It was good to welcome back after the Christmas holidays and Mrs Duncan talked to the school about the new year ahead. Many successful learners, effective contributors, confident individuals and responsible citizens were also presented with their much deserved Head Teacher’s awards.
Today, we celebrated the start of the Christmas holidays with another wonderful service in Dalbeattie and Kirkgunzeon Parish Church. The Primary 7s re-told the original First Christmas story, in a ‘Pop Up Nativity,’ with some help from the audience with actions and words and the Primary 3s dressed up as the original Nativity characters of Mary, Joseph, Angels, Wise Men and Shepherds. The whole congregation thoroughly enjoyed their audience participation, interspersed with some wonderful traditional carol singing.
A great time was had by all, playing traditional games and a visit from a special guest. Yes, Santa came to the party and much to the delight of the children, distributed gifts from his sack of presents. Thank you Santa!
Here are this week’s deserving awards winners, each receiving their certificates and pencils as prizes. Lots of successful learners!
Today, we were pleased to see more award winners. Also receiving prizes were Blair and Jack who were each recipients of a lovely new book. Both boys had their raffle tickets pulled out of the hat following their 100% scores in an Accelerated Reader quiz.
Today, on the last day of term we were pleased to present Head Teacher’s Awards to more successful role models and successful learners. Well done all! Two children, Sofia and Leah were also recognised for their effort in fundraising for our sponsored walk. The school has now raised over £2400 which is a super amount and a significant amount of this was raised by these two girls. However, our thanks go to all our young people who worked so hard to help raise this excellent amount, which will help with future school trips and other resources. Many children were also recognised for their participation in a recent Sumdog competition.
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:
