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Category Archives: After School Activities
Halloween Discos
Two great discos this evening. Great costumes ,music, dancing and games.Thank you to our parent council for organising. Thanks you to parent volunteers and staff for supporting with the disco. RK DJ also provided great music.
P7-S2 Halloween Disco
A great night at the P7-S2 Halloween Disco. Some great costumes, games and dancing. A fantastic transition opportunity. Thank you S6 and Mrs Whalen for organising this event.
October Holiday Activity Idea
We would like to remind you about this idea which was posted before the summer holidays. It has been extended through the October holidays and on to Friday November 24th in order to include three more weekends. While it does require a trip to a beach, it is however a great activity for not only demonstrating some citizenship through doing some beach cleaning but is also great for literacy and creative skills because the follow up activity encourages quite a bit of imagination to to be used!
Basically, the idea is to find an interesting piece of plastic and pretend you don’t know what it actually is. Imagine you are an archaeologist in the future who finds it and has to use guess work for what it might be!
Below is the original information sheet about the activity. Also provided below is a blank pro forma which can be downloaded and edited or printed off to be handwritten on. Mrs Howie has also had a go a trying a couple of examples herself for this- see pdfs below. However, the level of literacy in completed work by pupils will, of course, vary greatly depending on the level the young person is currently working at. Entries from Early level and beginning First Level will use understandably less complex vocabulary and language. Completed pieces can be sent into school whenever they are finished but by Friday 24th November at the very latest. If we have a good response, the School Parent Council has kindly agreed to help organise an after school event to display entries and plastic items in our very own Museum of the Future! It is hoped we can run this event in Term 3. So please do visit a beach and start your search!
P.S If you are on holiday in Cornwall you might even find a piece of lego! (check out the story on BBC Sounds ‘Lego Overboard.’)
After School Netball and Hockey
We had two after school clubs today. Miss Aitchison and Mrs Cox were running netball for P4 and P5. They group were working on foot positioning, pivoting and spacing during a game.
Gladys from Dumfries hockey club also joined us with P6 and P7 today to develop some hockey skills. The children thoroughly enjoyed their session and can’t wait to play more games next week.
History Club
At our Ancient History After School Club on Tuesday 5th November, we welcomed along Andrew Nicholson, Archaeologist from Dumfries and Galloway Council. He explained, to the group, about the type of work he did and his role in advising when new planning applications come in, in case they affect any site history. He then showed the members of the club how to access three main websites which he uses every day in his work. We learned about how to search old maps, scheduled monuments and recorded historical artefacts and finds from particular places. It was really interesting. This meeting was the first after our visit to Tongland Abbey. Next week’s meeting will be with Erica Johnson who will talk to us about the Moyle Hill Fort.
Breakfast Club
Today, the breakfast club started, thanks to the super organisation of Mrs Dunlop. The club runs on Tuesdays and Wednesdays before school. The young people loved the range of food on offer (toast, cereal, fruit, yoghurts) and drinks (fruit juice.) The cost is 50p a day and takes place in the spare classroom- entry through the playground gate. Earliest arrival is 8.15 and latest is 8.30am. There were also games on offer so that the children could enjoy some social interaction too. Great fun! Mrs Dunlop is very grateful to all the helpers too.
Ancient History Club
On Saturday 28th September, the history club visited Tongland Abbey Excavation site. We learned lots of interesting things about the founding of the abbey by Alan, Lord of Galloway and his links to the Magna Carta signing in 1215. We now understand much more about how archaeological investigations take place. We are very grateful to Dr David Devereux and Mr Donald Henry for giving us tours of both the excavation site and the two later built parish churches. More detail about what we learned will be included in our published findings at the end of the year!
Code Club Congratulations
Well done to our Code Clubbers who applied their coding skills when exploring the BBC Micro:bit! Mrs Dyson loved the creativity demonstrated when Code Clubbers were creating their own programs.
Rotary Quiz
On Monday 11th of March, 4 teams of P7 pupils from Dalbeattie Cluster participated in this years Rotary Quiz cluster heat. The teams all worked well together to answer questions about Literacy, Maths and Numeracy, Expressive Arts,Science and Technology,Scotland and Pot Luck. Teams were supported by members of Dalbeattie Rotary Club with Mr Cathro acting as Quiz Master for the event. The winning team from the cluster this year was Dalbeattie Primary who will now progress through to the next round within Dumfries and Galloway. Thank you to Dalbeattie Rotary Club.
