P7 Burns Competition

February 17, 2017 Miss Clendinning Leave a comment

For the last few weeks Primary 7 have been busy learning their extracts from Tam O’Shanter for the annual P7 Burns Competition.

The children have worked extremely hard to learn the pieces, as well as applying their drama skills, using facial expressions and actions, to retell the story.
They were also challenged with choosing a scene from the poem to collage. The children used a variety of materials to create some wonderful finished pieces, which can be seen below.

On Thursday 16th February, Mr Cathro came to judge both the poetry and collage competitions. Our winners were as follows:

Poetry
1st – Leon Pipe
2nd – Orrin Carson
3rd – Sam McKnight

Collage
1st – Molly Boynton
2nd – Tamzin Jolley
3rd – Kerrie Pendleton

Miss Clendinning, Mrs Burn and Mrs Duncan were all very proud of all of the children for their effort. Well done everyone!!!

Whole School

PARENTAL SATISFACTION SURVEY

February 16, 2017 Mrs Duncan Leave a comment

Please see below a letter containing information regarding a parental satisfaction survey from Gillian Bryson Head of Education. Please take time to complete this survey.

parental-survey

Local Community, Whole School

Final Events

February 16, 2017 Mrs Duncan Leave a comment

Dalbeattie Primary Final Events

To mark the final months in our current building we will be hosting two events to mark and recognise the history of Dalbeattie Primary school on its current site.

On Saturday 20^th May, there will be one final doors open day which will take place in both the upper and lower school buildings. Visitors are welcome to visit Dalbeattie Primary School to reminisce, share memories and view the school as it is today. Doors will open at 10a.m and close at 3p.m . At 12 mid-day, we would like as many people as possible who have been pupils and staff at Dalbeattie Primary School (or indeed, the High School pre 1958) to join us in front of the bell tower for a large group photograph to mark the event. It may even get us into the Record books for the most former pupils and staff in a picture SO KEEP THE DATE! However, all friends, members of the school and wider local community are welcome to visit the buildings at any point during the day.

Our second event is for current and former staff. We will also be hosting an afternoon tea for former staff (teaching and non-teaching) on Wednesday 7^th June 3:30-5pm. The event is a social gathering to welcome former staff to the school for one final look round the old granite buildings before we progress to our new learning campus in October 2017. Any former staff interested in joining current staff for the this event should contact the school office either by phone or email – 01556611597 or gw08officedalbeatti2@ea.dumgal.sch.uk

RSVP Friday 19^th May 2017

Class Learning, creativity

Forest Classroom

February 9, 2017 Mrs Duncan Leave a comment

P3 enjoyed a fantastic mud filled afternoon constructing in the forest classroom yesterday! They collected and experimented with materials to build Celtic round houses. Developing team work and problem solving skills in the outdoors- great fun!!

Nursery

Castles and Fairytales

February 9, 2017 J Carson Leave a comment

Our friend Tumble Ted has been visiting castles so we have been learning about castle features and how people used to defend them.

After a lot of talk about dragons, we have moved on to looking at stories with castles in them. This week we have focused on Jack and the Beanstalk and Cinderella and we will be having a banquet tomorrow for snack.

Whole School

Rag Bag Collection

February 8, 2017 Mrs Duncan Leave a comment

Bags will be sent home with pupils on Friday 10th February.

Class Learning

P1F Winter work!

February 6, 2017 Mrs Fitzsimmons Leave a comment

Recently P1 have been learning about Winter. We enjoyed investigating ice by looking closely at our ‘ice balloons’ including adding some salt, food colouring and floating it in hot and cold water! We also wrote stories about a snowman, had fun printing snowscenes and snowmen and also created a cold winter tree scene.

citizenship, Local Community, Partnership Working, School Information, Whole School

Consultation on Existing Primary School

February 5, 2017 Mrs Howie Leave a comment

Recently, pupils have been taking part in a consultation about possible future uses of our current school site. School Pupil Councillors collated the information from written questionnaire sheets, which were filled in by children of all ages though-out the school. The School Pupil Council then met with Michelle McRobert of Dalbeattie Community Initiative to discuss some of the issues in more detail. Lots of ideas were taken aware from the meeting……

creativity, Whole School

School Badge

February 3, 2017 Mrs Duncan Leave a comment

Today at assembly the four finalists of our school badge competition were announced. Badge designs were shared with staff and children. Pupils have now been asked to vote on their preferred design that will become our new school badge as we move to our new learning campus. Thank you to all pupils who took time to design badges for the competition and well done to our four finalists.

Lainey Ireland Primary 7

Tamzin Jolly Primary 7

Jessica Bowden Primary 5

Nolan Thompson Primary 4

The winning design will be announced in due course.

Sports

Gymnastics Teams

February 3, 2017 Mrs Duncan Leave a comment

Gymnasts who took part in the Regional Schools Gymnastics Competition last weekend performed their floor routines for the whole school at assembly today. The children were all fantastic and show cased their skills extremely well. Miss Niven our Active School Co-ordinator and gymnastics coach joined us for the event and handed out certificates to all gymnasts. We would like to say a huge thank you to Mr Niven from Niven Haulage in Palnackie for sponsoring and supporting us in purchasing additional leotards for the teams.

Believe and Achieve