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Paralympic Hero Visit

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.

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!

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 .

Jacob and Sons

One More Angel in Heaven

Joseph's Brothers
Joseph and Jacob
Potiphar, Potiphar's Wife, Guards and Ishmaelites
Dancers For One More Angel in Heaven
Choir/Chorus

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.