A huge well done to P4,P4/5 and P5 classes today on their fantastic performances of the show Lights Camel, Action. There was singing ! There was dancing! There was humour and we certainly had confident individuals in all the classes.
Thank you to all the staff for their involvements in putting the show together. Thank you to our audiences for coming along to watch and support the children.
Three of our pupils were joint equal winners in a recent poster competition to mark the 200 year anniversary of the RNLI. Part of their prize was a tour of the Lifeboat station at Kippford. well done Holly, Rosa and Isla. Looks like you had great fun! A great big thank you goes to Laura, Gareth, Lynda and Marion at RNLI Kippford.
Finlay visited Palmerston yesterday to present his winning football top design. Well done Finlay. We can’t wait to see the final shirt design when you receive your winning top to wear.
Come along and look at our exhibits to see what our young people thought of the plastic objects which were found on a recent beach clean. This has been an activity in which the whole school P1-P7 took part, working collaboratively together.
£1 entry is for juice and biscuits and a short quiz sheet. There will be a chance to vote for your favourite team name and also the team with the best imagination. There will be prizes for the winners and for three lucky entrants whose sheets are pulled out of the hat. Prizes will be given later in the week. Do pop in for a visit.
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
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.
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.
P5 have been inspired by the work of Dumfries and Galloway Amanda Hayler. Their work has created some very eye catching displays around the school.
Read about Amanad’s story and how she became an artist. She is presenting at Spring Fling if interested in seeing some of her work.
Amanda Hayler: ‘Art became a form of escapism from the real world after my cancer diagnosis’
There is some wonderful art work on display around the school. Lots of different techniques and skills being used to create these fantastic pieces. Well done everyone.
UNCRC Article 31- Rest, Play,Culture,Arts
2024 is the 200th anniversary of the existence of the RNLI. In recognition of this milestone event, Kippford Lifeboat Station will be running a competition for children to design a poster celebrating 200 years of saving lives at sea.
The competition will run until June. All completed entries must be received by Friday 28th June. The competition is open to any child. There will be three age categories with prizes for first, second and third in each category as follows – 3-4 years, 5-7 years and 8-11 years.
All entries must be A4 size. RNLI and 200 must appear somewhere on the design. Any medium can be used, e.g. pen, pencil, crayon, paint, collage as desired. The child’s name, age, school attended and parental contact number must be clearly displayed on the rear of the poster. Completed entries can be handed into the RNLI shop in Kippford or Dalbeattie Learning Campus for the attention of Mrs Howie.
The posters will be judged by members of the lifeboat crew and winners announced in early July. It is hoped that prizes can be presented to the winning entrants at the Kippford Station Open Day on 6th July.
