Today was the first day of our level 2 training. Well done to all our P7 participants. Thank you to the sports leaders from DHS and to our volunteers Brian and Sarah. It was great to have Peri the local authority bike ability co-ordinator joining us for the first of our sessions this morning.
Primary 7 had a visit from Amanda, Community First Responder for the Scottish Ambulance Service, on Thursday. She taught us the importance of assessing danger, checking the airway and placing a individual into the recovery position. She highlighted the steps that the children would take if they found an unresponsive patient that wasn’t breathing. The children participated in performing CPR and learned about how to use the defibrillators that are located in our local community. All of Primary 7 displayed great resilience by continuing to perform CPR even when they got tired!
Great work Primary 7!
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.
We really enjoy having Ross Cunningham from active schools joining us for our lunchtime club on a Thursday. Ross always plans lots of fun games and activities for the classes he is working with. This term P7 and P6 have each had 4 weeks of lunchtime club with Ross. Next term we will move down to P5 and P4 having this opportunity.
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.
The ingredients are in! Just a reminder…. Tomorrow (Friday) is the day for children to bring 50p each for a Fairtrade crispie cake. The eco councillors will collect in the money and work out how many we need to make on Monday. All profits will go to the Fairtrade Foundation. This work helps us to retain out ‘FairAchiever School’ status. We are grateful to Dalbeattie Spar and Castle Douglas Tesco who, so far, have donated ingredients. The crispies should be made and given out at snack time on Monday. Thank you for supporting this activity!
These are the photos…..a few more plus the full story will follow later.
With the exception of the first few pictures, the rest are in reverse chronological order, starting with the latest through to the beginning of the ceremony.
Thank you to everyone who came along. Three lucky winners’ names have been drawn from the hat of completed quiz sheets. The winning teams names will be confirmed tomorrow and prizes distributed by the end of this week. Thank you all for your support.
Come along and look at our exhibits to see what our young people thought of the plastic objects which were found on a recent beach clean. This has been an activity in which the whole school P1-P7 took part, working collaboratively together.
£1 entry is for juice and biscuits and a short quiz sheet. There will be a chance to vote for your favourite team name and also the team with the best imagination. There will be prizes for the winners and for three lucky entrants whose sheets are pulled out of the hat. Prizes will be given later in the week. Do pop in for a visit.
