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Assembly and HT Awards

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We had a busy first assembly of the term. The Rota kids announced the winners of the decorated Easter egg competition. The eco group talked about their litter survey and a planned beach clean. Mrs Duncan gave out all the headteacher awards to the children for all their great work in class!

By Evie McGougan

Rota kids presenting prizes for the Easter egg competition

P1-P3

Ist Izzy

2nd Aria

3rd Rosie

P4-P7

1st Ebony

2nd Samuel

3rd Kalie

Pictures of all entries on the PDF below.

Easter egg competition all entries pdf version

Eco group presentation about litter and beach clean

Headteacher awards

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Assembly and HT Awards 15.3.24

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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

 

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Assembly and Headteacher’s Awards 8.3.24

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Busy assembly again today. We sang through one of our songs the church at the end of term.

Following on from World Book Day yesterday, pupils from Mrs Lumsden’s book club shared information about reading. They shared favourite books, where they like to read and the rights to read. This was the first time that they had presented at assembly and they did very well as it can be quite daunting talking in front of the whole school.📚📚

Awards were given out this week for effort with writing and improved presentation, creating stories at home and sharing with the class, being an IT whizz using publisher and using IT to support writing. Some pupils were also recognised for their commitment to learning and showing resilience when things can be challenging. Mrs Gray identified pupils for showing co-ordination and control when hitting a shuttle in badminton and for showing focus and control with a beanbag and bat. Well done to all our award winner this week.

Finally we celebrated the success of our gymnasts from last weeks schools competition. Well done again to all our teams.👏🏅

 

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World Book Day Part 2

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More pictures from our world book day activities.

P3 enjoyed sharing their favourite books with each other in class and the Nursery, P1 and P1/2 had a carousel of stories this afternoon. A start to transition for our nursery boys and girls visiting the primary classrooms.

Thank you Mrs Leslie, Mrs Fitzsimmons and Miss Johnstone for reading the stories.

 

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World Book Day 7th March 2024

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Well, World Book Day has been and gone for another year but  what a fantastic day everyone has had here at Dalbeattie Primary and Nursery. Lots of the P1 and P1/2 children were so excited to share their books with me when they arrived in the playground this morning. It was a joy to see their enthusiasm for books.

Through out the day there has been lots of opportunities for sharing learning and collaborating across the school. We have had sharing of favourite book in all the classes, P6 reading to pupils in nursery, World Book Day Bingo, World Book Day Grammar, reading is some fun places around the classroom.  There were book tile charades happening in Mr Caldow’s room and making fancy book marks with Mrs Mclean. There were some very creative design that suited books and children interests. Classes have also designed book covers and written blurbs for a range of fun titles that I shared with them for the day. I am really looking forward to seeing the finished designs and will share in due course.

Some classes  also enjoyed a sneaky hot chocolate as they read their books.

Thank you to all the staff for the time put into creating these great activities for our learners.

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Easter Hymns for Church

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Three Days that Changed the World

Jesus is Alive

Holidays are Here Again

Thank you for Loving Me

Easter Songs 24

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Assembly and Head Teacher’s Award

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A busy assembly today with lots going on.

We started learning a couple of our  hymns of our Easter Church service in a few weeks. The class teachers will ask be learning these with children in classes too. I will post these to share soon.

WOW Badges

Some classes have participated in designing new badges for the WOW  tracker that we use in school. As a school we have to pick 3 entires to send forward to the finals. Well done Bessie, Layton and Rex on having your designs picked to represent our school.

Queen of The South Shirt Design

Some classes participated in the design a new strip for Queen of the South over the last couple of weeks. We are delighted to announce that we have two finalists. Well done to Finlay and Emmi on achieving the finals. Everyone will be able to vote for winning designs next week when all finalists are announced. We will keep you posted on how to do this.

Head Teacher’s Awards were given out for a range of reasons today but I did ask for awards this week  to also recognise our values and saw many children celebrated  for being ‘committed’ today. Pupils have demonstrated being committed in P.E, to their learning in class and  being positive role models.  Well done everyone on all you achievements this week.

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Fun 31

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It’s been a few weeks since we shared any of our Fun 31 activities with you so here are some of the play activities that the classes have engaged in today.

P1 – Charanga Rhythm work and playing with new instruments purchased by a recent play grant received to develop our play environment.

P2-P5

Cars and transport, lego and K’Nex, How to draw and sewing were a few of the activities today. Mr Caldow also had a group out at the running track for some physical activity and Miss Scott had Karaoke in her classroom.

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Disco Time

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Two great discos this evening. Lots of dancing and lots of fun. Thank you to our parent conceal for organising the discos, staff for staying behind to support the event and RKDJ for the fantastic music as always. There are a valentine theme and we had borrowed a back drop form DHS which provide popular for group photos. Thanks Mrs Whalen of this.

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