Primary 5 pupils worked hard using their design skills to create a variety of wooden models. Mrs Dyson was impressed with how well they evaluated and made improvements to their design. Pupils enjoyed showing off their models which included marble run games, working cranes, pencil holders, a duck on a bridge, mini furniture to fit inside a model box room, aeroplanes, a paddle steamer and a wee Scots man!
Award Winners 8th March 2019
Classes throughout the school enjoyed sharing their favourite books with each other for World Book Day. Pictures below show P3/4 and P4 activities and sharing time.
Recently P1 have enjoyed reading the Katie Morag stories whilst learning about Scotland. We decided to compare Dalbeattie to the Island of Coll. First of all we went for a walk round our town taking lots of photographs ourselves which we then used to produce a poster of Coll and Dalbeattie. After this we had a great time creating our own Isle of Struay working together in groups. Mrs Fitzsimmons was very impressed how wonderfully we worked together, our creative use of construction materials and our original ideas. We enjoyed looking at each others islands and discussing our work.
We were also very lucky to be visited by some talented High School pupils at the end of our topic. Shannon played several tunes on the bagpipes for us and Kierra showed us how to do the Highland Fling…….which we then joined in!
Classes throughout the school have created some fascistic displays show casing pupil learning so far this term.
Here are today’s Award Winners. Also at Assembly, we celebrated the achievement of the Primary 7 Burns Club winners. We had recitations from Katie Mein and Joy McCall who were first and second places in the poetry section. Ruari Webster was in 3rd place. We also appreciated the art work from Willow Caldow, Kerri O Dornan and Myah Forster who came 1st, 2nd and 3rd in the art competition to depict a scene from Tam O Shanter. A group of ladies were also recognised for their achievement in coming third in a walking competition in which there were 400 entries. Well done to all!
Thank you to everyone who supported our Fairtrade Snack in school today. So far we have raised £122 for the Fairtrade organisation. The success of the event was due greatly to the wonderful donations we had from Tescos, Co-op and Kinnairds supermarkets.
We were also pleased to welcome Mary van Zwanenberg from the Fairtrade Organsation to our assembly, later in the day. Mary reminded us all about the important message of trying to buy Fairtrade items as this gives the farmers a fairer deal.
The High School’s S3 Producers Market was a great success and the Primary School was delighted to be involved in it too. We are very grateful to all the support for our hampers. We had such an array of wonderful donations for each of our class hampers. A super sum (TBC) was raised for school funds. It was also great to see participation from some of our classes who had made items to sell at the market. Primary 4 made bird feeders, Primary 1 /2 re-wrapped shortbread in their own gift wrap design and Primary 3 /4 made Bunny Bag Treats. (Sorry no photos from the Bunny bag stall where items sold out so soon- However pictures are in a separate blog post.) Well done to Mrs Houston and her team in Dalbeattie High School who made this event such a success. See DHS Facebook page for more pictures.
Primary 5/6 visited Stirling castle for a class trip to learn more about the Wars of Independence and life in the 1300’s. They learnt about the way the castle was built, jobs in the castle, the royal family, food, weapons and the wars. Our tour guide, dressed as Sir Phillip de Mowbray was fantastic!
The School Eco Group and Primary 5 have enjoyed some really interesting learning experiences when they had a visit from Courtney Rowland of the Galloway Fisheries Trust. The children were learning about Sparling Fish, a very rare species which only exists in three Scottish rivers nowadays despite being in fifteen in years gone by. The children learned about the number of eggs spawned, the migration of the fish upstream from estuaries and the fact that they smell like cucumber! We also learned about the problems they face: pollution, over fishing and migration barriers. We are very grateful to Courtney who not only prepared a really interested presentation but who also came equipped with a wonderful array of resources from worksheets to activities to board games, all connected to Sparling Fish. There are no excuses now for not remembering all the key facts. Thank you Miss Rowland!
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