Category: Concerning Whole School Learning
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Maths Week Scotland – Wild Maths with P1-4
The maths might have been wild, the weather wasn’t and the pupils in P1-4 worked really hard to complete some outdoor maths challenges as part of Maths Week Scotland. In groups the pupils used a Carroll Diagram to sort natural and some unnatural objects that they found in the playground. The pupils also sorted through…
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Reading culture at Kirkcowan Primary School
After the success of Kirkcowan Primary School’s book at the flower show, the P7 wished to share their love of reading with nursery boys and girls who had helped create the book. By the looks of the photos below the P7s loved reading the book and the nursery children loved listening to it!
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Success at Kirkcowan Flower Show celebrated
After a lot of work leading up to the Kirkcowan Flower Show, we celebrated the hard work and success of all the pupils at our weekly assembly. Medals and prizes were handed out and now all the work is displayed in the school to be viewed. A notable success was the whole school effort in…
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Lighthouse Musicians Concert
This week three Lighthouse Musicians came to perform the most wonderful concert for us all. They played a huge variety of music from various genres, some of which we recognised and some of which we did not. We very much enjoyed singing along with some familiar movie tracks such as You’ve Got a Friend in…
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Sports Day a triumph
The rain gods were on our side on Thursday and held the rain off so we could hold our sports day in full. It was wonderful to see so much energy, determination, sportsmanship, teamwork and fun being had by all the pupils across all our events. A big thank you must also go out to…
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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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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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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…
