06/03/2017
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Primary 3, 4, 5 6, and 7 all took part in the Galloway Music Festival, this morning, at Newton Stewart Cinema. Both classes did very well, with many positive comments from the adjudicators.
P5/6/7 achieving 2nd place in the Group Music Making class and P3/4/5 winning the Ceilidh Group class.
Well done to all the children; you performed extremely well, in difficult circumstances. Many thanks, to all the parents who came along to support the children too.
03/03/2017
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On Wednesday morning, a number of P5/6/7 children took part in the Active Schools’ Cross Country event at Castle Douglas Rugby Club. Miss Joss was impressed with everyone’s performance and everyone enjoyed taking part.
We are very proud to say that Alex and Conall did exceptionally well; showing great running and tactical skills to take first place in their age group events . Well done boys!
Alex, P6 and Conall, P7 Cross Country Race winners.
03/03/2017
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The Nursery and Primary children all looked fabulous in their favourite book character outfits today!
We had many princesses, super heroes and various Roald Dahl and Harry Potter characters, mixed in with a few Where’s Wallys and even a Gangsta Granny!
During the day, the Primary children took part in a number of book related activities, including Paired Reading, Story-time and a Book Scavenger Hunt.
At break and lunchtime, the P6 children ran a second hand book sale.
We finished our Wold Book Day celebrations with a parade, in our costumes and took part in a special Where’s Wally search; looking for real-life Wallys around the school, to celebrate Wally’s 30th birthday!
01/03/2017
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Pupils throughout the Primary School have taken part in activities to celebrate Shrove Tuesday today. During the morning, in the HE room, Mrs Farquhar showed the children how to make pancakes and then, in pairs, they got on with making their own!
Not only did the pancakes looks and smell good, but they tasted delicious too!
This afternoon, we put on our coats and ventured out to do our Daily Mile, as we try to do everyday. Today’s Daily Mile, however was with a twist…we completed our mile with a Pancake Tossing Relay!
Our Daily Mile has never been so exciting!
28/02/2017
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Last Thursday 13, P5 children from all three Primary Schools in the Glenkens’ Cluster took part in the annual Residential Trip to Carlingwalk. Although it was for only one night, some children appeared to have packed enough clothes for a week!
Once we’d arrived at Carlingwalk, we had a tour of our accommodation for the night and got ourselves ready for our outdoor activities.
We spent the rest of the day in Dalbeattie Forest; enjoying Orienteering and Mountain Biking activities! All the children rose to the challenge of reading their maps in order to find the markers, hidden in the different parts of the forest and there was a lot of excellent team work so that the pairs worked well together, to try to be the first back, each time.
The boys and girls grew in confidence, handling and manoeuvring their bikes, to tackle the uneven surfaces of the forest tracks. They all enjoyed the exhilarating ride along the trails.
After all that exercise we were more than ready for a lovely meal at The Scottish Pantry, followed by a moonlit walk back to the Carlingwalk Centre. Back at the centre the children enjoyed playing a number of games before getting showered and ready for bed.
After a good night’s sleep (for most!) our next day of adventure began with a filling breakfast. We then put our outdoor clothing on once more and set off for the day’s challenge; to climb Screel Hill! It was great to see everyone trying hard to both climb up and scramble down the hill. Not everyone found it easy but everyone overcame their fears and told themselves that they could do it. By the time we’d got back to the car park, to get on the mini bus to take us back to Carlingwalk, the children who had found the walk the hardest were saying it was the best thing they had done during their two day adventure!
Both Mr Grey and Mrs Turner agree that the children behaved very well and showed excellent team building skills, during the trip, as well as being friendly and supportive of each other. Talking to the children on the way back to school on Friday evening, the children all agreed they’d had a fantastic time!
WELL DONE P5s!
23/02/2017
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Show and Tell is a favourite listening and talking activity in P3,4,5. The boys and girls like to bring in various items from home to tell us about, and we enjoy listening and asking questions.
Here is Elizabeth telling us about her Beavers’ uniform and Izzy showing us all her football trophies…wow!
23/02/2017
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Bird Club have been very busy over the past few Friday’s preparing and putting together their Bird Sanctuary. It’s looking really great and attracting a lot more birds into our playground, which is what our aim was. The sunflower seeds and fat balls are a firm favourite for our feathered friends!
Last week Kirsty from the RSPB came to help us with our Big School’s Bird watch. Unfortunately the weather was not very kind to us and kept most of the birds hidden in the trees, we didn’t even spot our usual red kites circling the playing field. We did however spot over 100 birds between us in the 10 minute of twitching that we carried out.
Thank you to Kirsty for coming over to help us, it was great fun, if a little wet! The hot chocolate that Mrs Devlin made for us helped warm us up though.
Making the Bird Sanctuary:
The Big Schools’ Bird Watch:
08/02/2017
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This morning members of the Light Dragoons visited St John’s Town of Dalry as part of their preparation for a NATO exercise in Europe later in the year.
The focus was on community engagement and their visit was unplanned.
Pupils from Dalry School formed small groups for the troops to talk to- explaining why they were in the area and to let the young people become a little more familiar with the Jackal (4 wheels) and 2 X Coyote (6 wheels) vehicles.
The visit gave staff chance to talk to young people about how it may feel to have military vehicles move into the area where you live and the variety of roles that the military has in peacetime.
02/02/2017
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As part of our Scotland topic, P3,4,5 were lucky enough to have Piper, Mackenzie (Brodie’s big brother) come and visit us to tell us about his bagpipes. Mackenzie told the class all about the bagpipes and played some tunes for us to hear. The class learned all about the different parts of the bagpipes and asked Mackenzie some very sensible questions to find out more. There were a few pupils very keen to start learning the bagpipes after hearing Mackenzie advise them to start playing at a young age.
We even got to pretend we were a part of Mackenzie’s Pipe Band and marched down the corridor with our ‘pretend’ bagpipes!
Thank you to Mackenzie for giving his time to come and talk to our class, it was very educational and enjoyable.
We tried to copy Mackenzie as he blew into his bagpipes…these were our faces!
P3,4,5 with Mackenzie:
Finlay was especially inspired by Mackenzie’s visit and brought in his (brother’s!) practice chanter to play for us. Well done Finlay!
02/02/2017 by Mrs Devlin | 1 Comment
Today’s last lesson with Mrs Farqhar was an opportunity for the pupils to use the skills that they had been learning and developing over the past few weeks.
This week’s challenge was to prepare the vegetables for lentil soup, which meant the pupils had to use their sharp knife skills again. Everyone remembered the two hand grips when using a sharp knife: the claw and the bridge. Mrs Farqhar was very impressed.
The pupils also learned about our dietary requirements and the use of salt in cooking. Mrs Farqhar suggested that all food should be tasted before more salt is added, especially when using stock cubes.
Everyone gained lots of new skills and knowledge during the lessons and were keen to help and cook more at home.
The H.E. lessons were a great success:
‘I learned some recipes that I can make at home without a cooker’ – Daisy P3
‘I learned about how to hold my sharp knife and how to hold the food with a claw and a bridge’ – Joe P4
‘I want to cook lots at home’ – Oscar P3
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