On Friday 12th February Primary 6 visited the Glasgow Science Centre linking in with class learning on Earth and Space. Children visited the Planetarium and Imax cinema. They also had time to explore and experience different aspects of scientific learning through the practical hands on activities on each different floors with in the centre.
Pupils have almost completed their songs for the final presentation on Tuesday 23rd February. Pictures below show final workshop.
Class winners from this years Burns Poetry competition visited Alma House in Dalbeattie today to perform their winning poems to the residents. All the children performed brilliantly and spoke with resident during their visit. Thank you to Alma staff for the yummy cakes and juice provided during our visit. We hope to visit Alma again later this term to share more musical performances.
CHILDREN MAKE VIKING HOUSES
AT DALBEATTIE PRIMARY SCHOOL
Exclusive by Fraser Campbell
The P3/4 children made mini—Viking homes. It took them a long time but they finished it. Some of them thatched the roof while others planted sticks in ground and then slid art straws through. The way that they thatched was with straw and card. They cut the straw and placed the straw on the card “Well it was not easy,” said the children. It was really brilliant fun. I thought they all looked great.
P3/4 were learning how to measure a Viking ship.
Reported by Abbie Millar
On Wednesday 10th of February P3/4 went down to the field and measured the size of a Viking war ship because they are learning about the Vikings. They worked well together to complete the task. From their research they knew it was 23 metres long and 5 metres wide. They were all working very hard to measure it accurately. Some used metre sticks while others used trundle wheels. Most groups managed confidently even though it was tricky. Well done P3/4. “ It was tricky but we managed it!”
The History of Dalbeattie Primary School Project Group and The Children’s After School History Club are delighted to announce that all their research, resulting from a project which has now spanned two years, has now been published. All of the groups’ findings have been brought together in an 80 page hardback book, with accompanying DVD.
The idea for the project came about because Dalbeattie Primary School will be moving to a new building in 2017, to be co-located with Dalbeattie High School on land adjacent to the existing secondary school on Haugh Road. It was felt that the current school site’s history should be researched and documented for future generations, before the Primary leaves it current site on Southwick Road. (It is interesting to note that when the current granite primary school opened in May 1876, it was actually a school for both primary and secondary pupils until the High school opened in 1958. In 2017, primary and secondary pupils will come together once more)
During the scope of the project, there have been large community events to encourage the local community to engage with the research. An ‘all day coffee morning’ in January 2015 saw a huge turnout of people coming along to Dalbeattie town hall to look through and help to name and date hundreds of old school photographs provided by Dalbeattie Museum. Then, in September 2015, the school itself held an ‘Open Doors’ event where the local community were invited to come along to reminisce during tours of the buildings and to consult old plans to advise on how they remembered different rooms being used over the school’s life since 1876 and until the present day. On both these occasions, the parent Council provided refreshments.
Throughout the length of the project, the After school club has also been busy interviewing people about their memories of being former pupils, teachers and head teachers. The children were particularly interested to find out from former teacher, Mrs Pettigrew, that she had once taught current head teacher, Mrs Duncan in her Primary 6 class at Dalbeattie Primary! The children also enjoyed a visit to the Archive Centre at the Ewart Library in Dumfries to consult the old school log books.The book has also been the result of much support from many other organisations and contributors, who are detailed in the book. Much work has also gone into the accompanying DVD which contains a great number of old class photographs from the early the 1900s until the 1990s. This involved many hours of scanning by Dalbeattie Museum volunteers. We are very grateful to Angus Leigh, previous school photographer for his support in this.
The distribution of the research will begin very soon. Current staff and parents of pupils are being invited to request a copy. Thereafter, the local community will have the opportunity to obtain a copy at Dalbeattie Museum, starting from Friday 25th March (Good Friday) when it opens for its 2016 season. Although the book is being given away free, we do ask that people fill in a request form so that the project group can keep a record of where all 3,000 copies end up going. The book is free of charge, thanks to funding of £10,000 from the Heritage Lottery’s ‘Sharing Heritage Fund’ and £650 from the William Heughan Associated Special Trust. These funds have covered expenses involved in researching the school’s history, events, transport and the publication of the research. The project group is very grateful for this support.
If folks don’t get the chance to obtain a copy at the Museum, they will get another chance to pick up a copy at an event which will celebrate the publication of the research at another major date in the school’s calendar in May 2016. On 5th May, the school will celebrate its 140 year anniversary. This will be marked in school, on the day, with the pupils. However, on Saturday 7th May, we shall be having a major community event- a Victorian Afternoon Tea. Information and more details of what will be happening on the day will follow nearer the time, but in the meantime, do keep the date! What better way to celebrate the publication of the school’s history than on its 140th Anniversary!
Visiting the Archive Centre
Open Day Events in school and at Dalbeattie Town Hall.
The Completed History Book.
On Thursday 11th February Stuart Reid an award winning author visited Dalbeattie Primary School thanks to the Wigtown Book Festival. Stuart came into school and worked with pupils in P5,P5/6 and P6 to inspire and develop their imaginative skills in creative writing. Stuart also presented extracts some from his novels to classes at a book reading session in the afternoon.
This week, pupils have spent more time composing their songs with Skerryvore. Some musical accompaniments have been added. Looking forward to final performances on 23rd February.
Primary 5/6 had our first exciting video conference with Dr Heather Reid, the former BBC weather presenter. We shared information about energy, our previous topic. Heather also gave us a presentation on the 8 different forms of energy.
Our focus this time was Potential energy into Kinetic. Heather challenged us to make mini catapults for marshmallows! We had great fun trying them out and discussing modifications. Our next session on 22nd February will be Energy in food and Heather is going to give use something else to create…………..
Mrs Graham
This week the Nursery visited the fire station as a conclusion to our emergency services topic. We enjoyed a chilly but, thankfully, dry walk through the park to the fire station. We got to look at all the equipment that the fire engine carries; we couldn’t believe that it carries 20 hoses! We got to sit in the fire engine, it was quite loud inside, and we saw the flashing lights and heard the siren! Some of us used a hose to knock a bucket off a cone, it was VERY powerful. Others tried on the firefighter’s equipment including wellies, leggings, coat and helmet. The firefighters told us that they need at least four people to operate the fire engine but ideally have six. Now we have some budding firefighters in the Nursery!
Thank you very much to all the parents and grandparents that came with us, as always we really appreciate your help.
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