Author: Mr Sullivan Sullivan
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Practising for Sports Day
The children went to the park today to practice their races with the lanes marked out. As always, the children cheered each other on, and each race had different winners each time, so it’s all to play for this Thursday at 10.30 (Weather permitting)!
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P5-7 Forest School Fun!
P5-7 enjoyed a Forest School session with Shalla this afternoon in Dickie Woods (Our local outdoor classroom). P5/6 continued their work with Shalla from the previous weeks, and this week P7 joined them with Mr Sullivan. The children enjoyed frisbee/kick golf, manhunt and camouflage game as well as biscuits and drinks! Next week is the…
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World Environment Day at Kirkcowan
Today the children took part in a whole school assembly all about World Environmental Day 2025. The focus this year was all about Plastics and the new message of Refuse Reduce Reuse Recycle Re-think plastic use The children took part in some excellent discussions about the amount of plastic created each year (400 million tonnes…
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VIP Lunch Table May 2025
Tables 2 and 5 were rewarded with this months VIP Table treatment. Mrs Stewart organised a beautiful table with a variety of food and flowers. Each day a VIP point is awarded for excellent table behaviour including: Eating with a knife and fork Talking socially amongst each other Eating with lips closed Using please and…
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Lunch Time Fun!
In this glorious weather, the children used the tyres as sun loungers and were after some shade. We found the Outdoor Learning Tarpaulin and the children and Mr Sullivan worked together to tie it up and bring the much needed shade the children were craving for!
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Careers Fair 2025
Today we held our very first Careers Fair for the children at Kirkcowan Primary School. 17 visitors came along to support the event and share with the children facts about their jobs, the training and qualifications they needed as well as what their favourite subjects were at school. The list of jobs that the children…
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P7 Bikeability
On Thursday and Friday this week P7’s had their Bikeability training with Jemma and Caroline. The children worked hard on their safety skills when riding on the roads. Well done P7s!
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Stemovators Fun!
This week in Stemovators, the children found out about how to filter dirty water to make it cleaner. the made their own filtration bottles and watched as the large stones, smaller stones, gravel and sand filtered out all the dirt to produce much cleaner water!
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P5’s 2nd Visit to the Salmon Fish Hatchery
The P5’s enjoyed their second visit to the salmon fish hatchery today. This time they met the eggs that had hatched into small sparlings (baby salmon fish). They had a talk about what happens next once they are released in the river, including their survival chances and what the dangers that lie ahead are. The…
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P7’s Leaver Hoodies have arrived!!
At the Easter Church service this week the P7’s were presented with their leavers hoodies. The children chose their design and colour and Mrs Andrews and Reverend Boyle handed them out at the end of the Easter service. The P7’s were over the moon with their hoodies and wore them with pride!
