Football  Report by Mr Simon Mein

The primary 5 footballers, coached by Mr Mein and two high School pupils, have been playing their first matches! 

Dalbeattie Primary School P5 Football team played its first competitive match recently, recording a 6-3 home win against Castle Douglas. It was watched by a good turn out of spectators, and despite the driving rain and hailstones, the players performed admirably and were a credit to the school. Special mention should go to hat-trick hero Kieran and also to Adam, Greg and Owen who were rock-like in defence throughout. Charlie and Paige were playing in their first competitive matches and both had highly creditable debuts, putting in some fine tackles.

The next fixture took place as an away match at  Castle Douglas on March 4^th , again in  with some hail and good parental support! This was another win for our team, they won 2-1. The team was also delighted to be wearing a brand new set of football strips supplied by Ashliegh Construction, the company who is  currently building the new Dalbeattie Clinic. Thank you to project manager David Roan for this super set of strips for our school.

The team has been training for several weeks under the watchful eyes of High School student coaches Duncan Scott and Frazer McClelland. Currently 15 students take part in training although there is always space for more. The large squad means there is a lot of rotating of players during the matches but the students cope with the changes well and adapt well to new positions. Hopefully more  matches can be arranged soon!

Another win for Dalbeattie Primary! Once again our Primary 7 team: Sam Maxwell, Hamish Anderson, Beth Porter and Lachlan Mc Killop went up against teams from Colvend, Palnackie and Kirkgunzeon in the first round of the annual Rotary Quiz.Some of the questions needed lots of thought and there were some tense moments but Dalbeattie held onto their lead and came away victorious! The next round takes place in Dumfries.

On Thursday 6th March our school was transformed into a magical world of literary characters. Dragons, princesses and Vikings rubbed shoulders with Horrid Henry, jungle animals and even Tweedledum and Tweedledee! The staff joined in as well and classes were taught by Pippi Longstocking, Fantastic Mr Fox and even a midwife! World book day is a wonderful opportunity to raise awareness of how exciting a good book can be and encourages children to realise that there is a wide range of authors and stories available to them. Many thanks to parents, carers, staff and children for joining in and making the day a success!

 

 

scots poetry finalists click here

On Friday 24th January we all dressed up in tartan to celebrate our Scots’ poetry competition and we sang a selection of Scots’ songs in the afternoon as well as celebrating the poetry finalists. It was a lot of fun!

Friday 7th February is when we judge the Primary 7s with ‘Tam O’Shanter’

Dalbeattie Primary School turned back time on the 28^th January when pupils and staff dressed up in old fashioned clothes for a themed day with a focus on the school’s history. Not only did pupils come to school in outfits typical of the period in which the school opened but they also: took part in a ‘history detectives’ trail outdoors to look for clues for how the buildings had changed over the years; took part in a Victorian clothes and toys handling workshop with costumes kindly loaned by Dumfries Museum; took part in old fashioned playground games such as marbles, hopscotch and used gird n cleeks, kindly loaned by the Catstrand in New Galloway; watched and discussed a powerpoint of the school’s history made from photos supplied by Dalbeattie Museum; and watched a clip of the school in 1901 which one parent found on the BFI website. The children were amazed by this – quite a find! There were also special visitors: Donald and Tommy Henderson from Dalbeattie Museum came in clothes of the period and were equipped with a teacher’s abacus and old fashioned toys; Dumfries Museum’s Fiona Wilson gave a hand to children trying on outfits. The school is also grateful to Dalbeattie High School for lending extra dressing up items for the day. And there’s more…in the weeks to come, retired Head Teacher Norman Kennedy will also be visiting classes to lead talks on the school in days gone by.

Did Dalbeattie Primary enjoy Dick Whittington-‘Oh yes we did!’ As usual we were amazed at the vitality and enthusiasm of this brilliant theatre group and marvelled at how only four people can play a cast of so many more! We booed evil Captain Hawkeye, we laughed at his sidekick Spew[?], we sighed at the romance between Alice and Dick but most of all we absolutely adored Tommy the cat especially when he climbed up the wall bars!! Thank you M & M.

There were three very pleased children at Dalbeattie Primary School when they received vouchers from the Hub’s Audrey Christie for their super entries in a competition to design a poster in connection with the construction of a new clinic in Dalbeattie. Project manager David Roan, Construction Manager from Ashleigh for the new site, who recently welcomed pupils from the school’s council to bury a time capsule in the foundations of the clinic site, invited the young people to draw a poster about site safety and the importance of being considerate constructors. Orla, Holly and Brooke won vouchers for the Dalbeattie book shop. David Roan said he was delighted to recive 50 posters and a selection will be displayed on a special notice board. The school will also be delighted to receive a new set of football strips from Ashleigh Construction in the new year.