The school has just held its annual Easter Service in Dalbeattie and Kirkgunzeon Parish Church. After a welcome from Mrs Duncan, Primary 7 pupils re-told the Easter story followed by singing from the William Heughan Choir before the service was ended with some words and an Easter blessing from the minister Rev Fiona Wilson.
Yesterday the children from the nursery joined with P1 and P1/2 to do some Easter activities. Pre-schoolers from Birchvale Nursery joined us as well since this was a great opportunity to begin preparation for going to school. We all had a great time. It was lovely to see the different age groups working together and we hope that this is the start of more regular events like this.
P1/2 have been very busy this week. We have had Sara in from RHET to show us how to make bread as part of our previous topic of Scottish food and traditions. We loved having this opportunity of learning to bake the bread, learning about the ingredients and even taking it home to eat. The children enjoyed having the smell of warm freshly baked bread in the classroom. We hope you were able to sample the bread your child brought home.
On Tuesday afternoon we invited all our parents and relatives to come along and have some fun making a junk model dinosaur with us. We started the afternoon with a song, which involved a little audience participation towards the end and then we got going making our models! We had a fantastic time creating our original dinosaurs and Mrs Fitzsimmons was very impressed with all our ideas! Thank you very much to all our parents and relatives for coming along to help us. We hope you had as much fun as we did!!!
Here are this week’s award winners.
Classes from nursery to P7 have been busy this term creating some fantastic displays showcasing learning.
Here are this week’s deserving award winners. Today we held our Primary Awards in the Heughan Hall.
P3/4 and P4 have thoroughly enjoyed their technology challenges over the last two weeks. Week 1 involved the children making a car with wheels and week 2 was about creating a drawbridge with moving parts. The children have been working together to follow instructions and build their models and they particularity enjoyed using the saws to saw the wood. They had to measure out different lengths of wood and saw them carefully using the sawing stations in the classroom. The children are delighted with their finished products and we even had a race with the cars int he gym hall. Theo and Firth’s car won the race.
Primary 6 have just returned from a fantastic day at RHET’s Food and farming event at Wallets Mart in Castle Douglas. The event was organised by RHET’s Fiona Jamieson and it involved many local food and farming providers who helped to lead workshop activities about ‘Tractors,’ ‘Meat,’ ‘Dairy,’ ‘Cereals,’ ‘Deer’ and ‘Sheep.’
At lunchtime, the children were able to do some food tasting of burgers and venison sausages. They were received most favourably! GlenUrr ice cream also gave the pupils pots of ice cream to eat.
At the end of the day, the children also got to take part in an auction. Some of our pupils volunteered to be the auctioneers in the ring while other pupils took part in the bidding.
Our thanks go to everyone involved in this very successful day. We realise the sheer amount of organisation such an event takes. The pupils learned so much about food and farming. They now appreciate much more about the journeys taken by our livestock for it to be Scottish Quality Assured and about the processes which are used to turn cereals into flour and sheep’s fleece into wool.
This term P1 have been learning about a healthy diet and so recently we made our own healthy snack! We learned the ‘claw’ and ‘bridge’ technique to chop, slice and shred a selection of vegetables. As you can see we enjoyed creating and eating the final product! Thank you to Mrs Houston from the High School for lending us the aprons and some chopping boards.
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