Category: Concerning Whole School Learning
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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…
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Kirkcowan Celebrates K’nex Success
Last month Macey and I won the Machar’s local K’nex competition in Newton Stewart so we got to go to the Bridge in Dumfries to compete against schools across D&G. Our challenge this time was to make a digger in 1 hour with a mechanical bucket that could move up and down and lift one…
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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…
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School Village Litter Pick
P5-7 took part in the whole school village litter pick today. The children found a wide variety of litter on our route up Wellhouse Road, along the train track and up and around Dickie woods. In total we filled 1 full bin bag of litter!
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Eat Them To Defeat Them
This we have been trying to defeat all the veg by EATING THEM. Each day we got a new vegetable to defeat. Over the week we defeated the carrots, broccoli, peppers, sweetcorn and peas. For all our efforts we earn lots of stickers!
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Visit to Wigtown PS for World Book Day
The whole school from nursery to P7 got on a bus to travel to Wigtown Primary School so we could take part in World Book Day activities. Everyone got to see and listen to an author called Mike Nicholson. He shared and read from his books called My Granny Went To Scotland and Bought, the…
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Christmas Fun Night @ Kirkcowan PS
Lots of festive entertainment was had at the school on Thursday night at the Festival Family Fun Night organised the Parent Council. Brains cells were tested at the Christmas quiz and dice were a blur at the snowman drive. Thank you again to the Parent Council for organising the event.
