Evie and Logan two of our JRSOs showing leadership skills when organising and sorting badges to hand out for our September WOW tracker. Great to see we have made it onto the leadership board for Autumn walk to school week.
P7 Sports Leaders
Primary 7 attended their first Sports Leaders session today and had a great time getting to know their leaders and some of the pupils from our cluster who will be joining them in S1 next year.
Transition Disco
Maths Week Scotland
Throughout this week the classes have been taking part in a range of maths and numeracy activities. These have been both indoors and outdoors. Some of the classes have also taken part in live lessons linked to maths and numeracy. It has been fantastic to see the range of knowledge skills being developed throughout each session.
Mrs Lumsden Primary 6 played two different strategy games. Fifteen was played outside and in call today the children played a game called Nim, a strategy game using 20 counters. Sofia and Sophie managed to fit all the shapes into the area allowed. Well done girls.
Mrs Mr Mclean – P6 have participated in a webinar with the Royal Botanic garden to find out how to measure weather, collect rainwater from plants etc. they then completed follow up task about rain water calculations. Unfortunately their maths fashion webinar got cancelled but they use 2D shapes to create and design their own patterns that could be used for ties or t-shirt designs.
Primary 2/3 created some maths adventures tries featuring eat maths week mascot Finn Finity.
P4/5 have been busy learning about 2D and 3D shapes, and angles. We have played group games, made nets of shapes, iPad games, and lots of outdoor shape and angle activities!
Primary 4/5 have also been carrying out different calculations using a variety of numbers and operations.
Primary 4 have been outdoor creating symmetrical patterns and shapes as well as linking facts about themselves to numbers.
Primary 6/7 had a live lesson, worked collaboratively with P1 to create maths stories and created their own maths comic strip. Throughout all their learning they were thinking about what met-skills they had been using.
Primary 2 Football
Primary 2 had their first session of lunchtime football today. This was led by the P7 Sports captains and vice captains. The P7s were fantastic role models, coaches and team members for the children to follow and work with. Well done Sports captains, Looking forward to seeing what other opportunities you can lead and develop across the school this year.
Assembly and Head Teacher’s Awards 27.9.24
A full assembly again today. PC Blacklock and her colleague PC McCormick visited us in assembly to remind the children about the importance of the emergency services and appropriate use 999 number for emergency purposes. It was great to see PC Blacklock in school today and she will be popping back into see P1 as part their topic this term.
We spoke today in Friday Focus about our 3rd Value Respected and continued this in assembly. Some confident individuals sharing what respected means in their classes.
Head Teacher’s awards for lots of different reasons. As always lots of hard work and great learning taking place across the classes. Being committed and contributing to class discussions, taking on challenges in writing, excellent work in maths. a great attitude to learning and giving 110% effort were just a few of the reasons for awards this week. Well done to all our award winners.
New Eco and Pupil Council Groups
Last week, our new councillors received their badges. Today we had our group photographs taken.
School Pupil Council
P1 Connor Houston
P1/2 Logan Hair
P2/3 Max Glover
P3 Liam Geddes
P4 Esme Hicks
P4/5 Erin Davidson
P5 Fergus Henderson
P6 Corey Carnochan
and Sam little
P6/7 Ayka Yilan
P7 Oliver Wilson
Eco Committee
P1 Ramsay Brown
P1/2 Poppie Robinson
P2/3 Kane Kelting and Riley Douglas
P3 Chloe Cumming
P4 Moran Galbraith
P4/5 Reggie Murray
P5 Katya Lennon
P6 Bella Gerrity
P6/7 Andrew Kalotka
P7 Ebony McMorran
Fairtrade Crispies
Thank you so much everyone for supporting this activity. The children looked like they enjoyed them. A big thank you goes to Dalbeattie Spar, Castle Douglas Tesco and Dalbeattie Co-op for supporting this event with their wonderful donations. They are shown in three of the pictures attached. (The one with the Eco Committee shows our goodies from Spar. ) Having these ingredients, means that the activity will raise almost £100 for the Fairtrade Foundation and this helps us keep out School FairAchiever Status. Thank you to Jean Carruthers for also coming into to help the outgoing Eco Committee (who planned this before the holidays) and the High School Hospitality Department for letting us use the facility. The Fairtrade Community Quiz is still ongoing. Completed forms to be in by Monday 30th September. If anyone needs a spare, there are more copies in school. Thank you!
Assembly and HT Awards 20.9.24
Another busy assembly this week with a wide range of badges and certificates handed out to celebrate lots of success throughout school this week.
The value of committed was our focus this week. All the classes shared what committed means to them. We had confident individuals come out to the front and share these thoughts with the whole school.
Being committed also featured in lots of our awards today. We had committed learners in numeracy , literacy and PE. Being sensible and reliable in class was another reason for an award today as well as for being a responsible citizen and well mannered communicator.
P7 pupils who participated in their bike ability level 1 training at the start of the week were presented with their certificates and badges. They all achieved the outcomes of level 1 training and are ready for their level 2 training after the October break.
Eco Councillors, Pupil Councillors, House and Sports Captains were also announced today at assembly. Unfortunately some of the pupils were not with us today to get their badges or photos taken so will make sure we get further photos once everyone in each group is back with us. Well done to all our school and class representatives.
House Captains and Vice Captains
Colliston – Captain – Korey
Dalmun – Captain – Mollie Vice Captain – Amalie
Craignair – Captain – Keira-Lee
Screen – Captain Jack Vice Captain Dominic
Sports Captains and Vice Captains
Dalmun – Captain – Lucy Vice Captain – Kai
Collision – Captain Lily. Vice Captain – Harris
Craignair – Captain Callum Vice Captains Sammy and Lexie
Screel – Captain – Isla
Junior Road Safety Officers were also named today and presented with packs to help them carry out their jobs. Well done to Evie, Logan and Sophie.
RNLI Kippford
Three of our pupils were joint equal winners in a recent poster competition to mark the 200 year anniversary of the RNLI. Part of their prize was a tour of the Lifeboat station at Kippford. well done Holly, Rosa and Isla. Looks like you had great fun! A great big thank you goes to Laura, Gareth, Lynda and Marion at RNLI Kippford.
