What a fantastic day of sporting activity we had using lots of skills learned in PE over the year! P7 showcased their confidence as effective contributors to others learning as extremely responsible, clear,caring and fun young leaders of the 16 activities around the school. In mixed age teams, all children supported and encouraged one another to have a fun, successful and achieving day I in the sun.
Mrs Gray – PE Specialist.
Pupils from P1-7 participated in a potted sports event today organised by Mrs Gray our P.E specialist. Children took part in fun games and activities using their knowledge and skills from P.E lessons to earn house points for their sports teams. P7 pupils, high school students along with school staff set up and co-ordinated each station and the children rotated round the tasks in their house groups throughout the day. Children demonstrated very good sporting attitudes and were very supportive and encouraging of each other. A huge thank you to Mrs Gray for organising and coordinating this event.
Our Eco Committee returned to the river at the Dee Hatchery to see how our salmon had grown. We watched as the Galloway Fisheries staff carried out Electro-Fishing in the water. We were then able to have a closer look at the salmon they caught and unfortunately, some crayfish.
We then visited Spottes Burn where we saw even more fish. We were able to have a closer look at salmon, trout and eels, before returning them safely back to the water. We presented Rowan Armstrong with a card and flowers to show our appreciation of her input and support with this project.
The children enjoyed a lovely Birthday lunch, as part of DGFirst’s region- wide themed day, to celebrated the Queen’s 90th Birthday. All pupils participating received a lunch bag with choice of sandwich crisp, juice, a pencil and a choice of ‘Royal Cupcake,’ ‘Crown Shortbread’ or ‘Royal Fruit Sundae.’ The dinner ladies not only prepared an extra special array of food but also had the hall decorated beautifully with bunting to create an atmosphere of celebration. Thank you!
Remember you can buy your quizzes for £1 each from the school. they are available in many shops in the town for the local community. The prizes are tremendous!
Above, our school councillors and dinner ladies are holding a selection of the thirty collage 90s which will soon be on display in shop and business windows in Dalbeattie this weekend.
To mark the occasion of the Queen’s 90th Birthday, the school is participating in a Stewartry weekend of celebrations on 11th and 12th June (co-ordinated by Lord Lieutenant Sir Malcolm Ross) by organising a quiz in the local community. 30 shops are going to be displaying giant ’90’ collages, which have been made by the children in school. On each collage, there will be an answer to a question on the quiz sheet- quiz sheets can be purchased in advance from many shops and businesses within the town and direct through school. The quiz costs £1 and proceeds will go two of the charities for which the Queen is a patron: Barnardos and Actions for Children. We are very grateful for the tremendous support the local community has shown for this event. Not only have the shops, organisations and businesses agreed to display the collages but their generosity in donating prizes has been amazing.
Prizes: Rotary Club £50 cash prize * Ian Bendall Undertakers £50 cash prize * Stewartry Vets £25 cash prize * Dalbeattie Museum £25 cash prize * Lions Club—£20 book shop voucher x 5 * D.G Lockharts-£25 book token * Luigis Restaurant £20 voucher * GGB Bottle Champagne * Flowers For You– plant * McKenzies TBC * Complete Insurance Solutions – £10 voucher * Supersave TBC * Idlehour – Yankee Candle * Bible Shop Child’s Bible * McCowans -voucher * Neilsons Butchers -Mixed grill for two voucher * Granite Kitchen -voucher* Best Pizza Kebab Shop -12” pizza * TH Carsons Butchers- £10 voucher* Dalbeattie Book Shop– 2017 Calendar and jigsaw * Well Pharmacy TBC * Bryan Gowans TBC * Hair and Beauty Gallery – £10 voucher* De-Caf Cafe– voucher* Lily’s Chocolate Shop TBC
Other participants displaying 90s and selling quizzes: Corsons Bakery, Austins Solicitors, J Paterson & Sons, Dalbeattie Community Initiative Office, VIP, Preloved, Trends
QUIZ can be undertaken on 10th, 11th or 12th June . Completed entries to be posted through Dalbeattie Community Initiative door at 71 High Street by 9am Monday 13th June when correct entries will be drawn for the prizes listed above.
On Friday 10th June, the school is also pleased to be taking part in DGFirst’s region wide theme day to celebrate the Queen’s Birthday when there will be lots of goody bags and the dessert will be Royal cupcakes!
Dalbeattie Primary School has been delighted to support the Run Doon Hame charity run today in school. The children have come to school in non uniform and donated £1 each for a wrist band. Then in the afternoon, the school children gathered in Colliston Park to welcome the runners as they continued on their journey. The team of five runners, all policemen, were greeted by the children before answering questions about their challenge. We found out that the challenge is to run 732 miles in one week, visiting five capital cities. The challenge started in London and will end in Edinburgh on Sunday 29th May when the team will then take part in the Edinburgh Marathon. They have raised over £7000 so far which will go to the charities ‘Westsound Cash For Kids’ and ‘Care of Police Survivors.’ Today, in school the children raised £343 to add to this. Well done and thank you to everyone for supporting this!
Spring Walk to School Week 16th May – 20th May
We will be participating in this event next week. It means encouraging pupils to walk, cycle, or scoot to school therefore reducing the number of cars around the school.
Thursday 5th May saw the 140th Anniversary of Dalbeattie Primary School. To mark the occasion, the children re-enacted a parade similar to one captured in 1901 ( in black and white footage, available on the BFI website.) The children paraded down from in front of the school’s iconic bell tower. This was kindly filmed by Sam Kelly from Kirkcudbright. It has been uploaded to YouTube and has already had nearly 2000 viewings. In the film, the children can also be seen wearing commemorative badges, which they were gifted to mark this important occasion in the school’s history. The film is available through link on the school’s blog and on its facebook page.
On this day, the children also enjoyed some very special cupcakes, thanks to our very kind kitchen staff.
Then on Saturday, 7th May, the school continued its celebrations by opening its doors for a ‘Victorian Afternoon Tea.’ This was made possible by wonderful baking from Mrs Houston and Dalbeattie High School’s Hospitality department (see previous post of the preparations involving our own P7 pupils) together with our own Parent Council who prepared the sandwiches, teas and coffee. We are also very grateful to Peter Wilson Walker of Caterbirds for the use of crockery. Also on the day, there was a range of other activities. The School’s History Book publication was also celebrated and free copies were available to pick up. This book is available at no cost thanks to generous funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund and the William Heughan Associated Special Trust.(Don’t worry if anyone does not yet have a copy- they are still available at Dalbeattie Museum; the Museum will also be posting them to anyone who requests one, provided P&P costs are covered. Information on P&P rates will be given on Dalbeattie Museum’s website in the near future.) Also at our Afternoon Tea, Mrs Pettigrew brought along her popular collection of photographs and these were much appreciated along with other school albums, previously unseen at our other recent two events. Another big highlight, however, was the ‘Victorian Photo Booth Experience!’ Member of school staff, Jill Blackwood and her wardrobe assistant Mrs McConnell, took group photos of families wearing Victorian costumes.
These photos are being published in sepia effect and e-mailed to the people who took part.We are extremely grateful to Birchvale Theatre, Fullarton Theatre and Dumfries Museum who kindly loaned the school costumes and props for this event. Other special mention must be made to all our staff helpers, who helped to decorate the hall and prepare and serve food on the day. We have very talented staff at Dalbeattie Primary. Look how our office staff changed into a new role to welcome people to our Victorian Afternoon tea!
The day was a huge success with over 230 people taking afternoon tea and enjoying reminiscing as they wandered round our old granite buildings. Special thanks also need to go to Dalbeattie Museum and Dalbeattie Community Initiative’s VIP for selling tickets, our own school kitchen, our parent and pupil helpers, the members of the History of School Research project, the people who donated items and all the folks who came along on the day! Mrs Duncan and Mrs Howie say a very big Thank you to all involved!
