On Monday 21st March, Primary 7 were treated to a full day of fun French activities at Dalbeattie High School as part of our transition work.

We had 4 different activities to take part in. They were:

1. Au Voleur! (Catch the thief) – an activity that took us all around the school searching for clues, written on the classroom doors in French, to help us find the missing objects.
2. L’animal imaginaire (Imaginary animals) – we had to create an imaginary animal and label it using our knowledge of French vocabulary.
3. Les jeux de société (Board Games) – we played a variety of games which tested our French vocabulary.
4. Des chansons, et jeux actives (songs and active games) – we sang and practiced lots of songs in preparation for our performances to the parents in the afternoon.

We all had a brilliant day and thoroughly enjoyed the delicious French breakfast of hot chocolate and croissants at break time.

Thank you Mrs Kinghorn!!

This term Primary 7 have been taking part in some transition sessions with Mr Bremner, Mr Donnelly and Miss Stewart from the High School.

Mr Bremner has been teaching probability in maths. We have had a great time sorting skittles and working out the probability of choosing certain colours – we even got to eat them at the end!!!

With Mr Donnelly, we have been learning about the importance of shading and adding tone to our art work.

In Drama, Miss Stewart played some really funny warm up games with us. We loved playing the stage direction game as well as some of the concentration games. In the last session we worked on freeze frames for different scenarios. It was really goof fun!!

Primary 7 pupils from Dalbeattie Primary and Cluster Schools, performed their completed songs with Skerryvore at Dalbeattie Primary School on Tuesday 23rd February. All groups performed extremely well and the concert was enjoyed by parents and friends who joined us for the afternoon.

Videos of the 3 Dalbeattie Primary groups are shown below.

Miss C Group (1)

Mrs B Group (2)

Mrs D Group

Pupils have almost completed their songs for the final presentation on Tuesday 23rd February. Pictures below show final workshop.   

Primary Seven have started working  with the band Skerryvore as part of a Youth Music Initiative. Each week children are developing their musical knowledge and skills as well as working with the band to compose their own songs. Classes will perform songs to a wider audience later in the project. Each week we will up date the blog with photos and videos of our learning.

Week 2 – Getting to know each other

Video (1)

Video (2)

Week 3 – Drumming and rhythm work

Creating Rhythms

  Musical notation with dynamics

Video (1)

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Video 3

More weekly updates to follow.