P5 visited Dalbeattie High School and tested out some health and well-being games that had been created by S2 classes. Great partnership working and sharing learning opportunity. Thank you Ms McQuade for inviting classes over to play the games.
Well done P5.
Primary 4,4/5 and 5 had a visit from author Sarah Coyle as part of the Big DoG Schools tours organised by Wigtown Festival Company.
The children heard how Sarah writes her books. They were involved in creating stories with Sarah deciding how they would develop and end. They really experienced bringing a story to life. Sarah also shared extracts from her books with the children. Top tips for creating stories were also shared with the classes.
A few pictures from P6 and P7 Fun 31 today.
A few pictures from Fun 31 today.
Lego, horse and ponies, story time, balloon fun, drawing skills and outdoor activities were all on offer today.
We began learning our carols for Christmas today in assembly today. We managed the first three. I know classes are also learning these. Please feel free to have a listen as they are in a previous blog post.
Lots of certificates give out today to. We presented P7s with their bikeability level1 awards, P4/5 and P5 also received certificates recognising their participation in Alistair Jack’s( MP)Christmas card competition. Unfortunately no winners or runners up this year.
Head Teacher’s Awards today were given for brilliant blending of cvc words, for showing fantastic determination in writing, being classroom role models and having fantastic attitudes to learning, excellent research and contributions during topic work about the Victorians, increasing confidence and consistently putting in their best effort were all reason for awards today.
Our 7 Stars dance group also performed their winning routine from the Active Schools dance competition earlier this year. The girls were amazing and show cased their dance really well. We certainly have confident individuals here. Video to follow.
Dalbeattie Primary is delighted to have been awarded, once more, Fair Achiever Status on 17th November. Over the last two years the School eco group has been involved in activities during Fairtrade Fortnight. This has included class learning and making chocolate and banana muffins with donations of ingredients from local shops (Castle Douglas Tesco, Dalbeattie Co-op and Spar) which helped us to fundraise for the Fairtrade Foundation. In 2023, we also had a successful community challenge which involved pupils searching for Fairtrade products in local shops. We were praised for this in our feedback to our recent application. Thanks go to Dalbeattie Co-op, Londis and Spar for facilitating this activity and to CD Tesco for donating prizes. Being a Fair Achiever School, means we can attach the logo, being held here by the Eco Group in our photo, to our school headed paper. Going forward, The Eco group has now been tasked with going away to think about ways to do a similar community challenge, to talk about at our next meeting, so that we can plan for Fairtrade Fortnight 2024!
P7 participated in their second day of level 1 Bikeability training. It was great to see the increase in confidence from all as we worked through a variety of cycling skills. Thank you to sports leaders Joe,Nathan and Callum for your input today. Thanks also to our volunteer Sarah for her support too.
In assembly this week we learned about Children in Need. We found out about the history of the charity and what funds raised are used for. Thank you to Mrs Howie and the pupil council for organising our lucky ball raffle this week.
Head Teacher’s Awards this week were presented for a range of reasons. These included improved participation in discussions, being an excellent role model in class, being fantastic science partners during learning for demonstrating school value of kindness.Well done to all our achievers.
Our P7 playleaders were also presented with their certificates today. The P7 sports captains and vice captains have been taking part in play leader training with Amy and John from Active Schools. The play leaders will now use their skills to set up a variety of play activities for different classes at lunchtimes.
Classes were also presented certificates of participation for entering the name the gritter competition run by Dumfries and Galloway Council. Unfortunately, the names we entered weren’t picked this time but always great to take part in local competitions.
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