Our P5-P7 classes were invited to join S2 Health and Wellbeing classes to play games they had created about feelings and emotions. The children then voted on their favourite games. Thank you Ms McQuade and S2 for inviting the classes to join you at Dalbeattie High School. P5 have not yet visited they will go along with beginning 20th November.
Pictures show P6 working with S2.
Children in Need
Next week is Children in Need Day (on Friday 17th)
The School Pupil Council would like to re-run the spotty ball lucky dip again for the chance to win one of an array of Pudsey prizes: a colour photo will also be uploaded on school blog page and on Facebook.
Please note this is this is a voluntary activity. There is no expectation for all children to participate as we are mindful of cost to families. (Last year the children brought in £1 per ball which they drew out of the ball pit to reveal their lucky numbers. Many children brought in money for multiple balls.)
Two separate activities are detailed further below*.
*LUCKY BALL PIT DIP
This year, we would like to keep it a little more manageable. It will be £2 per ball and is limited to ONE ball only per child. Please note, it is optional to participate.
Because we shall be carrying out ball pit lucky dips at lunchtimes, we really need your child to bring his/her donation in an envelope clearly labelled with name and class. Envelopes will be collected in first thing on each of the three mornings. We want to avoid money getting lost between 9am and lunchtime.
Ball pit lucky dips will be on set days as follows:
P7, P6/7, P6 and P5 classes will be on Wednesday 15th November at lunchtime
P4/5, P4, P3 and P2/3 will be on Thursday 16th November at lunchtime
P1/2 and P1 will be on Friday 17th November at lunchtime
Please can your child only bring his/her £2 ball lucky dip money on the correct day. Numbers will be drawn from the hat at Friday’s assembly to decide the winners. Thank you!
*NON UNIFORM DAY FRIDAY 17TH
On Friday 17th November it is actual Children in Need Day. On this day, we shall not be doing any extra activities but the children would like to have a non uniform day (wearing something bright or yellow or spotty if possible.) Suggested donations of £1 per child can be brought in on this day. Any money collected for the non uniform event will be shared equally between Children in Need and The Janice Jamieson Foundation Trust to sponsor a young person’s education in Malawi. Thank you for your support!
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.
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.
Two great discos this evening. Great costumes ,music, dancing and games.Thank you to our parent council for organising. Thanks you to parent volunteers and staff for supporting with the disco. RK DJ also provided great music.
A great night at the P7-S2 Halloween Disco. Some great costumes, games and dancing. A fantastic transition opportunity. Thank you S6 and Mrs Whalen for organising this event.
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.’)
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.
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.
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.
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.
