Category Archives: responsible citizens

Beach Clean at Rockcliffe Success

 

Thank you all who turned up to take part in our voluntary beach clean at Rockcliffe today.  The event was organised by the Rotakids Club in partnership with the Eco Group.  Thank you Dalbeattie Community Initiative for helping supply the equipment and to Mr and Mrs Cathro, our Rotakids coordinators. It was lovely to see so many of our pupils and their families come along in addition to Mrs Duncan and Mrs Stores, HT of Colvend and Kirkgunzeon. We now have quite a large box of varied plastic waste which will form the inspirations for some creative work for our ‘Future Museum’ later this term.

Global Goal 13 Climate Action

Global Goal 14 Life below water

Beach Clean this Sunday 21st April

 

This is a little reminder about the voluntary beach clean this Sunday 21st April 1pm-3pm at Rockcliffe. The event is organised by the Rotakids in partnership with the Eco Group. Thank you Dalbeattie Community Initiative for letting us borrow extra litter picking equipment. Any pupils attending should be accompanied by an adult. It is recommended that people park in the top car park and walk down to the beach because parking can be limited in the bay. No one needs to stay the entire event time. Folks can pop along for a short visit only and help us find some plastic. This will not only help the environment but will also help us in The Eco Group’s Future Museum idea, to be held later in the term,  which we will tell you more about later.

Assembly and Headteacher’s awards

Assembly report by Evie McGougan and Mrs Duncan

Today in assembly Mrs Duncan spoke to the children about the four capacities from Curriculum for Excellence. These are part of our vision values and aims and what we want all children to aspire to and achieve at Dalbeattie Primary School.

The children have been working very hard this week in a range of curricular areas. We have also seen that some of the children have demonstrated the school values this week and received awards for this . Other reasons for awards included great decoding skills, making sure  the presentation of work is high quality,  being a positive role model and high quality narrative writing. Mrs Gray also gave awards for great work in P.E this included care and control with a football, and showing brilliant  determination in golf.

Well done to all our achievers this week.

Some of the children from nursery also joined us for assembly today. This is part of their transition work getting ready for coming into P1.

Beach Clean Sunday 21st April at Rockcliffe

Last week the Eco Committee gave a super presentation about their recent litter survey in the playground. They also highlighted an event this coming Sunday 21st April: Rotakids, in partnership with the school Eco group,  are organising a beach clean at Rockcliffe between 1pm and 3pm. Please do come along. No  one needs to stay for the entire two hours. Just pop along for however long you can stay, with an adult accompanying you, and help pick up some plastic. It is planned to bring the plastic finds back into school as a stimulus for some creative writing, later, for our Future Museum. This is an idea the Eco Committee had some time ago. Well done to those people  who undertook this activity in their own time. The plan is now to create some more exhibits for our ‘Future Museum’  with some collaborative writing in groups back in school using the bits of plastic we find on Sunday. More information on this is to follow later. Thank you Rotakids and Mr and Mrs Cathro for organising the event on Sunday. Thank you Dalbeattie Community Initiative for lending us extra litter pickers. Activities like this also help the Eco group to carry out their work and to complete activities towards their next 9th green flag application. It is recommended that people use the top car park at Rockcliffe and walk down to the beach where we will have equipment ready.

Assembly and HT Awards 15.3.24

Some great singing in assembly today as we had a run through of all the songs for church next week.  Great effort being put in by all the classes to learn these.

HT awards given for a range of achievements as always. Lots of children demonstrating the value of kindness this week and it was great to hear about what they have been doing to show kindness. Several awards were given for progress in numeracy and being able to demonstrate strategies. We also had awards for showing more focus and concentration in learning as well. We had role models in some classes celebrated today as well as awards for skills development in PE from Mrs Grey. Well done to all our award winners this week.

Prizes were also given out for book cover designs that were completed last week as part of our world book day activities. Each class were asked to create a book cover and possibly a blurb about a title from a list shared by myself. Well done to the winners from each class.

Katie our Rota Kids president also shared information at assembly today about an Easter Egg competition that the Rota Kids are organising.  More details below.

Easter Egg Comp poster pdf version

egg comp entry form pdf version

 

Children in Need

At Dalbeattie Primary we have raised approximately £380 for Children in Need and a further £150 for sponsoring a young person’s education in Malawi as our yearly pledge to the Janice Jamieson Memorial Foundation. Through the week
 we have been raising money with our spotty ball pit lucky dip and through having a non uniform day. 11 lucky winners won Pudsey prizes because their lucky ball numbers were picked from the hat. Well done the School Pupil Council  for organising this and working hard to co-ordinate the drawing of the ball numbers. Thank you all for your terrific support for these charities.

Assembly and HT Awards

We started the first assembly of the term with some hymns. The P6 and P7 had great recall of these and encouraged the younger classes to sing along.

We celebrated the success of our group 7 Stars who participated in the Stewartry Active Schools dance festival. The group was awarded best overall performance. The picture taken today shows 6 of the 7 stars. We will update on Monday with our 7 Stars. The group will perform their dance to us at a future assembly. Pictures and videos will also appear on active schools Facebook page.

Awards were presented this week for underwriting a super sentence, being a super star and role model to others in the class, being an excellent listener, excellent attitude to learning and wonderful literacy skills, showing leadership in creating dance routines, being determined to succeed with learning and enjoying a new history topic.

 

 

 

Assembly and Awards 6.10.23

A very busy assembly this week. We celebrated harvest time by singing some of the songs we have been learning this term. We thought about things we are thankful for particularly the food we have and the producers that are busy at this time of year harvesting crops.  Thank you to everyone that has sent in items  for challenge poverty week. Items donated will be shared with the local food bank.

We were joined by representatives from Dalbeattie Rotary Club today to celebrate winning the National Rotary Young Environmentalist competition. Our young environmentalists Rory, Isabella and Lucy were presented with this award by Kate Kerr the President of Dalbeattie Rotary Club. Attached is a copy of the presentation shared today at Assembly by Mrs Howie.

Young Environmentalist Powerpoint assembly 6.10.23 pdf version

Our new eco committee and pupil councillors were represented with their badges.

The rugby teams from Wednesday were presented with certificates from Miss Dooley.

Awards were also presented this week for a wide range of reasons. well done to all award winners.


Young Environmentalists


Pupil Councillors


Eco Committee

Award Winners with donations for foodbank.