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P7 Burns Competition

For the last few weeks Primary 7 have been busy learning their extracts from Tam O’Shanter for the annual P7 Burns Competition.

The children have worked extremely hard to learn the pieces, as well as applying their drama skills, using facial expressions and actions, to retell the story.
They were also challenged with choosing a scene from the poem to collage. The children used a variety of materials to create some wonderful finished pieces, which can be seen below.

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On Thursday 16th February, Mr Cathro came to judge both the poetry and collage competitions. Our winners were as follows:

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Poetry
1st – Leon Pipe
2nd – Orrin Carson
3rd – Sam McKnight

Collage
1st – Molly Boynton
2nd – Tamzin Jolley
3rd – Kerrie Pendleton

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Miss Clendinning, Mrs Burn and Mrs Duncan were all very proud of all of the children for their effort. Well done everyone!!!

Consultation on Existing Primary School

Recently, pupils have been taking part in a consultation about possible future uses of our current school site. School Pupil Councillors collated the information from written questionnaire sheets, which were filled in by children of all ages though-out the school. The School Pupil Council then met with Michelle McRobert of Dalbeattie Community Initiative to discuss some of the issues in more detail. Lots of ideas were taken aware from the meeting…… pupilsworking-on-questionnaires-for-curent-school-use-jan-2017 pupil-council-and-dci-25-1-17

School Badge

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Today at assembly the four finalists of our school badge competition were announced. Badge designs were shared with staff and children. Pupils have now been asked to vote on their preferred design that will become our new school badge as we move to our new learning campus. Thank you to all pupils who took time to design badges for the competition and well done to our four finalists.

Lainey Ireland Primary 7

Tamzin Jolly Primary 7

Jessica Bowden Primary 5

Nolan Thompson Primary 4

The winning design will be announced in due course.

CODE CLUB

Our Code Clubbers continue to develop their computer coding skills at our after-school club with Mrs Dyson and Mr Muirhead. We have five new members who are working on Module One. They have created their own Rock Band and their own Space Animation using the Scratch Coding program. Our more experienced Code Clubbers were introduced to the BBC Micro:bit today and they carried out several investigations using this pocket-sized computer. Mrs Dyson is awaiting the arrival of more Code Club Micro:bits and she is excited about using these in future challenges with our Code Clubbers.  Well done everyone tonight for a super session!           (Note: please click on photos for full size version)

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P7 – ICT Learning

 

In Primary 7C this term we are developing our computer coding skills. For the past two weeks we have been using Tynker to create characters and interactive games using coding blocks. So far we are all really enjoying the challenges and have been learning a lot about perseverance as some of the tasks have required us to problem solve and think very carefully.

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Eco Schools Fifth Green Flag!

Dalbeattie Primary is delighted to have been awarded its fifth green flag as part of the two year Eco Schools Scotland renewal scheme. The school eco group has been working closely with teacher Mrs Dyson, over the last two years , on topics such as litter, energy and school grounds. The school received a letter congratulating the pupils on their outstanding work; work on calculating the school’s carbon footprint and links with local community groups and organisations, such as Galloway Fisheries and Fairtrade, were specifically highlighted.  The school is looking forward to continuing its eco work as it moves to  a new school site In October 2017 when we will finally have  a flag pole to display our fifth flag! We will also be able to compare the carbon foot print of the new building with the old one and investigate ways to encourage wildlife habitats as well as growing more of our own produce in new raised beds! Our photo shows current Schools Eco Committee together with the two committees of the previous two years  who worked so hard towards the fifth flag.

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P7 Homefront Day 24.01.17

Primary 7C have had an absolutely fantastic day today with Dean from Homefront Histories.

We  engaged in a huge variety of hands on learning, exploring WW2 artefacts and taking part in pretend air raids. We had the chance to dress up in real WW2 solider uniforms, we learned how to deal with an incendiary bomb and even got to hold some real (disarmed!!) WW2 guns.

Primary 7C would like to say a huge thank you to Dean for such a wonderful day. It is definitely one that we won’t forget!!

To P7C:
Thank you everyone for your lovely manners and excellent behaviour throughout the day. Dean was very impressed with you all. Miss C

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Eco Success

We are delighted to share the news with you that Dalbeattie Primary School has successfully renewed its Eco-Schools Green Flag Award status. We were notified of this during the Christmas holidays. Please see below the letter received from Eco Schools. Thank you to all those who have been involved in supporting the school in achieving this success.

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