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P7 Olympic Topic

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This term Primary 7 have been learning about the Ancient and Modern Olympic Games. We have investigated the history of the games, where it originated and how it came to be, and have found out how it developed into the Olympic Games we have today.

Our rich task this term was to create a board game which demonstrated team work, creativity and good knowledge and understanding of our topic.

We worked really well together to come up with ideas, to compromise and to delegate jobs.

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When we were finished we presented the games to the class then shared them with P6G and P6/7B. They gave us some super feedback and all seemed to thoroughly enjoy the games.

Here are some of the finished products.

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P.A.R.T.Y with P7 week 2

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This week with P.A.R.T.Y we were learning about the effects alcohol can have on our bodies and our organs. We had to draw around one of our group members then draw and colour in all the major organs. After that we had to think about the short term effects and the long term effects of alcohol abuse and then present our posters to the class.

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Our mocktail this week was green! It consisted of lemonade, orange juice, apple juice and curacao bleu.

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P.A.R.T.Y with P7 – week 1

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Our topic in Primary 7 this term is ‘Choices for Life’. Throughout this topic we are learning about how to make safe and sensible choices in life as we grow up and move on to high school.

This week we experienced our first of four sessions of PARTY from Youth Alive (Providing Alcohol Related Training for Young people). These sessions are designed to help us to develop our understanding and awareness of how to stay safe when faced with the decision of drinking alcohol.

This week we learned about units of alcohol. We learned how many units are recommended on a weekly basis for an adult and learned about ‘love your liver’ days. We each had to guess what one unit of vodka looked like in a glass before Ali showed us an exact measurement!! Many of us were VERY far off with our guesses!!

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At the end of the session we each were given a mocktail to try. This weeks mocktail consisted of lemonade, orange juice and grenadine sugar syrup! Yum!!!

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We are really looking forward to next weeks session already!

After School Activities

Rotary quiz

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On Tuesday 19th April, teams from the cluster schools assembled to take part in the annual rotary quiz, hosted this year at Dalbeattie Primary. All children involved were fantastic sports and showed superb general knowledge across all areas of the curriculum. Throughout the quiz the running scores were very close between all 4 teams however our deserving Dalbeattie area winners this year were Kirkgunzeon Primary, who scored exceptionally well throughout. Our team from Dalbeattie Primary worked extremely hard and gained a close second. Well done and thank you all children, staff and rotary members involved.

 

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Mrs Burn and I are very proud of our Dalbeattie team!

 

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Sumdog Competition

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Over the past week, P3-7 have been taking part in Sumdog’s local contest. The contest challenged the children on their maths knowledge and finished at 8pm yesterday.

We are delighted that 3 of our classes managed to be daily winners and are thrilled to announce that P4A were the overall winners of the contest, winning 30 free membership subscriptions for next year!!!

Certificates will be issued to all children who took time to take part after the holidays.

Well done everyone!!

 

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P7 French Day

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On Monday 21st March, Primary 7 were treated to a full day of fun French activities at Dalbeattie High School as part of our transition work.

We had 4 different activities to take part in. They were:

  1. Au Voleur! (Catch the thief) – an activity that took us all around the school searching for clues, written on the classroom doors in French, to help us find the missing objects.
  2. L’animal imaginaire (Imaginary animals) – we had to create an imaginary animal and label it using our knowledge of French vocabulary.
  3. Les jeux de société (Board Games) – we played a variety of games which tested our French vocabulary.
  4. Des chansons, et jeux actives (songs and active games) – we sang and practiced lots of songs in preparation for our performances to the parents in the afternoon.

We all had a brilliant day and thoroughly enjoyed the delicious French breakfast of hot chocolate and croissants at break time.

Thank you Mrs Kinghorn!!

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P7 High School Transition

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This term Primary 7 have been taking part in some transition sessions with Mr Bremner, Mr Donnelly and Miss Stewart from the High School.

Mr Bremner has been teaching probability in maths. We have had a great time sorting skittles and working out the probability of choosing certain colours – we even got to eat them at the end!!!

With Mr Donnelly, we have been learning about the importance of shading and adding tone to our art work.

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In Drama, Miss Stewart played some really funny warm up games with us. We loved playing the stage direction game as well as some of the concentration games. In the last session we worked on freeze frames for different scenarios. It was really goof fun!!

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