Category Archives: Whole School
3 Week Menu Cycle
Please find below an updated 3 week menu cycle for primary school and nursery meals until October holidays. Nursery children will continue with cold option until October break due to staffing and logistical organisation that needs to be completed.
Parent Council AGM Invite Letter
Letter for Parents and Carers
Please see below a letter from Professor Jason Leitch – National Clinical Director Scottish Government.
Coronavirus – Jason Leitch Letter on testing and common colds – 31 August 2020
Update Letter and Information 28.8.20
Please find below update letter and information emailed to parents today.
School Grown Vegetables
Dear Parents and Carers
Please support our School Vegetable Growing!
This Thursday morning (and after school if any left) please come prepared with your bag together with some money to donate for some of our school grown vegetables. We have potatoes, carrots, onions and beetroot. Normally we use most of our vegetables into soup as part of our harvest celebrations. However due to restrictions around staying within our bubbles, it isn’t practical to make and serve soup to the whole primary school s we would normally do this also with High School help. On Thursday morning, the vegetables will be laid out on a table and trolley in the circular tar area and (inside the pedestrian access from Haugh Road.) People can help themselves to however much they want and are asked to put their donations in the honesty box (tub.) First come, first served. The potatoes taste nice but are perhaps a little late for treating as ‘new’ but would be better mashed.
Update Information
Please find below an update of information following our first week returning to school. Pictures below identify waiting zones to support our staggered starts each morning (will improve quality of picture for clearer viewing).
Thank you for your continued support and understanding.
Nursery Reopening
We are looking forward to welcoming all our pupils back to Nursery on Wednesday and the team have been working on plans for this today.
Please see below information for the reopening of Nursery on Wednesday 12th August.
School Re-Opening Information
We are looking forward to welcoming back all our young people into school this week, on Wednesday. (Primary 1 children will have been in for a short visit on Tuesday afternoon before they also start school on Wednesday- see separate email to parents/carers with invitation.)
Attached is the information for the safe re-opening of our school. In order to adhere to guidelines, we have made changes to many of our arrangements and this is all detailed in the attached letter. We realise school will not ‘feel normal’ for some time as we go through the ‘recovery phase’ but if we all work together as a team and support each other, we hope we can return to everything being back to usual in terms of school arrangements and activities, in the near future.
Bitmoji Staff Scavenger Hunt
Dalbeattie saw lots of new activity for the last week of term. Many of our young people and their families, as well as staff, were out enjoying exercising on their bikes, scooters and feet, around the, ‘Staff Bitmoji Town Trail.”
Armed with an orienteering map, marked with 29 Bitmoji locations, spread all around the town, the challenge was not only to find them, but to guess who the member of staff was. This really got folks thinking, and as many said, “It was tricky to work out who was who.” All who took part reported it was great fun, as it gave, “the whole family a good reason for getting out and about.” Someone even said, “I hope this might be something the school does again, as it’s been really good.”
The highest score for correct identifications, with 28/29, were the Donnelly and the Whalen families, who did some of the trail zooming around the town on their bikes and having fun together.Lots of others were close behind them.Well done all who took part.
And thank you Mrs Gray and all the staff team for organising such a fun and successful activity. We also want to thank Tim & Helen O’ Donoghue from Solway Orienteers, for their invaluable work providing us with a high quality map.”
Families are also reminded that if they want another trail to do over the holidays, the link on the school blog, to the ‘Woodland Walk Photo Challenge’ is still available, on a separate post with photos of participants so far, but don’t scroll down too far in the post as the answers have now been posted! A further town trail has also been added. The P1/2 Summer Walk Quiz is now available to all further below.
Two other town trails are still available for over the holidays:
