The packing process was in full swing today as staff prepare for the move to our new learning campus.
Category Archives: Whole School
Final Day for Pupils
Today was the final day of school for pupils in our current school buildings before we make the move to our new learning campus. We had hoped to have a whole school picture taken outside our iconic bell tower but the weather unfortunately wasn’t in our favour today. We did however manage to have a whole school picture taken with pupils and staff present today in our hall. Thank you to Drew Geddes for coming along to take these historic and memorable pictures for us.
Final Walk
At the end of the day today, Thomas our retiring Janitor made one final walk up our famous hill from the infant building to the upper building. Children and staff were on hand to give him one final send off.
Mr McMurtrie Retires
Today staff and pupils said goodbye and happy retirement to Thomas McMurtrie our school janitor. Thomas has been Janitor at Dalbeattie Primary school for 30 years. He has seen many pupils through the doors of Dalbeattie Primary School and has been a highly valued member of staff.
At assembly today, pupils and staff presented Thomas with a selection of gifts. Mrs Howie, staff and pupils had also all worked together to create a fantastic picture for Thomas to remind him of playtimes, pupils and his house team Screel. Mrs Duncan shared some fun memories of Thomas and his Janitorial skills.
Good luck Thomas and enjoy retirement.
Harvest Donations
At our end of term assembly today we presented Margaret Copp and Reverend Wilson with our harvest donations for the Foodbank that Dalbeattie and Kirkgunzeon Church are involved in supporting. Thank you everyone for your kind donations.
Afternoon Tea with Thomas
On Monday 9th of October, staff held an afternoon tea in honour of long serving school janitor Thomas McMurtrie. Thomas has been janitor at Dalbeattie Primary for 30 years. Thank you to Mrs Ross and Mrs Blackwood for creating such a fantastic cake for Thomas.
P5 Fairtrade Games Event
Primary 5 pupils organised and ran a very successful Fairtrade Games Event. They had been learning about Fairtrade in class and wanted to continue to raise awareness throughout the school. They worked in teams to design and create their own game based around Fairtrade. Games included a Fairtrade Obstacle Race, Fairtrade Throw, Pin the Fairtrade product on the Fairtrade Mark while blindfolded, running games and a Fairtrade Quiz. The whole school were invited to play their games. For 50p, pupils were allocated a 15 minute slot to play all the games. Mrs Dyson and Primary 5 pupils would like to say a big thank you to all who supported our event. 160 people came to play our games. We even had family members join in the fun. Primary 5 pupils have decided to spend the £80 raised to buy Fairtrade footballs for use by all pupils within our school. The school has kindly agreed to match our amount raised so that double the number of balls can be bought. We look forward to introducing Fairtrade footballs into Dalbeattie Primary School.
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Folktober Visit
Today Artie Trezise (Artie’s Tartan Tales) visited Dalbeattie Primary as part of the Folktober festival that is taking place in Dalbeattie this weekend. He entertained the children with some traditional Scottish songs, stories and humour. Thank you to Mr Henderson and the Dalbeattie Folk Group for organising this for the school.
Sponsored Walk
On Friday 22nd of September all classes took part in our annual school sponsored walk – the final one from our current building. The sponsored walk was to raise funds to support classes with transport, trips or paying for visitors to come into school/classes. All funds raised will be shared between classes. On the day P4-7 had a brisk walk to the granite heart stone with only a slight drizzle of rain on the way back. P1-3 walked to the loch and back with great success and no rain. Thank you to all parents, family members and friends who were able to join us on the day.
End of Term Awards
Dalbeattie Primary held its last end of term awards ceremony on Friday 30th June. Amongst the awards presented were the sports day trophies and house cup (winners Colliston) and house shield (winners were Colliston.)
Boys Champion: Leon Pipe and Andrew Millar- joint winners
Runner up: Cohen O’Conner
Boys 300m winners: Ewan Taylor
Runner up: Leon Pipe
Girls champion: Tia Thorburn
Girls runner up: Lainey Ireland and Myah Sargent joint
Girls 300m winner: Tia Thorburn
runner up: Lainey Ireland
Also presented were:
Lions Citizenship Prize: Ciara McQuarrie- winner. Runners up: Lucy Glendinning, Andie Wilson, Sam McKnight
Alistair Gourlay Art award: joint winners Samuel Donnelly and Anaya Nerestan
Alan Younger memorial for art in the upper school: Brooke Henderson
Maureen McShane Award for effort: joint winners Stuart McFegan and Kerrie Pendelton
Jennie Corrie Trophy for Poetry: Louise Kelting
Babsie Caig Trophy for best role model: Tia Thorburn
Heughan Citizenship Awards: EXCELLENT: Robbie Wykes, Jasmine Wixon, Cameron Patterson, Rory McCormick; VERY GOOD: Emmie Sanderson, Carey McCubbin, Nell Porter, Owen o Dornan, Erin Styles, Aulay Webster, Harry Cameron, Jessica Bowden, Cara Houston, Ewan Herries, Kerri O Dornan, Ruari Webster. In addition to these awards a further special prize was awarded to Louise Kelting for dedication and commitment to eco schools activities.
Gold, silver and bronze awards for accreditation in Country Dancing were also presented by Mrs Fortnum to many children in her dancing after school club.
A new trophy was also presented for the first time this year. The Dalbeattie Primary School History Prize which has been donated by Dalbeattie Museum was presented to Jamie Laurie for his outstanding interest in this local history project about the Titanic. The trophy was presented by Mr Tommy Henderson and Mr Donald Henderson made a very fitting speech about Murdoch being a former pupil of the school and how poignant it was that this cup was being presented for the first time in the old school and next year it will be presented again for the first time in the new school.
