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‘THREE TREES’ Easter Service In Church

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On Thursday 29th March, we held our Easter Service in Dalbeattie and Kirkgunzeon Parish Church. The service re-told the Easter story through ‘Three Trees’ which each had different aspirations about what they wanted to be used for. Their hopes and plans did not work out and, although initially disappointed, the trees all saw the much greater worth of the uses they were actually put to. The story was told most effectively by the three Primary 7s who played the parts of the trees but also by the other Primary 7 narrators, interspersed with some lovely singing which the whole school has been practising over recent weeks.

  

  

  

  

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Fairtrade Breakfast 2.3.18

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Thank you to everyone who braved the weather conditions to come into school early today for our Fairtrade Breakfast. We had 82 people attending which is a super turn-out in our bid to share awareness of Fairtrade food items.  Activities such as these help us to retain our Fair Achiever status for our school. We are very grateful to assistance from Mrs Houston from Dalbeattie’s Hospitality department and the school kitchen and also to Mr Parker, Mrs Dyson, Mrs Cox, Mrs McMinn, and Mrs Robison for all their help. And of course we are so grateful to Kinnairds, Dalbeattie Co-op and Tesco Castle Douglas and to Mary Van Zwanenberg from the Kirkcudbright Traidcraft Group for supporting our event with donations of Fairtrade food items. Here are just a few of the pictures from the event. Any profits raised is going towards purchasing Fairtrade footballs to help to continue to spread awareness.

  

  

  

  

 

After School Activities, citizenship, effective contributors, Local Community, Partnership Working, responsible citizens, Whole School

Fairtrade Achiever Award Presentation with Eco Group and DHS Pupils

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Today, we were delighted to have two representatives from Dalbeattie High School, along with our own Eco Group at a special presentation given by Mrs Dyson, our Primary 5 teacher. Mrs Dyson has been very busy, over the last few years, planning a range of Fairtrade activities with her Primary 5 class and eco group as part of our ‘Fairtrade Journey.’ Mrs Dyson first outlined the activities, comprising mainly of an audit of staff and pupils about Fairtrade products,  which were undertaken to achieve the ‘Fair Aware’ award. She then explained the activities which followed before we were awarded the ‘Fair Active School’ award in 2015: presentation to local community and Fairtrade snacks at an afternoon tea amongst many others.  Then in 2017, the school was awarded the ‘Fair Achiever’ award following still more activities which included a Fairtrade Breakfast and whole school assembly with a  Fairtrade representative. Since then , the Primary 5 class has also organised a Fairtrade games afternoon and a Fairtrade morning break time staggered over two days and met with a company who supply Fairtrade school sweatshirts so that these can be offered also to parents to buy complete with school logo. This week finds us in DGlife as we prepare for our next Fairtrade Breakfast next week on Thursday 1st March. Thank you to all who have already shown support for this event by buying tickets and to the local businesses (Kinnairds, Co-op and Tesco) who are supporting us with donations of Fairtrade food items.

  

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Scots Poetry Assembly

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Today, we heard all our winners from Primary 1 to Primary 7 recite their poems which they had been practising recently. The quality was excellent and it was clear why they had all earned first places in the recent competition.

Primary 1-3 winners

Primary 4-7 winners

Presentation of certificates to pupils missing from last week’s photo.

Primary 7 second and first place winners of the Burns collage competition based on Tam O Shanter

….and another prefect was presented with her badge.

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Scots Poetry Winners

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On Thursday 8th of February, class teachers swapped classes for the morning to under take our annual Scots poetry judging. Class teachers had selected 10 pupils to go through in each class to finals day. The standards in all classes were once again very high and staff had some difficult decisions to make during the judging process. Well done to all pupils for learning their poems and participating in this event. Congratulations also to our overall winners. P7 judging will take place on Thursday 15th of February when we will be joined by members of Dalbeattie Burns Club.