Our sports captains and vice captains have been working with Amy again this week to develop their skills to become play leaders. Lots of discussion, planning and testing activities. We are looking forward to our play leaders supporting classes at lunchtimes through different planned activities.
Some of our P7 pupils took part in their 3rd session of bikeability level 2 training today. Lots of right and left turns. Good road positions and clear looks over shoulders for safety and to have awareness of traffic. Pupils coped well with traffic in training area and followed instructions from sports leaders and volunteers very well. We will try out anew area next week for our last session. Well done everyone.
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.
Our sports captains have started working with Amy from Active Schools to complete a course to allow them to be play leaders. Looking forward to seeing how they progress over the next few weeks and then applying their learning in the playground.
We held out second session of level 2 bikeability yesterday. All the children were able to demonstrate skills from last week and worked on news skills today. Both groups coped very well with traffic in the area we were working and took onboard advice from volunteers and sports leaders. Well done everyone.
Today in assembly we reflected on our value – Responsible. The Friday focus group shared their ideas and then representatives from each class shared what responsible means to them.
We also thought about harvest and things we have to be thankful for. Thank you to everyone that provided donations for the community pantry. These will be handed in during the holidays.
Awards were also given out for a variety of reasons some of these included being a good captain in the rugby festival, always listening well during teaching time, showing commitment to learning, being determined to succeed at maths and always being kind to others.
Our house captains came out to the front at assembly today to present the awards which was fantastic. they were all confident individuals. Well done Keira-Lee, Jack, Amalie, Korey and Mollie.
Primary 7 had a visit from Amanda, Community First Responder for the Scottish Ambulance Service, on Thursday. She taught us the importance of assessing danger, checking the airway and placing a individual into the recovery position. She highlighted the steps that the children would take if they found an unresponsive patient that wasn’t breathing. The children participated in performing CPR and learned about how to use the defibrillators that are located in our local community. All of Primary 7 displayed great resilience by continuing to perform CPR even when they got tired!
Great work Primary 7!
Unfortunately we didn’t manage to have a Friday Focus group today but class teachers did discuss with their classes our school value of being included today. The children brought lots of lovely ideas to share at assembly. Some very thoughtful answers as well that really made us think and reflect.
Awards today were given as always for a variety of reasons. Some of these included demonstrating meta-skills, being a responsible member of the class, over coming worries about presenting to the class, putting in great effort across the term in all areas of the curriculum, embracing 3rd level maths and being a super role model. Well done to all our award winners.
Staff undertook training in scooter skills and outdoor learning yesterday with Briony from ibike. Staff took part in practical activities in both areas( no injuries from the scooters thank goodness). There was lots of discussion how games and activities could be changed depending on class, level, topic and interest levels. It was great to be out in the sunshine completing this training. It was Staff were certainly motivated to develop some of the ideas with their classes. I can see some outdoor story creation happening and being outside using different areas of the school grounds. Ms Scott has also got P4/5 all prepared with helmets for scooters skills this afternoon.
We were very lucky to have been picked to have a visit from the Sumdog Mascot today at school. Lots of our classes are participating in the local Dumfries and Galloway Sumdog contest. Sumdog and the team wanted to check in how we were all doing and to say well done so far.
