Six P7 pupils worked alongside pupils from Dalbeattie High School to make the scones, cakes and tray bakes for our Anniversary Afternoon Tea. The children worked collaboratively under the guidance and supervision of Mrs Houston from Dalbeattie High School. Thanks you to Mrs Houston and the class from Dalbeattie High School for the support with this event.
Today we held a special Anniversary Parade to celebrate the 140th Anniversary of Dalbeattie Primary School. Pupils and staff were all presented with special anniversary badges as part of our 140 year celebrations.Thanks to Sam Kelly for filming this special event for us. We are now looking forward to our Victorian Afternoon Tea on Saturday.
On Tuesday 3rd of May Mrs Duncan attended the Dalbeattie Sea Cadet Inspection Night and Parade. The Cadets and Guard were inspected by Inspecting Officer : Captain Peter Adams RN. Captain Adams said that the cadets all looked very smart and he was impressed with their drill movements. The senior cadets shared a PowerPoint called “A Blast from the Past” about the history of the Dalbeattie Sea Cadet Unit. After Stand Easy (refreshments) the junior and senior cadets then carried out a First Aid demonstration with equipment purchased from funds donated by Dalbeattie Rotary Club. At the end of the evening the cadets ended the night with evening colours and a presentation of trophies to achieving cadets.
By Junior Sea Cadets : Andrew Miller, Leon Pipe,Logan Bond and Ryan McGinely
First Aid Demonstration
Andrew taking charge of Division at Evening Colours
Dalbeattie Sea Cadets
As part of learning in P.E Primary 3 pupils have been developing their skills in gymnastics with Mrs Gray and Mrs Dunlop. The children have been working on developing their rolls, balances, jumps and climbing techniques. Children demonstrated some high quality skills and provided feedback to peers throughout the lessons to help each other improve their work.
Some pupils from P5 and P6 are developing their skills as cheerleaders at an after school club with our Active Schools Co-ordinator Amy Niven. Whilst learning different dance techniques and routines, pupils are also keeping fit and active.
As part of our participation in The Big Pedal, Katie from ibike is supporting us with some cycling activities. The first of the activities was Bling Your Bike for P 1-3 on Friday 22nd April. There were some fantastic bling bikes and scooters.
1st Prize in scooter section : P1 Fraser Davidson, P2 Logan Forster and P3 Lewis White.
1st Prize in bike section : P1 Maisy Pipe, P2 Abi Hart and P3 Amber Latimer.
Special bike prizes : P1 Jack Martin- covered bike completely in pipe cleaners. Daisy Gilmour – even with two flat tyres, Daisy still decorated her bike as a fantastic unicorn.
Well done and thank you to everyone who took part.
On Tuesday 19th April, teams from the cluster schools assembled to take part in the annual rotary quiz, hosted this year at Dalbeattie Primary. All children involved were fantastic sports and showed superb general knowledge across all areas of the curriculum. Throughout the quiz the running scores were very close between all 4 teams however our deserving Dalbeattie area winners this year were Kirkgunzeon Primary, who scored exceptionally well throughout. Our team from Dalbeattie Primary worked extremely hard and gained a close second. Well done and thank you all children, staff and rotary members involved.
Mrs Burn and I are very proud of our Dalbeattie team!
P5/6 have completed a fantastic topic of work on Victorians and are now exited to begin studying Japan after the spring break.
We are looking for any volunteers with experience of Japan or anyone with artefacts to please get in touch with the school.
On Friday 18th March Primary 3/4 visited Alma House to share songs and entertain the residents. P3/4 have been involved in learning a range of traditional songs as part of the Feis Ros music programme.
The children came to school dressed in their sportswear ready for a classroom workout on Sport Relief Day, 18th March 2016. All classes joined in with a Sport Relief action song and brought in 50p each. The school raised £154 for Sport Relief 2016: funds are divided between good causes in the UK and overseas, in less developed countries.
