Another great evening of football yesterday at Castle Douglas from both our teams winning all their games. Finals week next week at Kirkcudbright.
Monthly Archives: May 2024
Local Artist Inspires P5 Art work
P5 have been inspired by the work of Dumfries and Galloway Amanda Hayler. Their work has created some very eye catching displays around the school.
Read about Amanad’s story and how she became an artist. She is presenting at Spring Fling if interested in seeing some of her work.
Amanda Hayler: ‘Art became a form of escapism from the real world after my cancer diagnosis’
P7 Transition Afternoon
P7 pupils visited Dalbeattie High School for lunch and to participate in some transition activities today. The children got to sample the secondary menu and gave lots of 5/5 scores for this when asked by Mr McGougan at the end of the afternoon. The children participated in a scavenger hunt around the school looking for different clues about different curricular areas and then had to solve an anagram about moving to Dalbeattie High School. They also visited Science and H.E to participate in some creative and practical activities. Not sure how many of the crazy creatures created in H.E would make it home or if they children might have eaten them before getting home. Mrs Blackburn has some pictures of the creations that will be shared in due course. Overall a positive day with lots of confident individuals getting ready for the next step in their education journey.
Thank you to Mr McGougan and all staff from Dalbeattie High school for organising and facilitating this afternoon.
Assembly and Head Teacher’s Awards 10.5.24
Today in assembly Mrs Duncan shared three songs that classes will be learning to sing for the end of term assembly in June. The songs are about friendships, journeys and summertime.
Awards were also given out today for a variety of reasons. P1/2 received a class award for their fantastic writing this week about the trip to the beach last week. P4/5 received a class award for Theo Tartan Tour performance with Feis Ros and P4 on Wednesday. Other reason for awards today include learning 2 times tables, being more organised and focused with learning, fantastic team work as part of an inventors challenge and showing commitment and determination to achieving and improving learning. Great achievements everyone.👏👍
We also had some of our nursery children join us for assembly. They are getting ready for their transition to P1 and being part of assembly on a Friday is part of this process. Well done everyone.
.UNCRC Article 28 Access to Education
Global goal 4 Quality Education.
Art on Display
There is some wonderful art work on display around the school. Lots of different techniques and skills being used to create these fantastic pieces. Well done everyone.
UNCRC Article 31- Rest, Play,Culture,Arts
Kippford Lifeboat Poster Competition
2024 is the 200th anniversary of the existence of the RNLI. In recognition of this milestone event, Kippford Lifeboat Station will be running a competition for children to design a poster celebrating 200 years of saving lives at sea.
The competition will run until June. All completed entries must be received by Friday 28th June. The competition is open to any child. There will be three age categories with prizes for first, second and third in each category as follows – 3-4 years, 5-7 years and 8-11 years.
All entries must be A4 size. RNLI and 200 must appear somewhere on the design. Any medium can be used, e.g. pen, pencil, crayon, paint, collage as desired. The child’s name, age, school attended and parental contact number must be clearly displayed on the rear of the poster. Completed entries can be handed into the RNLI shop in Kippford or Dalbeattie Learning Campus for the attention of Mrs Howie.
The posters will be judged by members of the lifeboat crew and winners announced in early July. It is hoped that prizes can be presented to the winning entrants at the Kippford Station Open Day on 6th July.
Eco Councillors Planting Day
The Eco Councillors have been busy planting lots of vegetables: potatoes, parsnips, onions, carrots and beetroot. They have also sown wildflower seed in two of our playground planters to create more habitat for minibeasts Well done all!
Global goal 12- Responsible consumption and production.
P4 and P4/5 Feis Ros Sharing Event
P4 and P4/5 shared the learning they have been doing with Feis Ros tutors over the last 10 weeks with family and friends. The children shared a fun journey around Scotland and Ireland through music and songs.
Paul Jones Week 2 – 8.1.24
Another fantastic week of football from both our teams. Four wins for each team. Great team work, lots of sporting attitudes and supporting each other throughout the evening. Couldn’t be prouder of these two teams tonight.
Thank you to our parent council for providing a fantastic tuck shop. Very popular with everyone. A warm cuppa went down well as temperatures dropped.
Next week back to Castle Douglas for round 3.
Paul Jones Wk 1 – 1.5.24
Week one went well last week at Castle Douglas. Both teams won 2 games and drew in 1. Well done to all players. Thank you to family and friends who came along to support the teams, Next games is at the 3G pitch at Dalbeattie Learning Campus on 8th May. Please come along and support the teams.
