As promised, here are some extra photos of our last Nativity in this school building. Full story is in previous blog entry. We are very grateful to Mrs Aitchison who has taken all these wonderful photos…
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Christmas Service
Dalbeattie Primary School attended Church today for their end of term Christmas Service. The theme of the service was crackers. Each cracker contained an item that symbolised an aspect of the Christmas Story. Throughout the service there were readings and poems shared by P7 pupils. All children were a credit to themselves and the school. The church was filled with their wonderful singing. Thank you to Dalbeattie and Kirgunzeon Parish Church following allowing us to hold our service in church today and thank you to parents, family and friends who were able to join us for the service.
P7 Christmas Party
Last night Primary 7 had a blast at their last ever primary school Christmas party. We showed off our Scottish dancing skills and really wowed Mrs Duncan with how good we were. We played some party games then strutted our stuff in the dancing competition. We even had a short break and ate some delicious party food. Mrs Burn and Miss Clendinning were thrilled with how well behaved and well mannered everyone was.
A big thank you to Mrs Duncan and Mrs Stitt for buying and preparing all of the yummy food.
We had a great evening!!
Christmas and Winter Art Displays
Primary 7 have created these snowmen using shading techniques and chalks.
Primary 2/3 have a fantastic Christmas tree made out of cut out hands to welcome you into their classroom. Linking literacy with art, the class also created their own picture of Owl Babies.
Choir singers and creative snowmen from Primary 5
Primary 4/5 created these fun Rudolph picture with Miss Agnew this week.
P1 Christmas Craft Sale
On Monday afternoon P1 invited family and friends to come along to their Christmas Craft Sale. The previous week they had been very busy making various items using lots of glitter, tissue, snowflakes and pompoms! It was very busy and everything was sold out! We would like to thank all the parents, relatives and friends for coming along and supporting us! We are pleased to announce we have raised £174.12 which will be going towards a class trip.
Primary 7 and Primary 6/7 Outdoor Learning
Today, Primary 6/7 and Primary 7 took their learning about WW2 outside into the playground. They were learning about the number of casualties different countries suffered and were challenged to work in groups to create a human graph.
Team work was vital in this task as the children were asked to choose different ways to use their bodies to represent the different numbers e.g. someone standing upright may represent 100,000 casualties whilst someone sitting represents 100 casualties.
Every group worked together efficiently and came up with some excellent and creative ideas for their human graph.
Here are a few photos showing some of the team work taking place and the final graph.
P1’s Outdoor Learning
This term P1 have been learning about forces through our topic on Toys. We enjoyed a great afternoon outside working on various activities involving forces. At two of the stations we had to work in a team or with a partner to make objects move by pushing and pulling. It was quite tricky at times and we really had to think how we could use some of the materials given.
Here is how P1F got on!
Look how well P1Y worked!
More Code Club Congratulations!
A few of our Code Clubbers were unable to make our final session of Module 1 so the photo below shows them receiving their certificates. They also shared their thoughts of Code Club. I am very proud of all their efforts over the course of Module 1. Mrs Dyson
“I enjoyed experimenting and being creative with the projects.” (Myah)
“I liked completing all the projects because they all had a unique style, for example, in Ghostbusters, the ghost kept disappearing to different places.” (Gregor)
“I enjoyed making a selection of games and personalising them.” (Heather)
“I really enjoyed making my Ghostbusters game. I learned to change backgrounds and sprites.” (Tia)
Code Club Congratulations!
Congratulations to all Code Clubbers who participated in Module 1. Tonight, we had a celebration session where pupils received certificates and shared their thoughts of this After-School club. Their comments are noted below. I have been very proud of all the pupils’ hard work and enthusiasm. They have learned so much about digital programming and have been great problem solvers. I would also like to thank Mr Muirhead for helping at Code Club each week. Mrs Dyson
“I learned how to code and that’s what I want to do as a career. I enjoyed typing code using python.” (Kurtis)
“I had been wanting to use Scratch since I saw it on the Internet. I liked creating my Speedboat game.” (Nathan)
“My top tip is to follow the instructions. My favourite task was making the Lost in Space animation.” (Orla)
“I enjoyed Code Club and have learned how to make sprites speak and move.” (Adam)
“It’s educational and fun! My favourite was using Python.” (Andie)
“This was one of the first activities to affect my future career in Game Design. My favourite session was working with Python.” (Murdo)
“My favourite was typing the code using Python – very educational.” (Reilly)
“I liked Chatbot because my sprite looked really funny.” (Ciara)
Sea Cadets Annual Trophy Presentation
On Tuesday 15th of November I attended the Dalbeattie Sea Cadets trophy presentation evening. An update on the units progress over the year was given by Mrs Millar. Commanding Officer Lt(SCC) E. McVinnie RNR then provided an update on progress and achievements of the cadets. Badges and certificates were presented to cadets as well as trophies for achievements. Well done to Logan Bond for achieving the award of best Junior Cadet and to Andrew Millar who received the Endeavour Award for having a go and trying everything so far in cadets and never giving up.
