Our P7s shared some fun activities and games with pupils from the nursery today in their PE lesson. P7s have been working on their leadership skills and the nursery children showed great listening skills.
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
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.
Assembly report by Evie McGougan and Mrs Duncan
Today in assembly Mrs Duncan spoke to the children about the four capacities from Curriculum for Excellence. These are part of our vision values and aims and what we want all children to aspire to and achieve at Dalbeattie Primary School.
The children have been working very hard this week in a range of curricular areas. We have also seen that some of the children have demonstrated the school values this week and received awards for this . Other reasons for awards included great decoding skills, making sure the presentation of work is high quality, being a positive role model and high quality narrative writing. Mrs Gray also gave awards for great work in P.E this included care and control with a football, and showing brilliant determination in golf.
Well done to all our achievers this week.
Some of the children from nursery also joined us for assembly today. This is part of their transition work getting ready for coming into P1.
More pictures from our world book day activities.
P3 enjoyed sharing their favourite books with each other in class and the Nursery, P1 and P1/2 had a carousel of stories this afternoon. A start to transition for our nursery boys and girls visiting the primary classrooms.
Thank you Mrs Leslie, Mrs Fitzsimmons and Miss Johnstone for reading the stories.
Well, World Book Day has been and gone for another year but what a fantastic day everyone has had here at Dalbeattie Primary and Nursery. Lots of the P1 and P1/2 children were so excited to share their books with me when they arrived in the playground this morning. It was a joy to see their enthusiasm for books.
Through out the day there has been lots of opportunities for sharing learning and collaborating across the school. We have had sharing of favourite book in all the classes, P6 reading to pupils in nursery, World Book Day Bingo, World Book Day Grammar, reading is some fun places around the classroom. There were book tile charades happening in Mr Caldow’s room and making fancy book marks with Mrs Mclean. There were some very creative design that suited books and children interests. Classes have also designed book covers and written blurbs for a range of fun titles that I shared with them for the day. I am really looking forward to seeing the finished designs and will share in due course.
Some classes also enjoyed a sneaky hot chocolate as they read their books.
Thank you to all the staff for the time put into creating these great activities for our learners.
We are delighted to report an update on our pond. The tadpoles from Nursery were put into the pond just before the Easter holidays. Some have been spotted developing legs. We think we may also have seen some very pond snails and water boatmen!
We had a lovely afternoon visit to Birchvale Theatre to watch the Trolls film. We got ice cream afterwards and had a chance to play in the old school playground. The morning session are looking forward to watching minions tomorrow.
We enjoyed our visit to the newly refurbished library and plan to visit more regularly next session.
The afternoon children had a lovely time making new friends at the Day Centre today. This was our second visit and we plan to make these trips regularly from now on as they are so worthwhile.
We took along some activities we do in nursery and shared them with the ladies and gentlemen who were there. We all had lots of fun and it was great to see the two very different generations interacting!
