Laurieknowe Primary School.

P6 pupils had a fab time visiting Dumfries Ice Bowl to learn the basics of curling.

We’d like to say a big thank you to everyone at Dumfries Ice Bowl and the coaches from Dumfries and Galloway College for putting on such a fun and engaging day.

For more information and photos, visit the P6 Curling page.

A reminder to all P6 pupils! Please come to school in warm and comfortable clothes on Monday ready for our curling session and remember your packed lunch. 

We are collecting Team GB stickers with Aldi’s Kit for Schools.  Help us collect 300 stickers to complete our poster and we’ll receive an exclusive sports kit plus a chance to win £20,000!

Bring the stickers into school to add to our Aldi’s Kit for Schools poster.

Running from the 6th September until the 3rd of November.

Thanks to the Primary 1 parents who were able to come along to our Phonics Workshops yesterday.  For those who couldn’t attend please look out for the information leaflets coming home today.

Good morning.  As expected our telephone and internet is not yet working.  We are trying to arrange to have an emergency contact number established and will send further information out when we do so.  Thank you for your patience and understanding during this tricky time.

Good morning all!

Unfortunately our telephone and internet are not working this morning.  We apologise for the inconvenience this causes.  As soon as we are up and running again we will let you know.  In the mean time please pop into the office if there is anything you, or we, need to know.  Thank you.

It was lovely to see everyone back to school this week, looking all shiny and fresh faced.  There’s a great atmosphere around school as we begin the work of embedding our new Vision, Values and Aims.

Teachers and learners will be developing their new class pages for this year – use the ‘Pupils Pages’ menu to have a look.

Remember to keep checking back here for updates about events in school, learning and activities to try at home.

Thank you for your patience as we were finalising our class structure for next year.  Yesterday, all children were given the information about their classes and their teacher for session.  Here is how it will look across school:

P7M Miss Morton       P7N Mr Newlands       P6R Miss Robertson       P6/5W  Mr West

P5J  Mrs Jasinska       P5/4C Mrs Crosbie      P4G Mrs Galligan           P3/4H  Mrs Harvey

P3D  Miss Dougan     P2M Mr Milligan         P2/1 Mrs McFegan          P1P Mrs Penman

Nursery – Mrs Windsor and Mrs Shankland with Mrs Holland, Mrs Williams, Mrs McGarva and Mrs Geddes.

Mrs Duff will continue to work across school.

Mrs Gorard will continue as our ASL teacher with Mrs Frazer, Mrs Muir and Mrs Dougan in Learning Assistant team.

As you can see there have been quite a few changes to staff structure but we are all looking forward to another great year at Laurieknowe.   We wish everyone who is leaving us this year (pupils, staff and parents) all the very best for a successful and happy future.

Primary 1 had a great time at Dino Park.  A little bit of rain couldn’t spoil our fun.  Huge thanks to the staff at Dino Park as well as to our fabulous parent helpers.

Many thanks to our special visitors who came into school today as part of the Guid Nychburris celebrations.  We wish them well for the big day on Saturday!

There are more photo’s in the ‘School Events’ menu on the ‘Guid Nychburris’ page.

Well done to our P6 Football Team who won the Guid Nychburris cup today. Through their hard work, attitude and performance levels, the team won all of their 10 games. Well done boys!

Remember to take a look at

School Events – P1 Parents Sharing the Learning Sessions

to see all the fun we have been having while learning with our families.

Today, P6G have been creating European Landmarks out of clay.  We had a lot of fun when making them, but it was not as easy as it looks!

Recently P3M made a visit to our local Tesco supermarket to learn all about what Tesco workers do for their job. We learned many things about the different jobs that people have within Tesco’s We even got to try being a checkout cashier for the morning! Most importantly we got to taste some of their yummy homemade bread! Thank you to all the staff at Tesco’s and parent helpers who supported us – without you we wouldn’t have experienced this fantastic day.

Well done to P1M and P1Y for successfully completing their Sportathon fundraiser for their trip to Dino Park.  Please remember to return sponsor money as soon as possible.  Thank you to all who sponsored.

Congratulations to our netball team who played fantastically again last night.  We are very proud!

A huge well done to Primary 5R for their sharing the learning assembly this morning. We saw a great turn out from parents and wonderful support form all the members of the school. The class have been working hard on their presentation and are very pleased with the outcome.

Happy weekend to you all! As you may see family and friends over this time, I’d like to take this opportunity to remind you that our sponsorship form is due in on Wednesday. We welcome donations to bring down the cost per child for our school trip. Thanks to all who are able to contribute to this cause 🙂

Thank you  P5R for your great assembly this morning.  It was brilliant to see so many different ways in which you have been learning all about Scotland.  My favourite part was definitely the rainy day soundscape – it was fab!   Well done!

Thanks also to all of the parents, carers, family and friends who were able to come along to support and to share the learning!

There should be some photo’s appearing soon!

Congratulation to our P6 football team who came 5th in the National Finals this week!

Thanks also to Mr Newlands and the parents and carers who were able to help with transport as well as cheering the boys on.

It has been a great first day here and everyone is now settled in their beds! I’ve added some photos from today’s adventure so check them out…

School Events -> P5 at Carlingwalk -> P5 Group 1

Let me know what you think!

Mrs R x

We have been reading ‘Journey’ by Aaron Becker. Here’s what we thought.

Congratulations to our fantastic P6 football team who today qualified for the finals of the Scottish Schools Football Association (@sschoolsfa) Junior Soccer 7s Competition.   They played against seven other teams from the area, including teams from Ayrshire and Lanarkshire.   We look forward to seeing how well they do as they play in the finals later in the year!

Thank you to Mr Newlands who braved the cold wind and rain alongside the boys and saw them through to the finals.