As part of our Nursery Induction programme the new starts meet with our current Primary 6 pupils for a playtime session. This means the children get the chance to find some new friends and mentors before their start in August.
The first harvest of the growing garden have been taken home to be enjoyed in salads around Kikrstyle. Primary 1 pupils grew their cress and mustard seeds in school until they were ready for eating – then they carefully carried them home.
As part of out electricity science topic this term Primary 4 worked in grouped to test differet circuits to see if they could light the light bulb. Cassie was surprised that another circuit worked to light the bulb.
Kieran, Ellie, Jody and Sophie carefully recorded which of the circuits light up their light bulb and which did not so they could report their findings to the class.
The children had a choice of different toppings for their pizza. McKenzie, Robert, Keris and Aiden selected their favourite pizza toppings for their pizza.
It was hard work making our pizza’s but worth it! Ryan, David and Christopher thought their pizzas tasted delicious!
Kieran’s pizza design was selected by Miss McDowall and Mr Nutt as being the winning design. Kieran’s pizza was in the shape of Kenya. Kieran selected foods eaten in Kenya for his toppings and the colour of these foods also represent the Kenyan flag.
The range of different pizza designs to represent Kenya was fantastic! Here are some of the different designs.
The children in Primary 3 have been studying the seashore zones and the creatures that are found there. They have also compared the seaside and what happens there and how it looks now to 100 years ago. They were excited to find lots of things that are the same but also the large number of differences.
The children participated in activities covering curricular areas of Science, Technology and Art related to our topic.
The Primary 3’s went on trip to Culzean where they did rock pool and beach art activities.
Then a week later it was off to visit the RNLI at Troon who were super but unfortunately the weather was anything but as the rain came down and the 3s got very wet.
The children worked in pairs to create their own canopic jars using mudrock and painting once dry. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum the children saw real canopic jars and they were smaller than they thought! Lesley out guide also told us more information about them.
The children enjoyed their trip to Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum tofinish their topic about the Ancient Egyptians. The children had the chance to see a real mummy and sarcophagus. The sarcophagus was far to heavy for us to lift open! The children as part of their work shop re-enacted part of the ‘weighing of the heart’ ceremony where some children took a role.
The school are continuing to improve the school grounds and encourage pupils to bring Science to life. The Primary 1s have enjoyed an outing to the garden centre and are now busy planting their purchases to grow vegetables to eat.
The children have planted;
Finally a variety of flowers in our tyres to add some colour after our late blooming daffodils have died away.
Lets hope the summer weather is kind to us and the children get a bumper crops.
The Primary 6, 6/7 and 7 pupils are undertaking their John Muir award and are looking ot enhance the grounds. After much debate ot was agreed that this is along term project and the first task had to be to clear existing bushes and plants that had grown old and woody.
This has not been an easy task and hard work has not escaped our pupils – I think they appreciate that gardening is not a sitting down job!
This week is East Ayrshire’s Walk to School Week, so please don’t be alarmed if you see our pupils at the roadside on the pavements wearing some strange and colourful items this week. A daily theme has been created to encourage the children to walk:
Monday – wear a funny hat
Tuesday – wear odd socks
Wednesday – wear brightly coloured accessories
Thursday -wear school colours
Friday – wear sunglasses
We all know that walking is good for us. Walking to school is not always easy, but it is a great way to exercise and keep fit. Walking to school also helps reduce pollution, and can boost pupils’ social skills and road safety awareness.
We are hoping that as the week goes on we will gain your support for the campaign and that everyone will join in the fun.
If the pupils are unable to walk we will still make sure that they reach their daily walking target by walking in school.
We are starting early with Young Killies new recruits – pupils in Primary 1 & 2 have been getting some expert skills training in P.E. Alan Mahood a Football Development Officer has been working with the pupils in both stages and Kilmarnock Football Club’s development activity officer has been working with Primary 2s to prepare them for their Fun Football Fours.
Our Pr.6, Pr.6/7 and Pr.7 have been working on an interdisciplinary theme that incorporates Science and Health & Well Being. The theme is supported by our Health & Well Being Development Officer in East Ayrshire and the Scottish Crimne & Drug Enforcement Agency.
The project is based around a shared responsibility which is a Columbian Government initiative supported by many international partners. It focuses on making individuals think about the impace of drug misuse, drug demand and drug production, in paricular cocaine misuse.
It is a creative and innovative project, utilising the police, health officials, Choices for life online event and pupils opinions to try and generate an attitudinal and behavioural change in a fresh way giving pupils the tools they need to make the right choices.
At Kirkstyle we have welcomed the Police taking about drugs and the law, we have scheduled a visit from health officials and Kilmarnock Academy staff to look at emergency first aid and safety and pupils and staff from the Modern languages Department to introduce our pupils to a little Spanish, the official language of Columbia.
The pupils have also explored and investigated substance misuse through an educational programme and have learned about the impact of the environment caused directly by deforestation, as a result of cocaine production.
The project is designed to be shared across our Learning Community and in turn with parents at Kilmarnock Academy’s welcome met for our parents. (Scheduled for 4th June – Pr.6 & Pr.7 pupils’ parents) A display of the pupils work and also some of their Powerpoints of research work will be on show at Kilmanrock Academy.
As part of the project our pupils visited Amazonia and got the opportunity to have some hands on experiences and see the animals they have been studying.
