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.

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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!!

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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!

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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.

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1st Joseph  McKnight                                                                      1st Isla Smith

2nd Ava Drummond                                                                         2nd Lucy Bell

3rd = Fynlay Carson  and Mackenzie Robison                 3rd Jake Hall

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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.

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On Thursday 16th February, Mr Cathro came to judge both the poetry and collage competitions. Our winners were as follows:

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Poetry
1st – Leon Pipe
2nd – Orrin Carson
3rd – Sam McKnight

Collage
1st – Molly Boynton
2nd – Tamzin Jolley
3rd – Kerrie Pendleton

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Miss Clendinning, Mrs Burn and Mrs Duncan were all very proud of all of the children for their effort. Well done everyone!!!