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After School Activities, Sports

Regional Gymnastics Competiton

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19 pupils from P3-P7 took part in this years Regional Schools Gymnastics Competition. Pupils have attend after school clubs with Mrs Duncan and Amy Bradbury from Active School and developed their skills and techniques to produce routines and vaults for the competition. The pupils all performed well and represented the school extremely well. Our Level 2 team of Sophie, Abbie, Lily and Eva were winners within their section and will now progress to the next round in Perth. Sophie was also the overall winner in the Level 2 section.

Class Learning

Rocks and Wheels

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On Monday 10th December, Primary 3 went to visit the old school as part of ‘our community’ topic.  We met Michelle from Dalbeattie Community Initiative, who took us into the old infant building and told us about the proposal for ‘Rocks and Wheels’.  We were all intrigued to find out about the plans and what it would mean for us, the people of Dalbeattie and the wider community.

We were excited to hear of plans for climbing walls, a hostel and a cafe, as well as many other things!  It would mean lots of people coming into our town and would bring lots of opportunities for jobs and more visitors.

The plans looked great. We were then taken on a little treasure hunt/orienteering route to find letters.  These letters then spelled out two words, ‘Better Lives’, and this is what Michelle said she wanted for our community.

Thank you to Michelle and also to Mrs Duncan, Mrs Blackwood and Christopher, who helped on the day.

Mrs Wixon

Class Learning

Roman Roads

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As part of their class learning, Primary 4 have been building Roman Roads. Please read the fantastic reports below to find out more about what the pupils have been learning about,the skills they used and what they really thought of Roman road building.

Mini Roman Roads (2)

Mini Roman Roads 2

Reported Roman Roads

Reporting Roman Roads

Rock ‘ n Roman Roads report

Rocky Roman roads

Roman News

Roman Roads

Roman Empire

Class Learning

Bug Hotel Building

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On the 28th November, James Hutchinson Visitor Services Supervisor (Natural Heritage) from Threave, came to our Primary 3 class along with his fantastic helpers to talk to us about mini-beasts. They also brought a range of materials to build a bug hotel. This fitted in with our topic from last term, and the children were very enthusiastic, keen to learn and could offer lots of what they knew already.
Some of our class also brought in materials from home to use. As you will see from the pictures, it was a great morning! We were very pleased with the finished product. Freya and Murrin from the class, talked to the whole school at assembly on Friday to let them know what we made/how we made it and also to let them know that it would be placed in our playground to attract mini-beasts.
Thank you to all representatives from Threave for a great experience. We all thoroughly enjoyed it.
Mrs Wixon

Class Learning

Read,Write,Count

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Primary 1,2 and 3 were all very excited today as Mrs Duncan and Mrs Howie joined their classes to share with them their Book Bug(P1) and Read, Write, Count bags(P2 and P3) . The book bags are part of the Scottish Government initiative which aims to inspire a lifelong love of reading, writing and counting, and strengthen links between home and school learning by supporting parents in taking an active role in their child’s learning to give them the best start in life.  Mrs Duncan and Mrs Howie read the books from each bag with the children and shared the motivating learning games and activities with them. The children were very also very excited to have been given their bags to take home and share with their families. We look forward to gathering  feedback in due course about how families have used these together.