Kirkcolm Primary School

Just look at those cheery faces! P7 pupils from Kirkcolm and Leswalt headed off for a fun morning of learning at Stranraer Academy today as part of their transition process.

3rd pupils were our guides and met us at the front door to take us to the Dance Studio where we joined Sheuchan P7s for a Stranraer Academy true/false quiz with Mr Hyslop. From there, we enjoyed an Art lesson with Mrs Hyslop exploring Amsterdam street art and a Science lesson with Mrs McHallum investigating acids and alkalis.

To round our morning off nicely, we ventured to the canteen and enjoyed a tasty lunch.

Safe to say, we all had a fabulous morning!

Thanks to Stranraer Academy, Mr Hyslop, Mrs Patterson, our guides Ruby and Brogan and Mrs Hyslop and Mrs McHallum for a fun morning.

Really looking forward to those three days in June now…!

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Today we were very happy to welcome Mrs McHarg back into the building! With her very small companion – little Harris!

Harris absolutely delighted the boys and girls and had all the staff fawning over him 😍 We loved seeing Mrs McHarg and we hope to see more of them both as the time passes and watch him grow! Always welcome for a visit 💖

P1-4 have been doing Bowling as their P.E focus this term and the lovely people at the Kirkcolm Bowling Club have been trying to get them trained up! We already had a visit from them earlier this term but today the class got to make their way for a sunny day Bowling on the green! A chance to really put their developing skills to the test and an excellent way to spend an afternoon in the sunshine. Looks like they had a great time! 😎☀️🌞

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We have been incredibly lucky to have been able to source the expertise of Mr Richard Pattchet, a leader in delivering Forest Schools, for a block of inputs to the boys and girls across both Leswalt and Kirkcolm for the next 6 weeks!

Richard came to us for week 1 today and took both classes out for a chance to examine some wildlife! P1-4 went on a bug hunt and up turned many an item in the playground and found many a bug on their way! They learned a lot of different facts today like; centipedes only have 50-60 legs (not 100!) and worms really do grow back when cut! 🐛

P5-7 went pond (burn) dipping down by Fisher’s Lane and we sampled a few different spots and eventually at the bridge we hit it lucky by finding some Caddisfly Larva, a very clever little thing which sticks random bits of twigs to it’s body to camouflage itself and a little fish! 🐟

It was a very good session and we all (myself included…) learned a lot from Richard! 

Excited for what next week has in store with… Ropes! 

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Wow! I’m not sure how in the unpredictable Scottish weather, we constantly manages to swing a beautiful sun splitting the sky day for the annual Kirkcolm Mini Walk? – But we will enjoy every second of it! ☀😎🌞

How exciting that the Mini Walk has rolled around again, it was wonderful to see all the boys and girls giving it their best efforts going round the loop and the volume of pupils taking on the extra loop for a chance to secure their name on the trophy has been so uplifting! Everyone gave this their best effort today and I am sure you can see that from the rosy red cheeks and big cheesy smiles in the photos! 🏃🏽‍♂️🏃🏽‍♀️💨

A huge thank you to Jemima for taking all the wonderful photos for us, to Jack Milroy for allowing us to use his field in our loops, Miss Gordon in the office for taking on the high stress role of recording the results and a massive thank you to Sheila McGrory and the rest of the parent council for their efforts in organising another successful event! 👌🏻👍🏻👐🏻

We cannot wait to hear how much the boys and girls have managed to raise so they can have lots of fun on their school trip this year!

The results for our top finishers are as follows…

Boys:

1^st – Ivan Turtle 🥇

2^nd – Freddie Adams 🥈

3^rd – Lyle McCulloch 🥉

Girls:

1^st – Phoebe Manson 🥇

2^nd – Paige Neill 🥈

3^rd – Kendall Alexander 🥉 (Wow! Some effort from a P1!) 

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As part of our social studies topic looking at natural disasters we decided we would make our very own Volcanoes to set off in the playground! We had already looked at how Volcanoes form over time and what causes a volcanic eruptions to happen… 🌋

They’re not quite Pompeii but we are pretty proud of what we created! 

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⚽️  Our partnership football team kicked off their debut in style , in the Primary league on Friday.   Despite the two schools never having played together as one,  they did us proud on the pitch .

Our top team won two games ( and lost two) on their very first outing.  ⚽️
Well done  ! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Once again, we have welcomed in the wonderful Mike from Bikeability to start a Bikeability block with our P6/7 for the term. This is a great opportunity for pupils to practice staying safe when out and about on their bikes. 

We started off the course with some safety bicycle checks today before next week, where the pupils will do the first step of the block and look at their actual biking abilities and confidence. After this pupils will be given the opportunity to progress onto the further element of the block where they will be out and about in the village on their bikes! This block will last 6 weeks and a great opportunity to remind pupils of the risks that come with cycling and how to stay safe! 🚲

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Today during assembly, Miss Douglas kindly blessed our P7 pupils with their fab new leaver hoodies! The P7’s donned their traditional burgundy in its new format and they look great! – as I am sure you will all agree 🤩 We id this earlier as it gives them a chance to get some good wear out of them before they finally leave us for the Academy (as if Mrs Morrison needs a constant reminder of the fab pupils she is giving up soon!) 😂

Here is a photo of them looking fab!