On Thursday afternoon we invited parents and friends to join us for some fun making junk model dinosaurs! First of all we sang a dinosaur song and then we began creating our dinosaurs. We had a brilliant time making them and we think the mums and dads enjoyed themselves too!! Mrs Fitzsimmons and Miss Reid were extremely impressed with the creativeness shown and would like to thank everyone who came along again for helping and supporting the children.
Last week P1 received a special delivery from a professor in Canada needing our help. He sent us an egg he discovered while digging for dinosaur fossils. As he was so busy he asked if we would monitor it for him in different conditions and report back with our findings. Of course we were very up for the challenge and decided to pack it carefully and first of all put it beside the window in our classroom!
To find out what happened next you will need to ask P1!!!
On Friday 17th of March, 12 P7 pupils took part in the Dumfries and Galloway schools Orienteering Championship at Barrhill Plantations in Dalbeattie. The Event was organised by Solway Orienteers. Thank you to all those involved in organising the event. The children all had a great time. In the P7 category, Jenny and Lainey were 2nd and Leon and Cohen were first. Well done both partnerships. More pictures from the day are available on the Solway Orienteers Facebook page.
P6 and 7 had a party instead of Golden Time on Friday to say goodbye to Mr Maxwell after 10 weeks of working in P6G. We will all miss him greatly and wish him good luck in his probationary year of teaching.
P6G had great fun painting their versions of Van Gogh’s Starry Night with more emphasis on ochre yellow rather than Prussian blue. Some of the swirls and details are super!
Mrs Graham and Mr Maxwell are absolutely astounded at the effort P6G have put into making their space projects . The children were given the task of finding out about an aspect of space that interested them and create a 3D model with accompanying research . There are planets, rockets, space ships, aliens and facts galore! The work that the children (and some parents !) have put in is truly wonderful and we are looking forward to looking at each project in turn.
Well done to everyone!
Since achieving FairActive status by the Fairtrade Foundation, Dalbeattie Primary School continues on our journey to raise awareness of Fairtrade. Following on from the successful Fairtrade Breakfasts of last year, Primary 5D pupils and class teacher Mrs Dyson organised and ran a Fairtrade Tuck Shop for staff and pupils. They offered toast with Fairtrade jam, Fairtrade bananas and a selection of Fairtrade cookies and oaty biscuits. They wish to thank the Co-op in Dalbeattie who gave their support and generously donated the bananas. Many thanks also go to Mrs Connel, Mrs Cox and Mrs Ross who prepared the hot toast for everyone. The Fairtrade Breaks were very successful with pupils from all classes and staff showing support and enjoying a Fairtrade snack. Mrs Dyson was once again very proud of the efforts of everyone in promoting Fairtrade.
As part of our new topic we have been learning about animal adaptation. To support our class learning, Miss Clendinning organised a surprise visit from Rango, a beautiful chameleon.
During Rango’s visit we asked Mrs McVinnie lots of questions and applied our learning in class to discuss why and how Rango could use his ability to change colour in the wild for protection and survival.
Mrs McVinnie kindly allowed us to hold Rango and some of us even allowed him to walk up our arms!! Miss Clendinning was not so brave!!!
A special thank you to Mrs McVinnie for bringing Rango in and huge apologies from Miss Clendinning to any parents who are now being hounded to buy a chameleon!!
We have had a fantastic day in school celebrating World Book Day. A great number of our pupils came dressed as a character from a favourite book and brought along a copy to share with their classmates. The costumes were terrific, as you will see from the pictures. We are also very grateful, this year, to Dalbeattie Book Shop whose donation of many books has meant that we could allow each pupil to select a free book from previous years of World Book Day publications. The children have also been given their World Book Day 2017 tokens which can be exchanged either for a free 2017 World Book Day or can be used as £1 towards any book or audio book over £2.99.
