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.
Category Archives: After School Activities
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.
Code Club – Micro:bits
Welcome to our returning Code Clubbers! Mrs Dyson was very impressed with the enthusiasm, perseverance, teamwork and coding skills demonstrated during our Code Club session on using the BBC micro:bit. Well done everyone! Already, Code Clubbers have had great success programming this handheld micro-computer. They have learned how to use the LEDs to make their own flashing heart badge. They have coded buttons on the micro:bit to show that it’s happy or sad. Mrs Dyson loved the creativity then shown by the group as they created their own codes and shared these. During the next session, Code Clubbers turned their micro:bits into dice and had great fun in our interactive game to catch Mrs Dyson with the highest roller moving one stride closer to her each time. They used their debugging skills when creating code for their game of ‘Rock Paper Scissors’. Attaching the micro:bit to a battery pack meant that Code Clubbers could shake their micro:bit and play this interactive game in another Code Club Challenge. Fantastic effort everyone!
School Gymnastics Competition
On Thursday 24th January, our gymnasts took part in after school competition.
Recently, many of our gymnasts, who have been working hard all year, attending after school gymnastics clubs, took part in a regional competition (see previous blog post) so it was great to see all of our gymnasts compete in a school competition to which family were invited to watch. There were prizes awarded for regional level, school competition level and special awards for those showing most improvement.
Our thanks go to Mrs Duncan, Mrs Bradbury and Abigail Simpson who have given so much of their time to develop our young people’s gymnastic skills. We are also grateful to Mrs Bradbury, Abigail and Mr Drennan for being judges for the completion held in school and to Davie Stitt for presenting the awards.
Regional Gymnastics Competiton
19 pupils from P3-P7 took part in this years Regional Schools Gymnastics Competition. Pupils have attend after school clubs with Mrs Duncan and Amy Bradbury from Active School and developed their skills and techniques to produce routines and vaults for the competition. The pupils all performed well and represented the school extremely well. Our Level 2 team of Sophie, Abbie, Lily and Eva were winners within their section and will now progress to the next round in Perth. Sophie was also the overall winner in the Level 2 section.
Primary 7 Party
Primary 7 have just enjoyed their evening Christmas party in the Heughan Hall, led by the Sports Leaders of Dalbeattie High School and organised by Miss Clendinning and Mrs Graham. Thanks go to Mrs Duncan, Mrs Murray and Jannie Jean who prepared the refreshments. A great time was had by all. A big thank you to Mr Drennan of DHS PE Department for helping with the whole event, including the sound system!
Heughan Hall Naming Ceremony
On Tuesday 26th June, the Heughan Hall was officially opened. William Heughan, born 1886, is a former pupil of our school who became a world renowned opera singer. When he died at the age of 78, he had already set up the William Heughan Associated Special Trust (WHAST) to remember his beloved home town of Dalbeattie and to benefit the people therein. The fund still exists today and it is thanks to the vision of the current trustees, that a significant amount of money is being given, annually to Dalbeattie Learning Campus, to encourage musical activities. Recently, a William Heughan Choir has been established, led by Musical Director Kate Howard. This project is funded by the William Heughan Associated Special Trust and its trustees Malcolm and Jenny Heughan were present at the ceremony where we heard the newly formed choir perform for the first time to an audience of family, friends and invited guests. The event took the form of a few songs from the William Heughan Choir, some musical contributions from some of the school’s older pupils and a ribbon cutting ceremony to officially open the hall and to present the installation of new information storyboards about William Heughan. Malcolm and Jenny performed the actual cutting. After the ceremony, the choir and invited guests were treated to refreshments prepared and provided by the Hospitality Department of the High School.
Pupil Council Visit to Library
The School pupil Council has visited Dalbeattie Town Library to see the refurbishment and to see what is on offer for our young people. We were thrilled by the wonderful new children’s area. We found out about how we could become members to borrow books and about the reference collections which are a great resource for topic work. Mrs Howie was particularly excited to hear about the possibilities for classes to have visits to the library to do activities linked to their topics. Teachers will be getting information about this soon.
Consultation with Dalbeattie Tennis Club
On Wednesday 23rd of May, Dalbeattie Tennis club visited Dalbeattie Learning Campus. Keith Thom from the club and Amy Bradbury from Active Schools, spoke with some children from P1-S3 about all the great work that is going on at the Tennis Courts in Dalbeattie. The club wanted feedback from the children on what they want to see happening at the club. Well done and thank you to the Pupil Council from Dalbeattie Primary School and Murray, Ewan and Angus from Dalbeattie High School for your input.
Code Club Congratulations!
Well done to our returning Code Clubbers this term. They received certificates for their completion of Module 1 Code Club, while Aaron received his certificate for participation in Module 2. Family members attended our Celebration Event and enjoyed playing our finished games and watching our own creative animations.
