Primary 5/6 have shown excellent team work, creativity and problem solving whilst creating these electrical circuit games and toys. The games include a quiz which lights up if you get the correct answer, an operation game which lights up if the tweezers touch the tin foil, a buzz game in which the buzzer goes off if you accidently touch the wire, an electrical moving motor toy and a game in which you have to test if items inside the box are conductors or insulators. 
A King Is Born Nativity December 2018
Primary 1, 1 /2 and 2 have just performed their successful nativity ‘A King Is Born.’ The action follows some children who are too excited to sleep on Christmas Eve. Their Mum decides to tell them a bed-time story and of course, it’s the story of ‘The First Christmas’ ever. The mum, played by Katie Dickie, then narrates the story which involves all the well- known figures such as the Shepherds, The Angel Gabriel and a host of angels, The Three Kings, Caesar, Roman Soldiers, Census Takers, Inn keepers and Citizens of Bethlehem together, of course, with Mary, Joseph, Baby Jesus and a donkey. The show was performed once in the evening and once in the afternoon to large audiences. Thank you to everyone who came along. We were also pleased to welcome folks along from the Day Centre. We do hope you all enjoyed it! A big thank you to all the staff who helped make it possible and for all the children for learning all their words and new songs and to the parents who helped out with costumes.
P1/2 Christmas crafts
P1/2 have been very busy making lots of different Christmas crafts for our fundraising enterprise. We had great fun making cards, a calendar, two decorations and reindeer food. We even created posters to send home to advertise our sale. The children enjoyed participating in all the different activities as well as being able to sell their items to their relatives. Families were also given a little preview of some of our nativity songs from ‘A King is Born.’ Thank you for helping us raise £69.00.
Rocks and Wheels
On Monday 10th December, Primary 3 went to visit the old school as part of ‘our community’ topic. We met Michelle from Dalbeattie Community Initiative, who took us into the old infant building and told us about the proposal for ‘Rocks and Wheels’. We were all intrigued to find out about the plans and what it would mean for us, the people of Dalbeattie and the wider community.
We were excited to hear of plans for climbing walls, a hostel and a cafe, as well as many other things! It would mean lots of people coming into our town and would bring lots of opportunities for jobs and more visitors.
The plans looked great. We were then taken on a little treasure hunt/orienteering route to find letters. These letters then spelled out two words, ‘Better Lives’, and this is what Michelle said she wanted for our community.
Thank you to Michelle and also to Mrs Duncan, Mrs Blackwood and Christopher, who helped on the day.
Mrs Wixon
Viking Longships
WOW! What an impressive show of Longships from P3/4. The children were desperate to present their ships to the class and did so with such confidence and enthusiasm. Such a variety of sizes, materials and creative ideas! Amazing effort from children and the adults too, thank you! (even more to come tomorrow)
Awards, RNLI Fundraiser and Wow Tracker
At this week’s assembly, the children had a visit from Sue Ingram who gave an update about the Wow Tracker. She has brought badges for all the young people who have had the most ‘walk to school’ active journeys. Mrs Farish and Mrs Strachan, from Kippford RNLI Lifeboat Shop, also joined us to receive a cheque for £300 which has been raised from our fundraiser to collect 5p coins in little jam jars. This week’s Head Teacher’s award winners are also pictured.
Roman Roads
As part of their class learning, Primary 4 have been building Roman Roads. Please read the fantastic reports below to find out more about what the pupils have been learning about,the skills they used and what they really thought of Roman road building.
Viking Bread Making
P3/4 had great fun today weighing and mixing ingredients and getting our hands dirty kneading dough. We have made authentic Viking bread! Not sure how it will taste but we had great fun doing it! Take a look below.
Bug Hotel Building
On the 28th November, James Hutchinson Visitor Services Supervisor (Natural Heritage) from Threave, came to our Primary 3 class along with his fantastic helpers to talk to us about mini-beasts. They also brought a range of materials to build a bug hotel. This fitted in with our topic from last term, and the children were very enthusiastic, keen to learn and could offer lots of what they knew already.
Some of our class also brought in materials from home to use. As you will see from the pictures, it was a great morning! We were very pleased with the finished product. Freya and Murrin from the class, talked to the whole school at assembly on Friday to let them know what we made/how we made it and also to let them know that it would be placed in our playground to attract mini-beasts.
Thank you to all representatives from Threave for a great experience. We all thoroughly enjoyed it.
Mrs Wixon
Awards 30.11.18
Today, our awards were given for achievement and effort in numeracy. In addition to finding out about these winners, we also learned about some bug hotel work, in partnership with Threave NTS, from Primary 3 pupils. Also celebrated, was swimming success for Jessica, Aulay and Ruari. The Wow Tracker (active routes to school) November monthly award was presented to Primary 5 for their results in walking to school.
