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Rotary Young Writer Competition Opportunity

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Pupils in Primary 5 upwards are being invited to enter this Young Writer Rotary competition. The theme is ‘Wonderful Water’ and the way it is written is completely open. Prose pieces are to be no more than 500 words and poetry no more than 40 lines. Some classes may be undertaking the activity if it fits with their topic work.  If not, entries written at home can be entered too. There is a Rotary Writing shield for the winner and vouchers for the runners ups, with pens and certificates presented to all who participate. Any folks at home needing more information or to have an entry/permission form sent home, please do email gw09howiealexandra@ea.dumgal.sch.uk

citizenship, environmental, Local Community, Partnership Working, responsible citizens

Citizenship Booklets

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As we make our way through Term 3, please remember to keep your citizenship booklets safe.  This scheme is funded by the William Heughan Trust and is designed to celebrate the wider achievements of our young people both in and out of school. .

This year, in Term 2, new booklets were given to: pre school children in Nursery; Primary 2; and Primary 5 children. This is because booklets are started at the beginning of either Early, First or Second levels and are designed to last 2-3 years. Those who were given books over the last two years, remember also to keep updating them while keeping them safe at home. in June we ask for them to come into school briefly to be assessed for Heughan prizes.

citizenship, confident individuals, Eco Schools, environmental

Eco Code Competition

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Thank you all for the wonderful entries in the competition to design an illustrated version of our school Eco Code.  The standard was so high, the Eco Committee had to vote by using cubes to place on their favourite 4 designs. The results were in joint 3rd place: Mhairi Shearer and Meadow McLachlan. In second place we had a collaborative entry from Reggie Murray and Holly Smith. In first place,  the winner, whose design will be used in a new illustrated version of the code to be displayed around the school was Niamh McCormick. These winners were presented with some eco friendly creative gift sets while all children who entered were given a chocolate  in recognition of their effort.

Well done the Eco Committee for organising this and presenting the results powerpoint to our assembly today.

 

citizenship, Class Learning, effective contributors, school pupil council

Children in Need Week

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There‘s been a major focus on fundraising for Children in Need this week at Dalbeattie Primary. And it’s all been organised by The School Pupil Council who have brought their ideas to how to make it a little different this year.

Firstly, we saw the return of the Spotty Ball Pit. The pupils have been bringing in donations for drawing ball numbers from the ball pit for a chance to win a Pudsey goody. The numbers were drawn on the actual Children in Need Day and the lucky winners were: Calum Brown, Kyla Waller, Ed Parr, Skye Johnstone, Beth Blackstock, Leo Hastings,  Harrison McVinnie (missing from picture,) Charlotte Gale, Reggie Murray and Isla Whalen.

Meanwhile, another competition also ran through the week. Pupils had the chance to enter a competition to design a new eye patch for Pudsey or a bow for Blush. The entries were amazing! Perhaps we shall need to share them with the BBC. It was a very tough job for the School Pupil Council to judge the entries but they eventually came up with winners of the Pudsey Patch as: Eva Tinklin, Niamh McCormick, Ava Corson, Jasper Burns, Elise Wixon, Connor Houston, Alex Davidson, Joey McKerlie and Olivia Carson. The Blush Bow winners were: Ellie Tinklin, Mollie Watson, Esme hicks, Evie McGougan, Eilidh Brown, Liam Geddes, Kelsey Copland, Allie McMinn and Aurla Ferguson.

And, finally, on Friday in school, we had a non uniform day when the children could wear something either yellow, spotty or simply bright and colourful. Donations brought in on this day were split between Children in Need and the Janice Jamieson memorial Fund to sponsor a young person’s education in Malawi.

The amount raised for Children in Need is still being totalled but it is thought we will reach a figure of at least £300, which is an amazing figure! Well done all and thank you for supporting our School Pupil Council in this valuable fundraising activity.

On top of all this, there has been lots of learning activities going on in classes too with the pupils learning about how Children in Need helps other young people in the UK.

Please see the previous post for our school councillors in action helping with all the fundraising throughout the week.

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Children in Need Part 1

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Remember, tomorrow is non uniform day for Children in Need. A suggested donation of £1 will be collected in and the total amount will be split between Children in Need and the Janice Jamieson Memorial Foundation to sponsor a young person’s education in Malawi.
Earlier in the week, the School Pupil Council has been organising other fundraising activities for Children in Need. Wow! What an amazing amount of entries we have had for our ‘Design a new Pudsey Patch or Blush Bow’ competition. The School Pupil Councillors had their work cut out judging them. Each councillor was given a number of cubes and asked to place them on their seven favourite designs in each category and these were counted to decide the winners. The winners and runners up will be announced at tomorrow’s assembly together with drawing the lucky ball pit numbers. For this too we have had an amazing response with approximately 300 balls pulled from the spotty ball pit ahead of tomorrow’s lucky numbers being pulled from the hat. Thank you all for supporting these activities.
citizenship, Class Learning, Eco Schools, Fairtrade, Local Community, Partnership Working

Fairtrade Community Quizzes

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There has been lots going on at Dalbeattie Primary to mark Fairtrade  Fortnight 2024 which has been held at the later month of September this year due to its being the 30th anniversary of the Fairtrade Foundation.

As previously reported, the eco committee made Fairtrade chocolate and Malteser crispies made with ingredients donated  by Dalbeattie Co-op, Castle Douglas Tesco and Dalbeattie Spar. The pupils brought in donations for this to help raise money for the Fairtrade Foundation. Throughout the school, pupils have also been including learning about Fairtrade as part of their learning in class.

Running alongside this was a Fairtrade Quiz based on products in the local shops. We are very grateful again to Dalbeattie Co-op, Castle Douglas  Tesco, Dalbeattie Spar and also to Dalbeattie Londis for facilitating this.

The children who took part returned their forms with one pound donations and the chance to take part in a prize draw.  Today, in assembly, the lucky winning forms were pulled from the ‘hat.’ The winners were Logan, Annie, Elise, Rex, Evie and Niamh who also got a special prize for compiling the most comprehensive list of other Fairtrade items, not featured in the quiz. All the participants received a treat size bag of Maltesers in recognition of their effort in completing the quiz. The school has raised almost £100 for the Fairtrade Foundation. All these activities help us to retain our Fairachiever School Status which we have to reapply for every two years.

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New Eco and Pupil Council Groups

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Last week, our new councillors received their badges.  Today we had our group photographs taken.

School Pupil Council

P1 Connor Houston

P1/2 Logan Hair

P2/3  Max Glover

P3 Liam Geddes

P4 Esme Hicks

P4/5 Erin Davidson

P5 Fergus Henderson

P6 Corey Carnochan

and Sam little

P6/7 Ayka Yilan

P7 Oliver Wilson

Eco Committee

P1 Ramsay Brown

P1/2   Poppie Robinson

P2/3   Kane Kelting and Riley Douglas

P3       Chloe Cumming

P4       Moran Galbraith

P4/5   Reggie Murray

P5       Katya Lennon

P6       Bella Gerrity

P6/7   Andrew Kalotka

P7       Ebony McMorran

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Fairtrade Crispies

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Thank you so much everyone for supporting this activity.  The children looked like they enjoyed them. A big thank you goes to Dalbeattie Spar, Castle Douglas Tesco and Dalbeattie Co-op  for supporting this event with their wonderful donations.  They are shown in three of the pictures attached. (The one with the Eco Committee shows our  goodies from Spar. ) Having these ingredients, means that the activity will raise almost £100 for the Fairtrade Foundation and this helps us keep out School FairAchiever Status. Thank you to Jean Carruthers for also coming into to help the outgoing Eco Committee  (who planned this before the holidays) and the High School Hospitality Department for letting us use the facility. The Fairtrade Community Quiz is still ongoing. Completed forms to be in by Monday 30th September. If anyone needs a spare, there are more copies in school. Thank you!

citizenship, creativity, effective contributors, Local Community, Partnership Working, school pupil council, Whole School

RNLI Kippford

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Three of our pupils were joint equal winners in a recent poster competition to mark the 200 year anniversary of the RNLI. Part of their prize was a tour of the Lifeboat station at Kippford. well done Holly, Rosa and Isla.  Looks like you had great fun! A great big thank you goes to Laura, Gareth, Lynda and Marion at RNLI Kippford.