An after school stitch club has recently started for Primary 5. Mrs Young a volunteer runs the club on a Monday in school. The children will be learning basic sewing skills to create a variety of items.
Tag Archives: Successful Learners
Heart Start Training
Pupils from Primary 6 and 7 classes have recently participated in Heart Start training a British Heart Foundation Initiative. The pupils learned about emergency life support- as the motto stated, ‘ Simple Skills Save Lives ‘. Training was delivered by members of the Dalbeattie First Responders team supported by the local Fire Brigade. Thank you to all volunteers who attended training to support with pupils learning.
Primary 3 Scottish Bake Sale
On Friday 24th of February, Primary 3 held a Scottish bake sale. The pupils had been busy with Miss Kirkpartrick and Mrs Mazza creating treats to sell. The class raised £145.80 at their sale. This money will go towards a class trip later in the school session.
P1F French Breakfast
P1F have been learning about healthy eating and the benefits of eating a healthy breakfast. We have also been learning some vocabulary in our French work, of which some words were rather familiar! So we decided to join the learning and have a French breakfast in class. We practiced our vocabulary and then had to ask for the items we would like in French! Next we rated each item of food and decided we would love to go to France!!
Gymnastics Exam
Thank you to the three girls who attended my level 1 gymnastics exam with me today at Lochmaben. They were a fantastic support and a credit to the school.
Code Club fun!
Our Code Clubbers enjoyed another busy session at Code Club this week. Keira, Aimee, Millie, Logan and Aaron used code to create their own ChatBot animations. Murdo, Orla and Heather were coding to create their own Dodgeball game. Our Micro:bits arrived so Orla and Heather also investigated how to make their own interactive badge using these pocket-sized computers! Mrs Duncan even popped in to play the animations and games. Mrs Dyson and Mr Muirhead are amazed each week with how well our Code Clubbers are collaborating and progressing. Well done everyone!
Scots Poetry Judging
The class Scots Poetry competitions were judged today. All class teachers judged different classes throughout the school. This was not an easy job but they all thoroughly enjoyed their morning. The standards were very high and children once again have put a fantastic amount of effort into learning and reciting their poems. The winners from each class will perform their poems next week at assembly. Photos to follow.
P1 Y P1F
1st Joseph McKnight 1st Isla Smith
2nd Ava Drummond 2nd Lucy Bell
3rd = Fynlay Carson and Mackenzie Robison 3rd Jake Hall
P2
1st Chloe Campbell
2nd Mack McLean
3rd = Theo and Courtney Roy
P2/3
1st Harry Little
2nd Jack Johnstone
3rd = Cameron Patterson and Maisy Pipe
P3
1st Laith Atkinson
2nd Grace Hurley
3rd Jake Henderson
P4
1st Maddison McMurtrie
2nd Lucy Simpson
3rd = Emma Harper and Lilly Eveleigh
P4/5
1st Lousie Kelting
2nd Joy McCall
3rd Jessica Davidson
P5
1st Katie Mein
2nd Jay Parker-Smith
3rd Emma Newbold
Primary 6G
1st Kiara Kirk
2nd Gregor Davidson
3rd Aimee Ho
Primary 6 of P6/7
1st Grace McQuarrie
2nd Zara Ireland
3rd Niall Gilligan
P7 Burns Competition
For the last few weeks Primary 7 have been busy learning their extracts from Tam O’Shanter for the annual P7 Burns Competition.
The children have worked extremely hard to learn the pieces, as well as applying their drama skills, using facial expressions and actions, to retell the story.
They were also challenged with choosing a scene from the poem to collage. The children used a variety of materials to create some wonderful finished pieces, which can be seen below.
On Thursday 16th February, Mr Cathro came to judge both the poetry and collage competitions. Our winners were as follows:
Poetry
1st – Leon Pipe
2nd – Orrin Carson
3rd – Sam McKnight
Collage
1st – Molly Boynton
2nd – Tamzin Jolley
3rd – Kerrie Pendleton
Miss Clendinning, Mrs Burn and Mrs Duncan were all very proud of all of the children for their effort. Well done everyone!!!
Forest Classroom
P3 enjoyed a fantastic mud filled afternoon constructing in the forest classroom yesterday! They collected and experimented with materials to build Celtic round houses. Developing team work and problem solving skills in the outdoors- great fun!!
Castles and Fairytales
Our friend Tumble Ted has been visiting castles so we have been learning about castle features and how people used to defend them.
After a lot of talk about dragons, we have moved on to looking at stories with castles in them. This week we have focused on Jack and the Beanstalk and Cinderella and we will be having a banquet tomorrow for snack.
