Author: Mr McFarlane

On Tuesday the 14th of November the S1’s attended the CatStrand film festival in New Galloway. The group attended the showing of the “Eagle Huntress”. The story of a young Mongolian girl who strives to become the first female in her culture to hunt alongside a trained eagle.

On Thursday the 9th of November the s4 pupils took part in mock interviews as part of their employability course. Kelly Innes, a recruitment specialist from Natural Power conducted the interviews and provided feedback for the students. Well done to all involved and many thanks to Kelly and Natural Power for their support.

On Friday the 1oth of November, Dalry P7 to S4 took part in a remembrance service to honour the soldiers who died in World War I and II . Mr Goodwin told the poignant story of Robert James Clark who died on the 1st of November 1916. He was part of the Gordon Highlanders. He was from Dalry and you can see his name on the memorial outside Dalry church.

On the 3rd of November the S2’s will be visiting the Devils Porridge Museum as part of their history course with Ms Warren.

On Monday 6th of November Mrs Farquhar will be taking a number of students to the Easterbrook Hall to work with Fraser Cameron. The students will experience what it is like to work in a real life restaurant as part of the “Food for Thought” project.

On Thursday the S4’s will take part in mock interviews with Kelly Innes from Natural Power.

On the 11th of October the S2’s held a coffee morning to raise funds for the Teenage Cancer Trust. The event was a success, raising £425 for the charity. The event was really well supported by the local community despite the bad weather. We would like to extend our thanks to all those who attended. With special thanks to Lorna Wilson who kindly baked a wonderful cake for the raffle and also to W Bone’s Garage, Tesco and the CO-OP for their generous raffle donations.

The new term has started and Geography classes are currently busy working on a variety of topics. The S1’s are working on a farming unit as part of their Broad General Education course. The S2’s are learning about biomes and currently looking at equatorial rainforests. The S3’s are investigating the Mount St Helens eruption as part of the natural hazards unit. And last but not least the National 5 class are developing their understanding of weather.

The S3 geography class took advantage of the good weather to investigate their local stretch of the River Ken. The group set about answering two questions:

1. At what stage upper, middle or lower is the River Ken at Dalry?
2. What processes are taking place in the River Ken at Dalry?

Through close observation of the river, its sediments and the surrounding landscape the group were able to ascertain that the river was most likely in its middle course. Evidence of attrition, abrasion, hydraulic action, fluvial sorting, deposition and braiding were also observed. Well done S3 geographers!

The first two weeks has seen the group practice their fly casting skills. Despite cold temperatures and strong North Westerlies two good sized wild brown trout have been landed. Both fish were taken on an olive dry fly and landed by Rory. With the weather improving every day, prospects for the coming weeks look good.