We participated in World Nursery Rhyme Week. We enjoyed a new rhyme each day and based some of our activities around this. The rhymes we learned were Baa Baa Black Sheep, Two Little Dickie Birds, Incy Wincy Spider and Hey Diddle Diddle. There were some funny new verses to sing!
On Wednesday we peeled, cooked and ate the last of the potatoes from our garden. We had mash and beans for snack.
It was Remembrance Day on Friday. Some of us went to see the war memorial in the park.
Dalbeattie Primary School was represented at the Remembrance Service in church today by five of our house captains accompanied by Mrs Duncan. The children and Mrs Duncan along with many other local organisations and members of the public then attended a service in Colliston Park to lay poppy wreaths at the war memorial in memory of those who have served and those who continue to serve in our armed forces around the world today.
P1 recently learned about the importance of hand hygiene. We put ‘pretend’ germs on our hands, washed them and then looked to see how well we had actually washed them by looking in the ultra violet light! We learned you should wash your hands for 15 seconds and germs are hard to get rid of!!
We also had a visit from Paula Muir from Child Smile who gave us lots of advice about looking after our teeth. We all brushed our teeth for 2 minutes and enjoyed listening to a story.
At the end of last term we had an open afternoon to share or learning and play lots of phonics games with our parents and grandparents. We had great fun and would like to thank them all for coming!
Primary 7 are currently half way through their block of PE at Dalbeattie High School as part of their transition work and they are loving it!
Here are a few pictures of some of the things they have been getting up to.
P4,P4/5 and P5 had their first visit today from two professional musicians as part of the Live Music Now project that the school are lucky enough to be involved in this session. Rachel and Holly visited the school and performed for the children on their trumpet and tuba. The children were told about the history of each instrument and they participated in some simple rhythm work to develop pupil awareness of the concept of pulse. The ladies demonstrated different playing techniques with each instrument and how sounds can be changed. Through the pieces of music that were played, the children also found out about different styles of music and musical themes. The children were particularly good at identifying popular tunes such as Mission Impossible, Star Wars and Coronation Street. We are looking forward to welcoming 4 more musicians to school later this session as part of the project.
We were lucky to get such a lovely day for our walk to the new school building site. We got to go up to a special viewing platform. The crane was particularly interesting. The workmen let us in to their offices and showed us some photos of the school which were taken by a drone.
We had our own real bonfire at nursery. We heard the fire crackle, smelled the smoke and watched the flames. The adults were very impressed at how well we followed the safety rules and listened to instructions. We got toasted marshmallows and we dipped them in chocolate and sprinkles as an extra treat snack!
We are delighted to receive a donation of £250 from Dalbeattie Museum on the occasion of Tommy Henderson’s 80th Birthday which also marked the end of this year’s season as the Museum closed its doors for the winter. Dalbeattie Museum has gifted the Primary School with this money as many of the Museum’s members worked on the ‘History of Dalbeattie Primary School’ book which was published earlier this year and they wanted to thank the school for the opportunity for school and Museum to work together on this successful project. Thank you!
We painted autumnal trees using warm colours and black pen for details. We are very pleased with how they turned out.
Miss Clendinning came into P6 this morning to show us how to set up our own blogs. We had fun writing out first post and editing our header to show off our personality. We hope to share these with our parents by logging into Glow at home.
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