Here are this week’s award winners: lots of successful learners. Also celebrated this week was the achievement of Finlay Burns who came 10th in a SumDog mathematical challenge, out of the whole of Scotland in a competition which had thousands of entrants. Well done!
On Saturday 28th September, the history club visited Tongland Abbey Excavation site. We learned lots of interesting things about the founding of the abbey by Alan, Lord of Galloway and his links to the Magna Carta signing in 1215. We now understand much more about how archaeological investigations take place. We are very grateful to Dr David Devereux and Mr Donald Henry for giving us tours of both the excavation site and the two later built parish churches. More detail about what we learned will be included in our published findings at the end of the year!
Here are this week’s award winners including some from the same families! Also this week, we were delighted to see the first two awards nominated by Mrs Gray for P.E this week. Well done all!
Here are this week’s very deserving award winners:
Today our new Eco and School Council committees were formed. They are:
Eco Committee
Primary 1: Rose Johnston
Primary 1 /2: Isla Tattersfield
Primary 2/ 3: Kai Hill
Primary 3: Leo Cooper-Rogers
Primary 3/ 4: Freya MacIntosh
Primary 5 /6: Roman Bond
Primary 5: Chloe Campbell
Primary 6: Noah Black
Primary P6 /7: Archie Gilmour
Primary 7: Lewis Brotherston
School Pupil Council:
Primary 1: Henry Hicks
Primary 1 /2: McKenzie Forster
Primary 2/ 3: Lucy Smith
Primary 3: Ben Clark and Evan Kirkpatrick
Primary 3/ 4: Lucas Tattersfield
Primary 5 /6: Bonnie McGlashan
Primary 5: Maisy Pipe
Primary 6: Jamie Robson
Primary P6 /7: Liam Bourhill
Primary 7: Daividh Valentine
Today, we held two different assemblies where awards were presented: one for P1 up to P3 and another for P3 / 4 up to P7. It was pleasing to see lots of deserving award winners.
Dalbeattie Primary has just held another successful end of term assembly and awards. Prizes and awards were presented as follows:
Alistair Gourlay Art Prize-Winner was Evie McGougan. Runners up were Elise Wixon, Dylan Slack, Kai Hill, Darcey Frew, Isla Tattersfield, Ebony McMorran
Babsie Caig Primary 7 Role Model– Louise Kelting
Jenny Corrie Poetry Award- Grace Hurley
History Cup- Lily Davidson
Alan Younger Art Trophy- Amber Latimer
Lions Club Citizenship Prize- Winner was Katie Mein. Runners up were Emma Newbould, Anne Keeley, Kerri O’ Dornan, Jessica Bowden and Cara Houston.
Janice Jamieson Reading Award-Winner was Jennifer Taylor. Runners up were Keira Johnston, Isaac Gibbs Brown, Joy McCall and Samuel Havler.
Mc Shane Award for Effort- Evie Smallwood
Girls 300m Winner- Jennifer Taylor
Boys 300m Winner-Thomas Brown
Girls Champion Cup- Jennifer Taylor
Boys Champion Cup-Thomas Brown
The Taylor Shield for Best Sports House Team was won by Craignair and the House Points Trophy was won by Screel.
In addition to these awards, certificates and prizes were also presented to William Heughan Citizenship Prize winners: Elise Wixon, Amalie Wykes, Lucy Smith, Lexie Anderson, Jasmine Wixon, Robbie Wykes, Ruari Webster, Jennifer Taylor, Reece Latimer, Logan Carson, Jessica Bowden. The following also received certificates: Jude Mouat, Connor Hitchell, Cameron Hitchell, Ella Blaikie, Fallon McGimpsey, Rebecca Hird, Jessica Boynton, Rory McCormick, Ebony McMorran, Katie Harper, Freya MacIntosh, Abigail Houston, Aoife Tallontire, Eilidh Tallontire, Fabio Murray Sanchez, Blair Kalotka, Amber Latimer, , Katie Mein, Emma Harper, Finlay Burns, Megan Oswald, Grace Hurley, Carrie Davidson.
Also presented later in the day were framed pictures to keep for Jennifer Taylor and Ebony McMorran, who had previously won the Library Mascot competition. These designs have now been enhanced using graphics and copies have been framed to display in school. The images, saved as jpegs, can now be used in the future on library certificates or prizes.
We were, however, sorry to be saying goodbye to Miss Thomson, Miss Wilson and Miss Dalton.
Primary 1 /2 has had a great pirate fun day which included a treasure hunt in the playground, ‘sea’ role play storytelling corner, pin the patch on the pirate, make a giant pirate ship from cardboard and cup cake decorating. Thank you Miss Dalton for a fab day!
Today we held our Primary 1-3 sports, on a cloudy but dry day, out on the athletics grass area. The children were great and good fun was had by all. However, if anyone has some old fashioned style table spoons for the egg and spoon race, any donations would be much appreciated. We shall be dispensing with one or two after today’s races! We now look forward to Friday when we hope weather permits the Primary 4-7 Sports to go ahead. Thank you to all our parents and grandparents for coming along and for being great spectators too.
Today we welcomed our new Primary 1 children to a taster lunch event to try out our school dinners. This was enjoyed by all. Thank you to the kitchen staff for organising this important transition event for us. Later in the week we look forward to the children joining us again for our ‘moving up day’ on Thursday afternoon. Looking on were also our Primary 7 buddies. Our Primary 1 children will meet their buddies soon.
