On Wednesday 28th May P7s joined 62 other schools to watch and take part in the Choices for Life Live Online event.They learned about the dangers of alcohol and drugs, then had an opportunity to interact online with other schools as well as the Choices for Life presenters.The children were extremely ‘chuffed’ to get a shout out from the presenters at the start of the show!
Well done P7s, Miss Clendinning and Mrs Burn!
Primary 5D recently visited Dalbeattie Museum as part of our History work. We learned lots of information about the artefacts. Mya thought the dentist’s drill looked like a lot of hard work. We thought it looked terrifying! We had fun using the old fashioned weighing scales. Dalbeattie museum is special because the staff let us interact with the artefacts. We enjoyed typing, playing pinball and wearing the gas masks and helmets. We recommend visiting Dalbeattie Museum!
Mersehead with Primary 3, Nancy found a newt and Luke the supreme ‘bug hunter’ caught a frog!
Dalbeattie Primary School is delighted to have been presented with two new planters by BSW Sawmill. The representatives along with our Eco group appear in the photo! Well done the Eco group and Mrs Howie!
Well done to the gardening club! They have planted lots of vegetables which we look forward to harvesting in the autumn term!We make soup for everyone with the vegetables, a healthy lunch for all with all our own home grown produce!
We have recently purchased an online system for cataloguing books. This will allow us to improve the monitoring of our use of reading materials as a whole and the individual books our children are reading. This will enable us to set individual targets for reading for the children. However, it will be a major task to upload our material onto the system. Three member of staff have been trained in using this system but we would much appreciate some parent volunteers to assist with this mega task!! We are going to have a training session on Tuesday 17th June between 9:30am and 11:00 am. If you think you might be able to spare some time for sessions to help with this cataloguing between the 17th June and the 
end of term, please contact the office. Thank you. Please, please come and help! Mrs Howie
Mrs Irving’s maths group Enterprise It was amazing that in one week we went from completing a worksheet full of ideas to setting up our Enterprise, selling ice creams and ice lollies to a hall full of parents, children and staff! In one hour we were sold out of our ice-cream with sumptuous toppings, blackcurrant, Sprite and orange lollies. Well done the team!
We were complimented on our work ethic, manners, organisation and professionalism– no standing around chatting for this team!
In the end we made £150 and after deductions a profit of £121 which the team have decided to spend providing a party for all the P7s during a school afternoon as their trip was at the start of the year.
Hurrah for the maths’ group!!!!
Mrs Howie recently took a group of golfers from P6 and P7 to Castle Douglas Golf Club for the Regiona Schools Competition. While the children did not receive any prizes, their behaviour was a reward in itself. All five displayed very good manners and conducted themselves well according to all golf etiquette and rules! Mrs Howie was proud of their efforts, well done!
Primary 4-7 pupils enjoyed an entertaining afternoon, thanks to visiting author William Sutcliffe who was organised to come to Dalbeattie Primary through the Scottish Book Trust. William Sutcliffe is the author of ‘Circus of Thieves and the Raffle of Doom’. Mrs Dyson’s Primary 5 class were so eager to promote this hilarious book to others, that they created their own book trailer (available to watch on our school blog) to be shown at the start of the event. There was a lot of laughter when William Sutcliffe read extracts from his book and selected volunteers to dramatically act them out. The afternoon proved a rewarding experience for all; finding out more about the world of writing and receiving top tips. Pupils were delighted when he took time to sign copies of his book. This was an exciting event for our pupils and William Sutcliffe commented on the wonderful enthusiasm shown.
