{"id":16053,"date":"2026-06-05T12:33:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T12:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/?p=16053"},"modified":"2026-06-05T12:33:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T12:33:38","slug":"%f0%9f%8f%b0a-castle-filled-morning-in-stranraer%f0%9f%8f%b0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/2026\/06\/05\/%f0%9f%8f%b0a-castle-filled-morning-in-stranraer%f0%9f%8f%b0\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83c\udff0A Castle Filled Morning In Stranraer\ud83c\udff0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #003366\">As part of their Castles topic P1-4 took the bus into town with their friends from Leswalt to look at our very own &#8216;toon&#8217; castle! The Castle of St Johns sits squarely in the middle of Stranraer town centre so they got the grand tour of the castle today!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366\">They learned all about the different uses for the castle over the many many years it has stood standing and what life was like for the prisoners who were kept there. After that they walked up the centre of the town to the museum where they engaged in a scavenger hunt which let them look at all the wonders of the towns history located in the museum!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366\">A fab and informative morning for all!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-16053 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/img_6981\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/kirkcolmprimary\/uploads\/sites\/5370\/2026\/06\/05111217\/IMG_6981-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/img_6968-2\/'><img 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src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/kirkcolmprimary\/uploads\/sites\/5370\/2026\/06\/05111218\/IMG_6980-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>Meta Skills\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Curiosity Carlos\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Focusing Fergus\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Critical Thinking Chris\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Sense-Making Samira\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>Articles<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Article 31 \u2013 Rest, Play, Arts &amp; Culture\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Article 28 &#8211; Access to Education\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of their Castles topic P1-4 took the bus into town with their friends from Leswalt to look at our very own &#8216;toon&#8217; castle! The Castle of St Johns sits squarely in the middle of Stranraer town centre so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/2026\/06\/05\/%f0%9f%8f%b0a-castle-filled-morning-in-stranraer%f0%9f%8f%b0\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13814,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13814"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16055,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16053\/revisions\/16055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}