P3 visited Munchies Care Home yesterday to bring some festive cheer to the residents with their wonderful singing. Great intergenerational and partnership working.
4 Capacities – Confident Individuals, Responsible Citizens
SHANARRI – Included, Safe
Values – Kind, Responsible, Respected, Included, Committed.
P3 visited Dalbeattie Day Centre to bring some Christmas cheer to the members singing some Christmas songs. A surprise guest made a visit to the centre too. Some great intergenerational and partnership working.
4 Capacities – Confident Individuals, Responsible Citizens
SHANARRI– Included, Safe
Values,- Responsible, Included, Kind, Respected, Committed
Today at assembly we announced the winners of our Christmas Window competition in partnership with Dalbeattie Lions Club. There were lots of creative entries celebrating Christmas and the winter season. Thank you to everyone that took part and thank you to Dalbeattie lions clubs for the generous donations towards prizes.
Pictures are all contained in the document below. Well done to everyone that took part.
Meta – Skills – Creativity
A great cycling initiative that may be of interest.
We held out second session of level 2 bikeability yesterday. All the children were able to demonstrate skills from last week and worked on news skills today. Both groups coped very well with traffic in the area we were working and took onboard advice from volunteers and sports leaders. Well done everyone.
Today in assembly we reflected on our value – Responsible. The Friday focus group shared their ideas and then representatives from each class shared what responsible means to them.
We also thought about harvest and things we have to be thankful for. Thank you to everyone that provided donations for the community pantry. These will be handed in during the holidays.
Awards were also given out for a variety of reasons some of these included being a good captain in the rugby festival, always listening well during teaching time, showing commitment to learning, being determined to succeed at maths and always being kind to others.
Our house captains came out to the front at assembly today to present the awards which was fantastic. they were all confident individuals. Well done Keira-Lee, Jack, Amalie, Korey and Mollie.
What a fantastic morning at the Junior Hardrock Challenge. Great to see so many of our pupils participating. They certainly all displayed the school value of being committed throughout the event. Great to see everyone cheering for each other in all the races and showing real sporting attitudes. Very proud of them all.
There has been lots going on at Dalbeattie Primary to mark Fairtrade Fortnight 2024 which has been held at the later month of September this year due to its being the 30th anniversary of the Fairtrade Foundation.
As previously reported, the eco committee made Fairtrade chocolate and Malteser crispies made with ingredients donated by Dalbeattie Co-op, Castle Douglas Tesco and Dalbeattie Spar. The pupils brought in donations for this to help raise money for the Fairtrade Foundation. Throughout the school, pupils have also been including learning about Fairtrade as part of their learning in class.
Running alongside this was a Fairtrade Quiz based on products in the local shops. We are very grateful again to Dalbeattie Co-op, Castle Douglas Tesco, Dalbeattie Spar and also to Dalbeattie Londis for facilitating this.
The children who took part returned their forms with one pound donations and the chance to take part in a prize draw. Today, in assembly, the lucky winning forms were pulled from the ‘hat.’ The winners were Logan, Annie, Elise, Rex, Evie and Niamh who also got a special prize for compiling the most comprehensive list of other Fairtrade items, not featured in the quiz. All the participants received a treat size bag of Maltesers in recognition of their effort in completing the quiz. The school has raised almost £100 for the Fairtrade Foundation. All these activities help us to retain our Fairachiever School Status which we have to reapply for every two years.
Thank you so much everyone for supporting this activity. The children looked like they enjoyed them. A big thank you goes to Dalbeattie Spar, Castle Douglas Tesco and Dalbeattie Co-op for supporting this event with their wonderful donations. They are shown in three of the pictures attached. (The one with the Eco Committee shows our goodies from Spar. ) Having these ingredients, means that the activity will raise almost £100 for the Fairtrade Foundation and this helps us keep out School FairAchiever Status. Thank you to Jean Carruthers for also coming into to help the outgoing Eco Committee (who planned this before the holidays) and the High School Hospitality Department for letting us use the facility. The Fairtrade Community Quiz is still ongoing. Completed forms to be in by Monday 30th September. If anyone needs a spare, there are more copies in school. Thank you!
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.
