Local Community, Partnership Working, Whole School

Queen’s 90th Birthday Quiz

May 27, 2016 Mrs Howie Leave a comment

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!

Local Community, Partnership Working, Sports, Whole School

Run Doon Hame Five Capitals Challenge

May 27, 2016 Mrs Howie Leave a comment

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!

After School Activities, Sports

Dalbeattie Primary Football Trophy 2016

May 26, 2016 Mrs Duncan Leave a comment

The first game of our Dalbeattie Primary School Trophy was played today after school in Colliston Park. Mr MacDougall has organised this event for P6 and P7 pupils who attended after school football training. The children have been split into 4 teams Jaguars, Lions, Panthers and Tigers. Over the next six weeks the teams will play each other once. This weeks winners were the Lions who beat the Jaguars . The score was 6 to the Lions 3 to the Jaguars.

After School Activities, Sports

Paul Jones Second Round

May 26, 2016 Mrs Duncan Leave a comment

Dalbeattie Primary football team participated in the second round of the Paul Jones Tournament yesterday at Dalry. The team are working very well together and are certainly following coaching advice and tips from Mr MacDougall and Mr Cathro. Keep up the great work boys. The next round of the tournament is at Meadow Park in Castle Douglas on Wednesday 1st June. Supporters welcome to come along and watch the matches.

Class Learning, Sports

Water sports

May 26, 2016 Mrs Duncan Leave a comment

Please click on the link below to see a short video of P5 who attended water sports in April. The children had a fantastic day at Carlingwark. Thanks to the Outdoor Education team for a great day.

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/dg/OutdoorEducationDumfriesandGalloway/2016/05/23/dalbeattie-primary-school-water-activities-27th-april-2016/

Class Learning

P6F Favourite Author Challenge

May 24, 2016 Mrs Fitzsimmons 4 Comments

This afternoon P6 shared the homework task they were set regarding their favourite author. Some pupils chose to present their information in a poster while some chose a factfile. We began by looking at all our work and reading all the fabulous facts before giving written feedback to each other.

Many of us were very keen to present our work to class and we thoroughly enjoyed listening to each other. Mrs Fitzsimmons was very impressed with all our hard work and how creative it was!

After School Activities, Local Community

Bingo Night

May 22, 2016 Mrs Duncan 1 Comment

Dalbeattie Primary Parent Council organised a very successful Bingo Night on Friday 20th May. Jim Dingwall was our bingo caller for the evening. Concentration and competition for winning lines and a full house was very intense at times. Thank you to all who supported this event. A fun and enjoyable evening.

Class Learning

Primary 7 Transition Visit

May 22, 2016 Mrs Duncan Leave a comment

Primary 7 pupils visited Dalbeattie High School on Thursday 19th May as part of their ongoing transition work. Classes meet with Mr McMahon from pupil support and participate in discussions about high school. Pupils also had the opportunity ask any questions they might have about transition days in June or their move to S1 in August. Both classes enjoyed their visits and asked many important questions. Pupils also had a tour of the school visiting different classes and found their way to different areas of the building.

Class Learning, Local Community

Fun Day at the Beach

May 20, 2016 Mrs Rudd 2 Comments

Primary 1D went to Rockcliffe as part of their Beach topic.

We jumped on the yellow school bus and took our lunch to have a picnic on the beach.

Chloe: “It was fun having a picnic”
We were going to give the beach a clean. We took litter pickers and gloves and we picked up all the rubbish we could find. We found a lot of bottle tops, bits of plastic, paper wrappers and a lobster skeleton.

Ryan: “It’s fun picking up litter”

We have to pick up our litter at the beach so that the animals don’t get hurt. Animals might get stuck in the litter or they might get sick by eating it.

We worked with James and Judy from the National Trust who taught us all about the animals at the beach and what litter can do to them.

We got to look in the rock pools for crabs and fish and we even found a PRAWN!

At the end, James and Judy taught us a new game called “Prawns and Fishes”. We liked it, it was fun.

Written by P1D (with a little help from Miss Douglas).

Nursery

Nursery News

May 19, 2016 Mrs MacPhee 1 Comment

We brought our ‘Spring’ topic to an end last week. Following on from our daffodil observational painting, we took our clipboards and paint pallets outside to paint the blossom trees at the bottom of the playground. The children demonstrated great concentration and attention to detail; we now have a beautiful wall of paintings in the Nursery that the children are proud of.

We are now well underway with our ‘On Safari in Africa’ topic. We have looked at Africa on the globe and we have been learning to identify lots of different safari animals. The small world safari park is a big hit! We have also watched some very interesting clips, watching how different animals move – we’ve focussed on giraffe’s, elephants and hippos so far.

Mrs McLatchie and the children have created a camouflaged safari jeep, with everybody’s faces inside ready to look for animals! We have also made collage lions and cheetahs and giraffes and zebras using our own footprints!

There have been some super towers being built with the foam blocks this week taking real concentration and team work which is lovely to see. There has also been some very delicate and careful work while making patterns with the peg boards. We have been learning about sounds, particularly the initial sounds in words; playing alphabet lotto and with the alphabet boxes.

Some of the boys and girls baked banana cupcakes for our snack on Tuesday. We ate them altogether on the mat, like an indoor picnic, they were delicious!

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