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Speech Festival

Well done to all the boys and girls who took part in the Dumfries Music and Speech Festival yesterday. The children all performed their poems very well and were a credit to the school. Each section had a significant increase in entries this year and the standards from all competitors was very high. All participants received feedback from the judge on the day. Well done to all those who achieved places within their section.

  

 

Scots Poetry Judging

The class Scots Poetry competitions were judged today. All class teachers judged  different classes throughout the school. This was not an easy job but they all thoroughly enjoyed their morning. The standards were very high and children once again have put a fantastic amount of effort into learning and reciting their poems. The winners from each class will perform their poems next week at assembly.  Photos to follow.

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1st Joseph  McKnight                                                                      1st Isla Smith

2nd Ava Drummond                                                                         2nd Lucy Bell

3rd = Fynlay Carson  and Mackenzie Robison                 3rd Jake Hall

P2                                                                                         

1st Chloe Campbell

2nd Mack McLean

3rd = Theo and Courtney Roy

P2/3

1st Harry Little

2nd Jack Johnstone

3rd = Cameron Patterson and Maisy Pipe

P3

1st Laith Atkinson

2nd Grace Hurley

3rd Jake Henderson

P4

1st Maddison McMurtrie

2nd Lucy Simpson

3rd = Emma Harper and Lilly Eveleigh

P4/5

1st Lousie Kelting

2nd Joy McCall

3rd Jessica Davidson

P5

1st Katie Mein

2nd Jay Parker-Smith

3rd Emma Newbold

Primary 6G

1st Kiara Kirk

2nd Gregor Davidson

3rd Aimee Ho

Primary 6 of P6/7

1st Grace McQuarrie

2nd Zara Ireland

3rd Niall Gilligan

A Timeless Nativity

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Our Nativity this year, for 2016, was ‘A Timeless Nativity’ and was written specially for our last Christmas in this school before we move to our new school in 2017.  The story starts with a present day child ‘Johnny’ who is bored with all the singing practice because he just wants it to be Christmas and get all his presents. The teacher has words with him and says he needs to see the Doctor as he is not in the true spirit of Christmas. Cue the Doctor who arrives in his Tardis. He then takes Johnny back to 1876, the year Dalbeattie Primary School first opened so that he can learn something from the boys and girls back then. He then takes Johnny even further back in time to Bethlehem, over 2000 years ago. By the time the play ends,  Johnny now appreciates the true meaning of Christmas and he apologises to his classmates for his lack of enthusiasm earlier on!

More photos will follow soon….

Songwriting with Feis Ross Musicians

Dalbeattie Primary School has been thrilled to welcome Feis Ross Musicians Nicola and Andrew Black into school to work with our young people in Primary 4, Primary 4/5 and Primary 5. This year, the children have been experiencing the art of songwriting. Primary 4/5 wrote a song about dinosaurs, Primary 5 used the Dalbeattie Town Wood’s Totem Pole as their inspiration and Primary 4 composed a song about Tatty Bogel. However, another highlight is a song which all three classes have worked on, while thinking about their current school and looking forward to the new one. It’s called ‘We Live In Dalbeattie.’ Today, the classes, accompanied by Nicola and Andrew Black, gave a wonderful performance of all these songs to a packed school hall. The ‘We Live in Dalbeattie’ song was, particularly memorable. Well done to all and thank you! The words for the school song are given below:

V1: 

We live in Dalbeattie, where the river flows,

We live in Dalbeattie, where the wind blows,

Moving to a new school, it’ll be so cool,

So many memories, in this primary,

Grannies and Papas and great nana’s cousins,

For a hundred and forty years, they all came here.

Chorus:

Friends forever, always together,

Even when it rains, we’ll still play together,

Even if we fall out, we’ll be friends whenever,

We meet each other again

V2:

We live in Dalbeattie, in the granite city,

We lo-ove Dalbeattie, very bold and pretty,

Nearer to nature, we can learn outside

To get to the playground, we’ll  go on the slide

CHORUS

V3:

We bide in Da’beattie, whaur  the burnie rows,

We bide in Da’beattie,  whaur the birkie grows,

Hard rock challenge and a granite quarry,

Gaun tae the forest wi ma family

 

CHORUS (repeat last line to finish)

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