Well done to all those who participated in the Super 4s Cross Country today at the Stewartry Rugby Club.
Category Archives: Partnership Working
Care Home Visit
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.
Disco Time
Two great discos this evening. Lots of dancing and lots of fun. Thank you to our parent conceal for organising the discos, staff for staying behind to support the event and RKDJ for the fantastic music as always. There are a valentine theme and we had borrowed a back drop form DHS which provide popular for group photos. Thanks Mrs Whalen of this.
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Gold for Former Pupil
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!
P6 Day of Dance
P6 participated in the Day of Dance organised by Active Schools. The children have learned a range of traditional Scottish Dances with their teachers in school and showcased these today with schools from across the Stewartry. Thank you to Active Schools for co-ordinating this and to all staff and volunteers involved in this event. Sports leaders from Dalbeattie High School were once again on hand to support with this event. Well done everyone a great time was had by all.
K’Nex Kits
Last term our Parent Council donated £1100 to the school and nursery. This provided £100 per class. Class teachers agreed to use half of their money to purchase a range of K’Nex kits to support learning. The kits are linked to and will support learning in science, technology and engineering. We hope to see the children working co-operatively in groups when using the kits too. Next year we hope to be able to enter the K’Nex challenge organised by our local STEM team that can lead to participating in wider competitions.
P4/5 helped me with the unpacking and organising of the kits into different storage boxes. We had a test run with the kits too.
The nursery have yet to decide on how to use their money.
Thank you to our Parent Council for your donation that helped us to fund these kits.
Christmas Fayre
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.
Health and Wellbeing Board Games
P5 visited Dalbeattie High School and tested out some health and well-being games that had been created by S2 classes. Great partnership working and sharing learning opportunity. Thank you Ms McQuade for inviting classes over to play the games.
Well done P5.
Author Visit
Primary 4,4/5 and 5 had a visit from author Sarah Coyle as part of the Big DoG Schools tours organised by Wigtown Festival Company.
The children heard how Sarah writes her books. They were involved in creating stories with Sarah deciding how they would develop and end. They really experienced bringing a story to life. Sarah also shared extracts from her books with the children. Top tips for creating stories were also shared with the classes.
Fair Achiever School Award
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!
