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Whole School

Mr McMurtrie Retires

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Today staff and pupils said goodbye and happy retirement to Thomas McMurtrie our school janitor. Thomas has been Janitor at Dalbeattie Primary school for 30 years. He has seen many pupils through the doors of Dalbeattie Primary School and has been a highly valued member of staff.

At assembly today, pupils and staff presented Thomas with a selection of gifts. Mrs Howie, staff and pupils had also  all worked together to create a fantastic picture for Thomas to remind him of playtimes, pupils and his house team Screel. Mrs Duncan shared some fun memories of Thomas and his Janitorial skills.

Good luck Thomas and enjoy retirement.

 

Class Learning, Sports

Orienteering

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Primary 2-7 have been learning to use maps and improve their co-operation and fitness around the school, park and forest, orienteering in PE this term. Some successful learners in P4-7 won medals for being the fastest in the competition, and others for being star improvers, or effective contributors, who help others to have more success. Many were bursting with pride for their excellent effort and progress getting faster, fitter and having lots of fun too. It’s been great to make the most of the different environments around our school. Huge thanks to our amazingly generous volunteers who helped us out!

Mrs Gray

 

 

 

 

Local Community

Folktober Concert

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Pupils from Dalbeattie Primary School attended the family concert in Dalbeattie Town Hall on Saturday 7th of October. They enjoyed participating in the family entertainment but also performed as a small choir and sang songs they had been learning during assembly time at school. The song ‘ The Big Dabattie Dinosaur’ and ‘Dalbeattie Primary School’,  were both written by Mr Henderson and fellow members of Dalbeattie Acoustic group. The song making reference to Dalbeattie Primary School is very pertinent at the moment as we move to our new learning campus and leave our current granite building that has such historic significance in Dalbeattie. Thank you for inviting Dalbeattie primary to be part of Folktober events.

 

Whole School

Folktober Visit

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Today Artie Trezise  (Artie’s Tartan Tales) visited Dalbeattie Primary as part of the Folktober festival that is taking place in Dalbeattie this weekend. He entertained the children with some traditional Scottish songs, stories and humour. Thank you to Mr Henderson and the Dalbeattie Folk Group for organising this for the school.

Class Learning

Primary 2 / 3 Traffic Survey

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On Wednesday 20th September, Mrs Wixon; with a little help from Mrs Aitchison and Mrs Lumsden, took the class to different areas of Dalbeattie to conduct a traffic survey.

Our topic this term is Transport, so we decided to split up into groups and go to John Street, the High Street and directly in front of the School building on Southwick Road.

We have been learning about tally marks and used these to mark the traffic which went past.  We had a great morning and were able to discuss our findings with each other when we got back to class.  We discovered that John Street was the busiest of the roads!

In ICT we have also been able to transfer the information we collected and produced a bar graph of our findings.  Lots of cross-curricular learning!!

 

Whole School

Sponsored Walk

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On Friday 22nd of September  all classes took part in our annual school sponsored walk – the final one from our current building. The sponsored walk was to raise funds to support classes with transport, trips or paying for visitors to come into school/classes. All funds raised will be shared between classes. On the day P4-7 had a brisk walk to the granite heart stone with only a slight drizzle of rain on the way back. P1-3 walked to the loch and back with great success and no rain. Thank you to all parents, family members and friends who were able to join us on the day.