Category Archives: Partnership Working

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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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.

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!