The first Head Teacher Awards in our new campus were presented today in assembly. Well done to all achievers for your hard work and effort.
Tag Archives: Successful Learners
Dalbeattie Nursery Boat Naming Ceremony
The sun shone on a very special boat naming ceremony at the new Dalbeattie Learning Campus on November 9th. The children in Dalbeattie Primary’s Nursery were thrilled to see their new play item officially named ‘Everest Skye,’ a name they had picked themselves, based on a popular TV programme. Sir Malcolm Ross, Lord Lieutenant for the Stewartry performed the ceremony, watched on by excited children and invited guests who included Lady Ross, members of Solway Yacht Club and representatives from Grahams Design Team and D&G Schools For The Future together with the school’s management team.
In order to install a play feature designed by the landscape architect, Project Manager Andy Little was tasked with finding a boat. He made contact with Solway Yacht Club who gladly came to the rescue. The club has donated a laser dinghy which they have lovingly restored and painted with the boat’s name and yacht club emblem. Commodore of the club, Ian Purkis, also presented the school with a pennant from Solway Yacht Club and made a speech about how much the club wants to encourage more young sailors from Dalbeattie to get involved at the club at Kippford. Sir Malcolm and Lady Ross also presented the school with the Stewartry Flag so that the school can fly it from their flagpole once it is installed. The party of invited guests then had a tour of our wonderful new campus.
P2/3’s Visit from Blood Bikes
Last term P2/3 were learning about transport and as part of their topic the children asked if they could learn about the role of the Blood Bikes. Yesterday, Dave Hook from D&G Blood Bikes kindly visited our class to tell the children all about the important job they do, the different forms of transport used by them and how the service is run.
The children thoroughly enjoyed their insight into the vital role that the Blood Bike volunteers provide for our region and asked some great questions. Dave even let each child sit on ‘June’, the Blood Bike he brought with him, and everyone was given a wristband, badge and information leaflet to take home. 
Orienteering
Primary 2-7 have been learning to use maps and improve their co-operation and fitness around the school, park and forest, orienteering in PE this term. Some successful learners in P4-7 won medals for being the fastest in the competition, and others for being star improvers, or effective contributors, who help others to have more success. Many were bursting with pride for their excellent effort and progress getting faster, fitter and having lots of fun too. It’s been great to make the most of the different environments around our school. Huge thanks to our amazingly generous volunteers who helped us out!
Mrs Gray
Code Club
Our Code Clubbers continue to develop their skills of digital programming. Coding, collaborative working and an enjoyment of the sessions is evident. Mrs Dyson continues to be very proud of all our Code Clubbers. Well done everyone!
Operation Safety
Primary 7 pupils attended Operation Safety on Friday 29th of September in Dumfries. The children learned about Internet Safety, Fire Safety and First Aid.Thank you to all emergency services and organisations involved in delivering the workshops.
Primary 2 / 3 Traffic Survey
On Wednesday 20th September, Mrs Wixon; with a little help from Mrs Aitchison and Mrs Lumsden, took the class to different areas of Dalbeattie to conduct a traffic survey.
Our topic this term is Transport, so we decided to split up into groups and go to John Street, the High Street and directly in front of the School building on Southwick Road.
We have been learning about tally marks and used these to mark the traffic which went past. We had a great morning and were able to discuss our findings with each other when we got back to class. We discovered that John Street was the busiest of the roads!
In ICT we have also been able to transfer the information we collected and produced a bar graph of our findings. Lots of cross-curricular learning!!
Sponsored Walk
On Friday 22nd of September all classes took part in our annual school sponsored walk – the final one from our current building. The sponsored walk was to raise funds to support classes with transport, trips or paying for visitors to come into school/classes. All funds raised will be shared between classes. On the day P4-7 had a brisk walk to the granite heart stone with only a slight drizzle of rain on the way back. P1-3 walked to the loch and back with great success and no rain. Thank you to all parents, family members and friends who were able to join us on the day.
Stewartry Triathlon
Some pupils from P4-P7 took part in a mini triathlon on Friday 15th of September at Kirkcudbright. The event was organised by the Triathlon Trust in partnership with Active Schools. Well done to all pupils who took part in this fantastic event.
Welcome Code Clubbers!
A big welcome to the new members of our Code Club – an after school club led by Mrs Dyson. Code Clubbers worked collaboratively on their first project to create their own animated Rock Band. Aaron, one of our returning Code Clubbers, worked hard on his animated Memory Game. We are also delighted that Mr Muirhead was once again able to come along and support us. Mrs Dyson was very impressed with the enthusiasm and concentration shown by everyone. We all look forward to next week!
