Great to have Matty and Benji from Queen of the South join us again today to present us with a set of football tops for the school. The P6s also had some great football questions for the players.
Fairtrade Crispies
The ingredients are in! Just a reminder…. Tomorrow (Friday) is the day for children to bring 50p each for a Fairtrade crispie cake. The eco councillors will collect in the money and work out how many we need to make on Monday. All profits will go to the Fairtrade Foundation. This work helps us to retain out ‘FairAchiever School’ status. We are grateful to Dalbeattie Spar and Castle Douglas Tesco who, so far, have donated ingredients. The crispies should be made and given out at snack time on Monday. Thank you for supporting this activity!
Scooter Skills and Outdoor Learning Staff Training
Staff undertook training in scooter skills and outdoor learning yesterday with Briony from ibike. Staff took part in practical activities in both areas( no injuries from the scooters thank goodness). There was lots of discussion how games and activities could be changed depending on class, level, topic and interest levels. It was great to be out in the sunshine completing this training. It was Staff were certainly motivated to develop some of the ideas with their classes. I can see some outdoor story creation happening and being outside using different areas of the school grounds. Ms Scott has also got P4/5 all prepared with helmets for scooters skills this afternoon.
Bikeability Level 1
What a fantastic day to be out with some of our P7s undertaking their bikeability level 1 training today. All the children were amazing. They carried out bike and helmet checks. They followed instructions with care and demonstrated a good awareness of cycle control, gliding,stopping,starting and turning. The slow race was a great challenge and they all gave this a great go. Looking forward to progressing to level 2 training next term.
Ride the Route Sessions
For anyone interested in taking part in the Junior Hardrock Challenge some ride the route sessions. Fantastic opportunity.
Primary 1
Just before Primary 1 went for Fun 31 today after assembly with Mrs Fitzsimmons, we manged to capture a picture of their happy, smiling faces. They all look so smarty in their uniforms. Well done P1.
Fairtrade Activities
Today, we found out about how we could take part in activities to mark Fairtrade Fortnight. Aidan and Meadow talked us through a powerpoint about two activities, at assembly, this afternoon.
The first activity is the chance to bring in a donation (for the Fairtrade Foundation) in return for a chocolate crispie/Malteser cake They will cost 50p each. Money is to be brought in on Friday 20th September, The crispie cakes will be made and given out on Monday 23rd September. The Eco Group showed us some of the donations they already have for making the chocolate treats. Thank you Dalbeattie Spar and Castle Douglas Tesco who have so far given us donations.
The second activity is about an optional Community Fairtrade Quiz with prizes to be won. Thank you Dalbeattie Spar, Londis, Co-op and Castle Douglas Tesco for agreeing to this. The pupils should have brought a sheet home tonight- it is all explained on there. If anyone wants to take part over the weekend but has not yet brought home the actual sheet, attached are the front and reverse of the quiz sheet. Once the sheet comes home, you can fill it in properly. There will be until Friday 29th September to send them back into school. Thank you for your support. All these activities help us to retain our FairAchiever School Status.
Assembly and Head Teacher’s Awards 13.9.24
Today at assembly we heard from Meadow and Aiden about the Fairtrade activities that the Eco group are going to be undertaking as part of Fairtrade fortnight. Mrs Howie will be sharing more detail in due course. Well done Meadow and Aiden for being confident individual to stand up and share this information
In Friday Focus today the group spoke with me about our school value of being kind. This continued into assembly where I asked the children to think about what being kind means at Dalbeattie Primary. We certainly do have kind children here at Dalbeattie Primary.
We also spoke about the lost property trolley in assembly and the amount of items on this. I have asked the children to try and be more responsible with their property and try to collect it and keep it safe.
Awards were give out today for a fantastic range of reasons. These included being committed to learning, being confident in PE and working collaboratively, working really hard in maths, building fluency in reading and for being a super role model. Well done to all our award winners.
Have a good weekend everyone.
Wigtown Book Festival
Dyslexia Scotland is running an event at the Wigtown Book Festival this year looking at creating comic books as storytelling for young people with dyslexia.
There are spaces available for both sessions, totally free. Here is the link to the event:
Sumdog Mascot Visit
We were very lucky to have been picked to have a visit from the Sumdog Mascot today at school. Lots of our classes are participating in the local Dumfries and Galloway Sumdog contest. Sumdog and the team wanted to check in how we were all doing and to say well done so far.
