What a fantastic afternoon in P7 listening to the finalists of the Burns poetry competition. It was a pleasure to have Mr and Mrs Cathro join us for the judging. Thanks also goes to Dalbeattie Burns Club for donation of funds towards prizes.
Poetry 1st Evie, 2nd Lily, 3rd Ebony Mc
Art 1st Isla,2nd Amalie,3rd Elise
Today in assembly we spoke about the theme from Mental Health Week. ‘ Know Yourself, Grow Yourself’ . We looked at different emotions and how they affect everyone differently. We also thought about how everyone is unique and has their own special qualities,strength but also things that they might worry about and need help with.
Awards were given out for a range or reasons today. We had pupils showing confidence in their numeracy work about decimals. Some pupils were showing great skill in PE when balancing and creating sequences in gymnastics. Reading skill shave been developing in some classes and pupils demonstrating skills in comprehension. One young person has also shown determination intreating Chinese dragon puppet linked to their class learning. P6 received a whole class award today too for their skills and confidence when creating Stop Motion Animations this week. Well done to all our award winners this week.
P6 Scottish Country Dancing Festival
Primary 6 took part in the Scottish Country Dancing festival run by Active Schools at Dalbeattie High School. There were also several other Stewartry schools taking part. To prepare for the festival, we learnt four new Scottish Country Dances and created our class banners. We all looked great in our tartan and we walked into the hall to the bagpipes playing. The children danced brilliantly and all earned a special certificate for taking part. Well done!
4 Capacities – Successful Learners, Effective Contributors, Responsible Citizens, Confident Individuals
SHANARRI – Healthy, Active, Achieving, Responsible, Respected, Included
Values – Kind ,Committed, Responsible, Respected, Included
Well done to P7 on showing determination during Cross Country today with the sports leaders from Dalbeattie High School.
4 Capacities – Confident individuals, Successful learners
SHANARRI – Active, Healthy, Achieving
Values – Included, Committed
At assembly today we continued with the theme of friendship. Lots of the children were able to share how they have been good friends this week.
I let someone play.
I help a friend with their work.
I picked someone up that had fallen over.
I gave my friend a compliment
I have treated people kindly
I have cheered up my friends
I boosted my friends confidence.
Representatives from each class also came out and share poems about friends and friendship with the whole school. Confident individuals sharing these. we hope you enjoy reading the poems.
We also celebrated achievements throughout the school with our Head Teacher’s Awards. Awards were given this week for showing commitment to learning and starting T3 in a positive way, for working more as part of the class, showing the value of kindness,demonstrating fantastic knowledge of money during maths lessons and being an excellent friend. well done to all our award winners this week.
4 Capacities – confident individuals,successful learners, effective contributors.
Values – Commitment, Kindness, Responsible
SHANARRI – Achieving,Including,Responsible
P3 visited Dalbeattie Day Centre to bring some Christmas cheer to the members singing some Christmas songs. A surprise guest made a visit to the centre too. Some great intergenerational and partnership working.
4 Capacities – Confident Individuals, Responsible Citizens
SHANARRI– Included, Safe
Values,- Responsible, Included, Kind, Respected, Committed
P1-P3 were presented with their Book Bug Books as part of Book Week Scotland. Teachers read the texts with the pupils and explored the different range of activities within each bag. We hope you enjoy sharing these books with your young people at home.
There‘s been a major focus on fundraising for Children in Need this week at Dalbeattie Primary. And it’s all been organised by The School Pupil Council who have brought their ideas to how to make it a little different this year.
Firstly, we saw the return of the Spotty Ball Pit. The pupils have been bringing in donations for drawing ball numbers from the ball pit for a chance to win a Pudsey goody. The numbers were drawn on the actual Children in Need Day and the lucky winners were: Calum Brown, Kyla Waller, Ed Parr, Skye Johnstone, Beth Blackstock, Leo Hastings, Harrison McVinnie (missing from picture,) Charlotte Gale, Reggie Murray and Isla Whalen.
Meanwhile, another competition also ran through the week. Pupils had the chance to enter a competition to design a new eye patch for Pudsey or a bow for Blush. The entries were amazing! Perhaps we shall need to share them with the BBC. It was a very tough job for the School Pupil Council to judge the entries but they eventually came up with winners of the Pudsey Patch as: Eva Tinklin, Niamh McCormick, Ava Corson, Jasper Burns, Elise Wixon, Connor Houston, Alex Davidson, Joey McKerlie and Olivia Carson. The Blush Bow winners were: Ellie Tinklin, Mollie Watson, Esme hicks, Evie McGougan, Eilidh Brown, Liam Geddes, Kelsey Copland, Allie McMinn and Aurla Ferguson.
And, finally, on Friday in school, we had a non uniform day when the children could wear something either yellow, spotty or simply bright and colourful. Donations brought in on this day were split between Children in Need and the Janice Jamieson memorial Fund to sponsor a young person’s education in Malawi.
The amount raised for Children in Need is still being totalled but it is thought we will reach a figure of at least £300, which is an amazing figure! Well done all and thank you for supporting our School Pupil Council in this valuable fundraising activity.
On top of all this, there has been lots of learning activities going on in classes too with the pupils learning about how Children in Need helps other young people in the UK.
Please see the previous post for our school councillors in action helping with all the fundraising throughout the week.
Lots of creative Halloween art on display around the school. Classes have used different media and techniques to create these eye catching pieces of work.
Today in assembly we reflected on our value – Responsible. The Friday focus group shared their ideas and then representatives from each class shared what responsible means to them.
We also thought about harvest and things we have to be thankful for. Thank you to everyone that provided donations for the community pantry. These will be handed in during the holidays.
Awards were also given out for a variety of reasons some of these included being a good captain in the rugby festival, always listening well during teaching time, showing commitment to learning, being determined to succeed at maths and always being kind to others.
Our house captains came out to the front at assembly today to present the awards which was fantastic. they were all confident individuals. Well done Keira-Lee, Jack, Amalie, Korey and Mollie.
