What a fantastic Sports Day ! Well done to all pupils in Primary 1,2 and 3 . All children participated well and had a fun and enjoyable sports day in the sun. Children took part in team races and then individual races. The team work was fantastic and sporting behaviour shone through. Thank you to all those who joined us today and thank you to staff for organising the event.
Our Paul Jones team played in the third round of the tournament at Meadow Park in Castle Douglas today after school. Here they are having a well earned rest in between games. Well done again this week boys. Keep up at the fantastic team work.
Dalbeattie Primary School has been delighted to support the Run Doon Hame charity run today in school. The children have come to school in non uniform and donated £1 each for a wrist band. Then in the afternoon, the school children gathered in Colliston Park to welcome the runners as they continued on their journey. The team of five runners, all policemen, were greeted by the children before answering questions about their challenge. We found out that the challenge is to run 732 miles in one week, visiting five capital cities. The challenge started in London and will end in Edinburgh on Sunday 29th May when the team will then take part in the Edinburgh Marathon. They have raised over £7000 so far which will go to the charities ‘Westsound Cash For Kids’ and ‘Care of Police Survivors.’ Today, in school the children raised £343 to add to this. Well done and thank you to everyone for supporting this!
The first game of our Dalbeattie Primary School Trophy was played today after school in Colliston Park. Mr MacDougall has organised this event for P6 and P7 pupils who attended after school football training. The children have been split into 4 teams Jaguars, Lions, Panthers and Tigers. Over the next six weeks the teams will play each other once. This weeks winners were the Lions who beat the Jaguars . The score was 6 to the Lions 3 to the Jaguars.
Dalbeattie Primary football team participated in the second round of the Paul Jones Tournament yesterday at Dalry. The team are working very well together and are certainly following coaching advice and tips from Mr MacDougall and Mr Cathro. Keep up the great work boys. The next round of the tournament is at Meadow Park in Castle Douglas on Wednesday 1st June. Supporters welcome to come along and watch the matches.
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Please click on the link below to see a short video of P5 who attended water sports in April. The children had a fantastic day at Carlingwark. Thanks to the Outdoor Education team for a great day.
Dalbeattie Primary Parent Council organised a very successful Bingo Night on Friday 20th May. Jim Dingwall was our bingo caller for the evening. Concentration and competition for winning lines and a full house was very intense at times. Thank you to all who supported this event. A fun and enjoyable evening.
Spring Walk to School Week 16th May – 20th May
We will be participating in this event next week. It means encouraging pupils to walk, cycle, or scoot to school therefore reducing the number of cars around the school.
Last week we had a visit from Mrs Armitage who came along to tell us all bout life in the Caribbean as she lived and taught there on an island called Curacao a few years ago! We were all very keen to hear her stories and she kindly left lots of photographs and other items for us to look at. Mrs Armitage said we were great listeners and really enjoyed chatting with us. Thank you for popping in!
Later on that week we had a visit from Lisa Ashby from the Smoking Matters Team. She came along to ask our help in looking at a case involving a smoker. We had lots of discussion regarding what influences young people to begin smoking and the related risks. We worked very well on several tasks and then used our new knowledge in a creative writing task.
Primary 3 visited Tesco on Tuesday to find out more about where their food comes from. We also managed a quick trip to the live stock market to see some sheep being sold.
