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School Council has Update on Plans For Our Old School

June 28, 2018 Mrs Howie Leave a comment

The School Pupil Council was pleased to welcome Michelle McRobert and David MacMillan from Dalbeattie Community Initiative who gave us an update on plans for our old school. The project has a working title of Rocks and Wheels. The plans involve a climbing wall and outdoor cycle skills track which can be lit in the evenings. The concept is to build on what Dalbeattie has to offer- granite and mountain biking together with lots of other activities and to celebrate its natural and historical heritage. There are also plans for hostel style accommodation. We were also delighted to have it announced today, at our end of term awards ceremony, that Millie Hird’s design has been chosen as the winning entry for the log which will be featured on the new website page for the project. We are grateful to Mrs Harris for organising this competition which involved the other cluster primaries also. Several children’s entries were shortlisted, including our own Aimee Ho and Lily Henderson with Dalbeattie’s Millie Hird chosen as the overall winner.

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Potted Sports

June 28, 2018 Mrs Howie Leave a comment

Here are just a few more pictures from our recent potted sports event which was won by Dalmun this year. In future years, a shield will be presented to the winning house team. This means the event can take place before or after sports day as the points will be counted separately!

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Pupil Council Visit to Library

June 28, 2018 Mrs Howie Leave a comment

The School pupil Council has visited Dalbeattie Town Library to see the refurbishment and to see what is on offer for our young people. We were thrilled by the wonderful new children’s area. We found out about how we could become members to borrow books and about the reference collections which are a great resource for topic work. Mrs Howie was particularly excited to hear about the possibilities for classes to have visits to the library to do activities linked to their topics. Teachers will be getting information about this soon.

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Birchvale Theatre Trip

June 28, 2018 J Carson Leave a comment

We had a lovely afternoon visit to Birchvale Theatre to watch the Trolls film. We got ice cream afterwards and had a chance to play in the old school playground. The morning session are looking forward to watching minions tomorrow.

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Nursery Library Visit

June 28, 2018 J Carson Leave a comment

We enjoyed our visit to the newly refurbished library and plan to visit more regularly next session.

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P5D Watersports

June 26, 2018 Mrs Dyson Leave a comment

Primary 5 (group 2) had a fantastic time at Carlingwark Loch with a full day of Watersports – sailing, kayaking and canoeing!

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Scottish Opera

June 22, 2018 Mrs Howie Leave a comment

Dalbeattie Primary was treated to a true delight this week- a visit from Scottish opera who worked with Primary 6 and 7 pupils to perform ‘The Dragon of the Western Sea.’

The opera is inspired by the true story of the fantastic voyages of Chinese Admiral Zheng He – leader of a vast fleet of gigantic ships which set out to explore the coastal territories and islands along the western seaboard of Asia in the early part of the fourteenth century. These epic adventures took the travellers from the rainforests of Indonesia to the west coast of India and far beyond to the gulf of Arabia and the grasslands of Africa in search of trade, treaties and treasure as well as to spread amongst these nations of the glory and power of the Empire of China.

We are very grateful to Kate Picken who organised this for us during the week that Scottish Opera were visiting the area as part of Creative Scotland YMI funded week in D&G.

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Group 1 Carlingwark Watersports

June 20, 2018 Mrs J McLean Leave a comment

Today Primary 5 children from P4/5 and P5 went to Carlingwark Watersports Centre in Castle Douglas to do Sailing, Kayaking and Canoeing. The children had lots of fun learning new skills and working together in their teams. Thank you to all of the instructors at Carlingwark and all of the staff who were also very brave on the water! We all had a great day!

Miss Agnew.

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P4/5 Sports Day Photos

June 20, 2018 Mrs J McLean Leave a comment

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First Sports Day in New Learning Campus

June 19, 2018 Mrs Howie Leave a comment

Today, we held our first sports day at our new school with many of the races taking part on the athletics running track. A great day was had by all . Dalmun won the Taylor House Shield. The boys’ champion was Joe Arnold with runner up Logan Clive. The girls’ Champion was Nicole Miller with runner up Keira Murdock. The winner of the 300m boys race was won by Joe Arnold with runner up Jack Palmer. The 300m girls race was won by Nicole Miller with runner up Grace McQuarrie.