Junior Road Safety Officers

 

The Junior Road Safety Officers work hard to promote Health Well Being in the school and community with a variety of schemes to tackle road and traffic safety issues.

New Recruits!!
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Looking good!

Our Wall Display

Our Junior Road Safety Officers continued on with their duties to improve school safety and travel. They also updated their display wall and submitted it into a competition being run by Travel and Roads safety Management. The updated wall encourages alternative travel methods to school and we hope to develop the next level of skills training in the Nursery with Scooter Skills. This wall earned them a runners up prize across East Ayrshire.

Sustran – Scotland’s Big Newsletter Story Competition

The J.R.S.O.s visited one of our Nursery feeder schools along with ‘Kirky’ our transition monkey to find out from the pupils of Riccarton if scooter to school would be of any interest to them. They surveyed 27 pupils and 19 scootered to nursery and would scooter to school, if allowed. However worryingly – more than half of them thought that pedestrians should move out the way to allow them to scoot on the pavements.  I think the J.R.S.O.s have their work cut out for them.

Kilmarnock Academy pupils helped design and make a scooter rack which will be located beside the bike shed to allow storage and also we hope to encourage this as a playtime activity.

 

One of East Ayrshire’s Road Safety Team entered Kirkstyle into a competition to promote an ‘Active School Travel’ story for a Newsletter competition. The reason from submitting the article was because the school had an ongoing parking congestion and wished to promote sustainable active travel to try and offer alternative ways to get to school. The school developed a scooter skills programme using the expertise and skills of the J.R.S.O.s and used scooters purchased from Parent Council fundraising. The officers delivered the programme using Sustran’s scooter skills lessons; the pre training before cycling proficencey and also one part of the Ready, Steady Bike initiatives.

SCOOTER SKILLS WORKSHOPS

Kirkstyle Primary School in Kilmarnock organised and delivered basic scooter skills activity workshops at Primary 1 /Nursery induction days in June. The Parent Council raised funds to purchase scooters to promote scooting to school as one solution to help reduce the ongoing parking congestion at the school.

A member of staff and the two J.R.S.O.s in the school led the workshops. Small groups of nursery children, some of whom had never been on a scooter before, eagerly took on the challenge. None of the 25 children refused to take part and all the children received a certificate.

 

Great Driving.

The workshops consisted of short discussions and hands on activities so that the children developed an understanding of the need to ride safely and not cause a nuisance to others while scooting. We hope it might be a winner and get some goodies as prizes range from puncture repair kits and Frisbees to bike lights and slap bands.

                  The Big Pedal – March 2012

The pupils have registered for the BIG PEDAL from the 5th – 23rd March 2012 the school will participate in this event. In March 2011, over 800 schools helped to pedal 600, 00 school journeys by bike in just 15 days. In 2012 we want Kirkstyle to be one of those schools. But will you be one of the riders? Can you help us top one million bike trips? Once again, every trip to school by bike will count towards a “virtual “stage race round the U.K. We’ll keep you posted on how you can take part nearer the time.

Tea Towel Extravaganza

The Pupil Council want to help with your Christmas shopping so –

Do you want to order the special surprise Christmas gift for Grandparents and other family and friends to enjoy?

Well why not buy a Kirkstyle tea towel!

 

This novelty tea towel with all its celebrity pupil portraits is just £4.00, any money raised will be used to pay our cooking shopping bills for all the pupils. We have been promised that our first 100 deliver stock will be here before Christmas – so its first come first serve!

( Any additional orders beyond this 100 will be delivered in the New Year.)

Singing at Morrisons

The children in Primary 4 took part in their annual visit to Morrison’s Supermarket to sing Christmas Carols to raise vital funds for the Hansel Foundation.  Their lovely singing voices raised the Christmas spirits of the customers while they shopped and all who attended complimented the children on their performance.  The children and staff would like to thank all those customers, family and friends who donated money towards this worth while charity. 
Primary 4 singers
Shaking the can for Hansel

Shout

Kieran, P3 at Kirkstyle P.S was our Autumn SHOUT builder of the month, this means that Kieran built the most SHOUT points during July, August and September combined.  Kieran built his points by using his SHOUT card at his local library, Bellfield SHOUT club and to swim at the Galleon.  His prize for being the Autumn SHOUT builder is a meal for Kieran and his family at the Palace Theatre, followed by tickets for this year Pantomime, which was Cinderella.  Kieran even had the chance to meet the cast!

 

If you would like any further information relating to the SHOUT card, please contact Cherryl on 01563 576715.

 

P1 Sorting in Science

 Primary 1 Science – SORTING

Both classes enjoyed their Science activities as part of their Birds and Beasties theme. The pupils worked together to sort objects looking for similar and different characteristics. The outcome listed below is the curriculum target within A Curriculum for Excellence:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SCN 1-01a I can distinguish between living and non living things. I can sort things into groups and explain my decisions.

The pupils work towards Learning Outcomes these are the main ideas the teacher wants the pupils to demonstrate and learn from the lessons:

  1. Observe objects – colour, shape, size, material e.g. leaves, socks, shells, fruit, dinosaurs, minibeasts.
  2. Sort objects into groups that are the same.
  3. Say what is the same about objects in a group.
  4. Say what is the same about objects in a group.

 

The pupils continually try to expand and build on their Science Skills these are listed for sorting as:

  1. I can listen to instructions.
  2. I can answer in turn.
  3. I can work with a partner.
  4. I can observe objects.
  5. I can follow simple instructions.
  6. I can count groups of similar objects.
  7. I can record in a simple way.

 

 

 

Little Angel gets her wings.

All of the pupils in Primaries 1 to 3 actively participated in this year’s performance of Little Angel gets her wings! The story came to life with the help of our budding actors and actresses and some superb solo singers accompanied by the choirs.

The Little Angel

The angel begins her journey without her wings and can’t get to Bethlehem in enough time for the birth of the baby Jesus. However along the way the angel stops to help others, her acts of kindness towards the donkey, the lamb and the dove earn her the most amazing set of wings you’ve ever seen.

Mary and Joseph
The Wise Men
The Camel
The Shepherds and the Sheep
The Donkey
The Narrators
Mary, Joseph, The Camel, The Donkey and The Dove
The Angels

Our thanks went to the parents for their support with the performances because; the costumes were purchased with the proceeds from the Rag Bag recycling clothes collections and the microphones from last year’s ticket sales. A special thanks went to all the staff who worked hard practising songs, adding movements and actions to the story and creating the scenery. But the biggest thanks had to go to the pupils who gave three outstanding performances for large audiences.

Here come the Vikings

 

Primary 5 and 5/6 were researching  the Vikings last term. They painted a Viking scene for the classroom walls, built a Viking Longship, visited Vikingar at Largs, presented in words and music  Viking Life and that’s only a small part of their experiences.

The Walls

6 meters of Viking scene had to be painted on the floor - Wow!

Viking Longships

As enterprising homework the children were given 5 weeks to design and build – with adult help- a Viking Longship. The results were staggeringly good, as I’m sure those of you who were in school for parent’s evening will agree.

These pictures are just a small sample:

Vikingar the experience

If you are interested in Vikings then a trip to Vikingar in Largs is a must. The children split into 2 groups and while one was visiting the Longhouse and Halls of Valhalla the rest were meeting a Viking and dressing up as the poor and rich of the time.

Thora who took us through the Longhouse
Take care that sword might be sharp!!
New Viking Warriors
They wore animal furs to keep warm.
Walls were decorated with carvings of the Gods
All dressed up!
Gorgeous!
Is that shield not a bit too big!!!!
Our Viking teller of Sagas
Viking artifacts
P5 &P5/6 in front of the Needle

On the way home while dodging the torrential downpours we stopped off to look at the Needle. This monument marks the site of the Viking Battle of Larg which took place in 1263.

Bag Packing

Bag Packing

Volunteers and Parent Council members gave up some of their free time to bag pack at Morrisons last weekend for Parent Council funds. The event was a huge success and the Parent Council donated £600.00 to the Palace Theatre pantomime fund and reduced the cost of everyone’s ticket and transport. A huge thank you must go to the small band of volunteers who turned up; without these people the fund raising would not be possible. Remember no matter how little any support offered is welcomed and reduces the work for the few – “Many hands make light work!”  as the saying goes.

Switch off fortnight!

Switch off fortnight!

The Eco Warriors & Eco Committee met with Miss. Davers during Assembly time and have undertaken some auditing tasks to get us switching off and not wasting energy on standby. They have visited classes and corridors; adding stickers and signs to remind everyone to switch off – perhaps you could try this at home!

Rag Bag

We are pleased to announce that the monies raised by this committee through the Rag Bag recycling has been sufficient to pay for the Nativity costumes last year and in addition purchase the Pantomime costumes for this year’s upper school performance. Both sets of these costumes will be used year in year out, depending on performances so well done to the pupils involved and thanks for your old clothes donations, keep them coming.

Sporting Achievements

Basketball stars rock on to the final

Eight schools battled it out at a basketball festival last week at Kilmarnock College’s Centre for Sporting Excellence, the first ‘finals’ event following the launch of the East Ayrshire Olympics programme.

And Onthank Primary – which goes under the banner of Brazil – emerged victorious, with Nether Robertland (Kazakhstan) second and Kirkstyle (Japan) in third place
See link below for story about the basketball festival