P6-S1 pupils were given a super presentation today from the South West of Scotland Piping and Drumming Academy. They were informed about the opportunities available to them should they wish to take up piping or drumming in the near future.
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Primary 4 and 4/5 Photo Competition
P4 and P4/5 took part in a photo competition as part of their class learning about Dumfries and Galloway this term. The children had to take a creative photograph anywhere in Dumfries and Galloway. Mr Phil McMenemy, a well know local photographer came into school today to judge the competition. Well done to all the pupils who entered photographs.
Just Like Yesterday
Primary 7 put on a terrific leavers show, ‘Just Like Yesterday.’ The children had gathered their memories of their journey from nursery through to Primary 7. There were some sad stories but mostly they were happy and funny ones. Some highlights included re-enacting a bus trip and the stresses of sports day. Miss Clenndinning was delighted with the performance, especially as the children had had so little time to learn a set of new songs so soon after they had worked with Scottish Opera.
Scottish Opera Tale O Tam
Dalbeattie Primary has just staged a terrific performance of Scottish Opera’s ‘Tale O Tam.’
Primary 6 and 7 pupils made up the chorus groups of ‘The Tavern Crew,’ ‘The Witches Crew’ and the ‘Stormy Crew.’
The opera told the familiar story of Tam O Shanter drinking late in the tavern before making his way home on his old grey mare Meg before stopping to look through the window of the auld Kirk by Alloway where he sees the witches and warlocks dancing with the devil. He shouts out ‘Well done Cutty Sark’ and the witches take chase after him. He reaches the keystone of the brig but only after the witch pulls off Meg’s tail.
The whole show was fantastic: the singing was tremendous and the costumes were brilliant. The school is very grateful to Scottish Opera for coming to school to deliver a day’s workshops and rehearsals in the morning before the actual show in the afternoon. The school is also very grateful to class teachers and especially to Kate Picken who helped the children to learn and prepare the songs and music in the weeks ahead of the actual day. The whole school enjoyed watching the dress rehearsal before parents came to watch the final show before the end of the school day. This year’s Scottish Opera was funded through the Creative Scotland’s YMI (Youth Music Initiative.)
Tesco Bank Art Competition for Schools 2017
We are delighted to share some exciting news with you from here at Dalbeattie Primary School. Riley from P4/5 has been awarded a special merit in the Category C Primary 4 -7 section of this competition. The competition is in its 14th year and this year they received over 7,700 entries from all over Scotland so being amongst the winners is a major achievement. We are delighted that Riley is receiving this award. A huge thanks must also go to Mrs McLeman our specialist art teacher for selecting Riley’s piece of art work to enter in the competition along with several others form the class and a group composition from the P5 class.
Riley’s art work along with all other winning entries from each category will be framed and on display at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art 0-Modern ONE, from 10th June -24th September. The exhibition will then go on tour to Eastwood Park Theatre Gallery, Giffnock and Gracefield Arts centre in Dumfries until Spring 2018.
History Prize
Please see information about a new history prize being awarded this year at our end of term assembly.
Displays Around the School
Displays around the school are looking amazing. The displays certainly show case pupil skills and learning.
P6G Starry Night pictures
P6G had great fun painting their versions of Van Gogh’s Starry Night with more emphasis on ochre yellow rather than Prussian blue. Some of the swirls and details are super!
P6 Solar System projects
Mrs Graham and Mr Maxwell are absolutely astounded at the effort P6G have put into making their space projects . The children were given the task of finding out about an aspect of space that interested them and create a 3D model with accompanying research . There are planets, rockets, space ships, aliens and facts galore! The work that the children (and some parents !) have put in is truly wonderful and we are looking forward to looking at each project in turn.
Well done to everyone!
World Book Day 2017
We have had a fantastic day in school celebrating World Book Day. A great number of our pupils came dressed as a character from a favourite book and brought along a copy to share with their classmates. The costumes were terrific, as you will see from the pictures. We are also very grateful, this year, to Dalbeattie Book Shop whose donation of many books has meant that we could allow each pupil to select a free book from previous years of World Book Day publications. The children have also been given their World Book Day 2017 tokens which can be exchanged either for a free 2017 World Book Day or can be used as £1 towards any book or audio book over £2.99.
