What a fantastic afternoon in P7 listening to the finalists of the Burns poetry competition. It was a pleasure to have Mr and Mrs Cathro join us for the judging. Thanks also goes to Dalbeattie Burns Club for donation of funds towards prizes.
Poetry 1st Evie, 2nd Lily, 3rd Ebony Mc
Art 1st Isla,2nd Amalie,3rd Elise
A great time was had by all at Lockerbie Manor. The children were fantastic and supported each other through the range of activities we participated in. Thank you to all the staff who joined us on the trip and for making memories with the children.
We hope you enjoy looking through the range of photos from our trip below.
Values – Kind, Committed, Respected, Included, Responsible
4 Capacities – Successful learner, Confident, Individuals, Effective Contributors.
SHANARRI– Safe, Healthy, Active, Nurtured, Achieving, Responsible, Respectful, Included
Today in assembly we spoke about the theme from Mental Health Week. ‘ Know Yourself, Grow Yourself’ . We looked at different emotions and how they affect everyone differently. We also thought about how everyone is unique and has their own special qualities,strength but also things that they might worry about and need help with.
Awards were given out for a range or reasons today. We had pupils showing confidence in their numeracy work about decimals. Some pupils were showing great skill in PE when balancing and creating sequences in gymnastics. Reading skill shave been developing in some classes and pupils demonstrating skills in comprehension. One young person has also shown determination intreating Chinese dragon puppet linked to their class learning. P6 received a whole class award today too for their skills and confidence when creating Stop Motion Animations this week. Well done to all our award winners this week.
Delighted to announce that we have finalist in the Queen of the South Shirt Design Competition. Well done to Scarlett from P6. Once we have information about voting we will let everyone know.
Today in assembly we spoke about commination and communicating. We spoke about how it is important that we talk to and listen to each other in respectful ways. We can use our voices to communicate, we can respond and communicate using body language and facial gestures. We spoke about active listening and not getting distracted when someone is speaking to you. We have had a lot of people saying things to each other for a joke recently when it actually isn’t a joke and it has hurt people’s feelings so we spoke about things not always seeming like joke to everyone and how everyone understanding and interprets things differently. We also spoke about the tone in which we communicate with others being important and how this is interpreted.
As well as face to face communication, online communication was also spoken about. Using appropriate language and remembering that what you put in a chat or email can be traced and we need to be very careful and safe when communicating on line through gaming, chat room or in group chats. We will look at cyber safety further on safer internet day on 11th February.
Final message was about remembering once words are out of mouths they can’t go back and similarly words online create a digital footprint and we need to stay safe.
Awards were given out to day for a variety of reasons as always. It was great to hear about the fantastic writing happening across the school, pupils showing resilience and commitment to learning, pupils being kind caring members of the class, being a thoughtful friends. Mrs Grey had also noted some great skills in gymnastics this week for her awards winners.
Well done everyone another super week.
Andrew and Amy also received their books for winning the P6/7 and P7 Accelerated Reader raffles form Term 2
4 Capacities – Successful Learners, Effective Contributors
SHANARRI – Healthy, Achieving, Responsible,Respected
VAlues – Kind ,Committed, Respeonsible
Well done to P7 on showing determination during Cross Country today with the sports leaders from Dalbeattie High School.
4 Capacities – Confident individuals, Successful learners
SHANARRI – Active, Healthy, Achieving
Values – Included, Committed
Well done to Craignair who were the house winners for term 2. We celebrated this achievement after assembly. Some pupils chose to watch a short film and draw,some chose hoops and ropes activities outside and some chose party games and dancing in the hall. Well done to all our house captains for helping to organise this.
At assembly today we continued with the theme of friendship. Lots of the children were able to share how they have been good friends this week.
I let someone play.
I help a friend with their work.
I picked someone up that had fallen over.
I gave my friend a compliment
I have treated people kindly
I have cheered up my friends
I boosted my friends confidence.
Representatives from each class also came out and share poems about friends and friendship with the whole school. Confident individuals sharing these. we hope you enjoy reading the poems.
We also celebrated achievements throughout the school with our Head Teacher’s Awards. Awards were given this week for showing commitment to learning and starting T3 in a positive way, for working more as part of the class, showing the value of kindness,demonstrating fantastic knowledge of money during maths lessons and being an excellent friend. well done to all our award winners this week.
4 Capacities – confident individuals,successful learners, effective contributors.
Values – Commitment, Kindness, Responsible
SHANARRI – Achieving,Including,Responsible
Happy New Year everyone.
We held our first assembly and HT awards of the new term and New Year today. I was great to have all the children back with us this week.
In assembly we spoke about friendships. What qualities make a good friend, what qualities do the children have that make them good friends and what friendship means to them. We also spoke about things that are maybe not such good qualities in a friend. Please ask your children about this and see what they can tell you.
We had several class awards today as the children have come back in this week and settled really well to their learning and been motivated and engaged. Some of our pupils have been gaining confidence in mental maths, using critical thinking skills in numeracy when learning about fractions, being effective contributors and great learning partners. well done to all award winners this week and I look forward to sharing more awards and achievement over the e course of this term.
4 capacities – Confident individuals, Successful learners, Effective contributors.
Values – Committed, Responsible
SHANARRI – Achieving, Responsible, Active
