Our Weekly School News – Sharing our learning with the school Community
Please have a read and a chat about what some of our Classes have been up to this week.
Happy New year!
Castle Douglas Primary School will stage ‘Disney’s: Mary Poppins Jr’ in the Summer term. A reminder for all children’s permission slips to be handed in by Wednesday 16th Jan and that our first rehearsal will be on Monday 21st Jan at 3pm.
All help would be greatly appreciated and we are looking for a band of willing helpers to assist with costumes, artwork and staging! Please contact the school if you would like to be involved in any way and help us make our show supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
Primary 3
Class Activities and Pupil Comments
It has been a busy first week back!
We have started our new topic this week – The Enchanted Forest. We are reading The Enchanted Wood by Enid Blyton as a class novel and we are enjoying getting to know the main characters as they explore the forest behind their house.
We will be transforming our role-play area into an Enchanted Forest and we have been deciding what we would like to find in there. We are looking forward to learning all about the different animals, trees and plants that we might find in this habitat.
Wider Achievement
Abi has been doing the Junior Park Run in Dumfries and she has completed 13 runs in total. She has a special wrist band to say well done for her super achievement! Well done Abi.
Primary 5
Class Activities and Pupil Comments
This week we have been learning about Robert Burns and his life and work. We created interview questions and imagined how he would answer. In maths we have been revising multiplication in Samson and continuing our work on measurement with Mrs. Starkey.
In P. E. we have started working on our dodgeball skills.
We have decided on the poem we will be reciting for the Burns competition which is ‘A Dug, a Dug’ by Bill Keys.
Wider Achievement
Well done Finlay who won Keep the Quote this week for always trying his best.
Reminders
Please can all P5s return their medical form and the £5 which is to put towards our orienteering trip on Wednesday 16th January.
Primary 5/6
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Primary 6
Primary 6 have been finding out about Chinese New Year and here are some pictures of a few colourful dragons from their research tasks.
Primary 7
Class Activities and Pupil Comments
Ollie – I am proud of myself because I moved up reading group this week.
Neve – In P.E we started tag rugby. We were learning how to dodge and how to pass the ball correctly.
Neave – We began learning our Scots poem which is a section of Tam O’Shanter by Robert Burns.
Daniel P – We talked about careers and the World of Work. We are going to be holding a Job Fair later this term.
Connor – In maths we were learning about factors. A prime number is a number with only two factors.
