These are the photos…..a few more plus the full story will follow later.
With the exception of the first few pictures, the rest are in reverse chronological order, starting with the latest through to the beginning of the ceremony.
Category Archives: citizenship
Future Museum
Thank you to everyone who came along. Three lucky winners’ names have been drawn from the hat of completed quiz sheets. The winning teams names will be confirmed tomorrow and prizes distributed by the end of this week. Thank you all for your support.
Remember Future Museum tomorrow 3.15-6pm Tuesday
Come along and look at our exhibits to see what our young people thought of the plastic objects which were found on a recent beach clean. This has been an activity in which the whole school P1-P7 took part, working collaboratively together.
£1 entry is for juice and biscuits and a short quiz sheet. There will be a chance to vote for your favourite team name and also the team with the best imagination. There will be prizes for the winners and for three lucky entrants whose sheets are pulled out of the hat. Prizes will be given later in the week. Do pop in for a visit.
RNLI Fundraiser and Water Safety Talks Event
Thank you all for your wonderful support today. We do not yet know, exactly, the amount raised but we think it will be at least £40. We used 200 coins to write the number 200 and kept adding layers of coins until we had some quite high stacks. This fundraiser was for Kippford Lifeboat and also to mark the 200 year anniversary of the RNLI. Well done everyone. Thank you School Pupil Councillors for organising this and to Kippford RNLI for supplying the stickers. Thank you to local lifeboat volunteer Keith who came to give us water safety talks today. P.S Remember the lifeboat poster competition. To see the details again, read further below the pictures form today. Thank you
For the poster competition for Kippford RNLI, here are the details again:
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 Thursday 27th 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.
Citizenship and Celebrating Wider Achievement
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
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:
Citizenship Booklets
We are inviting children who currently have William Heughan Trust Citizenship booklets to bring them in to school be assessed and considered for interim certificates and/or awards at the end of term. Children currently in Primary 1 may have a completed brown one which they were given while they were in nursery. Current P2s and P3s may have a grey one, which will now be either one or two thirds completed and children currently in P5 or P6 may have a yellow one, likewise being either one or two thirds completed. Please send booklets into school FAO Mrs Howie week beginning 17th June. They will be returned to the children to keep at home again, thereafter., to continue completing. Thank you.
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.
