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citizenship, Eco Schools, effective contributors, environmental

Harvest Time!

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It’s Harvest Time!

Tomorrow morning before school and at the end of the school day, some of our harvest will be set out for people to help themselves to. There are only a few carrots (not a good year) leeks, onions, beetroot, potatoes and lots of apples! Please bring your own bag and take what you can use. There will be a pot set out for donations plus some gloves and wipes. Any donations given will go towards the ongoing eco work in school. Thank you in anticipation for supporting this. Well done the Eco Committee on harvesting it all today!

citizenship, confident individuals, effective contributors, environmental, Local Community, Partnership Working, successful learners

Citizenship and Celebrating Wider Achievement

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It’s wonderful to see so many of you sharing your wider achievements in school with us. Please remember, to send in your child’s PASS booklet for assessment and to be considered for an award and/ or prize.  They are a great way to have wider achievement recognised. Children with grey or yellow booklets will have partially completed booklets and will be considered for interim prizes. (Yellow and Grey booklets take 3 years to complete.) Please send the booklets into school no later than Monday 24th June. They will be returned to your young person afterwards to continue filling them in until complete. For anyone who has lost their booklet and is keen to fill it in, do let us know as we have a few spares. Current P2s and P3s were given grey booklets during their P2 year. Current P5s and P6s were given yellow booklets during their P5 year.  Children in nursery were given brown ones and may now have completed them. Some children will still not have  booklets as the newly launched booklets have been phased in following reintroduction after Covid. By next year, all children will have  a booklet in process. Thank you

confident individuals, effective contributors, Nursery, Wellbeing

New Primary 1 Transition

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This week, we had our second carousel activity where the new Primary 1s for August, joined in with the current P1s to take part in three different activities, meeting staff and getting used to the classrooms and open areas. The P6 buddies did a great job helping with the board game activity and were super at encouraging the young people to talk about themselves.  After the carousel we had our first ‘try out lunch’ experience. Well done all!

  

UNCRC – Article 28 Access to Education

UNCRC – Article 29 Aims of Education

 

confident individuals, creativity, effective contributors, successful learners, Whole School

Speak Out, Stay Safe Assemblies and Head Teacher’s Awards

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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

citizenship, effective contributors, Local Community, Partnership Working, school pupil council, Whole School

RNLI Water Safety and 2p for 200 Fundraiser

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Later in June, we shall be welcoming someone from the RNLI to talk to us about water safety. On the same day (Friday 21st June) we shall both mark the occasion and commemorate the 200th anniversary of the RNLI with a fundraiser, organised by our School Pupil Council. The challenge is to collect and bring any 2p coins you have at home or receive in change over the next few weeks. The school pupil council will help pupils to lay their donations onto an interesting design, chalked out in the playground on 21st June. So please start looking for the those 2p coins for our “2p for 200 Challenge.”  Also, please  remember on a connected theme, from another recent post about the poster competition for Kippford RNLI. Entries for this to be in by the Friday 28th June.

Class Learning, confident individuals, creativity, effective contributors, successful learners, Wellbeing, Whole School

Assembly and HT Awards

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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.

 

confident individuals, effective contributors, Nursery, Partnership Working, successful learners

Nursery – P1 Transition Carousel

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A few pictures from our first Nursery P1-Transition carousel on Tuesday 14th May. Our current P1s welcomed the nursery boys and girls through to the early level setting to participate in a range of 3 activities too help them become familiar with the setting before they join us in August. Our P6 buddies did a fantastic job too supporting the nursery pupils throughout each activity. Fantastic role models.

Class Learning, confident individuals, effective contributors, successful learners, Whole School

Assembly and Head Teacher’s Awards 10.5.24

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Today in assembly Mrs Duncan shared three songs that classes will be learning to sing for the end of term assembly in June. The songs are about friendships, journeys and summertime.

Awards were also given out today for a variety of reasons. P1/2 received a class award for their fantastic writing this week about the trip to the beach last week. P4/5 received a class award for Theo Tartan Tour performance with Feis Ros and P4 on Wednesday. Other reason for awards today include learning 2 times tables, being more organised and focused with learning, fantastic team work as part of an inventors challenge and  showing commitment and determination to achieving and improving learning. Great achievements everyone.👏👍

We also had some of our nursery children join us for assembly. They are getting ready for their transition to P1 and being part of assembly on a Friday is part of this process. Well done everyone.

.UNCRC Article 28 Access to Education

Global goal 4 Quality Education.