What Have We Been Up to?

Session 2023-24

Visit to the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh as part of our topic on the Egyptians

World Book Day

This year’s World Book Day was based around Alice in Wonderland with a Mad Hatter’s Tea Party lunch! Here are some of the fantastic costumes.

Dumfries and Galloway Canine Rescue Centre 21st birthday non-uniform day. £100 was collected in school and handed to the Canine Rescue.

Visit from the Fire Service

A Day of Dance at St Joseph’s College

Celebrations on Burns Day 2024

Snow fun

P5/6/7 spent a morning at Dumfries Ice Bowl learning to curl.

Rehearsals are coming on for the Magical Christmas Jigsaw show in the Barbour Hall.

Christmas lunch served by Mrs Bonar. Delicious!

P7 making a super job, decorating the Christmas tree

Glencaple village walkabout with Christmas Concert invites

Visit from Crichton Carbon Centre to learn about sustainability

Ryley, Amie-Leigh, Ramsey, Ivor and Hari represented the school on Remembrance Sunday by laying the school wreath at Caerlaverock War Memorial. Keira and Nell also represented the school by lighting the beacon at sunset on Remembrance Sunday at the Quay End.

P5/7 making apple turnovers with the school apple crop

Spooktacular Halloween fun at Caerlaverock!

P1/4 enjoying an Art and Design activity

The Glencaple allotment team have kindly grown a Pumpkin Patch for the children. Today was harvest day and the children and staff went over to the allotments to help bring the pumpkins back to school ready to decorate for Halloween. Thank you very much Team Allotment!

P7 attended Operation Safety to learn about fire safety, water safety, road safety, online safety, food safety, electrical safety and how to deal with an unconscious person.

The pupils took their new teachers and Mrs Scriven a guided tour around the village, pointing out all the sights along the way. They finished off with a play in the newly refurbished community playpark.

Active Schools Lunch Club

Our playground play leaders for this session

Staff and pupils during the first week of term

Our new Primary 1 pupils with Mrs Thomson and Mrs Boyd

Schools gardens looking good in the sunshine

Session 2022-23

A fond farewell to our Primary 7 leavers. Good luck at Dumfries High School P7

Primary 7 end of school excursion to Fusion Trampolines at Carlisle followed by lunch at Macdonalds

An afternoon tea party to present Miss Cochrane with leaving gifts from the Brownrock community on her retirement from education at the end of this session.

P5/7 coming up with ideas on how to overcome a natural disaster

Celebrating the King’s Coronation at Caerlaverock

Lockerbie Manor Residential Excursion

Here are a few pictures from the fabulous residential experience enjoyed recently by P6/7 at Lockerbie Manor. Wow! Looks amazing fun P6/7!

Comic Relief day fun! Thank you to everyone who contributed. We have sent

the sum of £43.87 to the charity.

Visits to Caerlaverock Castle with Creative Caerlaverock

Session 1

Creative Caerlaverock brings people together to rethink and shape experiences that dig into the less represented stories of our historic places and use creative activities to learn about these together with local communities.

Creative Caerlaverock – Session 2

Creative Caerlaverock – Session 3

Creative Caerlaverock – Session 4 (the lunch)

Address to a haggis, the Immortal Memory, toasting the lassies (and the laddies) and a delicious haggis tatties and neeps lunch! Former pupil, Struan, also kindly returned to pipe the haggis in at our Burns Supper style lunch.

Brownrock excursion to visit Ellisland Farm, the home of Robert Burns and Jean Armour

P5/6/7 Christmas Party in the Barbour Hall

Christmas lunch is served!

The pupils performed their Christmas show “Its Chriiistmas!”in front of a packed audience in the Barbour Hall. What a fantastic performance! Delicious festive treats were served by the Parent Council during the interval – thank you. Below are the cast members ready to perform. Thank you to everyone who bought hamper squares, crafts or donated at the event – after expenses we raised the sum of £352.68 for school funds.

Astonished faces this morning! The P1/4 Christmas Elf had enjoyed some antics in the photocopier overnight!

Our four P7 pupils decorated the Christmas tree and it looks fantastic.

Fundraising in school for Children in Need day – £32.90 was sent off to the charity. Well done everyone!

Well done Primary 1 – jointly winning this week’s Teamwork award

Primary 7 laying a wreath on behalf of the school at Caerlaverock War Memorial and

our Remembrance Day wall display.

Gymnastics during a PE lesson in the P5/7 class

Spooktacular fun at the Halloween Party

Operation Safety

P7 attended Operation Safety to learn about fire safety, water safety, road safety, online safety, food safety, electrical safety and how to deal with an unconscious person.

Teamwork!

The Wild Goose Festival

The festival is inspired by the migratory route of the barnacle geese between Svalbard and the Solway estuary

The children enjoying being back at school and playing outside

Session 2021-22

P1/4 classes from Brownhall and Caerlaverock enjoyed a day at Mabie Farm Park for their summer excursion. Looks like great fun!

The Parent Council very kindly arranged for the Sweet Sadies Ice Cream van to call at Caerlaverock and everyone enjoyed a yummy ice cream!

P5/7 Brownhall and Caerlaverock excursion to the Aviation Museum in Dumfries followed by a visit to the Dock Park for crazy golf and trampolining.

P7 had a two night residential excursion at Marthrown of Mabie. Den building, trails, games and camp fires and a visit to Mabie Farm Park. Fabulous fun!

A Jubilee themed games morning followed by “afternoon tea” lunch outside.

Outdoor learning at Caerlaverock …. cleaning, tidying, painting, weeding and planting.

Playing games at Mrs McGinley’s “baby shower” afternoon

before she left to have her baby.

Collecting rubbish off the foreshore at Glencaple

Researching WWII

Red Nose Day 2022 fundraising day – £56.75 has been sent to the charity. Thank you to everyone who contributed.

Pie Face winner – Ayla!

Music Technology using ‘Soundtrap’

Dressed up as favourite book characters for World Book Day.

Outdoor Learning at Caerlaverock during a sunny day recently

Castles made from recycled resources

P1/4 wearing masks that they made to celebrate Chinese New Year.

Caerlaverock Primary Burns Supper

Our Burns Supper was held in the traditional format including the Selkirk Grace, the Immortal Memory, a toast to the lassies followed by their reply and Auld Lang Syne, with delicious courses served in between.

Thank you to Struan who piped in the haggis and to Mrs Bonnar for preparing and serving our Burns Supper.

The Christmas Parties were in full swing at Caerlaverock Primary. Christmas Corners, Statues, Dress the Snowman and Snowball Throw – great fun and prizes too!

The children made Christmas cards for the senior citizens in the Parish which they hand delivered through their letter boxes.

Mrs Bonnar cooked us the most amazing Christmas dinner. It was delicious! Thank you Mrs Bonnar

Primary 7 decorated our Christmas tree, which was very kindly donated to us by Lady Clare. Thank you very much Lady Clare and thank you to Primary 7 for making the hall look so Christmassy!