Fairtrade Community Quizzes

There has been lots going on at Dalbeattie Primary to mark Fairtrade  Fortnight 2024 which has been held at the later month of September this year due to its being the 30th anniversary of the Fairtrade Foundation.

As previously reported, the eco committee made Fairtrade chocolate and Malteser crispies made with ingredients donated  by Dalbeattie Co-op, Castle Douglas Tesco and Dalbeattie Spar. The pupils brought in donations for this to help raise money for the Fairtrade Foundation. Throughout the school, pupils have also been including learning about Fairtrade as part of their learning in class.

Running alongside this was a Fairtrade Quiz based on products in the local shops. We are very grateful again to Dalbeattie Co-op, Castle Douglas  Tesco, Dalbeattie Spar and also to Dalbeattie Londis for facilitating this.

The children who took part returned their forms with one pound donations and the chance to take part in a prize draw.  Today, in assembly, the lucky winning forms were pulled from the ‘hat.’ The winners were Logan, Annie, Elise, Rex, Evie and Niamh who also got a special prize for compiling the most comprehensive list of other Fairtrade items, not featured in the quiz. All the participants received a treat size bag of Maltesers in recognition of their effort in completing the quiz. The school has raised almost £100 for the Fairtrade Foundation. All these activities help us to retain our Fairachiever School Status which we have to reapply for every two years.

Maths Week Scotland

Throughout this week the classes have been taking part in a range of maths and numeracy activities. These  have been both indoors and outdoors. Some of the classes have also taken part in live lessons linked to maths and numeracy. It has been fantastic to see the range of knowledge skills being developed throughout each session.

Mrs Lumsden Primary 6 played two different strategy games. Fifteen was played outside and in call today the children played a game called Nim, a strategy game using 20 counters. Sofia and Sophie managed to fit all the shapes into the area allowed. Well done girls.

Mrs Mr Mclean – P6 have participated in a webinar with the Royal Botanic garden to find out how to measure weather, collect rainwater from plants etc. they then completed follow up task about rain water calculations. Unfortunately their maths fashion webinar got cancelled but they use 2D shapes to create and design their own patterns that could be used for ties or t-shirt designs.

Primary 2/3 created some maths adventures tries featuring eat maths week mascot Finn Finity.

 

P4/5 have been busy learning about 2D and 3D shapes, and angles.  We have played group games, made nets of shapes, iPad games, and lots of outdoor shape and angle activities!

Primary 4/5 have also been carrying out different calculations using a variety of numbers and operations.

Primary 4 have been outdoor creating symmetrical patterns and shapes as well as linking facts about themselves to numbers.

Primary 6/7 had a live lesson, worked collaboratively with P1 to create maths stories and created their own maths comic strip. Throughout all their learning they were thinking about what met-skills they had been using.

 

 

Primary 2 Football

Primary 2 had their first session of lunchtime football today. This was led by the P7 Sports captains and vice captains. The P7s were fantastic role models, coaches and team members for the children to follow and work with. Well done Sports captains, Looking forward to seeing what other opportunities you can lead and develop across the school this year.

 

Assembly and Head Teacher’s Awards 27.9.24

A full assembly again today. PC Blacklock and her colleague PC McCormick visited us in assembly to remind the children about the importance of the emergency services and appropriate use 999 number for emergency purposes. It was great to see PC Blacklock in school today and she will be popping back into see P1 as part their topic this term.

We spoke today in Friday Focus about our 3rd Value Respected and continued this in assembly. Some confident individuals sharing what respected means in their classes.

 

Head Teacher’s awards for lots of different reasons. As always lots of hard work and great learning taking place across the classes. Being committed and contributing to class discussions, taking on challenges in writing, excellent work in maths. a great attitude to learning and giving 110% effort were just a few of the reasons for awards this week. Well done to all our award winners.

 

 

 

New Eco and Pupil Council Groups

Last week, our new councillors received their badges.  Today we had our group photographs taken.

School Pupil Council

P1 Connor Houston

P1/2 Logan Hair

P2/3  Max Glover

P3 Liam Geddes

P4 Esme Hicks

P4/5 Erin Davidson

P5 Fergus Henderson

P6 Corey Carnochan

and Sam little

P6/7 Ayka Yilan

P7 Oliver Wilson

Eco Committee

P1 Ramsay Brown

P1/2   Poppie Robinson

P2/3   Kane Kelting and Riley Douglas

P3       Chloe Cumming

P4       Moran Galbraith

P4/5   Reggie Murray

P5       Katya Lennon

P6       Bella Gerrity

P6/7   Andrew Kalotka

P7       Ebony McMorran

Fairtrade Crispies

Thank you so much everyone for supporting this activity.  The children looked like they enjoyed them. A big thank you goes to Dalbeattie Spar, Castle Douglas Tesco and Dalbeattie Co-op  for supporting this event with their wonderful donations.  They are shown in three of the pictures attached. (The one with the Eco Committee shows our  goodies from Spar. ) Having these ingredients, means that the activity will raise almost £100 for the Fairtrade Foundation and this helps us keep out School FairAchiever Status. Thank you to Jean Carruthers for also coming into to help the outgoing Eco Committee  (who planned this before the holidays) and the High School Hospitality Department for letting us use the facility. The Fairtrade Community Quiz is still ongoing. Completed forms to be in by Monday 30th September. If anyone needs a spare, there are more copies in school. Thank you!

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