P7 Christmas Party
Last night Primary 7 had a blast at their last ever primary school Christmas party. We showed off our Scottish dancing skills and really wowed Mrs Duncan with how good we were. We played some party games then strutted our stuff in the dancing competition. We even had a short break and ate some delicious party food. Mrs Burn and Miss Clendinning were thrilled with how well behaved and well mannered everyone was.
A big thank you to Mrs Duncan and Mrs Stitt for buying and preparing all of the yummy food.
We had a great evening!!
Christmas and Winter Art Displays
Primary 7 have created these snowmen using shading techniques and chalks.
Primary 2/3 have a fantastic Christmas tree made out of cut out hands to welcome you into their classroom. Linking literacy with art, the class also created their own picture of Owl Babies.
Choir singers and creative snowmen from Primary 5
Primary 4/5 created these fun Rudolph picture with Miss Agnew this week.
Christmas Jumper Day
Today was Christmas Jumper Day at Dalbeattie Primary School. There were a wide variety of jumper designs and some fab creations using flashing lights, tinsel and baubles. A donation of £50 has been sent to Save the Children from Dalbeattie Primary School Fund.
P1 Christmas Craft Sale
On Monday afternoon P1 invited family and friends to come along to their Christmas Craft Sale. The previous week they had been very busy making various items using lots of glitter, tissue, snowflakes and pompoms! It was very busy and everything was sold out! We would like to thank all the parents, relatives and friends for coming along and supporting us! We are pleased to announce we have raised £174.12 which will be going towards a class trip.
Primary 4 Christmas Party
Primary 7 and Primary 6/7 Outdoor Learning
Today, Primary 6/7 and Primary 7 took their learning about WW2 outside into the playground. They were learning about the number of casualties different countries suffered and were challenged to work in groups to create a human graph.
Team work was vital in this task as the children were asked to choose different ways to use their bodies to represent the different numbers e.g. someone standing upright may represent 100,000 casualties whilst someone sitting represents 100 casualties.
Every group worked together efficiently and came up with some excellent and creative ideas for their human graph.
Here are a few photos showing some of the team work taking place and the final graph.
Book Fair Competition Winners
We recently held a Scholastics Book Fair as part of our Christmas Fayre. As well as organising, coordinating and running the book fair, Mrs Aitchison from our school office ran a colouring and book cover designing competition for any pupils who wanted to enter. The winning pictures were selected and each winner was awarded a £5 book voucher to spend on a product from the fair. Well done to all the winners featured below. Thank you to Mrs Aitchison for organising the book fair and competition.
Birds, eggs and Christmas
We have been learning about eggs. We smashed, cracked and whisked up eggs. We hardboiled some of them and looked at how they had changed. We peeled the hardboiled ones and ate them with toast for snack.
We had a visitor from the RSPB at Mersehead on Friday to talk to us about birds. We played listening games and tried to identify some bird calls and we made bird cakes.
The Christmas preparations have begun. The house corner has turned into Santa’s grotto, we have been practising for our nativity and we have been doing some Christmas crafts.
P1’s Outdoor Learning
This term P1 have been learning about forces through our topic on Toys. We enjoyed a great afternoon outside working on various activities involving forces. At two of the stations we had to work in a team or with a partner to make objects move by pushing and pulling. It was quite tricky at times and we really had to think how we could use some of the materials given.
Here is how P1F got on!
Look how well P1Y worked!
