Dalbeattie Primary pupils were delighted today to congratulate former pupil Logan on his recent curling success at the Youth Olympics. Thank you Logan for joining us to let us share your success and for visiting some of the classes afterwards too. The pupils loved hearing about your experience. The gold medal was much admired by all!
Wall sits. Strong core muscles and legs.
P6 participated in the Day of Dance organised by Active Schools. The children have learned a range of traditional Scottish Dances with their teachers in school and showcased these today with schools from across the Stewartry. Thank you to Active Schools for co-ordinating this and to all staff and volunteers involved in this event. Sports leaders from Dalbeattie High School were once again on hand to support with this event. Well done everyone a great time was had by all.
What a great day celebrating all things Scottish. The classes have all engaged in a range of cross curricular learning activities today. These have included tasting different traditional Scottish foods, creating a graph of favourite food tasted, designing tartan, creating kilts, learning about Scots musicians and singing Scots songs. There was also lots of highland dancing in P1 and P1/2. Thanks Miss Kirkpatrick for teaching the children some new dance skills.
Miles from Dalbeattie High School also came across and played the bagpipes to all the classes. There was a great sound echoing throughout the school from the pipes.
P6 were busy with construction tasks during Fun 31 today and P1 incorporated some drama and dance into their afternoon as they used their imagination to find their way through a winter wonderland.
Children throughout the nursery and school will be participating in a range of Scottish themed activities on Thursday 25th of January.
Children can wear a touch of tartan to nursery or school if they would like. This may be a piece of tartan ribbon, a tartan patch on a t-shirt, tartan trousers, kilt or skirt. These just a few suggestions.
Thank You
Today in assembly P7 pupils Emily, Katie D ,Katie H and Isabella presented the outcome of our Vison, Values and Aims review. They were confident at sharing their report to the whole school.
We are now waiting on our logo being finalised by the graphics team for us. We will share completed update in due course.
Head Teachers Awards were given today for lots of worthy reasons as always. Some of the reasons included, learning and applying new mathematical concepts, enthusiasm for reading and summarising the story, excellent initial ideas in art for a Tam O Shanter picture and showing enthusiasm for learning in all curricular areas. Well done to all our award winners this week.
Last term our Parent Council donated £1100 to the school and nursery. This provided £100 per class. Class teachers agreed to use half of their money to purchase a range of K’Nex kits to support learning. The kits are linked to and will support learning in science, technology and engineering. We hope to see the children working co-operatively in groups when using the kits too. Next year we hope to be able to enter the K’Nex challenge organised by our local STEM team that can lead to participating in wider competitions.
P4/5 helped me with the unpacking and organising of the kits into different storage boxes. We had a test run with the kits too.
The nursery have yet to decide on how to use their money.
Thank you to our Parent Council for your donation that helped us to fund these kits.
Fun 31 started again this week. Children are consulted on what they would like to do and great range of play opportunities provided. Can you spot those that enjoyed Lets dance? Some pupils created origami fortune tellers. There was sewing starting in P6/7,bingo in P4 and 5. Karaoke was also taking place with Miss Scott. Scooters with Mr Caldow were popular too.
Today we held out first assembly of the new year. We looked at the SHANARRI wellbeing words and what these mean to us at Dalbeattie Primary. The P7s will be sharing these with classes next week and there will be a wee competition linked to them for children to take part in. More information about this will follow in due course.
S-Safe
H- Healthy.
A – Active.
N- Nurtured
A- Achieving
R-Respected
R- Responsible
I-Included
Head Teacher’s Awards today were given for some of the following reasons super sounding skills, great progression in reading, being neat tidy and organised, being a responsible citizen and showing confidence in maths and identifying a range of angles.
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