Head Teacher Awards
2nd November 2018
P5/6 Day of the Dead Skeleton Art
Tag Rugby Tournament
Pupils from Dalbeattie Primary participated in a Tag Rugby tournament today at Stewartry Rugby Club organised by Active Schools. The children enjoyed the experience and played well as a team supporting and encouraging each other at all times. In the final results, Dalbeattie Primary were second overall. Well done to all other teams who participated today. Thank you to Amy and Louise and their team from Active schools for organising the event. Thank you to the rugby club for use of the facilities.
School Disco
Food Bank Donations – Thanks.
Margaret Copp from Dalbeattie and Kirkgunzeon Parish Church would like to the children and families for the kindness and donations from our Harvest Assembly. The staff at the Food Bank were delighted and wish the children to know their contribution will make a huge difference to many families. The number of families accessing food banks is on the increase as food and fuel bills rise, as well as the cost of baby items. Margaret would like to wish pupils and staff a successful second term.
Photos below show the Food Bank collecting donated items from the Church.
Literacy Fun with P1!
On the last day of term we invited our parents and relatives to come along and play some literacy games and have a go at some activities we do to help us learn our sounds. We began by singing some songs and then we all had a fun time playing! Thank you to everyone for coming and we hope you had as much fun as we did!
Award Winners 12.10.18
Head Teacher Award Winners
Litter Survey
Having moved into their new campus around a year ago Dalbeattie Primary Eco Group is keen to keep it looking clean & tidy. To keep up the standards they have relaunched their litter awareness topic.
Last week the Community Safety Team were out and about on one of their engagement days and visited the primary school.
The Eco Group learned about litter and it effect on their local community. They surveyed their school grounds for litter and found some: mostly sweets and crisp packets. It was actually quiet tidy. However, the process was good for the children to understand the type of survey sheets which can be used to grade the appearance of an area in terms of litter.
These type of surveys are carried out three times a year by Keep Scotland Beautiful and determines how clean our roads and streets are compared to other local authority areas in Scotland.
The children learned that litter, especially those plastic in nature often finds its way into a watercourse and end up in the sea, often having a devastating effect on sea creatures.
At their old school, they were often plagued by dog fouling, but with having a secure playground now, they no longer have this issue.
The Eco Group believe that we all need to work together to keep our area clean & tidy.
Harvest Assembly
Today we held our Harvest Assembly. Pupils were thanked and congratulated on the fantastic donations provided for the Harvest Hampers. Mrs Duncan also created a Harvest Rainbow in the the hall with the help of some pupils and colourful fruit. The children certainly demonstrated their vast knowledge of different colours of fruit.
Miss Copp and Mr Sanderson collected the Harvest Hampers on behalf of Dalbeattie and Kirkgunzeon Parish Church and will give our donations to the local Food Bank.
As well as all things Harvest, there were several awards to hand out today.
Jamie and Abbie with presented with their Junior Road Safety Officer Kits.
The P7 Soccer 7’s Team and Harris were presented with their Head Teacher’s Awards as they will be busy tomorrow afternoon during our usual awards time.
Prizes were also presented on behalf of the local EIS who held a poster competition last term to create a poster to welcome Refugees to Scotland. We had the overall winner and two runners up her at Dalbeattie Primary. Well done to Cara, Willow and Caleb.
P5/6 Making Bird Feeders
