It’s wonderful to see so many of you sharing your wider achievements in school with us. Please remember, to send in your child’s PASS booklet for assessment and to be considered for an award and/ or prize. They are a great way to have wider achievement recognised. Children with grey or yellow booklets will have partially completed booklets and will be considered for interim prizes. (Yellow and Grey booklets take 3 years to complete.) Please send the booklets into school no later than Monday 24th June. They will be returned to your young person afterwards to continue filling them in until complete. For anyone who has lost their booklet and is keen to fill it in, do let us know as we have a few spares. Current P2s and P3s were given grey booklets during their P2 year. Current P5s and P6s were given yellow booklets during their P5 year. Children in nursery were given brown ones and may now have completed them. Some children will still not have booklets as the newly launched booklets have been phased in following reintroduction after Covid. By next year, all children will have a booklet in process. Thank you
Category Archives: confident individuals
Assembly 14.6.24
We had confident individuals in assembly on Friday. P2/3 presented their save water posters. Well done everyone.
P7 Sharing Fun With Nursery Children
Our P7s shared some fun activities and games with pupils from the nursery today in their PE lesson. P7s have been working on their leadership skills and the nursery children showed great listening skills.
Assembly and HT Awards
Well, technology was on our side today and we managed to have a run through of our songs for the end of term assembly. The children have been learning these in class with their teachers and were all in good voice.
HT awards were given out today for a wide variety of reasons. There has been some successful recount writing in P1 this week,listening carefully and producing quality work, achieving success criteria in writing and taking on feedback, being kind and helping out different groups in class, being a super friend and working incredibly hard throughout this year were some of the reasons for awards today
Well done to all our award winners today.
We also shared the success of both our football teams at assembly today. The teams were presented with their certificates for participating in the tournament. As a school we also nominated and voted for a player of the tournament in each team. The winners of these awards were Cameron and Chelsea.
New Primary 1 Transition
This week, we had our second carousel activity where the new Primary 1s for August, joined in with the current P1s to take part in three different activities, meeting staff and getting used to the classrooms and open areas. The P6 buddies did a great job helping with the board game activity and were super at encouraging the young people to talk about themselves. After the carousel we had our first ‘try out lunch’ experience. Well done all!
UNCRC – Article 28 Access to Education
UNCRC – Article 29 Aims of Education
Speak Out, Stay Safe Assemblies and Head Teacher’s Awards
Today we held two assemblies. The focus for each assembly was the NSPCC and Childline message Speak out, Stay Safe.
UNCRC – Article 19 – Protection from violence,abuse and neglect
UNCRC – Article 27 – Adequate standard of living.
Awards were also given out this week at both assemblies. There were awards for demonstrating commitment to learning, showing kindness and always including others, showing commitment to art, being recognised by classmates for achievements and hard work.
Well done to all our award winners this week.
UNCRC – Article 28 Access to Education
Future Museum Collaborative Writing
Today, the whole school from P1 to P7 took part in a collaborative writing activity. For the last hour of the day, the pupils moved around to be in mixed age groups. Each group was then assigned a piece of plastic, found on a recent beach clean at Rockcliffe. The groups worked as teams to describe what the object looked like before moving on to the more imaginative part of the task – the children were asked to pretend they were archaeologists living in the future, 200 years from now; they were to pretend they lived in times when plastic no longer is in use and also that they did not know what the object actually was. This was a challenging task but there were some great ideas. For example, one group, who were given a purple bottle lid, decided that it could be a tiny bowl for a very small pet which had chewed its rim! Another group described a polythene bag, with a ringed opening, as a moveable toilet for a pet on dog walks! A large traffic cone was imagined as a hat for special occasions, worn by a Giant called Big Foot. And, the pink felt lining from a training shoe was imagined as the tongue from a teddy bear….There were lots more ideas like this and folks will be able to see them all in our Future Museum event, to be held towards the end of term. Watch this space for more information about this soon.
Not only was today’s activity a great opportunity for the children to work with new people of different ages, collaboratively, but it also gave our learners a new context in which to apply their prior learning and skills. One teacher commented how impressed she was with how the pupils demonstrated such confidence with using the descriptive bubbles, as taught through the Stephen Graham approach to writing. Well done all! And, of course, this activity built awareness about how much plastic ends up in our oceans and how long it can stay there, posing a real danger to wildlife. An important environmental message was delivered to the whole school today, thanks to this partnership venture by Rotakids and the School Eco Group.
Assembly and HT Awards
A busy assembly today. The children were introduced to the SHANARRI characters that were created earlier this term. It has taken a bit of time to get the children’s design turned into graphics but with the help of former pupil Molly Boynton we have these completed. Thank you Molly for doing these for us. We think they are amazing.
These characters will be used throughout the school and classes as part of wellbeing and to develop confidence in talking about all the wellbeing indicators.
SHANARRI character designs that were selected for across the whole school. Well done to all the creators.
Please see the picture below in the attached pdf.
SHANARRI Dalbeattie Primary and Nursery
Last week in assembly I reminded the children about bringing their water bottles to school and having sun hats and sunscreen for the warmer sunny days. The children have really tried hard with this and I have seen some fab sun hats in the playground this week. Linking in with this, as part of their class learning about the body this term P3 have created sun safety posters. They had initially been going to share with P1 but today they presented these at assembly to the whole school. The children had scripted what they wanted to say and presented their posters about sun safety messages with confidence. Well done everyone Mrs Stephenson was very proud of you all.
Lots of Head Teacher’s awards given out today. The school values were very evident today with lots of awards for commitment and kindness. Making good choices was also something that featured highly today with people really thinking about things before acting or carrying things through. Some good choices made around playground behaviour and helping others. Great results in numeracy and effort across the year in writing were also reasons for awards today. Mrs Grey has noted some talent in football during PE this week too. Well done to all our award winners this week.
Nursery – P1 Transition Carousel
A few pictures from our first Nursery P1-Transition carousel on Tuesday 14th May. Our current P1s welcomed the nursery boys and girls through to the early level setting to participate in a range of 3 activities too help them become familiar with the setting before they join us in August. Our P6 buddies did a fantastic job too supporting the nursery pupils throughout each activity. Fantastic role models.
P7 Transition Afternoon
P7 pupils visited Dalbeattie High School for lunch and to participate in some transition activities today. The children got to sample the secondary menu and gave lots of 5/5 scores for this when asked by Mr McGougan at the end of the afternoon. The children participated in a scavenger hunt around the school looking for different clues about different curricular areas and then had to solve an anagram about moving to Dalbeattie High School. They also visited Science and H.E to participate in some creative and practical activities. Not sure how many of the crazy creatures created in H.E would make it home or if they children might have eaten them before getting home. Mrs Blackburn has some pictures of the creations that will be shared in due course. Overall a positive day with lots of confident individuals getting ready for the next step in their education journey.
Thank you to Mr McGougan and all staff from Dalbeattie High school for organising and facilitating this afternoon.
