We held our first Primary 1-3 Sports on the re-scheduled day of Wednesday 27th June, which was a very hot day indeed! We had previously cancelled due to rain and wind and now we had the opposite extreme to contend with! The event took place on the 3G pitch. We are very grateful to the High School staff and pupils who so willingly came to our rescue to try to create some shade. The children did cope very well and we are very grateful to the support of our parents and carers for sending the children with sun-cream, water bottles and sun hats. We are always reviewing the way we do things and everything this year has been a ‘first’ in our new campus. This year, in addition to all the traditional races such as flat race and egg and spoon, we also had some new extra races. The Coach and Horses was a bit of extra fun to end a successful afternoon with.
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End of Term Assembly 2018
Our end of term Assembly was held this year on Thursday 28th June. We were delighted to welcome Jenny and Malcolm Heughan who presented the Heughan Citizenship Awards for the first time. Also, we were pleased to have Sandy Jamieson, the husband of former Head Teacher Janice Jamieson, join us to present the new Award for Achievement and Effort in Reading. The new award is a beautiful rose-bowl, engraved with an image of books and lilies, which were Janice’s favourite flower. The trophy was funded by the money raised by the children shortly after Mrs Jamieson, who had been an inspirational Head Teacher, had sadly passed away. The children had taken part in a sponsored fun run, as part of the town’s half Marathon, in order to have a fitting memorial. As the design of the new school was very important to Janice, it was felt the money should be used for something meaningful in our new learning campus. As the library was something very close to Janice’s heart and because this year, we have introduced ‘Accelerated Reader’ to Primary 6 and Primary 7, it was felt a new award for Reading was an obvious and fitting memorial. This year’s winner is Millie Hird and the runners up were Amberly Wallace, Jamie o Mara and Sean Ellis who were also presented with small trophies.
There were many other trophies presented and all the prize winners are listed here:
Babsie Caig Trophy – best role model: Keira Murdock. Alistair Gourlay Trophy: joint winners Isabella Docherty and Cameron Hitchell. Runners Up: Ella Blaikie, Jessica Boynton, Lucas Tattersfield, Rory MCormick, Emmie Sanderson, Rebecca Hird. Jenny Corrie Trophy – Poetry: Reegan Finnigan. Alan Younger Trophy – Art & Craft: Jessica Bowden. Lions Club Citizenship: Winner-Alana Pickthall. Runners up: Ennio Murray-Sanchez, Grace McQuarrie, Aimee Ho. Police Citizenship: Gregor Davidson and Aaron Bryson. Maureen McShane Trophy – best effort: Kenzie Jolley and Luke Goodfellow. Heughan Trust Awards Overall Winners: Rory McCormick and Jessica Boynton. History Cup: Ewan McFegan and Blair Kalotka. Janice Jamieson Memorial Prize: Millie Hird. Runners up: Sean Ellis, Amberly Wallace, Jamie O’ Mara. Sports Awards 2018: Winning House : Dalmun. The boys’ champion was Joe Arnold with runner up Logan Clive. The girls’ Champion was Nicole Miller with runner up Keira Murdock. The winner of the 300m boys race was won by Joe Arnold with runner up Jack Palmer. The 300m girls race was won by Nicole Miller with runner up Grace McQuarrie. The potted Sports shield was won by Dalmun and the House points shield was won by Screel.
Many of the awards were presented by retiring class teacher Janet Burn, who also presented the Primary 7 leavers with their end of primary school gifts. The young people then left the hall and walked over to the High School where they posed for photo on the big box seating- on the High School side!
Potted Sports
Here are just a few more pictures from our recent potted sports event which was won by Dalmun this year. In future years, a shield will be presented to the winning house team. This means the event can take place before or after sports day as the points will be counted separately!
First Sports Day in New Learning Campus
Today, we held our first sports day at our new school with many of the races taking part on the athletics running track. A great day was had by all . Dalmun won the Taylor House Shield. The boys’ champion was Joe Arnold with runner up Logan Clive. The girls’ Champion was Nicole Miller with runner up Keira Murdock. The winner of the 300m boys race was won by Joe Arnold with runner up Jack Palmer. The 300m girls race was won by Nicole Miller with runner up Grace McQuarrie.
Mascot Day
We held our sports Mascot Day yesterday. Pupils were invited to create a mascot to support their house team for sports day. There were certainly some colourful and creative characters supporting our house teams. Thank you to everyone who created a mascot and well done to all the winners.
Paul Jones Football
The Paul Jones Football tournament has started for another season. Teams will play over the next 4 Wednesday afternoons at various venues throughout the Stewartry with finals day being played at Kirkcudbright on Saturday 16th of June. Good luck to all teams taking part this year.
P1F All Stars Cricket
P1, P2 and P3 recently enjoyed developing their cricket skills with Rosy Ryan, cricket development coach. Information can be found on the leaflets sent home with the children about joining a club.
Regional Gymnastics Competition
30 pupils from Dalbeattie Primary attended the regional gymnastics competition on Saturday 24th of February. The competition took place at Lockerbie Academy and was in two parts, vault and floor routine. Pupils had been working on both elements during afterschool clubs with Mrs Bradbury, Abi, Kerry and Mrs Duncan. The pupils all performed very well but faced strong competition on the day. Thank you to all those who gave up their time to organise and run the clubs. Thanks also to parents and grandparents for transporting pupils to the event and your support throughout the day.
Well done gymnasts.
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Dalbeattie Nursery Boat Naming Ceremony
The sun shone on a very special boat naming ceremony at the new Dalbeattie Learning Campus on November 9th. The children in Dalbeattie Primary’s Nursery were thrilled to see their new play item officially named ‘Everest Skye,’ a name they had picked themselves, based on a popular TV programme. Sir Malcolm Ross, Lord Lieutenant for the Stewartry performed the ceremony, watched on by excited children and invited guests who included Lady Ross, members of Solway Yacht Club and representatives from Grahams Design Team and D&G Schools For The Future together with the school’s management team.
In order to install a play feature designed by the landscape architect, Project Manager Andy Little was tasked with finding a boat. He made contact with Solway Yacht Club who gladly came to the rescue. The club has donated a laser dinghy which they have lovingly restored and painted with the boat’s name and yacht club emblem. Commodore of the club, Ian Purkis, also presented the school with a pennant from Solway Yacht Club and made a speech about how much the club wants to encourage more young sailors from Dalbeattie to get involved at the club at Kippford. Sir Malcolm and Lady Ross also presented the school with the Stewartry Flag so that the school can fly it from their flagpole once it is installed. The party of invited guests then had a tour of our wonderful new campus.
Orienteering
Primary 2-7 have been learning to use maps and improve their co-operation and fitness around the school, park and forest, orienteering in PE this term. Some successful learners in P4-7 won medals for being the fastest in the competition, and others for being star improvers, or effective contributors, who help others to have more success. Many were bursting with pride for their excellent effort and progress getting faster, fitter and having lots of fun too. It’s been great to make the most of the different environments around our school. Huge thanks to our amazingly generous volunteers who helped us out!
Mrs Gray
