Today we had our first Friday Focus meeting. This is something new we are implementing to provide all children the opportunity to talk about their learning and have a say in some of the school developments and to make their suggestions about school.
We had some light refreshments during our discussions which went down well.
Some confident individuals today who shared their thoughts on what is going well in Fun 31 and what they would like to change. Well done everyone.
Ours P7s were excited to get their leavers hoodies today after assembly. Thank you to Sarah at Banks and Braes in Kirkcudbright for producing these again for us this year.
A part of our World Book Day activities last week, all classes participated in designing a book cover for a title that I had shared with them.
Pictures below show the winners with their prizes at assembly 15.3.24 and the different designs created by pupils in each class.
This week has been British Science Week and some of our classes have engaged in a range ion STEM learning. Some of the learning took place in the P5-P7 classrooms with class teachers, some classes visited the secondary science department.Mr Kennedy and some of the STEM ambassadors from Dalbeattie High School also visited classes and shared some science learning.
P6,P6/7 and P7 also invited parents into their classrooms today to participate in a range of science experiments. It was fantastic to have parents and family members join the classes today.
Please see below a range of pictures form the week.
Click on the link to see P7 eggs drop. Science Week – Egg Drop 🥚
Some great singing in assembly today as we had a run through of all the songs for church next week. Great effort being put in by all the classes to learn these.
HT awards given for a range of achievements as always. Lots of children demonstrating the value of kindness this week and it was great to hear about what they have been doing to show kindness. Several awards were given for progress in numeracy and being able to demonstrate strategies. We also had awards for showing more focus and concentration in learning as well. We had role models in some classes celebrated today as well as awards for skills development in PE from Mrs Grey. Well done to all our award winners this week.
Prizes were also given out for book cover designs that were completed last week as part of our world book day activities. Each class were asked to create a book cover and possibly a blurb about a title from a list shared by myself. Well done to the winners from each class.
Katie our Rota Kids president also shared information at assembly today about an Easter Egg competition that the Rota Kids are organising. More details below.
Easter Egg Comp poster pdf version
egg comp entry form pdf version
Busy assembly again today. We sang through one of our songs the church at the end of term.
Following on from World Book Day yesterday, pupils from Mrs Lumsden’s book club shared information about reading. They shared favourite books, where they like to read and the rights to read. This was the first time that they had presented at assembly and they did very well as it can be quite daunting talking in front of the whole school.📚📚
Awards were given out this week for effort with writing and improved presentation, creating stories at home and sharing with the class, being an IT whizz using publisher and using IT to support writing. Some pupils were also recognised for their commitment to learning and showing resilience when things can be challenging. Mrs Gray identified pupils for showing co-ordination and control when hitting a shuttle in badminton and for showing focus and control with a beanbag and bat. Well done to all our award winner this week.
Finally we celebrated the success of our gymnasts from last weeks schools competition. Well done again to all our teams.👏🏅
More pictures from our world book day activities.
P3 enjoyed sharing their favourite books with each other in class and the Nursery, P1 and P1/2 had a carousel of stories this afternoon. A start to transition for our nursery boys and girls visiting the primary classrooms.
Thank you Mrs Leslie, Mrs Fitzsimmons and Miss Johnstone for reading the stories.
Well, World Book Day has been and gone for another year but what a fantastic day everyone has had here at Dalbeattie Primary and Nursery. Lots of the P1 and P1/2 children were so excited to share their books with me when they arrived in the playground this morning. It was a joy to see their enthusiasm for books.
Through out the day there has been lots of opportunities for sharing learning and collaborating across the school. We have had sharing of favourite book in all the classes, P6 reading to pupils in nursery, World Book Day Bingo, World Book Day Grammar, reading is some fun places around the classroom. There were book tile charades happening in Mr Caldow’s room and making fancy book marks with Mrs Mclean. There were some very creative design that suited books and children interests. Classes have also designed book covers and written blurbs for a range of fun titles that I shared with them for the day. I am really looking forward to seeing the finished designs and will share in due course.
Some classes also enjoyed a sneaky hot chocolate as they read their books.
Thank you to all the staff for the time put into creating these great activities for our learners.
A busy assembly today with lots going on.
We started learning a couple of our hymns of our Easter Church service in a few weeks. The class teachers will ask be learning these with children in classes too. I will post these to share soon.
WOW Badges
Some classes have participated in designing new badges for the WOW tracker that we use in school. As a school we have to pick 3 entires to send forward to the finals. Well done Bessie, Layton and Rex on having your designs picked to represent our school.
Queen of The South Shirt Design
Some classes participated in the design a new strip for Queen of the South over the last couple of weeks. We are delighted to announce that we have two finalists. Well done to Finlay and Emmi on achieving the finals. Everyone will be able to vote for winning designs next week when all finalists are announced. We will keep you posted on how to do this.
Head Teacher’s Awards were given out for a range of reasons today but I did ask for awards this week to also recognise our values and saw many children celebrated for being ‘committed’ today. Pupils have demonstrated being committed in P.E, to their learning in class and being positive role models. Well done everyone on all you achievements this week.
Today the winners from our Scots Poetry competitions and P7 art competition visited Munchies Park to recite their poems and share art work with the residents. The children all did extremely well and I was very proud of how them all. Well done everyone.
The residents and staff all enjoyed the children visiting. Thank you for having us.
