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S3 attending “Do the right thing” at Castle Douglas High School 17/11/17.

S4 CDHS students visiting Dalry School for a transition morning  21/11/17.

Table Tennis competition at Maxwelltown High School 23/11/17.

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.

Dalry secondary are challenging their comfort zones at the Galloway Activity Centre today!

They may be wet and muddy when they arrive home.

The final day has brought glorious sunshine. The pupils have been busy this morning preparing Cheese Scones and butter for our One Planet Picnic. The cheese was donated by Seriously Strong and RHET undertook the butter making session.

Pupils have also been taking part in Art Therapy sessions, they have been producing excellent pieces of work.

At lunchtime Kells and Carsphairn joined us for a picnic outside on the grass. The pupils were welcome to sample local produce from Rowan Glen, Seriously Strong and Tesco.

It has been an excellent week and the pupils have really engaged with all the different sessions which took place. Well done.

Pupils have been enjoying lots of different sporting activities today.

Football with Queen of the South, Rugby with John Muir from SRU, Multi-Sports with Active Schools, Hill Walking with Miss Joss and Mr Goodwin and Dance with Christine Wishart.

The pupils have also been learning about and tasting Trout with Darren Jordan, Torhouse Fishery.

Tomorrow is our One Planet Picnic, the weather forecast is looking good but come prepared.