A huge thank you to all those who supported and attended our Christmas Fayre this evening at Dalbeattie Primary School. The event was very successful. A variety of stall holders joined us at the event and classes sold crafts, gifts and organised games on the evening.
Today it was the turn of our P7 football team to take part in the SSFA Soccer Sevens regional qualifier. The team played against 5 other schools during the tournament and represented the school extremely well. The team showed determination throughout each game and displayed very sporting behaviour at the end of each match. Mr Cathro and myself were both very proud of the team performance. The team finished fourth overall in their league. Well done boys.
Just a wee reminder that our School Christmas Fayre is on Thursday 1st of December 6pm-8pm. We have a variety of stalls joining us for the event, there will be a craft room, games organised by P4 and our school t-towels will be on sale priced £3 each. Look forward to seeing you there.
Last week we had a focus on numbers. We did several number hunts, played number games and counted lots of things. We were very good at finding numbers around us and went to look for numbers in other places in the school.
On Thursday we had our open sessions. It was lovely to have so many parents in nursery and the children enjoyed sharing their learning.
We have also had Mrs Whitty’s ducklings in for a visit. We enjoyed watching them eat and drink and they were very soft to touch.
With the Christmas Fayre later this week, our craft table was almost like a production line and we are looking forward to having a full stall on Thursday night. We look forward to seeing some of you there from 6pm-8pm.
Well done to our Primary 6 football team who took part in the SSFA regional round of the soccer sevens tournament at Palmerston Arena on 22nd of November. The team played very well together on the day and were great representatives for Dalbeattie Primary. They displayed positive attitudes on the pitch and were very sporting at all times. Out of 8 teams they came fifth. Both Mr Cathro and myself are very proud of the boys and their team achievement. Well done.
Good luck to our P7 team as they prepare to play in their tournament on Tuesday 29th of November.
P6 have been busy creating some fantastic art work to go with our Victorians topic. We used pencil to sketch portraits of Queen Victoria, adding details with shading.
Next we created chimney sweeps with chalk and charcoal. This was trickier as you cannot rub out mistakes!
What do you think?
On Friday 18th November, we had a non uniform day to raise money for Children In Need and for the Janice Jamieson Memorial Fund to sponsor our young person in Malawi. Throughout the week, the School Pupil Council also ran a competition to turn Pudsey all spotty in ‘Spottiland’ for a ‘spotacular’ fundraiser with Children In Need prizes for five lucky winners. Altogether an amazing £410 was raised and the money will be split between the two charities. Thank you to everyone who supported this.
We have done a bit of rearranging in nursery in order to create a larger area for the children to build and allow them the freedom to access different types of building materials by themselves. This week we have been testing it out. It isn’t quite finished yet, but we are having a lot of fun. The large bricks and the tools were the biggest hits!
To continue the construction theme, we read about the Three Little Pigs. We enjoyed playing with puppets and masks and used them to retell the story. Some of us created our own stories about how we would trick the wolf if he came to our house!
A few of our Code Clubbers were unable to make our final session of Module 1 so the photo below shows them receiving their certificates. They also shared their thoughts of Code Club. I am very proud of all their efforts over the course of Module 1. Mrs Dyson
“I enjoyed experimenting and being creative with the projects.” (Myah)
“I liked completing all the projects because they all had a unique style, for example, in Ghostbusters, the ghost kept disappearing to different places.” (Gregor)
“I enjoyed making a selection of games and personalising them.” (Heather)
“I really enjoyed making my Ghostbusters game. I learned to change backgrounds and sprites.” (Tia)
Congratulations to all Code Clubbers who participated in Module 1. Tonight, we had a celebration session where pupils received certificates and shared their thoughts of this After-School club. Their comments are noted below. I have been very proud of all the pupils’ hard work and enthusiasm. They have learned so much about digital programming and have been great problem solvers. I would also like to thank Mr Muirhead for helping at Code Club each week. Mrs Dyson
“I learned how to code and that’s what I want to do as a career. I enjoyed typing code using python.” (Kurtis)
“I had been wanting to use Scratch since I saw it on the Internet. I liked creating my Speedboat game.” (Nathan)
“My top tip is to follow the instructions. My favourite task was making the Lost in Space animation.” (Orla)
“I enjoyed Code Club and have learned how to make sprites speak and move.” (Adam)
“It’s educational and fun! My favourite was using Python.” (Andie)
“This was one of the first activities to affect my future career in Game Design. My favourite session was working with Python.” (Murdo)
“My favourite was typing the code using Python – very educational.” (Reilly)
“I liked Chatbot because my sprite looked really funny.” (Ciara)
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