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Children in Need Week

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There‘s been a major focus on fundraising for Children in Need this week at Dalbeattie Primary. And it’s all been organised by The School Pupil Council who have brought their ideas to how to make it a little different this year.

Firstly, we saw the return of the Spotty Ball Pit. The pupils have been bringing in donations for drawing ball numbers from the ball pit for a chance to win a Pudsey goody. The numbers were drawn on the actual Children in Need Day and the lucky winners were: Calum Brown, Kyla Waller, Ed Parr, Skye Johnstone, Beth Blackstock, Leo Hastings,  Harrison McVinnie (missing from picture,) Charlotte Gale, Reggie Murray and Isla Whalen.

Meanwhile, another competition also ran through the week. Pupils had the chance to enter a competition to design a new eye patch for Pudsey or a bow for Blush. The entries were amazing! Perhaps we shall need to share them with the BBC. It was a very tough job for the School Pupil Council to judge the entries but they eventually came up with winners of the Pudsey Patch as: Eva Tinklin, Niamh McCormick, Ava Corson, Jasper Burns, Elise Wixon, Connor Houston, Alex Davidson, Joey McKerlie and Olivia Carson. The Blush Bow winners were: Ellie Tinklin, Mollie Watson, Esme hicks, Evie McGougan, Eilidh Brown, Liam Geddes, Kelsey Copland, Allie McMinn and Aurla Ferguson.

And, finally, on Friday in school, we had a non uniform day when the children could wear something either yellow, spotty or simply bright and colourful. Donations brought in on this day were split between Children in Need and the Janice Jamieson memorial Fund to sponsor a young person’s education in Malawi.

The amount raised for Children in Need is still being totalled but it is thought we will reach a figure of at least £300, which is an amazing figure! Well done all and thank you for supporting our School Pupil Council in this valuable fundraising activity.

On top of all this, there has been lots of learning activities going on in classes too with the pupils learning about how Children in Need helps other young people in the UK.

Please see the previous post for our school councillors in action helping with all the fundraising throughout the week.

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Children in Need Part 1

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Remember, tomorrow is non uniform day for Children in Need. A suggested donation of £1 will be collected in and the total amount will be split between Children in Need and the Janice Jamieson Memorial Foundation to sponsor a young person’s education in Malawi.
Earlier in the week, the School Pupil Council has been organising other fundraising activities for Children in Need. Wow! What an amazing amount of entries we have had for our ‘Design a new Pudsey Patch or Blush Bow’ competition. The School Pupil Councillors had their work cut out judging them. Each councillor was given a number of cubes and asked to place them on their seven favourite designs in each category and these were counted to decide the winners. The winners and runners up will be announced at tomorrow’s assembly together with drawing the lucky ball pit numbers. For this too we have had an amazing response with approximately 300 balls pulled from the spotty ball pit ahead of tomorrow’s lucky numbers being pulled from the hat. Thank you all for supporting these activities.
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Assembly and HT Awards

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Our pupil council presented information to the school about their plans for Children in Need next Friday. It was the first time for some of the pupils presenting to the whole school nd they all did really well.  Thank you Mrs Howie for organising this with the pupils.

The 2nd focus in assembly today was about Remembrance. I shared a lovely assembly powerpoint from the RBL with the children about the poppy and the importance of Remembrance. Some of our house captains will join me at church and the Remembrance Service in the Park on Sunday.

Head Teacher’s Awards were also given out. We had a couple of family awards which are alway great. It is lovely seeing  much pride siblings take when they see each other receiving awards.

Awards were given for lot of reasons today these included collaborating in play, showing initiative in helping peers, being a role model, showing improved understanding of meta skills, displaying the school values of included and responsible and super poetry writing. The range of achievements across the school are always amazing and it is a pleasure to hear from the teachers about pupils every week when they speak about them during assembly.

 

 

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New Eco and Pupil Council Groups

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Last week, our new councillors received their badges.  Today we had our group photographs taken.

School Pupil Council

P1 Connor Houston

P1/2 Logan Hair

P2/3  Max Glover

P3 Liam Geddes

P4 Esme Hicks

P4/5 Erin Davidson

P5 Fergus Henderson

P6 Corey Carnochan

and Sam little

P6/7 Ayka Yilan

P7 Oliver Wilson

Eco Committee

P1 Ramsay Brown

P1/2   Poppie Robinson

P2/3   Kane Kelting and Riley Douglas

P3       Chloe Cumming

P4       Moran Galbraith

P4/5   Reggie Murray

P5       Katya Lennon

P6       Bella Gerrity

P6/7   Andrew Kalotka

P7       Ebony McMorran

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Assembly and HT Awards 20.9.24

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Another busy assembly this week with a wide range  of badges and certificates handed out to celebrate lots of success throughout school this week.

The value of committed was our focus this week. All the classes shared what committed means to them. We had confident individuals come out to the front and share these thoughts with the whole school.

Being committed also featured in lots  of our awards today. We had committed learners in numeracy , literacy and PE. Being sensible and  reliable in class was another reason for an award today as well as for being a responsible citizen and well mannered communicator.

P7 pupils who participated in their bike ability level 1 training  at the start of the week were presented with their certificates and badges. They all achieved the outcomes of level 1 training and are ready for their level 2 training after the October break.

Eco Councillors, Pupil Councillors, House and Sports Captains were also announced today at assembly. Unfortunately some of the pupils were not with us today to get their badges or photos taken so will make sure we get further photos once everyone in each group is back with us. Well done to all our school and class representatives.

House Captains and Vice Captains

Colliston – Captain  – Korey

Dalmun  – Captain  – Mollie  Vice Captain – Amalie

Craignair – Captain – Keira-Lee

Screen – Captain Jack  Vice Captain Dominic

Sports Captains and Vice Captains

Dalmun – Captain – Lucy  Vice Captain – Kai

Collision – Captain Lily. Vice Captain – Harris

Craignair – Captain Callum  Vice Captains Sammy and Lexie

Screel – Captain – Isla

Junior Road Safety Officers were also named today and presented with packs to help them carry out their jobs. Well done to Evie, Logan and Sophie.

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RNLI Kippford

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Three of our pupils were joint equal winners in a recent poster competition to mark the 200 year anniversary of the RNLI. Part of their prize was a tour of the Lifeboat station at Kippford. well done Holly, Rosa and Isla.  Looks like you had great fun! A great big thank you goes to Laura, Gareth, Lynda and Marion at RNLI Kippford.

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RNLI Fundraiser and Water Safety Talks Event

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Thank you all for your wonderful support today. We do not yet know, exactly, the amount raised but we think it will be at least £40. We used 200 coins to write the number 200 and kept adding layers of coins until we had some quite high stacks. This fundraiser was for Kippford Lifeboat and also to mark the 200 year anniversary of the RNLI. Well done everyone. Thank you School Pupil Councillors for organising this and to Kippford RNLI for supplying the stickers. Thank you to local lifeboat volunteer Keith who came to give us water safety talks today. P.S Remember the lifeboat poster competition. To see the details again, read further below the pictures form today. Thank you

 

For the poster competition for Kippford RNLI, here are the details again:

2024 is the 200th anniversary of the existence of the RNLI. In recognition of this milestone event, Kippford Lifeboat Station will be running a competition for children to design a poster celebrating 200 years of saving lives at sea.

The competition will run until June. All completed entries must be received by Thursday 27th June. The competition is open to any child. There will be three age categories with prizes for first, second and third in each category as follows – 3-4 years, 5-7 years and 8-11 years.

All entries must be A4 size. RNLI and 200 must appear somewhere on the design. Any medium can be used, e.g. pen, pencil, crayon, paint, collage as desired. The child’s name, age, school attended and parental contact number must be clearly displayed on the rear of the poster. Completed entries can be handed into the RNLI shop in Kippford or Dalbeattie Learning Campus for the attention of Mrs Howie.

The posters will be judged by members of the lifeboat crew and winners announced in early July. It is hoped that prizes can be presented to the winning entrants at the Kippford Station Open Day on 6th July.

 

 

 

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Reminder this Friday is 2p for 200 coin challenge in aid of RNLI

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Please remember that this Friday 21st June is the day for children to bring in any 2p coins they have gathered up for our fundraiser for Kippford RNLI. The School Pupil Council will be helping pupils to lay their coins on a design, using 200 x  2p coins, to make the number 200 on the school playground. Once we have laid 200 coins, we will start a second layer and so on. One layer will amount to £4 but hopefully we will get enough coins to make a few layers,  increasing the amount we raise. Our water safety talks from a RNLI member will be in the afternoon.                                                                                                          Please also remember the  Kippford Lifeboat poster competition. (details are in  a previous post.) Entries  for this should be given to Mrs Howie by Thursday 27th June. Thank you

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RNLI Water Safety and 2p for 200 Fundraiser

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Later in June, we shall be welcoming someone from the RNLI to talk to us about water safety. On the same day (Friday 21st June) we shall both mark the occasion and commemorate the 200th anniversary of the RNLI with a fundraiser, organised by our School Pupil Council. The challenge is to collect and bring any 2p coins you have at home or receive in change over the next few weeks. The school pupil council will help pupils to lay their donations onto an interesting design, chalked out in the playground on 21st June. So please start looking for the those 2p coins for our “2p for 200 Challenge.”  Also, please  remember on a connected theme, from another recent post about the poster competition for Kippford RNLI. Entries for this to be in by the Friday 28th June.