Kirkcolm Primary School

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!

The results were

Today the whole school enjoyed outdoor learning day with their lunch outdoors. 

A take away lunch was enjoyed, with ice lollies kindly provided for after by Ann Marie.  What fun they had on their picnic lunch!

Miss Parrott and her class took their science learning and teaching today outside. 

In  glorious sunshine the children learned a lot more about the changes of states.  It is maybe just as well they were outside for this experimental work as it did get a bit messy – and in fact you will see from the photographs there was also a change in state of some of their school uniforms!

 Primary 1 and 2  have been learning about the story of Moses for Religious and Moral Education (Judaism). We paired up and wrote our 3 favourite parts of the story, then had a game of charades where we had to act out the three scenes and the class had to guess what part of the story was being told.

It was a lot of fun!

Primary 1 and 2 have been taking advantage of the sunshine this week to take their maths learning outdoors.  As part of their work on time, Miss Easton had the boys and girls consolidating their learning and getting some exercise while they played a clock face based game.

Primary 3,4 and 5 recently enjoyed a trip into the Tesco store in Stranraer.  While they were  there the children got to see behind the scenes – including the bakery, offices and canteen.  And, on the shop floor they had a bit of “supermarket sweep” style fun, grabbing items off the shelves and having a go as a checkout operator – scanning items and analysing the receipts.   The boys and girls even got some tasty nibbles to enjoy.

This trip helped them learn more about food production and how it is subsequently passed on to the customer through retail premises.

Our footballers had the opportunity yesterday to get up close with the SPL trophy, as part of a football festival organised by Allan Jenkins.  The team also had the chance to pull on their brand new strips and play several games, supervised and coached by Mr Robert Agnew.  As one member of the team said, “they are lucky strips” – as they never lost a game!

Have a look at the photographs of our team looking smart in the new strips.  A great morning was had by all!

Further photographs will be added to the website www.trustedtrophytour.co.uk as soon as possible.

Kirkcolm Primary school is Situated in the village of Kirkcolm, near Stranraer.  It currently has 3 classes and 53 pupils. 

From April 2017 the Headteacher will be Mrs Sheila Baillie.  Kirkcolm Primary school is in partnership with both Leswalt and Portpatrick Primary schools – forming the North Rhins partnership.  From August 2017, Mrs Nicola Henry will be Principal teacher across the partnership.