Primary 5 pupils worked hard using their design skills to create a variety of wooden models. Mrs Dyson was impressed with how well they evaluated and made improvements to their design. Pupils enjoyed showing off their models which included marble run games, working cranes, pencil holders, a duck on a bridge, mini furniture to fit inside a model box room, aeroplanes, a paddle steamer and a wee Scots man!
Award Winners 8th March 2019
Classes throughout the school enjoyed sharing their favourite books with each other for World Book Day. Pictures below show P3/4 and P4 activities and sharing time.
Recently P1 have enjoyed reading the Katie Morag stories whilst learning about Scotland. We decided to compare Dalbeattie to the Island of Coll. First of all we went for a walk round our town taking lots of photographs ourselves which we then used to produce a poster of Coll and Dalbeattie. After this we had a great time creating our own Isle of Struay working together in groups. Mrs Fitzsimmons was very impressed how wonderfully we worked together, our creative use of construction materials and our original ideas. We enjoyed looking at each others islands and discussing our work.
We were also very lucky to be visited by some talented High School pupils at the end of our topic. Shannon played several tunes on the bagpipes for us and Kierra showed us how to do the Highland Fling…….which we then joined in!
Classes throughout the school have created some fascistic displays show casing pupil learning so far this term.
The School Eco Group and Primary 5 have enjoyed some really interesting learning experiences when they had a visit from Courtney Rowland of the Galloway Fisheries Trust. The children were learning about Sparling Fish, a very rare species which only exists in three Scottish rivers nowadays despite being in fifteen in years gone by. The children learned about the number of eggs spawned, the migration of the fish upstream from estuaries and the fact that they smell like cucumber! We also learned about the problems they face: pollution, over fishing and migration barriers. We are very grateful to Courtney who not only prepared a really interested presentation but who also came equipped with a wonderful array of resources from worksheets to activities to board games, all connected to Sparling Fish. There are no excuses now for not remembering all the key facts. Thank you Miss Rowland!
P3/4 have had great fun today designing, creating and filling our Easter Treat Bags. They will be on sale for £1 next Thursday night (28th Feb) at the High School’s S3 Producers’ Market.
Primary 7 pupils show cased their performance skills today at the finals of our Burns Poetry competition. 12 finalists were identified by Miss Clendinning and Mrs Graham. Judges Mrs and Mrs Cathro joined us for the difficult task of selecting the winners. Winners in the art competition were also picked today. Well done to all P7s for learning extracts from Tam O’Shanter and as always a fantastic effort with the entries in the art competition.
Poetry Results
1st Katie
2nd Joy
3rd Ruari
Art Results
1st Willow
2nd Kerri
3rd Miaya
This week Primary 7 pupils visited Primary 1 and Primary 1/2 to share their learning. As part of their language and literacy work, P7 have been working on writing in Scots. They rewrote the Gruffalo in Scots and illustrated their own books. The classes then shared their work with P1 and P1/2 . Everyone had a wonderful afternoon sharing and learning together.
P1/2 have been very busy this term – they have been learning all about Scottish food and traditions. They would like to say thank you to Miss Kirkpatrick and P3/4 for coming to show us some Highland Dancing. They all loved it and were learning lots of new moves which were Pas de Bas and the Highland Fling. They have also been baking this term as they baked their own shortbread which was great fun! On Tuesday they held a Burns Supper in the classroom which they planned in groups. They are very grateful to our Piper Shannon who gave us some of her lunchtime for piping in our Haggis and for Mrs Houston for letting us use the Home Economics kitchen to cook our haggis, neeps and tatties.
On the day itself, several of the pupils took part in saying the Selkirk Grace and the first verse of Address to the Haggis. Another child read out some facts about Burns to fufill the part of the Immortal Memory. The Toast to The Lassies and the Reply parts comprised of some jokes which the children had selected to perform in front of the class. To conclude the afternoon the children sang a verse of Auld Lang Syne and dance the Highland Fling. The children loved being able to try the haggis, neeps and tatties as this was a first for many. We would like to say a huge THANK YOU to Tesco in Castle Douglas for donating the haggis, neeps and tatties, it is much appreciated. The children’s favourite part of the afternoon was eating their homemade shortbread – it was very yummy!
