Some of our House Captains and Vice Captains attended the Remembrance Service at Church and the wreath laying ceremony at the War Memorial in Colliston Park today. Thank you and well done all. It is always special to be part of this important event.
Primary 1- Primary 3 were all given their book bug or read, write count bags today after assembly. It was lovely to share a story from each bag with the classes. The bags are filled with literacy and numeracy activities to share at home with the children. Please send us any pictures of the children engaging with their book bags or sharing the stories together.
A busy assembly today. Reverend Wilson joined and shared the story of Zacchaeus. We watched a short clip to share the importance of Remembrance and awards were given out. Lots of creative writing this week, effort with phonics, settling well back into term 2 and showing perseverance with learning were all reasons for awards today. Well done everyone.
I have also shared a picture of some of the great poppy creation made by our nursery children for Remembrance.
A second picture is also included of our 7 Stars dancers. I am still trying to get all 7 together.
Our P5-P7 classes were invited to join S2 Health and Wellbeing classes to play games they had created about feelings and emotions. The children then voted on their favourite games. Thank you Ms McQuade and S2 for inviting the classes to join you at Dalbeattie High School. P5 have not yet visited they will go along with beginning 20th November.
Pictures show P6 working with S2.
Children in Need
Next week is Children in Need Day (on Friday 17th)
The School Pupil Council would like to re-run the spotty ball lucky dip again for the chance to win one of an array of Pudsey prizes: a colour photo will also be uploaded on school blog page and on Facebook.
Please note this is this is a voluntary activity. There is no expectation for all children to participate as we are mindful of cost to families. (Last year the children brought in £1 per ball which they drew out of the ball pit to reveal their lucky numbers. Many children brought in money for multiple balls.)
Two separate activities are detailed further below*.
*LUCKY BALL PIT DIP
This year, we would like to keep it a little more manageable. It will be £2 per ball and is limited to ONE ball only per child. Please note, it is optional to participate.
Because we shall be carrying out ball pit lucky dips at lunchtimes, we really need your child to bring his/her donation in an envelope clearly labelled with name and class. Envelopes will be collected in first thing on each of the three mornings. We want to avoid money getting lost between 9am and lunchtime.
Ball pit lucky dips will be on set days as follows:
P7, P6/7, P6 and P5 classes will be on Wednesday 15th November at lunchtime
P4/5, P4, P3 and P2/3 will be on Thursday 16th November at lunchtime
P1/2 and P1 will be on Friday 17th November at lunchtime
Please can your child only bring his/her £2 ball lucky dip money on the correct day. Numbers will be drawn from the hat at Friday’s assembly to decide the winners. Thank you!
*NON UNIFORM DAY FRIDAY 17TH
On Friday 17th November it is actual Children in Need Day. On this day, we shall not be doing any extra activities but the children would like to have a non uniform day (wearing something bright or yellow or spotty if possible.) Suggested donations of £1 per child can be brought in on this day. Any money collected for the non uniform event will be shared equally between Children in Need and The Janice Jamieson Foundation Trust to sponsor a young person’s education in Malawi. Thank you for your support!
First day of Bikeability level 1 training. Great effort from everyone. Great to have all our volunteers supporting us today.
In Fun 31 today P1 went outside for a Skeleton Scavenger Hunt in groups. We were also joined by some P7’s who chose to have fun with us! Once we had found and assembled the pieces we had a few spooky dances back in class.
P2 and P3 had a Just dance group, animal play and arts and crafts.
P4-P5 had construction activities, outdoor physical activity and modelling and making cloud dough as their play activities today. The cloud dough was a huge hit. Thanks Ms Scott for this.
We started the first assembly of the term with some hymns. The P6 and P7 had great recall of these and encouraged the younger classes to sing along.
We celebrated the success of our group 7 Stars who participated in the Stewartry Active Schools dance festival. The group was awarded best overall performance. The picture taken today shows 6 of the 7 stars. We will update on Monday with our 7 Stars. The group will perform their dance to us at a future assembly. Pictures and videos will also appear on active schools Facebook page.
Awards were presented this week for underwriting a super sentence, being a super star and role model to others in the class, being an excellent listener, excellent attitude to learning and wonderful literacy skills, showing leadership in creating dance routines, being determined to succeed with learning and enjoying a new history topic.
Two great discos this evening. Great costumes ,music, dancing and games.Thank you to our parent council for organising. Thanks you to parent volunteers and staff for supporting with the disco. RK DJ also provided great music.
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