Thank you to everyone who came along. Three lucky winners’ names have been drawn from the hat of completed quiz sheets. The winning teams names will be confirmed tomorrow and prizes distributed by the end of this week. Thank you all for your support.
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.
Hope pupils and parents can come along to this event to support our Eco School’s work.
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.
The Eco Councillors have been busy planting lots of vegetables: potatoes, parsnips, onions, carrots and beetroot. They have also sown wildflower seed in two of our playground planters to create more habitat for minibeasts Well done all!
Global goal 12- Responsible consumption and production.
Thank you all who turned up to take part in our voluntary beach clean at Rockcliffe today. The event was organised by the Rotakids Club in partnership with the Eco Group. Thank you Dalbeattie Community Initiative for helping supply the equipment and to Mr and Mrs Cathro, our Rotakids coordinators. It was lovely to see so many of our pupils and their families come along in addition to Mrs Duncan and Mrs Stores, HT of Colvend and Kirkgunzeon. We now have quite a large box of varied plastic waste which will form the inspirations for some creative work for our ‘Future Museum’ later this term.
Global Goal 13 Climate Action
Global Goal 14 Life below water
This is a little reminder about the voluntary beach clean this Sunday 21st April 1pm-3pm at Rockcliffe. The event is organised by the Rotakids in partnership with the Eco Group. Thank you Dalbeattie Community Initiative for letting us borrow extra litter picking equipment. Any pupils attending should be accompanied by an adult. It is recommended that people park in the top car park and walk down to the beach because parking can be limited in the bay. No one needs to stay the entire event time. Folks can pop along for a short visit only and help us find some plastic. This will not only help the environment but will also help us in The Eco Group’s Future Museum idea, to be held later in the term, which we will tell you more about later.
Please bring any bags of unwanted clothes by this Friday 19th April for our Rag Bag Collection. Any clean bags will do. Remember, the greater the weight collected, the more money we receive to help us with our ongoing eco work. Soon we will be planting our vegetables; money from Rag Bag will help us to cover the cost of our seeds. Thank you!
Last week the Eco Committee gave a super presentation about their recent litter survey in the playground. They also highlighted an event this coming Sunday 21st April: Rotakids, in partnership with the school Eco group, are organising a beach clean at Rockcliffe between 1pm and 3pm. Please do come along. No one needs to stay for the entire two hours. Just pop along for however long you can stay, with an adult accompanying you, and help pick up some plastic. It is planned to bring the plastic finds back into school as a stimulus for some creative writing, later, for our Future Museum. This is an idea the Eco Committee had some time ago. Well done to those people who undertook this activity in their own time. The plan is now to create some more exhibits for our ‘Future Museum’ with some collaborative writing in groups back in school using the bits of plastic we find on Sunday. More information on this is to follow later. Thank you Rotakids and Mr and Mrs Cathro for organising the event on Sunday. Thank you Dalbeattie Community Initiative for lending us extra litter pickers. Activities like this also help the Eco group to carry out their work and to complete activities towards their next 9th green flag application. It is recommended that people use the top car park at Rockcliffe and walk down to the beach where we will have equipment ready.
Dalbeattie Primary is delighted to have been awarded, once more, Fair Achiever Status on 17th November. Over the last two years the School eco group has been involved in activities during Fairtrade Fortnight. This has included class learning and making chocolate and banana muffins with donations of ingredients from local shops (Castle Douglas Tesco, Dalbeattie Co-op and Spar) which helped us to fundraise for the Fairtrade Foundation. In 2023, we also had a successful community challenge which involved pupils searching for Fairtrade products in local shops. We were praised for this in our feedback to our recent application. Thanks go to Dalbeattie Co-op, Londis and Spar for facilitating this activity and to CD Tesco for donating prizes. Being a Fair Achiever School, means we can attach the logo, being held here by the Eco Group in our photo, to our school headed paper. Going forward, The Eco group has now been tasked with going away to think about ways to do a similar community challenge, to talk about at our next meeting, so that we can plan for Fairtrade Fortnight 2024!
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