Castle Douglas Primary and Early Learning and Childcare Centre

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Sharing Learning – Weekly News – March 24th

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This week’s school and class news. Please do share with us any comments you have about our class activities. Click on the Comments tab underneath the Title of the activity.

School News

A HUGE thank you to Primary 2a and 2b for their hard work in setting up Comic Relief activities today and to everyone who supported their appeal by buying Red Noses and taking part today. A fantastic £748.70 has been raised – very well done.

A reminder that we have the PTA Spring Disco next Thursday (30th). P1-3 from 6-7pm and P4-7 from 7:15 – 8:30 pm

Class News

Primary 1 We made dinosaurs in groups at our ‘Make a Model’ morning. We enjoyed sharing this with our parents and grandparents.

Zane : I liked making the Triceratops.

Eli L “ I liked making Terry-Pterodactyl”

Next week – Wedding Party on Friday 31st March. Pupils are very welcome to come dressed in party clothes 🙂

 

Primary 1/2

We have enjoyed Red Nose Day. We dressed in bright clothes and took part in lots of activities. Friday afternoon as great fun. Our parents joined us for an afternoon of Easter and Spring activities including and Easter Egg trail, chick crafts and team games. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.

Primary 2a

We have been busy getting ready for our Comic Relief Assembly on Friday. We have also been doing Bollywood dancing with Primary 7 and collecting weather information from our weather station outside the classroom.

Primary 2b

We have been practising and preparing for our Assembly and worked hard to learn our song. We hope that you enjoyed watching it.

In maths we have begun to learn to tell the time one hour before and one hour after. We are finding this tricky but will keep trying.

Primary 3b

We have been multiplying and dividing by 5 and 10 this week. We wrote a personal story about ‘A Birthday Party’ remembering to use capital letters, full stops, correct sequencing and including escribing words. We have been experimenting with magnets and we took part in Red Nose activities.

Jessica and Anna sang in front of their parents at the Wee Sing Concert in Dumfries. Liam went to Dumfries to play football for Threave Rovers and the score was 3-1 against Lochar Thistle. Erin and Reece achieved their accelerating target this week.

We enjoy going to lunchtime rugby club on a Thursday.

Primary 5/6

This week we took part in the Dumfries and Galloway Sumdog competition. We were 5th out of all the schools.

We had a visit from the Smoking matters Team as part of our health and wellbeing learning.

In maths were are using local bus timetables to plan a journey around the region. We are going to make maps of our journey.

Some of us went to see Oliver at the Fullarton. We enjoyed it.

Primary 6

We finished our Street Child book and made a start on a book review. We have identified what we like and dislike about the book.

We have been turning 12 hour times into 24 hour times and vice versa. We have also been working on square roots of numbers.

 

Joshua moved up a level in Rugby.

 

A reminder that money for our New Lanark visit should be brought in please.

Primary 6/7

Our class won the Dumfries and Galloway Sumdog Competition. Fynn, Jake and Kacey finished in the top 10 students.

The final Rugby coaching session was this week. Contact Rugby session are available at Stewartry Rugby Club during the Easter holidays.

In maths we have been drawing and measuring angles.

This week’s badminton champions were Fynn and Jake.

 

Reminders for P6/7 – PE Kit on a Monday and Projects in for Monday too.

 

Primary 7

This week we have been working on perimeter in maths.

We have also been completing Maths INCAs on the computer.

We had an opportunity to sue the smoothie bike to make Mango Lassi on Wednesday.

We also created Rangoli patterns which look beautiful.

 

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