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Most of the primary took part in ‘Wrong Trousers Day’ to raise funds for the Wallace and Gromit’s Children’s Foundation which helps improve the quaity of life of sick children in hospitals and hospices across the UK. The ‘Wrong Trousers’ were to be bold, bright and colourful and they certainly were! Well done to everyone who took part.

The whole primary visited Dean Castle Country Park in Kilmarnock. P1/2/3 had a super time learning about Water and Wind, looking at all the different animals in the Pets’ Corner, investigating the Sensory Area and playing in the Adventure Playground. As you can see from the last photo, we were very tired on the way home!
Many thanks to Mrs. Johnston and Mrs. Ramsay who helped Mrs. Porteous with P1/2/3.

Over the last few months, we have been practising our skipping skills, so that we could take part in Jump Rope for Life and raise money for the British Heart Foundation.

The weather was perfect for Sports Day and everyone had a great time, with Kenbank winning the most points. Well done to everyone who took part and helped on the day.

P1/2/3 went to Kirkcudbright in a big coach, along with Kells and Carsphairn pupils, for the Potted Sports. The children were all put into teams and competed with other schools in a variety of throwing, jumping and skipping activities. Unfortunately Mrs. Porteous didn’t get any photos of the children competing, because she was too busy keeping the scores! However, they can been seen having a well earned drink and snack after the activities and before getting back on the coach. The first group photo shows the prize winners and the RED STAR team managed to come 2nd and this included Rona, Emily Biggar, Ruth and Lewis.

We all helped to make this dragon. We each drew a part of it and printed scales to stick on. It is was a team effort and Mrs. McKinnon, our Art Teacher, was very pleased with the way we worked together.

Seven children from the nursery came to visit the P1/2/3 classroom. They listened to a story about Jack and the Beanstalk and then Primary One helped them to cut out leaves to make a beanstalk.
Then we sang our Jack and the Beanstalk songs to the nursery children. We enjoyed having them and we hope they enjoyed their visit.

As part of our Fairyland topic, we have been making dragons with multilink bricks.

Congratulations to the children who managed to get 20 stickers for after school / out of school activities. They were awarded a Bronze Certificate at the Assembly. Stickers can be awarded for good playground behaviour, football, gymnastics, swimming etc.

We have had three sessions of Multi Acivity Sports with Sean Laird, who is the Active Schools Primary Co-ordinator. We have played hockey, dodge ball and football, as well as lots of warm up games. Here we are practising our hockey skills.