Alice was one of 2 children from Hardgate to be picked to take part in a swimming gala in Dumfries recently. Children from throughout the area took part and Alice came home with 3 medals, 2 bronze and a silver. In the picture she is proudly showing these medals. Well done Alice !
All the P.6 children have been trained by Darren from Active Schools, with a programme to give them the confidence to help the younger children to make the most of games time outside in the school grounds at break times. Here we see them on a very sunny day ( rare occasion !) with their certificates. Next term we will be starting a rota of games with these young leaders for some of our outdoor playtimes.
All pupils in P7, today (28th May) had a talk from Constable Ian Bradley who is the police officer assigned to all the schools in the Stewartry district. He talked to the pupils about the safe and correct way in which to use the internet. There are many ways in which some people can be bullied by others over the internet, and unsuitable material displayed. Constable Bradley talked to the children and discussed with them how they should treat the internet and other people in a safe and responsible way. It is also very important that parents and carers are aware of these problems and take an active role in ensuring they know what their children are doing on the internet and taking any necessary steps required if problems arise. CEOP is the police site where all the relevant information can be found. You can access it with the web link below.
Mrs Martin and her class opened up their classroom to parents and other pupils to share the work they had completed on the topic of ‘Fairyland’ In the pictures below you can see the boys and girls showing the older children some of the things they have done and reading out some of their stories they have written. We wonder if the schools’ resident dragon in the attic will keep paying us a visit and leaving his footprints around the build
ing, or if he has decided to hibernate now ???
Hometime on Friday for Mollie was a bit of a surprise ! Mum, Katie had decided to take advantage of the nice weather and arrive at school on horseback,(on Maisie), along with Mollies miniature Shetland pony, Rosie, on a lead rein, all tacked up and ready to transport Millie home. When the bell went at 3.00pm and the classes were relaeased this event caused a great deal of interest and after Mollie got into her riding gear, mum and daughter trotted off up the hill with several of the other children still standing watching. In the picture below you can see Mollie all ready to go.
Children in P.3 to P.7 have been learning all about budgeting and managing money. This very important skill has been delivered by Pam Fraser, Financial Education Training Officer and Bev Wilkinson, Financial Education Officer. Pam and Bev are employed by Dumfries and Galloway Council and deliver a very important aspect of money management to equip us for life. All sectors of the community are catered for and age relevant material is used to educate the recipient audience with a view to helping make money stretch for all of our needs. Budgeting at an early age educates children into hopefully becoming responsible adults when it comes to dealing with money matters, and aid a life long planning strategy and understanding for all financial needs. Emphasis was put on NEEDS and WANTS, and an activity to furnish a bedroom on a budget was completed with the help of the Argos web-site. The children were very enthusiastic about both sessions of money matters.
Returning to school after the snow, brought out all the coloured wellies to keep our feet dry when we went out to play.
Holly and Lauren are our P6 winners of the K-Nex challenge at school level. They now go on to the next round to compete aginst the other cluster school winners to aim for the regional final. They are seen here with their model of a piece of playground equipment. They had to think about the structure, stability, safety and the suitability for children to use. Well done to Lauren and Holly
An extra long weekend for pupils here at Hardgate, due to huge amounts of snow and drifts, proved to be fun all round. School was closed on Friday 22nd and Monday 25th of March due to the non-stop snow from early on Friday and all the way through to Saturday. This was followed by major drifting problems causing roads all round about us to be blocked. On monday morning we had help from the council to clear all our accesses and allow pupils to return to school on Tuesday. We all took advantage of the snow to have fun as this is really quite an unusual event here to have so much.
To help our national challenge to raise money for comic relief, we held a non-uniform day and all wore red. We brought £1 to school for the privilage of leaving our school uniforms at home today. Our money will be sent to help Comic Relief smash last years total amount raised.
