We recently held a Scholastics Book Fair as part of our Christmas Fayre. As well as organising, coordinating and running the book fair, Mrs Aitchison from our school office ran a colouring and book cover designing competition for any pupils who wanted to enter. The winning pictures were selected and each winner was awarded a £5 book voucher to spend on a product from the fair. Well done to all the winners featured below. Thank you to Mrs Aitchison for organising the book fair and competition.
Category Archives: Whole School
Christmas Fayre
Children In Need and Malawi Fundraising
On Friday 18th November, we had a non uniform day to raise money for Children In Need and for the Janice Jamieson Memorial Fund to sponsor our young person in Malawi. Throughout the week, the School Pupil Council also ran a competition to turn Pudsey all spotty in ‘Spottiland’ for a ‘spotacular’ fundraiser with Children In Need prizes for five lucky winners. Altogether an amazing £410 was raised and the money will be split between the two charities. Thank you to everyone who supported this.
Dalbeattie Museum Donates £250 to Dalbeattie Primary School
We are delighted to receive a donation of £250 from Dalbeattie Museum on the occasion of Tommy Henderson’s 80th Birthday which also marked the end of this year’s season as the Museum closed its doors for the winter. Dalbeattie Museum has gifted the Primary School with this money as many of the Museum’s members worked on the ‘History of Dalbeattie Primary School’ book which was published earlier this year and they wanted to thank the school for the opportunity for school and Museum to work together on this successful project. Thank you!
Songwriting with Feis Ross Musicians
Dalbeattie Primary School has been thrilled to welcome Feis Ross Musicians Nicola and Andrew Black into school to work with our young people in Primary 4, Primary 4/5 and Primary 5. This year, the children have been experiencing the art of songwriting. Primary 4/5 wrote a song about dinosaurs, Primary 5 used the Dalbeattie Town Wood’s Totem Pole as their inspiration and Primary 4 composed a song about Tatty Bogel. However, another highlight is a song which all three classes have worked on, while thinking about their current school and looking forward to the new one. It’s called ‘We Live In Dalbeattie.’ Today, the classes, accompanied by Nicola and Andrew Black, gave a wonderful performance of all these songs to a packed school hall. The ‘We Live in Dalbeattie’ song was, particularly memorable. Well done to all and thank you! The words for the school song are given below:
V1:
We live in Dalbeattie, where the river flows,
We live in Dalbeattie, where the wind blows,
Moving to a new school, it’ll be so cool,
So many memories, in this primary,
Grannies and Papas and great nana’s cousins,
For a hundred and forty years, they all came here.
Chorus:
Friends forever, always together,
Even when it rains, we’ll still play together,
Even if we fall out, we’ll be friends whenever,
We meet each other again
V2:
We live in Dalbeattie, in the granite city,
We lo-ove Dalbeattie, very bold and pretty,
Nearer to nature, we can learn outside
To get to the playground, we’ll go on the slide
CHORUS
V3:
We bide in Da’beattie, whaur the burnie rows,
We bide in Da’beattie, whaur the birkie grows,
Hard rock challenge and a granite quarry,
Gaun tae the forest wi ma family
CHORUS (repeat last line to finish)
Folktober’s ‘Haggerdash’ Visit Dalbeattie Primary
Dalbeattie Primary had a treat at their usual Friday afternoon awards ceremony when folk group ‘Haggerdash’ visited to entertain the pupils and staff. They performed a collection of traditional Scots songs and tunes where they had the children joining in with singing and actions too! ‘Haggerdash’ are currently in Dalbeattie as part of the ‘Dalbeattie Folktober’ Festival. They will be playing at a family concert in the hall on Burn Street, Dalbeattie at 3pm on Saturday 8th October. Children under 12 will get in free. Other folk performers will be ‘The Camden Quine’ (Carol Anderson) and ‘Finbar Magee and Breige Quinn.’
Council Budget Consultation
Information for Parents and Carers
Council Budget Consultation is available to view and participate in on:
http://www.dumgal.gov.uk/budget
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Free School Meals and Education Grants
Please see the link below that we have been asked to share by the authority with regards free school meals and education grants.
Displays Around the School
Sponsored Walk
What a fantastic day for a walk in the woods. All classes participated in sponsored walks through Dalbeattie town woods today. P4-P7 set out on their walk this morning and covered approximately 2.7 miles with a snack stop on route. P1-3 had an afternoon walk covering approximately 1.7 miles. Sponsor money raised from this event will to go towards the cost of transport for school trips and visits this session. A huge thank you to all parents who joined us for the walks and to P7 Sports Captains and Vice Captains for their help with P1-3 and the afternoon walk.