Primary 4/5 Posters
Primary 4/5 worked hard to make posters all about themselves as their first homework task. They included information about their families, hobbies and achievements. There were lots of cute baby pictures too! Each child shared their poster with the rest of the class and we enjoyed learning a bit more about everyone. Thank you to parents for helping with this task.
Miss Agnew
Stewartry Triathlon
Some pupils from P4-P7 took part in a mini triathlon on Friday 15th of September at Kirkcudbright. The event was organised by the Triathlon Trust in partnership with Active Schools. Well done to all pupils who took part in this fantastic event.
Meet P1F!
Pets and Vets
This week we have been talking about our pets and thinking about their needs. We have set the role play area up as a vets and have had a lot of fun helping the animals to get better.
Welcome Code Clubbers!
A big welcome to the new members of our Code Club – an after school club led by Mrs Dyson. Code Clubbers worked collaboratively on their first project to create their own animated Rock Band. Aaron, one of our returning Code Clubbers, worked hard on his animated Memory Game. We are also delighted that Mr Muirhead was once again able to come along and support us. Mrs Dyson was very impressed with the enthusiasm and concentration shown by everyone. We all look forward to next week!
Sea Life!
We have continued along an underwater theme, which was started by the story of The Rainbow Fish last week. Some of the activities have been more factual and we have learned about a range of creatures which live in the seas and oceans. We have made a lovely Rainbow Fish display which developed our scissor skills as we each cut out and decorated a shiny scale. We also painted our clay fish and explored colours on the light box. We have been counting to 8, based around the tentacles of an octopus and exploring how to mix paint to create lighter shades of a colour to paint our own fish.
Eco Schools
On Thursday 31st August, the Eco Group went on a trip to Tongland Power Station and The Dee Hatchery. At Tongland, the group was learning about renewable energy using hydro power. We found out about the dam system on ‘The Dee’ and visited the turbine hall to find out more about how electricity is generated. We got to walk along the actual dam at Tongland and saw the gate being opened to see the force of the water rushing through. We also saw the fish ladder where the salmon move up river when they return from the Atlantic, back to their spawning ground. Later in the day, the group moved onto the Dee Hatchery at Shirmers Burn where we watched the Galloway Fisheries Rangers undertake some electro fishing. The fish were put into buckets for us to look at more closely and handle. Some of the group members were even brave enough to handle the baby North American Signal Cray Fish. The salmon and trout were returned to the burn afterwards but not the cray fish as they are not native to the Dee River system! The group is very grateful to Tim and especially to Rowan who has worked so closely with the group over recent years.
The Rainbow Fish
This week we have focused some of our activities around ‘The Rainbow Fish’ by Marcus Pfister. It is a great story to develop the themes of sharing and friendship with the children. We have been using different media to create our own Rainbow fish and have made a beach themed tray to play in – which we decided to add pirates to! Our playdough has been decorated with sparkles and we have been changing the words to popular tunes to make them fish related as well. We have also been fishing for magnetic letters in the water and retelling the story in our own words. We are still very interested in the book so next week may well be fish themed too!
End of Term Awards
Dalbeattie Primary held its last end of term awards ceremony on Friday 30th June. Amongst the awards presented were the sports day trophies and house cup (winners Colliston) and house shield (winners were Colliston.)
Boys Champion: Leon Pipe and Andrew Millar- joint winners
Runner up: Cohen O’Conner
Boys 300m winners: Ewan Taylor
Runner up: Leon Pipe
Girls champion: Tia Thorburn
Girls runner up: Lainey Ireland and Myah Sargent joint
Girls 300m winner: Tia Thorburn
runner up: Lainey Ireland
Also presented were:
Lions Citizenship Prize: Ciara McQuarrie- winner. Runners up: Lucy Glendinning, Andie Wilson, Sam McKnight
Alistair Gourlay Art award: joint winners Samuel Donnelly and Anaya Nerestan
Alan Younger memorial for art in the upper school: Brooke Henderson
Maureen McShane Award for effort: joint winners Stuart McFegan and Kerrie Pendelton
Jennie Corrie Trophy for Poetry: Louise Kelting
Babsie Caig Trophy for best role model: Tia Thorburn
Heughan Citizenship Awards: EXCELLENT: Robbie Wykes, Jasmine Wixon, Cameron Patterson, Rory McCormick; VERY GOOD: Emmie Sanderson, Carey McCubbin, Nell Porter, Owen o Dornan, Erin Styles, Aulay Webster, Harry Cameron, Jessica Bowden, Cara Houston, Ewan Herries, Kerri O Dornan, Ruari Webster. In addition to these awards a further special prize was awarded to Louise Kelting for dedication and commitment to eco schools activities.
Gold, silver and bronze awards for accreditation in Country Dancing were also presented by Mrs Fortnum to many children in her dancing after school club.
A new trophy was also presented for the first time this year. The Dalbeattie Primary School History Prize which has been donated by Dalbeattie Museum was presented to Jamie Laurie for his outstanding interest in this local history project about the Titanic. The trophy was presented by Mr Tommy Henderson and Mr Donald Henderson made a very fitting speech about Murdoch being a former pupil of the school and how poignant it was that this cup was being presented for the first time in the old school and next year it will be presented again for the first time in the new school.
