We would like to say a huge thank you to our Friends of Kirk o’ Shotts group and parents for providing a coffee morning to raise funds and awareness of MacMillan Cancer Group. We had a fantastic turn out from our community and raised a staggering £500 which we will be sending to this amazing charity. Thanks again to everyone who supported this event, it was a fantastic achievement.
Congratulations to all our pupils and staff for their fantastic achievement in gaining a fifth Eco Green Flag. It is an incredible amount of work to receive one of these awards and we are very proud of everyone at Kirk o’ Shotts Primary.
Pupils were revising our school vision today during ‘Thinking Circles’ and discussed ways in which we can achieve our vision.
Our vision is,
‘To work together to be all we can be’
I wonder who the first winners of our new capacities awards will be?
Which skills and qualities have you shown this week?
We’ll find out on Monday, good luck.
Well done to all our pupils who started working in their Pupil Learning Communities this afternoon. We have groups for Rights Respecting Schools, Eco, Enterprise, School Newspaper, Pupil Council and ICT. Thank you to all the teachers for getting these groups up and running.
Hi everyone ,the staff at Kirk o’ Shotts have been hard at work over the last few days preparing for the return of our wonderful pupils. Looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow.
I have seen you all practising and hope lots of the community come to enjoy your work and all the singing you have been practising too.
My class have been doing a sience specific topic, we even got trout to tie into it. We have been learning all about flowers, bugs and animals. The topic is called All Living Things.
Our class got trout from Clyde in the Classroom and a man called Willy from the River Clyde Foundation came in and told us how well our fish were developing. We had a lot of fun caring for the fish but it was hard work because the tempature had to be just right. When we were releasing the trout into a local burn, Willy told us more about how the fish would survive on their own.
We drew trout and coloured them in with water pastels, our teacher Miss King made a river with some different blue paper, we then displayed them on out All Living Things display wall. We made habitat posters to also display on the wall.
On the 17th of March I went on Tigtag and I learned about the life cycle of an oak tree, what photosynthesis means and what is germination. Before we finish our topic I will try and learn about the willow trees.
I have enjoyed learning about all living things.
By Shelley Gilmour
P6 and p7 have been learning about All Living Things. So we got 200 brown trout eggs to look after then we would release them in to our local burn. When the trout go into the burn 80% die and 20% live.
People from Rockie Rock stars have taught us songs. One is called Never Give Up its a song telling us Never to give up they are really good. The school are performing them on Thursday.
We had a quiz in Shotts we did good, we got second place.
We have just finished our book what is called Kensuke’s Kingdom.
For the past weeks some pupils from Room 3 and 7, including me have been learning and practicing a dance routine we are then going to use on Monday 21st March in a fun competition. The dance was created by Bronwyn, Abby, Andie and I. Currently everyone knows the dance and we are just perfecting it. We have a fair amount of props used in our dance including four stools, four school bags and four books. A lot of people have joined and dropped out of the dance group but we finally have our group sorted. The minimum number of dancers in a group is 5 and maximum is 20. The song you’re dancing to can be up to 2 minutes long and your group must compete in the category of the oldest dancer.
I am very excited and I’m sure the rest of the group are too. We are leaving on Monday morning and we will all have loads of fun.
