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After School Activities, Sports

Paul Jones Success

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On Wednesday afternoon both our football teams competed in the finals of the Paul Jones Tournament. I am delighted to share that both teams were the overall winners of the tournament. Both teams played extremely well over the course of the tournament and showed dedication and skill in their football. Both teams displayed the school motto of Believe and Achieve. Over the 4 weeks they all displayed exemplary behaviour and sporting attitudes.

Thank you to everyone that helped transport the children each week to the events and for all your support from the side lines.

I couldn’t have been prouder as they went receive their medals and trophies. Congratulations and well done.

Mrs Duncan

 

citizenship, responsible citizens, Whole School

Citizenship Booklets

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We are inviting children who currently have William Heughan Trust Citizenship booklets to bring them in to school be assessed and considered for interim certificates and/or awards at the end of term. Children currently in Primary 1 may have a completed brown one which they were given while they were in nursery. Current P2s and P3s may have a grey one, which will now be either one or two thirds completed and children currently in P5 or P6 may have a yellow one, likewise being either one or two thirds completed.  Please send booklets into school FAO Mrs Howie week beginning 17th June. They will be returned to the children to keep at home again, thereafter., to continue completing. Thank you.

Whole School

Assembly and HT Awards

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New certificates designs shared in HT awards today. Our new certificates have a background sharing the school motto and values. We hope that seeing the school values on a regular basis will help the children remember and apply these to all that they do throughout the school and classes.

Lots of awards this week. Some of the reason were for creative writing, great numeracy ,lots of fab jumping in P.E. Some great team work in P6 this week and achieving whole class targets in writing in P4/5 were also reasons for awards. P7 also received a class award for their work during their enterprise day on Thursday. Some great team work, collaboration and co-operation . Great skill to take them forward to secondary school.

Well done everyone.

Our netball teams were also presented with their certificates form the netball tournament yesterday. Congratulations again to both teams again.

Wellbeing, Whole School

Fun 31 Across the School

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Lots going on for Fun 31 today across the school. Some great outdoor painting and creativity. Some imaginative obstacle courses, tennis and skipping in the playground. A range of outdoor physical activity tasks on the mugga and grass. P7 loved the parachute and some dodge ball in the hall. Some very imaginative lego building inside as well.

Article 31 The right to rest, play ,culture and arts

After School Activities, Sports

Netball Success

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Well done to both our netball teams from their success at the Stewartry Netball competition this afternoon.

Team 1 came 2nd and Team 2 came 1st.

Thank you to our fantastic coaches Mrs Cox and Miss Aitchison on taking our after school club in preparation for the tournament. Thank you Mrs Blackwood for the fab photos.

Article 15 The Right to set up or join groups

Netball club is a group in our school.

confident individuals, creativity, effective contributors, successful learners, Whole School

Speak Out, Stay Safe Assemblies and Head Teacher’s Awards

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Today we held two assemblies. The focus for each assembly was the NSPCC and Childline message Speak out, Stay Safe.

 

UNCRC – Article 19 – Protection from violence,abuse and neglect

UNCRC – Article 27 – Adequate standard of living.

Awards were also given out this week at both assemblies. There were awards for demonstrating commitment to learning, showing kindness and always including others, showing commitment to art, being recognised by classmates for achievements  and hard work.

Well done to all our award winners this week.

UNCRC – Article 28 Access to Education

Class Learning, confident individuals, creativity, effective contributors, successful learners, Wellbeing, Whole School

Assembly and HT Awards

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A busy assembly today. The children were introduced to the SHANARRI characters that were created earlier this term. It has taken a bit of time to get the children’s design turned into graphics but with the help of former pupil Molly Boynton we have these completed. Thank you Molly for doing these for us. We think they are amazing.

These characters will be used throughout the school and classes as part of wellbeing and to develop confidence in talking about all the wellbeing indicators.

SHANARRI character designs that were selected for across the whole school. Well done to all the creators.

Please see the picture below in the attached pdf.

SHANARRI Dalbeattie Primary and Nursery

Last week in assembly I reminded the children about bringing their water bottles to school and having sun hats and sunscreen for the warmer sunny days. The children have really tried hard with this and I have seen some fab sun hats in the playground this week. Linking in with this, as part of their class learning about the body this term P3 have created sun safety posters. They had initially been going to share with P1 but today they presented these at assembly to the whole school. The children had scripted what they wanted to say and presented their posters about sun safety messages with confidence. Well done everyone Mrs Stephenson was very proud of you all.

Lots of Head Teacher’s awards given out today. The school values were very evident today with lots of awards for commitment and kindness. Making good choices was also something that featured highly today with people really thinking about things before acting or carrying things through. Some good choices made around playground behaviour and helping others. Great results in numeracy and effort across the year in writing were also reasons for awards today. Mrs Grey has noted some talent in football during  PE this week too. Well done to all our award winners this week.

 

confident individuals, effective contributors, Nursery, Partnership Working, successful learners

Nursery – P1 Transition Carousel

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A few pictures from our first Nursery P1-Transition carousel on Tuesday 14th May. Our current P1s welcomed the nursery boys and girls through to the early level setting to participate in a range of 3 activities too help them become familiar with the setting before they join us in August. Our P6 buddies did a fantastic job too supporting the nursery pupils throughout each activity. Fantastic role models.