Award Winners 8th March 2019
Tag Archives: Successful Learners
World Book Day 2019
Classes throughout the school enjoyed sharing their favourite books with each other for World Book Day. Pictures below show P3/4 and P4 activities and sharing time.
P1F and Katie Morag
Recently P1 have enjoyed reading the Katie Morag stories whilst learning about Scotland. We decided to compare Dalbeattie to the Island of Coll. First of all we went for a walk round our town taking lots of photographs ourselves which we then used to produce a poster of Coll and Dalbeattie. After this we had a great time creating our own Isle of Struay working together in groups. Mrs Fitzsimmons was very impressed how wonderfully we worked together, our creative use of construction materials and our original ideas. We enjoyed looking at each others islands and discussing our work.
We were also very lucky to be visited by some talented High School pupils at the end of our topic. Shannon played several tunes on the bagpipes for us and Kierra showed us how to do the Highland Fling…….which we then joined in!
Displays Around The School
Classes throughout the school have created some fascistic displays show casing pupil learning so far this term.
Bunny Treat Bags
P3/4 have had great fun today designing, creating and filling our Easter Treat Bags. They will be on sale for £1 next Thursday night (28th Feb) at the High School’s S3 Producers’ Market.
Burns Competition
Primary 7 pupils show cased their performance skills today at the finals of our Burns Poetry competition. 12 finalists were identified by Miss Clendinning and Mrs Graham. Judges Mrs and Mrs Cathro joined us for the difficult task of selecting the winners. Winners in the art competition were also picked today. Well done to all P7s for learning extracts from Tam O’Shanter and as always a fantastic effort with the entries in the art competition.
Poetry Results
1st Katie
2nd Joy
3rd Ruari
Art Results
1st Willow
2nd Kerri
3rd Miaya
Head Teacher’s Awards
Award Winners 15.2.19
Janice Jamieson Memorial Foundation Assembly
On Friday 15th February we were joined at our assembly by Sandy Jamieson from the Janice Jamieson Memorial Foundation. Sandy provided us with an update on the work of the foundation and shared his experience of a recent trip that he had made to Malawi to experience first hand the work of the foundation. A cheque was presented to Sandy on behalf of the school with this years sponsor money for our young person Joshua whom we support through he foundation.
Further information on the foundation can be found on at
https://www.janicejamieson.org.uk/
or
on the foundations Facebook page.
Sharing Learning
This week Primary 7 pupils visited Primary 1 and Primary 1/2 to share their learning. As part of their language and literacy work, P7 have been working on writing in Scots. They rewrote the Gruffalo in Scots and illustrated their own books. The classes then shared their work with P1 and P1/2 . Everyone had a wonderful afternoon sharing and learning together.
P1/2 Burns Supper
P1/2 have been very busy this term – they have been learning all about Scottish food and traditions. They would like to say thank you to Miss Kirkpatrick and P3/4 for coming to show us some Highland Dancing. They all loved it and were learning lots of new moves which were Pas de Bas and the Highland Fling. They have also been baking this term as they baked their own shortbread which was great fun! On Tuesday they held a Burns Supper in the classroom which they planned in groups. They are very grateful to our Piper Shannon who gave us some of her lunchtime for piping in our Haggis and for Mrs Houston for letting us use the Home Economics kitchen to cook our haggis, neeps and tatties.
On the day itself, several of the pupils took part in saying the Selkirk Grace and the first verse of Address to the Haggis. Another child read out some facts about Burns to fufill the part of the Immortal Memory. The Toast to The Lassies and the Reply parts comprised of some jokes which the children had selected to perform in front of the class. To conclude the afternoon the children sang a verse of Auld Lang Syne and dance the Highland Fling. The children loved being able to try the haggis, neeps and tatties as this was a first for many. We would like to say a huge THANK YOU to Tesco in Castle Douglas for donating the haggis, neeps and tatties, it is much appreciated. The children’s favourite part of the afternoon was eating their homemade shortbread – it was very yummy!
