Category Archives: Class of 2012 -2013

National Poetry Day

National Poetry Day was celebrated throughout the school with pupils writing their own masterpieces, talking & listening presenting sessions and activities for enjoyment; sharing real poets work and comparing different times of genre and style.

Pr.1 – Growing garden

Tiana, Catlin and Brooke with their seedlings

 

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.

Riley and Sam were keen to try theirs.
Iona, Dana and Arran held their prizes high.

Sports Day

Kirkstyle amazing sports day.

It was a lovely day for sports. It was very funny a Primary 1 put her pigtails in her circle rubber ring and people where trying to get in there sack, but at least it turned out nice I loved it.

Emily Bradford

It was a perfect day for sports day. Some people cheated at the novelty race and the nursery race. There were selling juice, water and crisps.it was a lot of fun a  little girl got stuck in her sack.

Tamzin Anderson

Yesterday it was our sports day my class did the balancing the ball race I came 2nd Amy Mortimer won. I also did the girls relay the yellows came 2nd I did the tunnel ball- guess where we came 2nd. I did the flat race I came 5th the top 4 get a sticker well doesn’t matter it least I came 2nd in 3!!!

Louise Cameron

Gardening

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;

  • cress and sunflowers in pots to watch the life cycle
  • nastursiums in peat pots to enable pupils to see the pots decompose into the soil
  • peas, runner beans and broad beans in recycled washing tubs to watch the seedling sprout
  • lettuce, radishes, rhubarb and parsley as plants to harvest prior to the summer holidays
  • carrots, lettuces, beetroot, mustard and corriander from seed in our outside planters

   

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!

Walk to School Week

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.

Exhibition

The pupils across the school worked towards their painting targets set by their Class Teachers and practised new techniques and demonstrated their skills. The results were very professional and deserved to be exhibited for all to see.

Therefore we enlisted the help of an outside agency that specialised in art galleries to mount, frame and exhibit the pupils’ work at Parents’ Evening.

We hope you got the oppportunity to visit the gallery and we would like to thank you for your support with this project.

These pupils’ parents and carers decided to buy their art work to hang in their own galleries at home.

Miss Boyd's artists
Mrs Walls artists
Mrs Drennan's artists
Mrs Kirkwood's artists
Mrs Morrison's artists
Miss Finnigen's artists
Miss McDowall's artists
Mr Nutt's artists
Mrs Thom's artists
Mrs Milligan's artists
Mrs Ross's artists