It’s wonderful to see so many of you sharing your wider achievements in school with us. Please remember, to send in your child’s PASS booklet for assessment and to be considered for an award and/ or prize. They are a great way to have wider achievement recognised. Children with grey or yellow booklets will have partially completed booklets and will be considered for interim prizes. (Yellow and Grey booklets take 3 years to complete.) Please send the booklets into school no later than Monday 24th June. They will be returned to your young person afterwards to continue filling them in until complete. For anyone who has lost their booklet and is keen to fill it in, do let us know as we have a few spares. Current P2s and P3s were given grey booklets during their P2 year. Current P5s and P6s were given yellow booklets during their P5 year. Children in nursery were given brown ones and may now have completed them. Some children will still not have booklets as the newly launched booklets have been phased in following reintroduction after Covid. By next year, all children will have a booklet in process. Thank you
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Reminder this Friday is 2p for 200 coin challenge in aid of RNLI
Please remember that this Friday 21st June is the day for children to bring in any 2p coins they have gathered up for our fundraiser for Kippford RNLI. The School Pupil Council will be helping pupils to lay their coins on a design, using 200 x 2p coins, to make the number 200 on the school playground. Once we have laid 200 coins, we will start a second layer and so on. One layer will amount to £4 but hopefully we will get enough coins to make a few layers, increasing the amount we raise. Our water safety talks from a RNLI member will be in the afternoon. Please also remember the Kippford Lifeboat poster competition. (details are in a previous post.) Entries for this should be given to Mrs Howie by Thursday 27th June. Thank you
Event on Tuesday 25th June after school
Hope pupils and parents can come along to this event to support our Eco School’s work.
RNLI 2ps for 200 Challenge Next Week
This is just a wee reminder:
New Primary 1 Transition
This week, we had our second carousel activity where the new Primary 1s for August, joined in with the current P1s to take part in three different activities, meeting staff and getting used to the classrooms and open areas. The P6 buddies did a great job helping with the board game activity and were super at encouraging the young people to talk about themselves. After the carousel we had our first ‘try out lunch’ experience. Well done all!
UNCRC – Article 28 Access to Education
UNCRC – Article 29 Aims of Education
RNLI Water Safety and 2p for 200 Fundraiser
Later in June, we shall be welcoming someone from the RNLI to talk to us about water safety. On the same day (Friday 21st June) we shall both mark the occasion and commemorate the 200th anniversary of the RNLI with a fundraiser, organised by our School Pupil Council. The challenge is to collect and bring any 2p coins you have at home or receive in change over the next few weeks. The school pupil council will help pupils to lay their donations onto an interesting design, chalked out in the playground on 21st June. So please start looking for the those 2p coins for our “2p for 200 Challenge.” Also, please remember on a connected theme, from another recent post about the poster competition for Kippford RNLI. Entries for this to be in by the Friday 28th June.
Future Museum Collaborative Writing
Today, the whole school from P1 to P7 took part in a collaborative writing activity. For the last hour of the day, the pupils moved around to be in mixed age groups. Each group was then assigned a piece of plastic, found on a recent beach clean at Rockcliffe. The groups worked as teams to describe what the object looked like before moving on to the more imaginative part of the task – the children were asked to pretend they were archaeologists living in the future, 200 years from now; they were to pretend they lived in times when plastic no longer is in use and also that they did not know what the object actually was. This was a challenging task but there were some great ideas. For example, one group, who were given a purple bottle lid, decided that it could be a tiny bowl for a very small pet which had chewed its rim! Another group described a polythene bag, with a ringed opening, as a moveable toilet for a pet on dog walks! A large traffic cone was imagined as a hat for special occasions, worn by a Giant called Big Foot. And, the pink felt lining from a training shoe was imagined as the tongue from a teddy bear….There were lots more ideas like this and folks will be able to see them all in our Future Museum event, to be held towards the end of term. Watch this space for more information about this soon.
Not only was today’s activity a great opportunity for the children to work with new people of different ages, collaboratively, but it also gave our learners a new context in which to apply their prior learning and skills. One teacher commented how impressed she was with how the pupils demonstrated such confidence with using the descriptive bubbles, as taught through the Stephen Graham approach to writing. Well done all! And, of course, this activity built awareness about how much plastic ends up in our oceans and how long it can stay there, posing a real danger to wildlife. An important environmental message was delivered to the whole school today, thanks to this partnership venture by Rotakids and the School Eco Group.
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.
Beach Clean at Rockcliffe Success
Thank you all who turned up to take part in our voluntary beach clean at Rockcliffe today. The event was organised by the Rotakids Club in partnership with the Eco Group. Thank you Dalbeattie Community Initiative for helping supply the equipment and to Mr and Mrs Cathro, our Rotakids coordinators. It was lovely to see so many of our pupils and their families come along in addition to Mrs Duncan and Mrs Stores, HT of Colvend and Kirkgunzeon. We now have quite a large box of varied plastic waste which will form the inspirations for some creative work for our ‘Future Museum’ later this term.
Global Goal 13 Climate Action
Global Goal 14 Life below water
