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Class Learning

Library Visit

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Over the past few weeks Primary 7 have had a fantastic opportunity to visit the local library to learn about the services they provide to all young people.

Over the past two visits we have learned about how to find fiction and non-fiction books in the library and learned about the Dewey Decimal System. We were even challenged to use this system to find different categories of books in the non-fiction section.

We really enjoyed our visits and can’t thank Lesley enough for her time. We really enjoyed learning these new skills and hope we can apply them in our new library in our new school.

 

    

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Primary 4/5 Science Experiments

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Primary 4/5 have been carrying out a few science experiments in class this term. We did an investigation to find out if salt, sugar, sand, chalk, herbs, flour, washing power, coffee granules and gravy would dissolve in warm water. The children made their predictions and then decided if the materials were soluble or insoluble and recorded them in the correct category in their table. They also then predicted how many spoonfuls of sugar/salt they could add to the water before it became saturated.

Some of the children brought equipment into school to demonstrate their own experiments. Archie made his own slime. Lexie demonstrated the skittles experiment. Liam showed us the reaction created when mints are added to a bottle of coke.

Well done P4/5!

 

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Primary 2 / 3 Traffic Survey

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On Wednesday 20th September, Mrs Wixon; with a little help from Mrs Aitchison and Mrs Lumsden, took the class to different areas of Dalbeattie to conduct a traffic survey.

Our topic this term is Transport, so we decided to split up into groups and go to John Street, the High Street and directly in front of the School building on Southwick Road.

We have been learning about tally marks and used these to mark the traffic which went past.  We had a great morning and were able to discuss our findings with each other when we got back to class.  We discovered that John Street was the busiest of the roads!

In ICT we have also been able to transfer the information we collected and produced a bar graph of our findings.  Lots of cross-curricular learning!!

 

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Primary 4/5 Posters

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Primary 4/5 worked hard to make posters all about themselves as their first homework task.  They included information about their families, hobbies and achievements. There were lots of cute baby pictures too! Each child shared their poster with the rest of the class and we enjoyed learning a bit more about everyone. Thank you to parents for helping with this task.

Miss Agnew

citizenship, Class Learning, Sports, Whole School

End of Term Awards

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Dalbeattie Primary held its last end of term awards ceremony on Friday 30th June. Amongst the awards presented were the sports day trophies and house cup (winners Colliston) and house shield (winners were Colliston.)

Boys Champion: Leon Pipe and Andrew Millar- joint winners

Runner up: Cohen O’Conner

Boys 300m winners: Ewan Taylor

Runner up: Leon Pipe

Girls champion: Tia Thorburn

Girls runner up: Lainey Ireland and Myah Sargent joint

Girls 300m winner: Tia Thorburn

runner up: Lainey Ireland

Also presented were:

Lions Citizenship Prize: Ciara McQuarrie- winner. Runners up: Lucy Glendinning, Andie Wilson, Sam McKnight

Alistair Gourlay Art award: joint winners Samuel Donnelly and Anaya Nerestan

Alan Younger memorial for art in the upper school: Brooke Henderson

Maureen McShane Award for effort: joint winners Stuart McFegan and Kerrie Pendelton

Jennie Corrie Trophy for Poetry: Louise Kelting

Babsie Caig Trophy for best role model: Tia Thorburn

Heughan Citizenship Awards: EXCELLENT: Robbie Wykes, Jasmine Wixon, Cameron Patterson, Rory McCormick; VERY GOOD: Emmie Sanderson, Carey McCubbin, Nell Porter, Owen o Dornan, Erin Styles, Aulay Webster, Harry Cameron, Jessica Bowden, Cara Houston, Ewan Herries, Kerri O Dornan, Ruari Webster. In addition to these awards a further special prize was awarded to Louise Kelting for dedication and commitment to eco schools activities.

Gold, silver and bronze awards for accreditation in Country Dancing were also presented by Mrs Fortnum to many children in her dancing after school club.

A new trophy was also presented for the first time this year. The Dalbeattie Primary School History Prize which has been donated by Dalbeattie Museum was presented to Jamie Laurie for his outstanding interest in this local history project about the Titanic. The trophy was presented by Mr Tommy Henderson and Mr Donald Henderson made  a very fitting speech about Murdoch being a former pupil of the school and how poignant it was that this cup was being presented for the first time in the old school and next year it will be presented again for the first time in the new school.

  

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Primary 4 and 4/5 Photo Competition

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P4 and P4/5 took part in a photo competition as part of their class learning about Dumfries and Galloway this term. The children had to take a creative photograph anywhere in Dumfries and Galloway. Mr Phil McMenemy, a  well know local photographer came  into school today to judge the competition. Well done to all the pupils who entered photographs.