We had two after school clubs today. Miss Aitchison and Mrs Cox were running netball for P4 and P5. They group were working on foot positioning, pivoting and spacing during a game.
Gladys from Dumfries hockey club also joined us with P6 and P7 today to develop some hockey skills. The children thoroughly enjoyed their session and can’t wait to play more games next week.
Pupils from P4 and P5 participated in the a rugby festival at Stewartry Rugby Club today. Miss Dooley shared on their return that the children had a great time. They showed good sporting behaviour and encouraged others when they were playing. Very proud of all the children and how they represented themselves and the school. Well done teams.
Despite the rain P1-P3 participated in their sponsored walk around Rounall Woods today. Everyone was amazing and walked round the woods in good spirits. The buzz that could be hear from the front was fantastic. I think there was a bit of fun splashing in the muddy puddles too.
Thank you to all parents who were able to join us on the walk. It was great to have you with us. Thank you also to Mr Drennan and the sports leaders from Dalbeattie High School.
P4-P7 walk tomorrow.
We had our second set of session of maths week Scotland outdoor learning this week. P5 -P7 all participated.
Class teachers also carried out a variety of actives with their classes over Monday and Friday.
Lots of engaging play and fun this week in Fun 31 in P2,3,4 and 5
P2 and P3 have chosen vehicles, block construction and drawing as their activities.
P4 and P5 were using water colour paints, sticker activities,physical activity outside and just dance.
P1 combined their fun 31 with art and maths week activities by creating symmetrical pictures.
In assembly this week, we sang through our songs for our harvest assembly next week. Tuning and timing improving all the time.
Katie shared information about Birchvale Youth drama group with confidence.
I shared a new poster that is on display around the school about safeguarding with the children.
Sports and house capstone and vice captains were also presented with their badges.
Awards this week were all for showing kindness and being a role model.
Home Learning Challenges
Below are a range of challenges as starters that you can use with your child(ren) today for home learning. Teachers will also be putting specific tasks for their classes on individual class pages in due course. In no way do we expect all aspect of challenges to be completed these are just ideas that you might find useful. Please do not go to any extra expenses either to buy resources to use as there are lots of activities that don’t require additional materials.J
Early Level (Nursery P1) First Level (P2-P4) Second Level (P4 -P7)
Please have a look at the level above or below your child’s class stage as well as there might be challenges of interest to them in these areas too.
It is also Maths week Scotland and below are some links that might be of interest to you for use over the next few days.
Maths Week Scotland 25th Sept-1st October
Below is a link with ideas for maths and numeracy actives that you might find useful .
https://www.mathsweek.scot/families
Photo Competition
https://www.mathsweek.scot/news/maths-inside-2023-photography-competition
Shape Ideas
If you would like some fun PE activities to use over the next few days please look at Mrs Gray’s page on the blog as all her fun PE videos are still available for lock down.
Mrs Howie has also posted an Eco Activity on the school committee page that may be of interest.
P 1 and 2 Outdoor Learning
Today in school, we used a Maths Week Scotland resource as our starting point. We looked at how shape is used in art work and we looked specifically at the work of Kandinsky. We then transferred this to the next steps in our learning about 2D shape by learning about vertical lines of symmetry. We then followed this up with our own creative work during some outdoor learning. Mrs Howie
P2/3
How many different ways can you fit 4 dominoes in a box? Well done P2/3 finding lots of different ways. Mrs Mclean
P6
Using digital cards to create the largest/smallest number and estimating how many star jumps they could do in one minute then counting and comparing. Mrs Lumsden
A few pictures from P4 participating in Just Dance for Fun 31.
P2 and P3 chose to have a construction station with the cardboard blocks and Kapla. They also had a transport station set up with cars,car mat and train tracks. Mrs Murray had a group participating in a guided drawing task.
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