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
We were lucky enough to have been picked to receive an author visit through Wigtown Book Festival and the Big Dog Schools Tour. Today author Chad Strathie visited P1-P4/5 and shared his books Dear Dinosaur and Gorilla Loves Vanilla with the classes. There was lots of humour, hilarity and noise throughout the visit. Can you spot the food dinosaur and the disgusting ice cream the children created with Chae? Creativity and imagination in abundance.
Our Sports Captains and Vice Captains have been working with Amy from active schools over the last few weeks on becoming Play leaders for the school. Today the leaders put their skills to the test by setting ups session for P1/2. Amy shared that the leaders had done a fanatic job and they were a credit to the school and themselves. Well done everyone. I can’t wait for you to deliver some of these session in the playground at breaks and lunchtimes for different classes.
It has been great to see the progress our P4 gymnasts have made over the last 4 weeks. They have developed jumping,balancing and rolling skills. Their precision and techniques have progressed so much. Those that have knowledge and additional experience of gymnastics have also been super at sharing their knowledge and skills to support others. This week we worked on balancing skills on the bean and jumping/shapes on the trampette.
Our sports captains and vice captains have been working with Amy again this week to develop their skills to become play leaders. Lots of discussion, planning and testing activities. We are looking forward to our play leaders supporting classes at lunchtimes through different planned activities.
Christmas Window Competition
Final day tomorrow to enter this great competition. Please use link below to enter.
https://forms.office.com/e/iruNtsfB2s
Ella McLellan from the Scottish Book Trust joined Mrs Lumsden and the book club today to talk about different text and books they enjoy reading.
Some of our P7 pupils took part in their 3rd session of bikeability level 2 training today. Lots of right and left turns. Good road positions and clear looks over shoulders for safety and to have awareness of traffic. Pupils coped well with traffic in training area and followed instructions from sports leaders and volunteers very well. We will try out anew area next week for our last session. Well done everyone.
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.
A great night at the transition Halloween disco organised by the social and charities committee from Dalbeattie High School for P7, S1 and S2. Lots of fun games,great music, dancing and prizes for best costume. Mr Kennedy’s photo booth also went down a treat. Thank you to everyone that organised and supported this evening.
