Category Archives: Class Learning

P7 Christmas Party

December 16, 2016 Miss Clendinning Leave a comment

Last night Primary 7 had a blast at their last ever primary school Christmas party. We showed off our Scottish dancing skills and really wowed Mrs Duncan with how good we were. We played some party games then strutted our stuff in the dancing competition. We even had a short break and ate some delicious party food. Mrs Burn and Miss Clendinning were thrilled with how well behaved and well mannered everyone was.

A big thank you to Mrs Duncan and Mrs Stitt for buying and preparing all of the yummy food.

We had a great evening!!

Class Learning

Christmas and Winter Art Displays

December 16, 2016 Mrs Duncan Leave a comment

Primary 7 have created these snowmen using shading techniques and chalks.

Primary 2/3 have a fantastic Christmas tree made out of cut out hands to welcome you into their classroom. Linking literacy with art, the class also created their own picture of Owl Babies.

Choir singers and creative snowmen from Primary 5

Primary 4/5 created these fun Rudolph picture with Miss Agnew this week.

Class Learning, fundraising

P1 Christmas Craft Sale

December 14, 2016 Mrs Fitzsimmons Leave a comment

On Monday afternoon P1 invited family and friends to come along to their Christmas Craft Sale. The previous week they had been very busy making various items using lots of glitter, tissue, snowflakes and pompoms! It was very busy and everything was sold out! We would like to thank all the parents, relatives and friends for coming along and supporting us! We are pleased to announce we have raised £174.12 which will be going towards a class trip.

Class Learning

Primary 4 Christmas Party

December 14, 2016 Mrs J McLean 1 Comment

Class Learning

Primary 7 and Primary 6/7 Outdoor Learning

December 13, 2016 Miss Clendinning Leave a comment

Today, Primary 6/7 and Primary 7 took their learning about WW2 outside into the playground. They were learning about the number of casualties different countries suffered and were challenged to work in groups to create a human graph.

Team work was vital in this task as the children were asked to choose different ways to use their bodies to represent the different numbers e.g. someone standing upright may represent 100,000 casualties whilst someone sitting represents 100 casualties.

Every group worked together efficiently and came up with some excellent and creative ideas for their human graph.

Here are a few photos showing some of the team work taking place and the final graph.

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P1’s Outdoor Learning

December 11, 2016 Mrs Fitzsimmons Leave a comment

This term P1 have been learning about forces through our topic on Toys. We enjoyed a great afternoon outside working on various activities involving forces. At two of the stations we had to work in a team or with a partner to make objects move by pushing and pulling. It was quite tricky at times and we really had to think how we could use some of the materials given.

Here is how P1F got on!

Look how well P1Y worked!

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P1’s – Road Safety

November 15, 2016 Mrs Fitzsimmons Leave a comment

Last week P1 were learning how to cross the road safely and the importance of being seen at night. We all went to cross Southwick Road with the help of Mrs Widdowson and discussed the Green Cross Code. We also discussed alternative ways of crossing the road safely; for example using the traffic lights on the High Street.

Thank you Mrs Widdowson!

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P1F – What have we been getting up to?

November 10, 2016 Mrs Fitzsimmons Leave a comment

P1 recently learned about the importance of hand hygiene. We put ‘pretend’ germs on our hands, washed them and then looked to see how well we had actually washed them by looking in the ultra violet light! We learned you should wash your hands for 15 seconds and germs are hard to get rid of!!

We also had a visit from Paula Muir from Child Smile who gave us lots of advice about looking after our teeth. We all brushed our teeth for 2 minutes and enjoyed listening to a story.

At the end of last term we had an open afternoon to share or learning and play lots of phonics games with our parents and grandparents. We had great fun and would like to thank them all for coming!

Class Learning, Sports

Primary 7 PE Transition

November 10, 2016 Miss Clendinning Leave a comment

Primary 7 are currently half way through their block of PE at Dalbeattie High School as part of their transition work and they are loving it!

Here are a few pictures of some of the things they have been getting up to.

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Pitch, Pulse and Magic

November 9, 2016 Mrs Duncan Leave a comment

P4,P4/5 and P5 had their first visit today from two professional musicians as part of the Live Music Now project that the school are lucky enough to be involved in this session. Rachel and Holly visited the school and performed for the children on their trumpet and tuba. The children were told about the history of each instrument and they participated in some simple rhythm work to develop pupil awareness of the concept of pulse. The ladies demonstrated different playing techniques with each instrument and how sounds can be changed. Through the pieces of music that were played, the children also found out about different styles of music and musical themes. The children were particularly good at identifying popular tunes such as Mission Impossible, Star Wars and Coronation Street. We are looking forward to welcoming 4 more musicians to school later this session as part of the project.