Tag Archives: Confident Individuals

Local Community, Sports

Penalty Shoot Out

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On Saturday 25th of March, 7 pupils from P6 and P7 went along to Islecroft to  watch the local football team Dalbeattie Start playing in a match against Edinburgh University. At half time, the boys were invited onto the pitch  and had a penalty shoot out against each other. This was a great experience for the boys being on the full size pitch and trying to save penalties in the full sizes goal. Thank you to Dalbeattie Starr FC for inviting us to be part of the day and we look forward to joining future games and supporting the team.

 

Class Learning

P7 Spanish Day

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On Monday 20th March Primary 7 attended a Spanish Day at Dalbeattie High School as part of their transition programme. The day gave the children the opportunity to be introduced to Spanish and take part in lots of fun activities.

These activities included Zumba, Tapas making, learning the language of the fan and a treasure hunt around the school learning the names of the subjects in Spanish.

The children had an absolutely fantastic day and were really motivated and engaged in all of the activities.

A huge thank you to all of the High School staff involved in planning and organising this event. It was a superb day!

After School Activities

Code Club Celebration!

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Congratulations to all our Code Clubbers this week! To celebrate learning, we invited family members to our final Code Club session this term. Code Clubbers talked confidently about the animations and games they had created using their coding skills. Certificates were awarded to all, including  Mr Muirhead who has been a great help at our Code Club. Miss Purdie, Development Officer, joined us to make a short movie about our Code Club. She is hoping to use this to show other schools how much fun Code Club is and hopefully encourage them to start one too!  I would like to thank all parents who joined us today in this celebration. It has been a delight to run Code Club this year and work with such an enthusiastic and motivated group of pupils. Well done everyone!   Mrs Dyson

     

     

     

     

Class Learning, Partnership Working, Sports

Orienteering Championships

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On Friday 17th of March, 12 P7 pupils took part in the Dumfries and Galloway schools Orienteering Championship at Barrhill Plantations in Dalbeattie. The Event was organised by Solway Orienteers. Thank you to all those involved in organising the event. The children all had a great time. In the P7 category, Jenny and Lainey were 2nd and Leon and Cohen were first. Well done both partnerships. More pictures from the day are available on the Solway Orienteers Facebook page.

 

After School Activities, performing

Speech Festival

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Well done to all the boys and girls who took part in the Dumfries Music and Speech Festival yesterday. The children all performed their poems very well and were a credit to the school. Each section had a significant increase in entries this year and the standards from all competitors was very high. All participants received feedback from the judge on the day. Well done to all those who achieved places within their section.

  

 

citizenship, Local Community, Partnership Working

Scots Poetry Winners Visit Alma

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The Scots poetry winners from each class visited Alma House today and recited their poems to the residents. Well done to the boys and girls who performed their poems extremely well . During our visit, the children also chatted to the residents. Thank you to Mrs Henderson for inviting us. We hope to visit again in the near future.

Class Learning

A visitor in Primary 7C

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As part of our new topic we have been learning about animal adaptation. To support our class learning, Miss Clendinning organised a surprise visit from Rango, a beautiful chameleon.

During Rango’s visit we asked Mrs McVinnie lots of questions and applied our learning in class to discuss why and how Rango could use his ability to change colour in the wild for protection and survival.

Mrs McVinnie kindly allowed us to hold Rango and some of us even allowed him to walk up our arms!! Miss Clendinning was not so brave!!!

A special thank you to Mrs McVinnie for bringing Rango in and huge apologies from Miss Clendinning to any parents who are now being hounded to buy a chameleon!!

  

   

   

Class Learning, creativity, Partnership Working, Whole School

World Book Day 2017

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We have had a fantastic day in school celebrating World Book Day. A great number of our pupils came dressed as a character from a favourite book and brought along a copy to share with their classmates. The costumes were terrific, as you will see from the pictures. We are also very grateful, this year, to Dalbeattie Book Shop whose donation of many books has meant that we could allow each pupil to select a free book from previous years of World Book Day publications. The children have also been given their World Book Day 2017 tokens which can be exchanged either  for a free 2017 World Book Day or can be used as £1 towards any book or audio book over £2.99.