Our Code Clubbers continue to develop their skills of digital programming. Coding, collaborative working and an enjoyment of the sessions is evident. Mrs Dyson continues to be very proud of all our Code Clubbers. Well done everyone!
Folktober Concert
Pupils from Dalbeattie Primary School attended the family concert in Dalbeattie Town Hall on Saturday 7th of October. They enjoyed participating in the family entertainment but also performed as a small choir and sang songs they had been learning during assembly time at school. The song ‘ The Big Dabattie Dinosaur’ and ‘Dalbeattie Primary School’, were both written by Mr Henderson and fellow members of Dalbeattie Acoustic group. The song making reference to Dalbeattie Primary School is very pertinent at the moment as we move to our new learning campus and leave our current granite building that has such historic significance in Dalbeattie. Thank you for inviting Dalbeattie primary to be part of Folktober events.
Folktober Visit
Today Artie Trezise (Artie’s Tartan Tales) visited Dalbeattie Primary as part of the Folktober festival that is taking place in Dalbeattie this weekend. He entertained the children with some traditional Scottish songs, stories and humour. Thank you to Mr Henderson and the Dalbeattie Folk Group for organising this for the school.
Macmillan Coffee Morning
Last week we held a coffee morning in nursery to raise money for Macmillan. Family and friends came to play and then we all had cake. We raised a fantastic total of £68.40. Thanks to everyone who came along. We look forward to inviting you in again when we have moved.
Library Visit
Over the past few weeks Primary 7 have had a fantastic opportunity to visit the local library to learn about the services they provide to all young people.
Over the past two visits we have learned about how to find fiction and non-fiction books in the library and learned about the Dewey Decimal System. We were even challenged to use this system to find different categories of books in the non-fiction section.
We really enjoyed our visits and can’t thank Lesley enough for her time. We really enjoyed learning these new skills and hope we can apply them in our new library in our new school.
Operation Safety
Primary 7 pupils attended Operation Safety on Friday 29th of September in Dumfries. The children learned about Internet Safety, Fire Safety and First Aid.Thank you to all emergency services and organisations involved in delivering the workshops.
Primary 4/5 Science Experiments
Primary 4/5 have been carrying out a few science experiments in class this term. We did an investigation to find out if salt, sugar, sand, chalk, herbs, flour, washing power, coffee granules and gravy would dissolve in warm water. The children made their predictions and then decided if the materials were soluble or insoluble and recorded them in the correct category in their table. They also then predicted how many spoonfuls of sugar/salt they could add to the water before it became saturated.
Some of the children brought equipment into school to demonstrate their own experiments. Archie made his own slime. Lexie demonstrated the skittles experiment. Liam showed us the reaction created when mints are added to a bottle of coke.
Well done P4/5!
Nursery Forest Walk
The forest was a busy place on Friday as the nursery were up having a walk too. We were looking out for patterns in the world around us and had our snack there as well.
Primary 2 / 3 Traffic Survey
On Wednesday 20th September, Mrs Wixon; with a little help from Mrs Aitchison and Mrs Lumsden, took the class to different areas of Dalbeattie to conduct a traffic survey.
Our topic this term is Transport, so we decided to split up into groups and go to John Street, the High Street and directly in front of the School building on Southwick Road.
We have been learning about tally marks and used these to mark the traffic which went past. We had a great morning and were able to discuss our findings with each other when we got back to class. We discovered that John Street was the busiest of the roads!
In ICT we have also been able to transfer the information we collected and produced a bar graph of our findings. Lots of cross-curricular learning!!
Sponsored Walk
On Friday 22nd of September all classes took part in our annual school sponsored walk – the final one from our current building. The sponsored walk was to raise funds to support classes with transport, trips or paying for visitors to come into school/classes. All funds raised will be shared between classes. On the day P4-7 had a brisk walk to the granite heart stone with only a slight drizzle of rain on the way back. P1-3 walked to the loch and back with great success and no rain. Thank you to all parents, family members and friends who were able to join us on the day.
