Well done to Craignair who were the house winners for term 2. We celebrated this achievement after assembly. Some pupils chose to watch a short film and draw,some chose hoops and ropes activities outside and some chose party games and dancing in the hall. Well done to all our house captains for helping to organise this.
Assembly and HT Awards
At assembly today we continued with the theme of friendship. Lots of the children were able to share how they have been good friends this week.
I let someone play.
I help a friend with their work.
I picked someone up that had fallen over.
I gave my friend a compliment
I have treated people kindly
I have cheered up my friends
I boosted my friends confidence.
Representatives from each class also came out and share poems about friends and friendship with the whole school. Confident individuals sharing these. we hope you enjoy reading the poems.
We also celebrated achievements throughout the school with our Head Teacher’s Awards. Awards were given this week for showing commitment to learning and starting T3 in a positive way, for working more as part of the class, showing the value of kindness,demonstrating fantastic knowledge of money during maths lessons and being an excellent friend. well done to all our award winners this week.
4 Capacities – confident individuals,successful learners, effective contributors.
Values – Commitment, Kindness, Responsible
SHANARRI – Achieving,Including,Responsible
Assembly and Head Teacher’s Awards
Happy New Year everyone.
We held our first assembly and HT awards of the new term and New Year today. I was great to have all the children back with us this week.
In assembly we spoke about friendships. What qualities make a good friend, what qualities do the children have that make them good friends and what friendship means to them. We also spoke about things that are maybe not such good qualities in a friend. Please ask your children about this and see what they can tell you.
We had several class awards today as the children have come back in this week and settled really well to their learning and been motivated and engaged. Some of our pupils have been gaining confidence in mental maths, using critical thinking skills in numeracy when learning about fractions, being effective contributors and great learning partners. well done to all award winners this week and I look forward to sharing more awards and achievement over the e course of this term.
4 capacities – Confident individuals, Successful learners, Effective contributors.
Values – Committed, Responsible
SHANARRI – Achieving, Responsible, Active
Eco Code Competition
Thank you all for the wonderful entries in the competition to design an illustrated version of our school Eco Code. The standard was so high, the Eco Committee had to vote by using cubes to place on their favourite 4 designs. The results were in joint 3rd place: Mhairi Shearer and Meadow McLachlan. In second place we had a collaborative entry from Reggie Murray and Holly Smith. In first place, the winner, whose design will be used in a new illustrated version of the code to be displayed around the school was Niamh McCormick. These winners were presented with some eco friendly creative gift sets while all children who entered were given a chocolate in recognition of their effort.
Well done the Eco Committee for organising this and presenting the results powerpoint to our assembly today.
Christmas Party Time
Over the past 3 weeks, classes have had great fun at their class Christmas Parties. Lots of the classes have included traditional Scottish dances as part of the parties applying skills from PE with Mrs Grey. Great dancing, fun and laughter all round. Well done everyone and thank you to the staff for arranging such great parties. More pictures available on class pages too.
4 Capacities – confident individuals, successful learners
SHANARRI– Active, Included,Responsible
Values,-Kind, Responsible, Respected, Included, Committed
FitActive Christmas Character Competition
Well done to Mollie on her winning design for the FitActive Christmas character competition.
6 finalists pictures are included in the montage below. Mollie’s winning design was number 6.
4 Capacities– Effective Contributors
SHANARRI – Healthy
Values – Responsible, Committed
Church Service
What a lovely way to end the term with our Christmas visit to Church. The theme of the service was the Christmas story told through the contest of some special Christmas Crackers. The P7 pupils shared the message through readings and poems. Singing from all classes was rousing and filled the Church with Christmas cheer.
Thank you to Mrs Howie and Alison Irving for helping with the set up for today.
4 Capacities– Confident Individuals, Effective Contributors
SHANARRI– Included,Responsible
Values – Committed,Included,Responsible
Munchies Care Home Visit
P3 visited Munchies Care Home yesterday to bring some festive cheer to the residents with their wonderful singing. Great intergenerational and partnership working.
4 Capacities – Confident Individuals, Responsible Citizens
SHANARRI – Included, Safe
Values – Kind, Responsible, Respected, Included, Committed.
Day Centre Visit
P3 visited Dalbeattie Day Centre to bring some Christmas cheer to the members singing some Christmas songs. A surprise guest made a visit to the centre too. Some great intergenerational and partnership working.
4 Capacities – Confident Individuals, Responsible Citizens
SHANARRI– Included, Safe
Values,- Responsible, Included, Kind, Respected, Committed
Christmas Window Competition.
Today at assembly we announced the winners of our Christmas Window competition in partnership with Dalbeattie Lions Club. There were lots of creative entries celebrating Christmas and the winter season. Thank you to everyone that took part and thank you to Dalbeattie lions clubs for the generous donations towards prizes.
Pictures are all contained in the document below. Well done to everyone that took part.
4 Capacities – Responsible Citizens
Meta – Skills – Creativity