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School News

P3a Solar Aid – raised £230 – thank you very much for support. This means that 76 solar lamps can be bought for houses in a village in Africa.

Achievement Assembly

This week we had an Achievement Assembly to share successes from both inside and outside the school.

Mr Tyson told us that P4-7 classes had improved more than 7 months with Accelerated Reading scores since August which is three months ahead of target – well done!

We then heard and saw some Wider Achievements.

Struan, in P1, told us about moving up a level in swimming. We heard about cycling success from Gregor (P2) who took part in the Tour of Britain children’s race and Emily-Rose (P2) who can now ride her bike without stabilisers.

Primary 3 pupils, Duncan (Swimming), Elle (karate) and Kyla (gymnastics) told us how they had all improved and were learning new skills.

Craig (P6) played us Auld Lang Syne on the piano. Craig has been learning the piano for two years.

Cormac and Carla (P6) told us about an indoor Athletics Event that some of our P6s and 7s went to in Dumfries on Wednesday. Our team were fourth overall and were praised for their effort and sportsmanship.

Leah and Tessa (P7) showed us their awards from Threave Rovers and Ruby also told us about her athletics competition. Gabriel showed us Dance Moves to a Michael Jackson song. He took part in a national dance competition in Wales and also performed at the Christmas Lights Switch-on.

Well done to our Pupils of the Month who were chosen by their classes.

P1 – Ceyda, P1/2 – , P2a – Callum, P2b – Dylan, P3a – Max, P3b – Lucy, P4 – Tommy, P4/5 – Jake, P5 – Connor, P5/6 – Ryan K, P6 – Callie, P6/7 – Ben, P7 – Innes

We ended up with the whole school singing Auld Lang Syne.

Thank you to House Captains who organised a Movie Night for our P3-5 pupils.

 

Class news

P1

We have been learning how to add our numbers together using different strategies.

Cara and Amber were awarded their silver award for their dojo points.

We enjoyed learning about Robert Burns – we made thistles.

We weaved paper to make tartan kilts.

Congratulations to Ceyda who was awarded our pupil of the month.
P1/2

We have been learning about penguins this week.  We have been learning lots of interesting information.  In the hall, we had a ‘huddle’ just like penguins and we tried to carry an ‘egg’ on our feet like a male emperor penguin.  It was not easy!

Caitlin – “They live in Antartica.”

Cameron – “Penguins are good at swimming.”

We are also exploring addition in maths and we are doing lots of exciting activities.

We used clay with Mrs Harris to make our own emperor penguin.
P2a
We have been researching about Nocturnal animals.
Alexander – “I found out a fox lives in an earth.”
Holly – “I found out a hedgehog has about 5000 spikes.”
Isla – “I found out a male badger is called a boar.”
Kianna – “I found out that owls could not move their eyes.”
McKenzie – “I found out Hedgehogs are good swimmers and climbers.”
P2b
We were doing research on Nocturnal animals.  We found out some interesting facts – Did you know Hedgehogs are good swimmers?
We are making clay owls with Mrs Harris in Art.
Dylan is our pupil of the month for always being polite and friendly and trying his best.

P3a
We have been very busy preparing our Assembly which was about Light. We raised over £230 for Solar Aid from our non-uniform day which is enough to buy 76 solar lamps for houses in a village in Africa.

P3b
We wore tartan or royal blue and white on Wednesday 25th January and learned about the life of Robert Burns.
We were working together to have fun with the parachute in the gym.
We have learned lots of different types of rolls in gymnastics.
Lucy is our pupil of the month for working hard to improve her handwriting and she is excellent at giving change in her maths activities.

P4
We have been learning about money in maths this week and participated in a ‘real life’ activity.  We had to create goods to sell, price them and buy/sell items always remembering to give the correct change.  It was lots of fun!
Well done to Tommy for being our pupil of the month.

P5
Holly – “We are learning about Chinese New Year.”
Lexie W – “We are doing adding and subtracting in Maths.”
Mia – “At gymnastics I managed to do my kickover.”

We were trying out some orienteering skills in the playground getting ready for our Outdoor Education day next Tuesday.

 

P5/6
We have been learning about money in maths and looking at the combinations of different coins.  We learned more about E.A Hornel from Miss Ryan our visitor who used to work at Broughton House in Kirkcudbright.  We are continuing to get better at using VCOP to up level our writing.
Well done to Ryan K for being our pupil of the month.

P6
We have been learning about metaphors.  We have been doing random acts of kindness as part of our health topic on relationships.
We have been reading Street Child and answering questions about it.
We have been trying to beat our scores in PE circuits.
We have been practising our Socts poem for the competition.
The school came 4th in an athletics competition.  Carla and Cormac from P6 were in the team.
Lewis has formed a little band with his brother.  Nicole has been improving her swimming skills.  George has became a Threave Bow-man and Chloe and Callie are learning a new Jazz dance.

P6/7
Madison, Fynn, Jake and Kacey represented CDPS and the Sportshall Athletics.  In PE we have been developing fitness through circuits and monitoring our heart rates.
In maths we have been developing budgeting skills and finding best buys.  The class has also been completing a design challenge in ICT.  Congratulations to Ben – pupil of the month.
P7
Well done to the P7 pupils who competed in the Regional Sports Hall Athletics competition on Wednesday – we came 4th overall.
Well done to Innes for being awarded pupil of the month.
This week in class pupils have completed a Climate Challenge.  In groups pupils had to come up with an energy saving idea – they had to write a description, draw and label a diagram, build a model of their idea and then present it.  The ideas were fantastic.  Well done
Reminders for Next Week
P2b – Could all children please bring a PE kit in on Mondays as this is when we have PE.
P4 – Keep practising our poem “The Magic Pizza” – we will be reciting them next week.
P5/6 – A reminder to all children to continue to learn their Scottish poem.  Mr Whan has sent home a VCOP support sheet to help include VCOP in our homework.
P6/7 – Keep practising your Scots poem.

Friday 3rd Feb – PTA Bingo Night – 6:30 – 8pm.