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Class Learning

Bug Hotel Building

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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

Local Community, Whole School

Harvest Assembly

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Today we held our Harvest Assembly. Pupils were thanked and congratulated on the fantastic donations provided for the Harvest Hampers. Mrs Duncan also created a Harvest Rainbow in the the hall with the help of some pupils and colourful fruit. The children certainly demonstrated their vast knowledge of different colours of fruit.

Miss Copp and Mr Sanderson collected the Harvest Hampers on behalf of Dalbeattie and Kirkgunzeon Parish Church and will give our donations to the local Food Bank.

 

As well as all things Harvest, there were several awards to hand out today.

Jamie and Abbie with presented with their Junior Road Safety Officer Kits.

The P7 Soccer 7’s Team and Harris were presented with their Head Teacher’s Awards as they will be busy tomorrow afternoon during our usual awards time.

Prizes were also presented on behalf of the local EIS who held a poster competition last term to create a poster to welcome Refugees to Scotland. We had the overall winner and two runners up her at Dalbeattie Primary. Well done to Cara, Willow and Caleb.

Class Learning

Primary Three Woodland Walk

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As part of our topic, and to link in with our topic maths this term, P3 adventured up Rounall Wood again. It was a glorious day and we wished we had left our jackets in school, however we never can tell with the ever-changing weather. Ailsa even gave a ladybird a lift on the way up!
After finding a spot to stop and have snack, we learned a little of the history of the wood. We were then given a right angle challenge, where we had to use sticks to make a shape/design which contained lots of right angles. We also looked at all of the angles round about us and discussed if they were bigger or smaller than right angles.
We then grabbed our collecting jars with magnified lids and we carefully collected some of the different mini-beasts found in the wood. We got some spiders, worms, woodlice and other little creepy crawlies.
On the way to the bog and pond area we looked at the signs of danger which related to the steep sides from the quarry. Once at the pond, we were given ‘no salt dough’ to make some funny faces using the nature from all around in the woods. We discussed why it was no salt dough, and that although we were not leaving it in the woods, salty dough would not be very kind to the animals if they were to eat it.
Finally, before heading home, we were given a compass (in pairs) as we have been learning about compass points. Although we found it quite tricky to get the hang of using, we were able to see the compass points and find North, South, East and West.
Mrs Wixon had the added bonus of having Mrs McConnell, Bryony and Kerry to help with the activities on the day. Thank you ladies, and thank you to the very well behaved P3 class!