Today the winners from our Scots Poetry competitions and P7 art competition visited Munchies Park to recite their poems and share art work with the residents. The children all did extremely well and I was very proud of how them all. Well done everyone.
The residents and staff all enjoyed the children visiting. Thank you for having us.
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
Dalbeattie Primary pupils were delighted today to congratulate former pupil Logan on his recent curling success at the Youth Olympics. Thank you Logan for joining us to let us share your success and for visiting some of the classes afterwards too. The pupils loved hearing about your experience. The gold medal was much admired by all!
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.
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.
Great to be involved in the Christmas Fayre on 7th December. Thank you to all classes that participated and to everyone that came along in the evening to support the event.
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!
Some of our House Captains and Vice Captains attended the Remembrance Service at Church and the wreath laying ceremony at the War Memorial in Colliston Park today. Thank you and well done all. It is always special to be part of this important event.
We would like to remind you about this idea which was posted before the summer holidays. It has been extended through the October holidays and on to Friday November 24th in order to include three more weekends. While it does require a trip to a beach, it is however a great activity for not only demonstrating some citizenship through doing some beach cleaning but is also great for literacy and creative skills because the follow up activity encourages quite a bit of imagination to to be used!
Basically, the idea is to find an interesting piece of plastic and pretend you don’t know what it actually is. Imagine you are an archaeologist in the future who finds it and has to use guess work for what it might be!
Below is the original information sheet about the activity. Also provided below is a blank pro forma which can be downloaded and edited or printed off to be handwritten on. Mrs Howie has also had a go a trying a couple of examples herself for this- see pdfs below. However, the level of literacy in completed work by pupils will, of course, vary greatly depending on the level the young person is currently working at. Entries from Early level and beginning First Level will use understandably less complex vocabulary and language. Completed pieces can be sent into school whenever they are finished but by Friday 24th November at the very latest. If we have a good response, the School Parent Council has kindly agreed to help organise an after school event to display entries and plastic items in our very own Museum of the Future! It is hoped we can run this event in Term 3. So please do visit a beach and start your search!
P.S If you are on holiday in Cornwall you might even find a piece of lego! (check out the story on BBC Sounds ‘Lego Overboard.’)
Well done to everyone who participated in the Junior Hardrock Challenge today.
