Our P5-P7 classes were invited to join S2 Health and Wellbeing classes to play games they had created about feelings and emotions. The children then voted on their favourite games. Thank you Ms McQuade and S2 for inviting the classes to join you at Dalbeattie High School. P5 have not yet visited they will go along with beginning 20th November.
Pictures show P6 working with S2.
We started the first assembly of the term with some hymns. The P6 and P7 had great recall of these and encouraged the younger classes to sing along.
We celebrated the success of our group 7 Stars who participated in the Stewartry Active Schools dance festival. The group was awarded best overall performance. The picture taken today shows 6 of the 7 stars. We will update on Monday with our 7 Stars. The group will perform their dance to us at a future assembly. Pictures and videos will also appear on active schools Facebook page.
Awards were presented this week for underwriting a super sentence, being a super star and role model to others in the class, being an excellent listener, excellent attitude to learning and wonderful literacy skills, showing leadership in creating dance routines, being determined to succeed with learning and enjoying a new history topic.
A very busy assembly this week. We celebrated harvest time by singing some of the songs we have been learning this term. We thought about things we are thankful for particularly the food we have and the producers that are busy at this time of year harvesting crops. Thank you to everyone that has sent in items for challenge poverty week. Items donated will be shared with the local food bank.
We were joined by representatives from Dalbeattie Rotary Club today to celebrate winning the National Rotary Young Environmentalist competition. Our young environmentalists Rory, Isabella and Lucy were presented with this award by Kate Kerr the President of Dalbeattie Rotary Club. Attached is a copy of the presentation shared today at Assembly by Mrs Howie.
Young Environmentalist Powerpoint assembly 6.10.23 pdf version
Our new eco committee and pupil councillors were represented with their badges.
The rugby teams from Wednesday were presented with certificates from Miss Dooley.
Awards were also presented this week for a wide range of reasons. well done to all award winners.
Young Environmentalists
Pupil Councillors
Eco Committee
Award Winners with donations for foodbank.
Fantastic walk today even if it was a bit damp. All classes were amazing and kept to a good pace. Well done to Layton and Freddie for being great leaders with myself at the front.
Thank you to family members who joined us and to sports leaders from DHS for your help. It was also great to have Thomas along for the walk too. So far we have raised approximately £1300.
House Captains and Vice Captains
Colliston – Captain – Lexi
Vice Captain- Isabella
Craignair – Captain Emily
Vice Captain – Katie H
Dalmun – Captain – Halle
Vice Captain – Eilidh
Screel – Captain – Daniel
Vice Captains – Lucy and Casey.
Sports Captains and Vice Captains
Colliston – Captain – Emmie
Vice Captain – Mitchell
Craignair – Captain – Fallon
Vice Captain – Jessica
Dalmun – Captain – Cameron
Vice Captain – Chelsea
Screel – Captain – Lucas
Vice Captain- Rory
Tomorrow the staff and children in school will be voting for this years house and sports captains. Those that are standing for these posts had to create posters and short videos about themselves and gives reasons as to why they would make a good house or sports captain. There have been 21 P7s put themselves forward for these roles which is fantastic to see. Pictures showcasing posters are below and we will let you know about successful candidates in due course.
Dalbeattie Primary has just held its One Planet Picnic, an initiative encouraged by Eco Schools Scotland to build awareness of locally sourced food items in order to help with working towards sustainability and reduction of our carbon footprint. For our ‘One Planet Picnic’ we not only created our own home baking using home grown produce but we encouraged the children to bring in their own morning snacks, which were locally sourced, to tell their classmates about at morning breaktime at ‘Snack and Chat’ time. We are very grateful for everyone at home for supporting this event so well. We were amazed by the amount of snacks children brought which had been locally sourced in some way. There was everything from home grown apples and carrot sticks to items baked locally together with local cheese and pate. There were some wonderful ideas of things to bring in. Meanwhile, on the same day, the Eco Schools Group had been busy, along with Mrs Houston from the High School’s Hospitality Department, baking individuals carrot muffins using home grown vegetables. The cakes were delivered to the classrooms later on the same day for our pupils to enjoy, following on perfectly from Mrs Duncan’s Harvest Assembly earlier in the day. Primary 6 also had a go at baking bread using some of their own home grown wheat.
Today, in school, we marked the start of Fairtrade Fortnight with our ‘Fairtrade Morning Snack.’ This was helped greatly by donations from local businesses Co-op, Tesco and Kinnairds. The main snack on offer was a choice of Fairtrade bananas or our own crafted shortbread biscuits topped with chocolate and jelly beans. At the time of writing, we are not sure what amount of money we have raised from this but any proceeds will go to the Fairtrade Foundation. Later in the day, Primary 5 together with the school’s Eco Committee listened to a very informative presentation by Mary Van Zwanenberg which included a very interesting film ‘Guardians of the Rainforest.’ Many of our classes also took part in class learning. Primary 1/2 had lots of Fairtarde themed activities in the open area. The end of Fairtrade Fortnight will be marked at assembly on 6th March with a small play by the Eco Committee.
Today in assembly, we celebrated our Scots Poetry Competition work with certificates being presented to first, second and third place finalists. The first place winners then entertained the whole school with a recitation of their chosen poems. Today, also saw the visit of our guests from Dalbeattie Burns Club who judged not only the Primary 7 pupils who recited an excerpt from Robert Burns’ Tam O’ Shanter but also the art work, which depicted a scene from the same poem.
The results were: Primary 1: First – Corey Canochan; Second- Henry Hicks; Third- Sophie Geddes ; Primary 1/2: First- Mollie Watson; Second- Finlay Bell; Third Equal: Lexie Anderson and Evie McGougan; Primary 2/3: First Equal- Jack Little and Amalie Wykes; Second- Aidan Galbraith; Third Equal- Elise Wixon and Reuben Benson; Primary 3: First- Lucy Johnstone; Second- Katie Dickie; Third Equal- Rebecca Hird and Oliver Bonnar; Primary 3/4: First- Anaya Nerestan; Second- Isla Smith; Third Equal- Rory McCormick and Lucy Bell; Primary 4/5: First- Ava Drummond; Second Equal- Fern Lundy and Sam Donnelly; Third Equal- Ailsa Ferguson and Owen O’Dornan; Primary 5: First- Chloe Campbell; Second- Struan Caldow; Third Equal- Hayden Berry and Elsie Gibbs-Brown; Primary 6: First- Fabio Murray-Sanchez; Second Jack Johnstone; Third- Owen Bryson; Primary 6/7 (photo to follow) : First- Eve McCall; Second Equal- Liam Bourhill and Laith Atkinson Deacon; Primary 7 Poetry Recitation of Tam O’ Shanter: First- Maddison McMurtrie; Second- Thomas Jardine; Third- Jessica Davidson; Primary 7 Poetry Art Work of Tam O’ Shanter: First- Rhys Gaffney; Second- Carrie Davidson; Third- Amber Latimer.
Also in our assembly, Primary 4/5 drew the raffle for the completed Titanic Quizzes. The winner, receiving £10 was Lucy Simpson. Our Primary 5 class was awarded with the Wow tracker Active travel to School Award. Finally, Roman Bond and Chloe Campbell reminded us all that the first day back after the February holiday (Monday 24th) will be Fairtrade Snack day with biscuits (shortbread with chocolate and jelly bean) costing 60p and bananas 40p. Pupils can buy two items each. All products used carry the Fairtrade logo. Proceeds from the snack will go to the Fairtrade foundation, in keeping with our targets to retain our ‘Fair Achiever School’ status.
Lots of deserving pupils were again awarded their certificates and prizes for their hard work, effort and positive attitude to their learning. Our photos show several successful learners, confident individuals, effective contributors and responsible citizens.
Also pictured are all our young people who took part in the recent schools gymnastics competition.
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