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.)
A group of 22 Primary 5s went sailing, kayaking and canoeing today at Carlingwark Outdoor Education Centre. The children were very brave on the water, trying out the new sports and they worked well in their teams to complete the challenges.
Well done everybody! I hope you had as much fun as me!
Miss Agnew 
Going behind the scenes at Tesco in Castle Douglas was a great experience for the children. The Farm to Fork trail helped them learn more about where their food comes from.
As you can see the children thoroughly enjoyed their cooking and baking sessions last month. Well done to many of the children who tried new foods and liked them!
Despite the rain, we had a super trip to Boreland of Colvend last week. Some of the highlights included seeing the dairy cows being milked in the parlour, testing out the tractors and quad bike and of course feeding the calves and lambs!
Thank you to the Roans and RHET! (and the BBC, who were filming).
What a super effort from Primary 3! They have designed and created their own miniature farms at home. Thanks to all parents for your support. They are fantastic!
