Category Archives: Whole School

Kippford Lifeboat Poster Competition

2024 is the 200th anniversary of the existence of the RNLI. In recognition of this milestone event, Kippford Lifeboat Station will be running a competition for children to design a poster celebrating 200 years of saving lives at sea.

The competition will run until June. All completed entries must be received by Friday 28th June. The competition is open to any child. There will be three age categories with prizes for first, second and third in each category as follows – 3-4 years, 5-7 years and 8-11 years.

All entries must be A4 size. RNLI and 200 must appear somewhere on the design. Any medium can be used, e.g. pen, pencil, crayon, paint, collage as desired. The child’s name, age, school attended and parental contact number must be clearly displayed on the rear of the poster. Completed entries can be handed into the RNLI shop in Kippford or Dalbeattie Learning Campus for the attention of Mrs Howie.

The posters will be judged by members of the lifeboat crew and winners announced in early July. It is hoped that prizes can be presented to the winning entrants at the Kippford Station Open Day on 6th July.

 

Assembly and HT Awards

Well done to all our achievers this wee. Some showing school values and lots of successful learners this week.

Excellent art work, being a kind and positive role model, showing commitment to learning, always listening and taking advice are just a few examples of reasons for awards today.

The House Captains also help out at awards today and presented these to the children. Thank you for your help captains – definitely 4 confident individuals.

Some of our nursery pupils also joined us for assembly today. They are all getting ready for their move into P1 after the summer.

Some of the pupils that participated in the cross country super 4s were also presented with medals from active school for their achievements well done everyone.

Assembly and HT Awards 26.4.24

Today in assembly our Young Environmentalist Group gave an update work completed in the playground that will be part of their application in the Rotary Young Environmentalist competition again this year.

The children spoke with confidence about the develops they have been working on with Mrs Howie. We are delighted to have some new features to help record wild life in the school grounds and to support compositing. Thank you to Dalbeattie Men’s Shed for providing these.

Young Environmentalists Presentation

Global Goal 13 – Climate Action

Lots of awards this week showcasing that fantastic learning that is taking place across the school. Lots of our school values also on displayed by the children this week again.  Well done everyone.

UNCRC – Article 28 – Access to Education

Global Goal 4 – Quality Education

 

Beach Clean at Rockcliffe Success

 

Thank you all who turned up to take part in our voluntary beach clean at Rockcliffe today.  The event was organised by the Rotakids Club in partnership with the Eco Group.  Thank you Dalbeattie Community Initiative for helping supply the equipment and to Mr and Mrs Cathro, our Rotakids coordinators. It was lovely to see so many of our pupils and their families come along in addition to Mrs Duncan and Mrs Stores, HT of Colvend and Kirkgunzeon. We now have quite a large box of varied plastic waste which will form the inspirations for some creative work for our ‘Future Museum’ later this term.

Global Goal 13 Climate Action

Global Goal 14 Life below water

Assembly and Headteacher’s awards

Assembly report by Evie McGougan and Mrs Duncan

Today in assembly Mrs Duncan spoke to the children about the four capacities from Curriculum for Excellence. These are part of our vision values and aims and what we want all children to aspire to and achieve at Dalbeattie Primary School.

The children have been working very hard this week in a range of curricular areas. We have also seen that some of the children have demonstrated the school values this week and received awards for this . Other reasons for awards included great decoding skills, making sure  the presentation of work is high quality,  being a positive role model and high quality narrative writing. Mrs Gray also gave awards for great work in P.E this included care and control with a football, and showing brilliant  determination in golf.

Well done to all our achievers this week.

Some of the children from nursery also joined us for assembly today. This is part of their transition work getting ready for coming into P1.

Friday Focus

Today we had our first Friday Focus meeting. This is something new we are implementing to provide all children the opportunity to talk about their learning and have a say in some of the school developments and to make their suggestions about school.

We had some light refreshments during our discussions which went down well.

Some confident individuals today who shared their thoughts on what is going well in Fun 31 and what they would like to change. Well done everyone.

Assembly and HT Awards

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