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To complete our fairyland focus, P2 had a truly magical time at our recent visit to Moatbrae – Where Peter Pan began…

We arrived in style, chauffeur driven by Mr V, and met with our guides for the day – Wendy, Barbara and Dorito Annie. The children could hardly contain their excitement as they roamed the house and gardens.  Barbara, our house guide, told the children tales of a young J.M. Barrie  and his friends running about the house. Their imaginations were in overdrive as they ran around the nursery, catching Tinkerbell in the nursery, presenting plays in the attic, singing nursery rhymes in the reading room, peeking through the keyhole in the study and soaking up the festive spirit with the beautiful decorations. In the garden, the resident pirate, Dorito Annie held the children spellbound as they chased crocodiles, braved Tick Tock Croc, and squealed with delight as they spotted ‘crocodiles’ silently floating down the Nith! Knocking on fairy doors and planting daffodils bulbs were an added bonus. Lastly, Wendy helped the children make some beautiful Christmas cards, and read Christmas stories, before our chauffeur for the day arrived to take some very happy, but extremely tired children (and teachers!) back to school. Magical! 

Today girls from our P5,6 & 7 classes headed over to St Joseph’s College for the first of our active girls lunch time clubs.  The girls enjoyed the dance/aerobics routines and felt ready for action when they headed back to school for the afternoon.

Over the month of December, P7 brought in items to be donated to those in need in our region over the Christmas period. We collected many items including toiletries, food and baby things and we dropped them in at The Oasis Centre, Dumfries. They were made into hampers to go to families who may be struggling for the necessities during the Christmas holidays. Well done P7, a very thoughtful act of kindness.

 

After a lovely St Andrew’s day Mass with Father Gerald P4 made Empire Biscuits on Friday and decorated them with the saltire.

Yesterday we were lucky enough to have M & M Theatre Productions visit our school.  They performed the brilliant Peter Pan Pantomime for the whole school and nursery.  The show was full of laughs, dancing and sing-a-long songs – including a bit of teacher participation!!

All the children agreed it was a great way to start our lead up to Christmas.

A group of Primary 4 and Primary 7 children have been working hard over several lunch times in recent weeks on a dance routine for a Dance Festival.  Hayley Powell from Active Schools has been in to help and advise but the majority of the routine came from the children’s own ideas.

Yesterday 17 children went to The Bridge to perform their routine, along with 3 other schools.  The children did a great job and always had big smiles on their faces (even when one of our team lost their shoe mid routine!)

We were awarded certificates for Best Team Spirit and Most Unique Dance Routine.  Everyone really enjoyed the experience and we look forward to participating again next year.

On Friday Primary 3 children held their first ‘Soup Kitchen’. They used some vegetables from the school garden to make lentil and leek and potato soup.  The children also baked some delicious bread.

At the end of the school day they set up a stall at the gate so parents and friends could enjoy a cup of soup to warm them up on such a cold day!

 

On Wednesday 20th November, Primary 1 & 2 welcomed their families in school to see the hard work they have been doing since the start of the school year. Back in August, the children received a letter from a friendly dragon who needed their help to rebuild Fairyland after it had been lost. The children have been working hard to grow beanstalks, build castles, look after the 3 Bears house and the gingerbread house as well as writing letters to the dragon and reading lots of fairy tales. The result of all their hard work was their classrooms being transformed in to Fairyland! As you can see from the photographs, children and adults alike had great fun reading books, sharing work, making sweetie houses and decorating gingerbread people as well as building castles and making friends for our friendly dragon.  All the teachers are extremely proud of how hard the children have been working.

 

Everyone was up bright and early for jog club this morning.  The cold, frosty weather did not put us off!  We wrapped up warm and headed down to the Dock Park and even made it to the Millennium Bridge.  Everyone now feels they are able to jog for slightly longer each week as our fitness levels increase.  Fingers crossed for another dry morning next week!

This term we are working on our food preparation skills by making healthy foods to share with our families.  Each Friday afternoon groups have been choosing healthy toppings for pizzas, then preparing and cooking these to take home.  The children have agreed these have been a really yummy treat!