Month: February 2017

Extract from BBC news

Scotland’s newest professional sports team, the Sirens, lost 57-43 to Wasps as they made history on Tuesday evening in front of a sell-out crowd.

The first Scottish team to join netball’s Vitality Superleague were always behind against the visitors from London at Glasgow’s Emirates Arena.

Sirens and Wasps are two of three new clubs this season after the league, now with teams from England, Scotland and Wales, was expanded to 10 teams.

A crowd of 4000 – more than attended three of the weekend’s Scottish Premiership football matches – watched the match.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/netball/39046624

The Dalry Netball team were there to see this historic match and to be part of that 4000 strong crowd. Having played all season in the Dumfries and Galloway School’s league, they were more than impressed by the speed and skill of these professional players. They also learned lots about the warm up and pre match drills.

This minibus dash up to Glasgow and back made a fitting end to a season where the Dalry players have shown real sportsmanship and determination. An aspirational and inspirational evening!

Pupils from Dalry School visited the Dalry Town Hall for a public engagement event. They were invited to share their knowledge and reactions to the landscape they live in, whilst talking to Archaeologists and Landscape specialists about their jobs. Pupils  were given a brief presentation about the project itself and have a better understanding of the opportunities it may create in the future.

Some of the old maps captured attention as young people related the current landscape to what it may have looked like in history. Of particular interest were the various fording points of the rivers in the past and how they relate to the roads and bridging points of the present

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.