On the 10th of September we we honoured with a visit from Airdrie born Angela McDowell, a multi medal winner at the 1988 South Korean Paralympic Games. She talked to us about how she developed her swimming skills despite her sight problems and how she went on to win over 200 medals in National, European and International championships as well as her 8 Olympic medals. She let some of the children wear her medals too. She was an inspiration to all of us. Thank you Angela for sharing your story with us.
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Ahoy Me Hearties!
Kirkshaws Primary School was taken over on Thursday the 20th of September by a band of Pirates! Pupils within the school were invited to create a pirate hat to celebrate ‘International talk like a Pirate Day”. A special pirate menu was also on offer that day in the school canteen. The winner of the best hat won a micro scooter which was supplied by our catering services. Well done to everyone who took part. You all looked amazing – and very scary!
Assembly Awards
We have changed our award certificates this year. We now receive “Fantastic Class Teacher Awards” and “Awesome Classroom Assistant Awards” effort in our work, being a good Kirkshaws citizen and good behaviour and attitude. Here are some of our recent winners from Friday the 14th of September. Look out for our future winners.
Welcome Back!
Welcome back to Kirkshaws Primary School for the new session. We hope you all had a wonderful holiday and are ready for our new year together. It has been a great day!
A huge welcome to our 30 new Primary 1’s and nursery children- it is so lovely to have you with us.
We are looking forward to a fantastic year full of fun, work and achievement. Good luck to everyone!
Happy Holidays
The school will close today at 1pm.
Kirkshaws Primary and Nursery Staff wish you a safe and happy holiday.
See you on the 16th of August!
Dress Down Day
Joseph Success
This morning the Kirkshaws Drama Club performed an excerpt from the Musical ‘Joseph and his Techicolour Dreamcoat’ to a selection of classes as well as parents and friends. I’m sure everyone will agree what a fabulous success it was. We look forward to next years ventures in Music and Drama.
Click on the links to see some clips from the show .
Summer Assembly – Preview
Want a sneak preview of the assembly or just want to remind yourself of how brilliant it was? Just click on the list below for a short clip of each class performing. Enjoy!
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Grand Graduations
Congratulations to all of our nursery Graduates. You all sang so well and how smart out leavers looked in their graduation capes and hats. Everyone enjoyed their special snack and got the opportunity to take lots of photographs – the mums and dads even had time for tea and cakes! Good luck to all of our children starting primary 1 after the school summer break and we look forward to all of our returners joining us again in August. We hope you all had a lovely time.
MSP Visit
Primary 6 were visited today be Elaine Smith MSP to congratulate them on the fantastic letters they send to her after their visit to the Scottish Parliament. She highly commended them on their writing skills and their conduct during their visit. 3 children were awarded a prize for effort as well as everyone recieving a personalised letter of thanks.