A great night at the P7-S2 Halloween Disco. Some great costumes, games and dancing. A fantastic transition opportunity. Thank you S6 and Mrs Whalen for organising this event.
We would like to remind you about this idea which was posted before the summer holidays. It has been extended through the October holidays and on to Friday November 24th in order to include three more weekends. While it does require a trip to a beach, it is however a great activity for not only demonstrating some citizenship through doing some beach cleaning but is also great for literacy and creative skills because the follow up activity encourages quite a bit of imagination to to be used!
Basically, the idea is to find an interesting piece of plastic and pretend you don’t know what it actually is. Imagine you are an archaeologist in the future who finds it and has to use guess work for what it might be!
Below is the original information sheet about the activity. Also provided below is a blank pro forma which can be downloaded and edited or printed off to be handwritten on. Mrs Howie has also had a go a trying a couple of examples herself for this- see pdfs below. However, the level of literacy in completed work by pupils will, of course, vary greatly depending on the level the young person is currently working at. Entries from Early level and beginning First Level will use understandably less complex vocabulary and language. Completed pieces can be sent into school whenever they are finished but by Friday 24th November at the very latest. If we have a good response, the School Parent Council has kindly agreed to help organise an after school event to display entries and plastic items in our very own Museum of the Future! It is hoped we can run this event in Term 3. So please do visit a beach and start your search!
P.S If you are on holiday in Cornwall you might even find a piece of lego! (check out the story on BBC Sounds ‘Lego Overboard.’)
P7 were not with us in assembly today as they were at Operation Safety in Dumfries. They had a great day and lots of information to share on their return.
As P7 were learning about all things safety, it was good opportunity to remind P1-P6 about safety in school in terms of SHANARRI wellbeing indicators, UNCRC Children’s Rights and our school code, rules and routines. The children had some very good knowledge about safety in school, keeping themselves safe and looking out for others. As well as physical safety being discussed emotional safety was also brought up by the pupils too with some very thoughtful comments.
Awards today were given out for a variety of reasons some being engagement with writing, sharing knowledge e about red squirrels with the class, completing all work task efficiently,helping tidy the open area, showing great IT skills with music maker and having rhythm when skipping. Well done to all our award winners this week.
Please see the ‘School Committees’ page (by scrolling down further on the left hand side of the main school blog page) for children’s names. These are the group photos of our new Eco and School Pupil Council Committees.
This week on Thursday is our Rag Bag Collection day. Please do send unwanted clothes in if you have any on Tuesday or Wednesday but definitely by 9am on Thursday. Clothes can be in any type of bag. Your support in this is much appreciated as the weight collected determines a payment for school which goes into our ongoing eco work. This is just a small idea of how you have helped us in the past!
Well done to everyone who participated in the Junior Hardrock Challenge today.
Lots of creative ideas today between P2 and P3 classes.
A very busy assembly this week. We celebrated harvest time by singing some of the songs we have been learning this term. We thought about things we are thankful for particularly the food we have and the producers that are busy at this time of year harvesting crops. Thank you to everyone that has sent in items for challenge poverty week. Items donated will be shared with the local food bank.
We were joined by representatives from Dalbeattie Rotary Club today to celebrate winning the National Rotary Young Environmentalist competition. Our young environmentalists Rory, Isabella and Lucy were presented with this award by Kate Kerr the President of Dalbeattie Rotary Club. Attached is a copy of the presentation shared today at Assembly by Mrs Howie.
Young Environmentalist Powerpoint assembly 6.10.23 pdf version
Our new eco committee and pupil councillors were represented with their badges.
The rugby teams from Wednesday were presented with certificates from Miss Dooley.
Awards were also presented this week for a wide range of reasons. well done to all award winners.
Young Environmentalists
Pupil Councillors
Eco Committee
Award Winners with donations for foodbank.
Fantastic walk today even if it was a bit damp. All classes were amazing and kept to a good pace. Well done to Layton and Freddie for being great leaders with myself at the front.
Thank you to family members who joined us and to sports leaders from DHS for your help. It was also great to have Thomas along for the walk too. So far we have raised approximately £1300.
No additional money is required after admission is paid.
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