Easter Service

March 22, 2024 Mrs Duncan Leave a comment

Thank you to everyone that was able to join us in church today for our Easter Service. Unfortunately, there were some gremlins in the church sounds system but the children all coped brilliantly with this and sang the 3 songs we had been learning really well. Our P7 readers also shared the Easter story through their readings. Well done.

Thank you to the Reverend Wilson for sharing her Easter message with the children too.

Have a lovely Easter break everyone and thank you for all your support over what has been a very busy term.

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Queen of The South Shirt Competition

March 20, 2024 Mrs Duncan Leave a comment

We are delighted to announce that Finlay Houston was the winner of the Queen of the South Shirt Competition that we told you about a few weeks ago. Kieran and Lewis from the club can in to share this fantastic and exciting news with Finlay today. A surprise assembly was called for and everyone was delighted for Finlay.

Finlay will present his shirt to the team in due course and will be presented with some fantastic Queen of the South prizes.

A huge congratulations to Finlay👍👏

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Book Cover Designs

March 16, 2024 Mrs Duncan Leave a comment

A part of our World Book Day activities last week, all classes participated in designing a book cover for a title that I had shared with them.

Pictures below show the winners with their prizes at assembly 15.3.24 and the different designs created by pupils in each class.

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British Science Week

March 15, 2024 Mrs Duncan Leave a comment

This week has been British Science Week and some of our classes have engaged in a range ion STEM learning. Some of the learning took place in the P5-P7 classrooms with class teachers, some classes visited the secondary science department.Mr Kennedy and some of the STEM ambassadors from Dalbeattie High School also visited classes and shared some science learning.

P6,P6/7 and P7 also invited parents into their classrooms today to participate in a range of science experiments. It was fantastic to have parents and family members join the classes today.

Please see below a range of pictures form the week.

Click on the link to see P7 eggs drop. Science Week – Egg Drop 🥚

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Assembly and HT Awards 15.3.24

March 15, 2024 Mrs Duncan Leave a comment

Some great singing in assembly today as we had a run through of all the songs for church next week. Great effort being put in by all the classes to learn these.

HT awards given for a range of achievements as always. Lots of children demonstrating the value of kindness this week and it was great to hear about what they have been doing to show kindness. Several awards were given for progress in numeracy and being able to demonstrate strategies. We also had awards for showing more focus and concentration in learning as well. We had role models in some classes celebrated today as well as awards for skills development in PE from Mrs Grey. Well done to all our award winners this week.

Prizes were also given out for book cover designs that were completed last week as part of our world book day activities. Each class were asked to create a book cover and possibly a blurb about a title from a list shared by myself. Well done to the winners from each class.

Katie our Rota Kids president also shared information at assembly today about an Easter Egg competition that the Rota Kids are organising. More details below.

Easter Egg Comp poster pdf version

egg comp entry form pdf version

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Water Filter Engineering Challenge

March 15, 2024 Mrs J McLean Leave a comment

P6 have been learning about Environmental Engineering this term – how we collect, manage and filter water using gullies and drains. We had a Teams Meet with Elaine from BEAR Scotland who set us the challenge to design and build a water filter to remove pollutants from water. The children used Engineering design process to design and plan what they were going to do, build and test their prototype and then think about how they could improve their water filter designs. The children chose a variety of materials to create their water filter systems including stones, sand, cloth, filter paper, cotton balls and sieves. Great team work P6 – well done!

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Assembly and Headteacher’s Awards 8.3.24

March 8, 2024 Mrs Duncan Leave a comment

Busy assembly again today. We sang through one of our songs the church at the end of term.

Following on from World Book Day yesterday, pupils from Mrs Lumsden’s book club shared information about reading. They shared favourite books, where they like to read and the rights to read. This was the first time that they had presented at assembly and they did very well as it can be quite daunting talking in front of the whole school.📚📚

Awards were given out this week for effort with writing and improved presentation, creating stories at home and sharing with the class, being an IT whizz using publisher and using IT to support writing. Some pupils were also recognised for their commitment to learning and showing resilience when things can be challenging. Mrs Gray identified pupils for showing co-ordination and control when hitting a shuttle in badminton and for showing focus and control with a beanbag and bat. Well done to all our award winner this week.

Finally we celebrated the success of our gymnasts from last weeks schools competition. Well done again to all our teams.👏🏅

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World Book Day Part 2

March 7, 2024 Mrs Duncan Leave a comment

More pictures from our world book day activities.

P3 enjoyed sharing their favourite books with each other in class and the Nursery, P1 and P1/2 had a carousel of stories this afternoon. A start to transition for our nursery boys and girls visiting the primary classrooms.

Thank you Mrs Leslie, Mrs Fitzsimmons and Miss Johnstone for reading the stories.

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World Book Day 7th March 2024

March 7, 2024 Mrs Duncan Leave a comment

Well, World Book Day has been and gone for another year but what a fantastic day everyone has had here at Dalbeattie Primary and Nursery. Lots of the P1 and P1/2 children were so excited to share their books with me when they arrived in the playground this morning. It was a joy to see their enthusiasm for books.

Through out the day there has been lots of opportunities for sharing learning and collaborating across the school. We have had sharing of favourite book in all the classes, P6 reading to pupils in nursery, World Book Day Bingo, World Book Day Grammar, reading is some fun places around the classroom. There were book tile charades happening in Mr Caldow’s room and making fancy book marks with Mrs Mclean. There were some very creative design that suited books and children interests. Classes have also designed book covers and written blurbs for a range of fun titles that I shared with them for the day. I am really looking forward to seeing the finished designs and will share in due course.

Some classes also enjoyed a sneaky hot chocolate as they read their books.

Thank you to all the staff for the time put into creating these great activities for our learners.