On Saturday 17th June, Riley was presented with her special merit award in the Primary 4-7 Category of the Tesco Bank Art Competition for Schools 2017 (Theme ‘Transport’). Riley travelled to Edinburgh for the day with family and Ms McLeman (Art specialist) also attended the awards ceremony. Well done to Riley. Riley’s design features on a poster around Edinburgh along with other award winners.
As part of our events to mark the history of the school, as we prepare to make our move to a new learning campus in October, an afternoon tea was held in school recently. In attendance was a great number of past and present staff who enjoyed reminiscing and sharing their memories. Mr Kennedy also had the opportunity to ring the old school bell one last time. In one of our photos, Mrs Duncan is pictured alongside two former Head teachers, Mr Kennedy and Mrs Ingham. In another picture we find Mrs Thirlwell who as the infant mistress between 1958 and 1960 but she was then known as Miss Thomas. Many thanks go to Dalbeattie High School and to Mrs Houston for preparing all the wonderful refreshments with some of our older school children.
Dalbeattie Primary has just staged a terrific performance of Scottish Opera’s ‘Tale O Tam.’
Primary 6 and 7 pupils made up the chorus groups of ‘The Tavern Crew,’ ‘The Witches Crew’ and the ‘Stormy Crew.’
The opera told the familiar story of Tam O Shanter drinking late in the tavern before making his way home on his old grey mare Meg before stopping to look through the window of the auld Kirk by Alloway where he sees the witches and warlocks dancing with the devil. He shouts out ‘Well done Cutty Sark’ and the witches take chase after him. He reaches the keystone of the brig but only after the witch pulls off Meg’s tail.
The whole show was fantastic: the singing was tremendous and the costumes were brilliant. The school is very grateful to Scottish Opera for coming to school to deliver a day’s workshops and rehearsals in the morning before the actual show in the afternoon. The school is also very grateful to class teachers and especially to Kate Picken who helped the children to learn and prepare the songs and music in the weeks ahead of the actual day. The whole school enjoyed watching the dress rehearsal before parents came to watch the final show before the end of the school day. This year’s Scottish Opera was funded through the Creative Scotland’s YMI (Youth Music Initiative.)
We have been doing activities related to space for the last few weeks. See the captions under the photos for more information.
Well done to pupils in P4-P7 who took part in our sports day today. This was our final sports day in Islecroft Stadium. Next year our sport will be held on the sports field at our new learning campus. Pupils all took part in their class races and demonstrated their athletic abilities and sporting behaviour. The weather was also kind to us.
Thank you to Thomas for presenting the trophies to our winners, to all staff for their support in the organisation of this event and to all parents ,family and friends for joining us today. The winning House Team today was Colliston.
What a wonderfully energetic and enthusiastic day we had for PE at Dalbeattie Primary!
P7 excelled themselves as confident and capable responsible leaders of our 16 activity stations around the school. Children were all mixed up in house teams of P1-P6, actively learning and extending our skills and fitness through activities like New Age Kurling, Orienteering, keep fit dancing and beat the goalies, to name just a few. Knowledge, skill and fantastic ideas were shared with excellent examples demonstrated. Great fun was had and new friends were made in different classes.
Senior Pupils from Dalbeattie High School joined us and made an essential contribution as team leaders too.
It was one of those feel good days to be glad to be a part of, and proud of all contributing to making such a success!
Mrs Gray P.E Specilaist
A group of 22 Primary 5s went sailing, kayaking and canoeing today at Carlingwark Outdoor Education Centre. The children were very brave on the water, trying out the new sports and they worked well in their teams to complete the challenges.
Well done everybody! I hope you had as much fun as me!
Miss Agnew 🙂
Going behind the scenes at Tesco in Castle Douglas was a great experience for the children. The Farm to Fork trail helped them learn more about where their food comes from.
As you can see the children thoroughly enjoyed their cooking and baking sessions last month. Well done to many of the children who tried new foods and liked them!
Despite the rain, we had a super trip to Boreland of Colvend last week. Some of the highlights included seeing the dairy cows being milked in the parlour, testing out the tractors and quad bike and of course feeding the calves and lambs!
Thank you to the Roans and RHET! (and the BBC, who were filming).
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