volcanos later this term. We listed the equipment needed, wrote up our methods, and predicted what would happen when bicarbonate soda is mixed with vinegar and detergent. Our predictions were CORRECT! Albeit less of an EXPLOSION and more like a slow bubble.

Oh well, back to the drawing board……….

Today was the very last day of teaching for Miss Parrott at Kirkcolm Primary.  And, as one final surprise a  former pupil of hers, Heather Nicol came into school to play her out on the bagpipes.  Amongst the selection Heather played, was the favourite of Miss Parrot “The lion sleeps tonight”, and the “Hokey cokey”!  The whole school and some parents came along to join in the fun.

Everyone at Kirkcolm Primary would like to wish Miss Parrott all the very best as she moves onto pastures new.

Davey headed off to New Galloway Golf Club last Thursday, accompanied by his dad, to represent Kirkcolm Primary at the Regional Primary Schools’ Golf Competition. He enjoyed a day of glorious sunshine on a stunning golf course.  He played to 5 under his handicap with a net score of 22 over nine holes with excellent comments from the accompanying coach regarding his fairway approach shots and putting.  Davey finished just outside of the prizes, and had a great day of golf.  He demonstrated just what a responsible citizen he is by taking part and being a good ambassador for our school.  Well done!

Primary 6 and 7 have been busy combining their learning and teaching in Health and wellbeing with French.  The children were preparing some healthy snacks in school, before serving them using their conversational French skills.

Mrs Maxwell took Primary 6 to Stair Park where they participated in a range of activities organised by the emergency services, as part of “Operation Safety”.  They had input from the Fire Brigade, Police, Ambulance service, Coastguard and Scottish Power, to name only a few.

Look at the pictures to see what they got up to!   

On Saturday the 20th May 2017 , 49 Kirkcolm Primary School children took part in the 48th annual sponsored school mini walk of 7 miles. This year it was organised by the parent council fundraising team.  It is hoped they will have raised enough money to cover their school outing in June to the Galloway Activity Centre.

P1-P3’s left the school at 9am with the P4-7’s in hot pursuit at 9.10am.  It took  2 hrs and 36 minutes  for all the children to complete the 7 miles.   The fastest boy, breaking the school record,  was Robin McAuley, completing it in 52mins and 28 seconds.  Well done Robin

The fastest girl was Michaela Lyon who completed it in 1 hour, 10 mins and 03 seconds.  Well done Michaela!

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