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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
Our Nativity this year, for 2016, was ‘A Timeless Nativity’ and was written specially for our last Christmas in this school before we move to our new school in 2017. The story starts with a present day child ‘Johnny’ who is bored with all the singing practice because he just wants it to be Christmas and get all his presents. The teacher has words with him and says he needs to see the Doctor as he is not in the true spirit of Christmas. Cue the Doctor who arrives in his Tardis. He then takes Johnny back to 1876, the year Dalbeattie Primary School first opened so that he can learn something from the boys and girls back then. He then takes Johnny even further back in time to Bethlehem, over 2000 years ago. By the time the play ends, Johnny now appreciates the true meaning of Christmas and he apologises to his classmates for his lack of enthusiasm earlier on!
More photos will follow soon….
Some pupils from Primary 6 attended the switching on of the Christmas Light is Dalbeattie on Friday 2nd of December. The children performed a selection of Christmas songs they had be learning in school. It is always a pleasure to support local events within the community.
P6 will be going along to the Day Centre later this term to perform their selection of songs again and P3 will be visiting Alma House to share some songs from the Christmas Nativity.
The nursery children decided they want to learn more about birds and came up with a list of questions they would like the answers to, many of which involved birds eating worms! We have created a wormery to look more closely at worms and have made bird feeders to help the birds survive the colder weather. We will work our way through the list of questions and have a visitor from the RSPB at Mersehead coming to visit us later this week who might be able to help us with our answers.
Primary 7 have been learning about WW2 and have created some excellent pieces of art work reflecting their learning on the Blitz and life as an evacuee.
We developed our blending skills to create fiery backgrounds and had a super discussion about colour and loose drawing styles to create emotional evacuee drawings.
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