Please bring any bags of unwanted clothes by this Friday 19th April for our Rag Bag Collection. Any clean bags will do. Remember, the greater the weight collected, the more money we receive to help us with our ongoing eco work. Soon we will be planting our vegetables; money from Rag Bag will help us to cover the cost of our seeds. Thank you!
Last week the Eco Committee gave a super presentation about their recent litter survey in the playground. They also highlighted an event this coming Sunday 21st April: Rotakids, in partnership with the school Eco group, are organising a beach clean at Rockcliffe between 1pm and 3pm. Please do come along. No one needs to stay for the entire two hours. Just pop along for however long you can stay, with an adult accompanying you, and help pick up some plastic. It is planned to bring the plastic finds back into school as a stimulus for some creative writing, later, for our Future Museum. This is an idea the Eco Committee had some time ago. Well done to those people who undertook this activity in their own time. The plan is now to create some more exhibits for our ‘Future Museum’ with some collaborative writing in groups back in school using the bits of plastic we find on Sunday. More information on this is to follow later. Thank you Rotakids and Mr and Mrs Cathro for organising the event on Sunday. Thank you Dalbeattie Community Initiative for lending us extra litter pickers. Activities like this also help the Eco group to carry out their work and to complete activities towards their next 9th green flag application. It is recommended that people use the top car park at Rockcliffe and walk down to the beach where we will have equipment ready.
Today we had our first Friday Focus meeting. This is something new we are implementing to provide all children the opportunity to talk about their learning and have a say in some of the school developments and to make their suggestions about school.
We had some light refreshments during our discussions which went down well.
Some confident individuals today who shared their thoughts on what is going well in Fun 31 and what they would like to change. Well done everyone.
Ours P7s were excited to get their leavers hoodies today after assembly. Thank you to Sarah at Banks and Braes in Kirkcudbright for producing these again for us this year.
We had a busy first assembly of the term. The Rota kids announced the winners of the decorated Easter egg competition. The eco group talked about their litter survey and a planned beach clean. Mrs Duncan gave out all the headteacher awards to the children for all their great work in class!
By Evie McGougan
Rota kids presenting prizes for the Easter egg competition
P1-P3
Ist Izzy
2nd Aria
3rd Rosie
P4-P7
1st Ebony
2nd Samuel
3rd Kalie
Pictures of all entries on the PDF below.
Easter egg competition all entries pdf version
Eco group presentation about litter and beach clean
Headteacher awards
Please come along an join us for a fun night.
Thank you to our Parent Council for organising this event.
Thank you to everyone that was able to join us in church today for our Easter Service. Unfortunately, there were some gremlins in the church sounds system but the children all coped brilliantly with this and sang the 3 songs we had been learning really well. Our P7 readers also shared the Easter story through their readings. Well done.
Thank you to the Reverend Wilson for sharing her Easter message with the children too.
Have a lovely Easter break everyone and thank you for all your support over what has been a very busy term.
We are delighted to announce that Finlay Houston was the winner of the Queen of the South Shirt Competition that we told you about a few weeks ago. Kieran and Lewis from the club can in to share this fantastic and exciting news with Finlay today. A surprise assembly was called for and everyone was delighted for Finlay.
Finlay will present his shirt to the team in due course and will be presented with some fantastic Queen of the South prizes.
A huge congratulations to Finlay👍👏
A part of our World Book Day activities last week, all classes participated in designing a book cover for a title that I had shared with them.
Pictures below show the winners with their prizes at assembly 15.3.24 and the different designs created by pupils in each class.
This week has been British Science Week and some of our classes have engaged in a range ion STEM learning. Some of the learning took place in the P5-P7 classrooms with class teachers, some classes visited the secondary science department.Mr Kennedy and some of the STEM ambassadors from Dalbeattie High School also visited classes and shared some science learning.
P6,P6/7 and P7 also invited parents into their classrooms today to participate in a range of science experiments. It was fantastic to have parents and family members join the classes today.
Please see below a range of pictures form the week.
Click on the link to see P7 eggs drop. Science Week – Egg Drop 🥚
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