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After School Activities, citizenship, Eco Schools, effective contributors, environmental, Local Community, Partnership Working, responsible citizens, Whole School

Beach Clean at Rockcliffe Success

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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.

After School Activities, citizenship, Eco Schools, effective contributors, environmental, Local Community, Partnership Working, responsible citizens

Beach Clean this Sunday 21st April

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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.

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Easter Service

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Thank you to everyone that was able to join us in church today for our Easter Service. Unfortunately, there were some gremlins in the church sounds system but the children all coped brilliantly with this and sang the 3 songs we had been learning really well. Our P7 readers also shared the Easter story through their readings. Well done.

Thank you to the Reverend Wilson for sharing her Easter message with the children too.

Have a lovely Easter break everyone and thank you for all your support over what has been a very busy term.

Class Learning, Local Community

P7 Burns Competition

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Today we held the judging of our P7 Burns competition. Mr Cathro and Mr Henry joined us today to judge the poetry and art competitions. We had 11 finalist in the poetry recital and all P7s had entered the art competition .

The children recited an extract from Tam O’Shanter and art work featured scenes from the poem created using different media.

Isabella, Katie and Lucy also all recited their poems to the school at assembly today.

Art Competition

1st Bessie

2nd Eilidh

3rd  Alex

Poetry Recital

1st Lucy

2nd Katie D

3rd Isabella

 

 

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Christmas Church Service

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Today we went to Dalbeattie and Kirkgunzeon Parish Church for our Christmas Service.  P7 pupils read poems that shared the Christmas story and the whole school sang a range of carols that they had been learning. Rev Wilson also shared a Christmas message with us. It was wonderful to have family members join us for the service thank you to those that were able to join us today.

Merry Christmas everyone and have a safe and happy holiday.

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Cuppa and Carols

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The rain stayed away thank goodness and we had a lovely evening with a cuppa and carols. Thank you to everyone that came along and joined us this evening for a cuppa and joined in some carol singing. The children have been leaning a range of Christmas carols in class. and at assembly over the last few weeks and shared these with family members this evening.

Thank you to staff who came along and supported the event and thank you to our parent council for providing the refreshments.

After School Activities, citizenship, Class Learning, Eco Schools, Fairtrade, Local Community, Partnership Working, successful learners

Fair Achiever School Award

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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!