Our Weekly School News
This is an opportunity to share our learning with the school community. We hope that families will find our posts useful in helping to develop listening and talking about some of the things our pupils are learning in school.
(Comments on our activities are also very welcome – click on the small comments link underneath each Post heading on our website.)
Positive Destinations. We are inviting ex-pupils of the school to either post on our Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/cdpschool/) or email the School – gw08officecastle@dumgal.gov.uk to tell us about what jobs they have done and any achievements they would like to share. This is to add to our ‘Positive Destinations Wall Display’ to give our current pupils some ideas and information about their future aspirations.
Summer Fete
The PTA organized a Summer Fete on Saturday 20th May. There were activities, stalls and also visits from the Fire Service and Police. A fabulous £1376 was raised which will all go towards supporting activities in our classes next session. Comments are very welcome on what visitors to the Fete thought of the day.
Some Class News
Primary 1/2
This week, we have been busy carrying out our homework challenge. We have been looking at and learning about old transport at home with our families. Our posters and drawings are fantastic! Rhuben told us that his Papa had a Bedford Coach! We loved sharing our assembly today. We told the story of The Enormous Turnip and encouraged everyone to work as a team. Devlin said, ” I loved singing the songs”. Thank you all for coming.
Primary 2b
We read The Lighthouse Keeper’s lunch and have enjoyed doing activities related to the story. Our pesky seagulls are now flying around the class! We are working on addition and subtraction in Maths again now.
Primary 3a
This week we have been working on multiplying two digit numbers by a 1 digit number.
We have continued on our Romans topic.
Milly – “We learned that a Roman helmet was called a cassis.”
In Literacy we have been working on adjectives.
Douglas has been learning to do patterns in Taekwondo. Harrison, Duncan and Finlay all went to visit the police station with Beavers.
Harrison also won a medal in Karate and Eilidh learned new moves in her Karate class.
Milly has learned to do a forward flip in Gymnastics.
Well done everyone!
Primary 3b
We started a new topic on the Romans. We have made a storyboard on the legend of Romulus and Remus. We are researching about Roman soldier clothing and have started a mosaic design with Mrs Harris.
Our class would like to say Well Done to the following pupils:
Anna has learned to play frog on a log at her piano lessons.
Josh has learned how to play A minor on the ukelele.
Reece can do a handspring at mini squad.
Ellie-Jay can do the splits at gymnastics.
Georgia can play Mary had a little lamb on the piano.
Lucy & Erin can do the box splits at gymnastics. Erin can straddle over the box too.
Lhlyaijana can play a beat with drum sticks and spin a drumstick while she’s playing.
Olivia can finally do handstands at the bottom of the deep end at the swimming pool.
Sarah can do a forward flip at dancing.
Primary 4 –
We have really been enjoying learning some First Aid skills with Mr Tyson recently. This week we learned how to properly apply bandages. We can’t wait to learn more!
We have also been researching how the main organs of the body work.
Primary 6
Literacy
We have been working on our presentation. We have researched about Apollo 11 and we have written a newspaper article about this event.
Maths
We have been working on our mental maths and improving our long multiplication skills.
Health and Wellbeing
We had a session with Mrs McCleary, GIRFEC Officer, for a discussion about wellbeing.
Operation Safety
We went to Stranraer to an Operation Safety day and learned all about fire/internet safety.
Primary 6/7
P6’s went to Operation Safety at Stair Park, home of Stranraer FC. They took part in activities about keeping safe with drugs, fire, internet, vandalism, alcohol, coastguard, ambulance, anti-social and electricity.
Paul Jone’s Festival started this week. Boys won 3 out of 3 matches and the Girls won 1, drew 1 and lost 1.
Teams:- Andrew, Aidan, Kelvin, Charlie, Kayden, Kira, Tessa, Leah, Ruby, Amber (P7)
Corey, Cormac and Carla (P6)
Fynn, Jake, Ben, Lacey, Stephanie (P6/7)
Primary 7
This week we have been completing some Time assessments in class. We have also been looking at directions and degrees in Maths.
In topic and literacy we have been learning about the Blitz and precautions people took during this time. We wrote Blitz themed cinquain poems and created some silhouette Blitz pictures.
Pupils have been working hard on Superscot activities in PE.
Well done to everyone who took part in the Netball and Football interhouse competitions this week.
Reminders for Next Week
P1/2- the class will visit the book fair on Monday 22nd May.
P6/7 – Continue to prepare solo talks.
P7 – Solo talks will be taking place on Thursday 25th May. Inter-house rounders competition on Monday.
