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creativity, Partnership Working

Fun 31 P1-P5

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Fun 31 from P1

In Fun 31 today P1 went outside for a Skeleton Scavenger Hunt in groups.  We were also joined by some P7’s who chose to have fun with us!  Once we had found and assembled the pieces we had a few spooky dances back in class.

 

A few pictures from Fun 31 today.

P2 and P3 had a Just dance group, animal play and arts and crafts.

P4-P5 had construction activities, outdoor physical activity and modelling and making cloud dough as their play activities today. The cloud dough was a huge hit. Thanks Ms Scott for this.

After School Activities, citizenship, effective contributors, environmental, Local Community, Partnership Working

October Holiday Activity Idea

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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.’)

Mrs Howie example 1 pdf

Future Museum blank pro forma

Mrs Howie example 2 pdf

Partnership Working, Sports

Play Leaders

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Our newly appointed sports captains and vice captains undertook their first training session with Amy Niven from Active School to become Play Leaders. This training involves thinking about games and activities that they can use in the playground with other children to encourage play and physical activity. They have a further few sessions and then hopefully we will see them out in the playground leading some fun sessions for others.

Partnership Working, Whole School

Parent Council AGM

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All parents/carers of children attending Dalbeattie primary school are invited to attend the Parent Council AGM at 6:30pm on Thursday 28th of September The meeting is in person but we can arrange to have teams available if that would allow you to join. Please contact the school office if you would like to join via teams. All are very welcome and we look forward to seeing some new members.

Dalbeattie Primary Parent Council AGM 28th September

creativity, Partnership Working, Whole School

Fun 31 Week 2

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Today I joined P2 and P3 classes for Fun 31. Everyone had selected their room of choice either board games, construction or jigsaws. Everyone was very busy and engaged in their 31 minutes of play. It was great to see the interactions between the children.

I also went to see how other classes were engaging. In P4 and P5 groups children were participating in play through STEM, outdoor activities or board games. P6 and P7 groups were playing chess( there was a request for a chess club), painting and drawing, construction and model making.

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P1 also joined altogether in their open area for Fun 31 this was a great opportunity for Miss Johnson and Mrs Fitzsimmons to observe the play and look towards how they can enable different play over future weeks.

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Hub Activities from Week Beginning 22nd February

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Please see below a gallery of activities the children have been taking part in during their time in the hub. Thank you to all staff who continue to support the children in the hub and provide such imaginative and creative ideas. The children really enjoy using the Kapla bricks and created their own city this week. The treasure maps and ships in bottles were inspired be sea shanties Mrs Wixon shared with the children this week. We can’t wait to see how the movie trailers turn out that the children have been working on with Mrs Lumsden.

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Eco Schools News Round Up Term 1

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Our Eco Schools work has been  a little different this term as we are keeping to working within our bubbles. As last year’s committees did not complete a year of work, we have continued with the previous committee members time being.  Recently the ‘upper school bubble’ has been working on a few projects. Over the term, we have harvested vegetables and set them out for parents and carers to make use of in return for donations. This was instead of making soup for the whole school, which would have been difficult due to current restrictions.  We raised £70 through this. The eco councillors have also been lifting last year’s Edina bulbs and re-planting them, re-filling the bird feeders and having a look through the outdoor curricular linked learning resources, paid for by a kind donation from Dalbeattie Rotary Club,  which have arrived so far.