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
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.
Last week P1 enjoyed a great trip to Threave Gardens where they met with the Rangers to go bug hunting and pond dipping. We had a lovely walk round the gardens and a play in the park- even though the sunny weather seemed to have disappeared!
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.
Primary 7 put on a terrific leavers show, ‘Just Like Yesterday.’ The children had gathered their memories of their journey from nursery through to Primary 7. There were some sad stories but mostly they were happy and funny ones. Some highlights included re-enacting a bus trip and the stresses of sports day. Miss Clenndinning was delighted with the performance, especially as the children had had so little time to learn a set of new songs so soon after they had worked with Scottish Opera.
Exciting news as Dalbeattie Primary School has now been awarded FairAchiever status by the Fairtrade Foundation. Evidence of our Fairtrade work was submitted, with positive feedback given along with the issuing of our FairAchiever Award. We look forward to continuing our journey to raise awareness and promote Fairtrade, not only in our local community but in the wider community.
Primary 5 pupils enjoyed a day of Watersports at Carlingwark Loch in Castle Douglas. They showed perseverance, resilience, courage, communication and teamwork skills while sailing, canoeing and kayaking. Mrs Dyson, Mrs Cox and Mrs Fortnum were very proud of the effort made by everyone! A big thank you to all the instructors who helped make this such a fantastic day.
On Saturday 17th June, Riley was presented with her special merit award in the Primary 4-7 Category of the Tesco Bank Art Competition for Schools 2017 (Theme ‘Transport’). Riley travelled to Edinburgh for the day with family and Ms McLeman (Art specialist) also attended the awards ceremony. Well done to Riley. Riley’s design features on a poster around Edinburgh along with other award winners.
Dalbeattie Primary has just staged a terrific performance of Scottish Opera’s ‘Tale O Tam.’
Primary 6 and 7 pupils made up the chorus groups of ‘The Tavern Crew,’ ‘The Witches Crew’ and the ‘Stormy Crew.’
The opera told the familiar story of Tam O Shanter drinking late in the tavern before making his way home on his old grey mare Meg before stopping to look through the window of the auld Kirk by Alloway where he sees the witches and warlocks dancing with the devil. He shouts out ‘Well done Cutty Sark’ and the witches take chase after him. He reaches the keystone of the brig but only after the witch pulls off Meg’s tail.
The whole show was fantastic: the singing was tremendous and the costumes were brilliant. The school is very grateful to Scottish Opera for coming to school to deliver a day’s workshops and rehearsals in the morning before the actual show in the afternoon. The school is also very grateful to class teachers and especially to Kate Picken who helped the children to learn and prepare the songs and music in the weeks ahead of the actual day. The whole school enjoyed watching the dress rehearsal before parents came to watch the final show before the end of the school day. This year’s Scottish Opera was funded through the Creative Scotland’s YMI (Youth Music Initiative.)
