Category: A Rights Respecting School
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Fairtrade by the Barhoise Brains
The Barhoise committee have been learning about Fairtrade. We have been looking a the making of shea butter and presenting our PowerPoint to the whole school at assembly. It’s about people in Africa going out and working long, hard hours every a day and looking for shea berries and nuts to make shea butter. When…
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Healthy plates in P1-4
As part of our exploration of UNCRC Article 24 (I have the right to be as healthy as possible), we have learning about the importance of a balanced diet. To meet our goals, we have been organising loads of different foods into their food groups and talking about the benefits of each group. We all…
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The water cycle
P.5-7 have been learning about the water cycle and how the water evaporates into the air and then condenses in the sky and then when it falls it’s called precipitation so the three steps are 1.evaporation 2.condensation 3.precipitation. We also have been doing experiments on friction and we got a Lego car and pushed it…
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Apple Pressing at Kirkcowan
Very recently the whole Kirkcowan primary school were making apple juice. First we had to cut the apples into smaller bits then we put them in a bucket. After that we dumped the bucket in a grinder so the apples were much smaller. We put them in a compressor to squeeze the apple bits into…
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Good work assembly led by P1-4
All the pupils in P1-4 gave a little glimpse to the whole on Thursday about what they have been learning recently. We were treated to some super quick answers to number bonds to 4 from Aurla, Fergus, Boyd and Noah, and number bonds to 100 from Mirren and Leo. Archie and Logan shared with us…
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Road Safety in P1-4
As part of out SHANARRI and UNCRC work, P1-4 have been learning about all things safe. We have discussed who keeps us safe and how they keep us safe, and we have focused on how to be ‘Safety Kittens’ in regard to road safety. We want to make sure everyone knows how to stay safe…
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P5-7 Language Explorer Project
For the last few Fridays we have been researching a language of our own choosing. Languages we have been researching have been Maori, Korean, Spanish, Italian and Chinese. We looked up language facts, useful phrases, links to English and learned about some culture. Today we had to study all the booklets we made as we…
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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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Charity Donations handed to Eddie McGaw to go to Kenya
In January, Eddie McGaw came in to talk to the children about his charity work in Kenya where he helps children in an orphanage. He showed us photos and videos of how different life is for the children there. The children realised how the children in Kenya didn’t have access to the same rights as…
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Celebrating Comic Relief
The whole school did lots of fun stuff in aid of Comic Relief! The health and wellbeing committee did a wonderful job telling us in assembly about Comic Relief and where all the money goes. They showed us how it helps families in the UK and Africa. It’s connected to our UNCRC work because we…
