As you know we were unable to bring our favourite books into school yesterday to share on world Book Day and we asked that children share pictures of themselves with their favourite books through dojo or email. Thank you to everyone that has sent in pictures. It has been great to see the range of books that the children enjoy reading or have read to them. It was great to hear how many of the children had favourite bedtime stories too. There are some of my favourites among the books and some titles that have certainly stood the test of time and been enjoyed by many generations. You might notice in the pictures that some children presented and shared their favourite book in class via dojo, some pupils read their books in unusual places, some pupils managed to dress up in as a character from their favourite books and some masked readers have also appeared in the pictures. Well done everyone. Thank you.

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Please find below a letter to parents from Dr Gillian Brydson Director of Skills ,Education and Learning.

20210302 Letter to Parents

Red Nose Day is Friday 19th of March. Hopefully we will have all children back in school that week and will have a Comic Relief /Red Nose Friday to round off the week. We would like the children to dress as Superheroes or wear something red on the day(sorry not red football tops). Superheroes may be characters the children already know or they can use their imagination and create their own superhero character and costume for the day. There is no pressure to participate. If children don’t want to dress up then they should come to school in school uniform as normal. Donations for Comic Relief would be welcome and should sent to school in sealed envelopes. Money will be quarantined before counting and we will share final total raised at a later date.  We look forward to seeing all our Superheroes supporting Comic Relief. 

World Book Day 

World Book Day is Thursday 4th of March. Normally we would invite the children to bring their favourite books to school to share with their teachers. Unfortunately, due to restrictions at this time we are unable to do so this year.  

P4-P7 classes all have World Book Day activities on their learning grids this week and I am sure that P1- P3 staff all have great things planned for World Book Day in classes on Thursday.  

Although we can’t have favourite books brought into school, we would really like to see pictures of pupils with their favourite books and will share these in a gallery on the school blog. Please post pictures of pupils on class dojo profiles or send to classes teachers emails who will then forward to myself to create the gallery. Look forward to seeing everyone with their favourite books. 

Thank you

This week it has been lovely to welcome back our P1-P3 classes to school.  We were also given a little hope with the Government announcement that we may see P4-P7 class back in school with us soon.  I am holding onto that little bit of hope and have shared a story and message with the children about hope this week.

Take care all and have a good weekend.

Earlier this week I shared information about Safer Internet Day through Dojo. I hope some of you managed to use these resources.  My message today reinforces the need to stay safe online through children being SMART thinkers.

I have also shared an exciting achievement for Dalbeattie Primary this week.  I hope everyone will join me in celebrating our recent success.

Today is Safer Internet Day. Throughout all online learning in school and through home learning  we promote and encourage online safety. The theme of this years safer internet week is:

An internet we trust: exploring reliability in the online world.

The Safer Internet Centre shared the following:

” This year in the UK, Safer Internet Day explores reliability online. The internet has an amazing range of information and opportunities online, but how do we separate fact from fiction?

Safer Internet Day will be celebrated globally with the slogan: Together for a better internet. ” 

Below is a link to a  virtual assembly that encourages 7-11s to think about information they find on line. Can they trust the information or should they check it?

There are also two stories about Smartie the Penguin for P1-3. These stories are about Smartie’s adventures on line but also how he stays safe.

Safer Internet Virtual Assembly 7-11s

Oops just realised I am a day ahead with my date on the video. Today isn’t 6th of February it is 5th of February.

Good afternoon everyone. I hope you are all well and staying safe. In this weeks message boys and girls I have shared some positive mental health statements with you. I know that some of the teachers this week have been encouraging you to express yourself as this has been the theme for Children’s Mental Health Week. Well done everyone that has taken part in this. I have enjoyed watching some of your dances, looking at some very creative paintings and some people have even used Mrs Picken’s music videos/Sways to help them express themselves.

Take care everyone and stay safe.

Mrs Duncan

This week is Children’s Mental Health Week. Being physically active is a very important part of helping mental health. Here are some pictures of pupils from P1-P3 out and about cycling, climbing hills,walking in the forest. Well done boys and girls.

Please remember everyone to get out and about and participate in some daily exercise during this current time. Mrs Gray would really like to see all the different ways you are being physically active.

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