P3/4 have had great fun today designing, creating and filling our Easter Treat Bags. They will be on sale for £1 next Thursday night (28th Feb) at the High School’s S3 Producers’ Market.
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Burns Competition
Primary 7 pupils show cased their performance skills today at the finals of our Burns Poetry competition. 12 finalists were identified by Miss Clendinning and Mrs Graham. Judges Mrs and Mrs Cathro joined us for the difficult task of selecting the winners. Winners in the art competition were also picked today. Well done to all P7s for learning extracts from Tam O’Shanter and as always a fantastic effort with the entries in the art competition.
Poetry Results
1st Katie
2nd Joy
3rd Ruari
Art Results
1st Willow
2nd Kerri
3rd Miaya
Head Teacher’s Awards
Award Winners 15.2.19
Sharing Learning
This week Primary 7 pupils visited Primary 1 and Primary 1/2 to share their learning. As part of their language and literacy work, P7 have been working on writing in Scots. They rewrote the Gruffalo in Scots and illustrated their own books. The classes then shared their work with P1 and P1/2 . Everyone had a wonderful afternoon sharing and learning together.
Regional Gymnastics Competiton
19 pupils from P3-P7 took part in this years Regional Schools Gymnastics Competition. Pupils have attend after school clubs with Mrs Duncan and Amy Bradbury from Active School and developed their skills and techniques to produce routines and vaults for the competition. The pupils all performed well and represented the school extremely well. Our Level 2 team of Sophie, Abbie, Lily and Eva were winners within their section and will now progress to the next round in Perth. Sophie was also the overall winner in the Level 2 section.
P1F Christmas Enterprise!
P1 have been busy little elves making lots of Christmas craft items to sell to our relatives! We made cards, calendars, a placemat for our Christmas dinner, reindeer food and a Christmas wreath! We started the sale by singing a song from our Nativity ‘A King is Born’ and then parents were invited to read our Elf Application forms! We would like to say THANK YOU to all our parents and relatives for coming along to help us raise £108.65 which will go towards a school trip later in the year.
Rocks and Wheels
On Monday 10th December, Primary 3 went to visit the old school as part of ‘our community’ topic. We met Michelle from Dalbeattie Community Initiative, who took us into the old infant building and told us about the proposal for ‘Rocks and Wheels’. We were all intrigued to find out about the plans and what it would mean for us, the people of Dalbeattie and the wider community.
We were excited to hear of plans for climbing walls, a hostel and a cafe, as well as many other things! It would mean lots of people coming into our town and would bring lots of opportunities for jobs and more visitors.
The plans looked great. We were then taken on a little treasure hunt/orienteering route to find letters. These letters then spelled out two words, ‘Better Lives’, and this is what Michelle said she wanted for our community.
Thank you to Michelle and also to Mrs Duncan, Mrs Blackwood and Christopher, who helped on the day.
Mrs Wixon
Viking Longships
WOW! What an impressive show of Longships from P3/4. The children were desperate to present their ships to the class and did so with such confidence and enthusiasm. Such a variety of sizes, materials and creative ideas! Amazing effort from children and the adults too, thank you! (even more to come tomorrow)
Roman Roads
As part of their class learning, Primary 4 have been building Roman Roads. Please read the fantastic reports below to find out more about what the pupils have been learning about,the skills they used and what they really thought of Roman road building.
Bug Hotel Building
On the 28th November, James Hutchinson Visitor Services Supervisor (Natural Heritage) from Threave, came to our Primary 3 class along with his fantastic helpers to talk to us about mini-beasts. They also brought a range of materials to build a bug hotel. This fitted in with our topic from last term, and the children were very enthusiastic, keen to learn and could offer lots of what they knew already.
Some of our class also brought in materials from home to use. As you will see from the pictures, it was a great morning! We were very pleased with the finished product. Freya and Murrin from the class, talked to the whole school at assembly on Friday to let them know what we made/how we made it and also to let them know that it would be placed in our playground to attract mini-beasts.
Thank you to all representatives from Threave for a great experience. We all thoroughly enjoyed it.
Mrs Wixon
