P3 had a fantastic morning on Friday visiting Mr Purdie’s Dairy Farm at New Abbey. This followed on from an informative talk that he had given in class on Thursday. We toured the farm first and Mr Purdie and his daughter Elspeth discussed land use on the farm and the beautiful surrounding area. We even saw some fishermen hoping to catch some trout for their tea on Lock Kinder! We then had a look at some of the dairy herd and were lucky enough to see some new baby calves just born that morning. The milking parlour was our next stop and Mr Purdie explained how the milking equipment worked and how often the herd are milked. Our visit ended with all our delighted P3’s feeding some calves with big bottles of milk. The children learned a lot from this visit and will be able make comparisons soon when we visit a Beef farm next.
Day: September 18, 2018
SPORT SCOTLAND GOLD AWARD
We are delighted to announce that our school has been awarded the Gold School Sport Scotland Award. As noted by Sport Scotland:
“The Gold School Sport Award is recognition of your school’s achievements in putting sport at the heart of your school’s planning, practice and ethos.
The Gold Award also highlights that your school has shown excellent practice across the core areas of the Award and demonstrated an on-going commitment to increase young people’s opportunities and engagement in physical education, school sport and leadership and provide clear pathways to life-long participation in sport. “
There will be a formal presentation coming soon where we will receive a Gold School Sports Flag to display in our school.
The picture below shows two of our Sports Committee members delighted on hearing the news:
Running Club 2018
We had a rather wet start to our first Running Club outing for this session but this did not put the 19 children off who braved the conditions and the early start! After our warm up we headed down to the Dock Park where we did some circuits and relays before heading back just in time for the morning bell.
