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Anniversary Tea Towel

Posted on behalf of Mrs Devlin…………………………….

Here is the preview of Dalry Nursery, Primary and Secondary’s anniversary tea towel. We think it’s fantastic, hope you do too!

£5 each

£4.50 each for multiple orders (2 or more)

Pre orders are available by filling out the order form given to pupils on Friday, or they can be purchased at the Primary Christmas Fayre on Tuesday 20th 10-11.30am. If you have lost the order form, please contact the school for a replacement.

Please note the tea towels are printed in royal blue.

A fantastic Christmas pressie for family members and friends!

All profit goes straight to FoDS, benefiting ALL our pupils from Nursery to Secondary.

Art in Term 2 at Dalry School

S4 – National 5 Design

S4 Pupils have been very busy finishing their design folios for the SQA. They have completed their development sheets and created their 3d final outcomes pieces. Every pupil has chosen a different theme and a experimented with a range of materials that suited their brief. We hope you like them. Next term you will see examples of their Expressive folios which will be complete by Easter.

S2 Design

Here are examples of the S2 shoulder pieces that pupils have been creating in the last two weeks. After looking at the work of Peter Chang, pupils used research drawings of natural and man made objects as inspiration for their shoulder pieces. The designs are made of paper mache, straws, card, polystyrene and coloured paper. The designs are bold and eye-catching with a range of repeated shapes and patterns in the style of Peter Chang.

Education in Glenkens this morning

Sunshine and crisp air turbo charge learning!

Microsoft Office for free!

All Glow users in Dumfries and Galloway can download and install (FREE!) Microsoft office from the tile on the opening page of Glow. Pupils can login to Glow from home. This installation requires that the user continues to log in to Glow at least once per month otherwise the programs will no longer work.

Public Information

Dalry S1 pupils visited New Galloway Town Hall on Friday to learn more about the planned changes to the transmission of electricity through the area. SP Energy staff were generous with their time and the range of jobs involved in the project was outlined by professionals. We have lots of information that can be worked on back in school and young people are now better able to take part in informed debate.

Sustainable Living

A four day, three night residential in September exposed young people, S1 to S3, to a wide range of social and educational contexts.

They travelled 1200 miles slept in a country house, a ‘snoozpod’ in a container and in an Ecolodge in Mid Wales.

They experienced how people lived in the past- particularly at the time of the industrial revolution- at the Black Country Living Museum. Image result for cymbeline

A production of Cymbeline in Stratford Upon Avon activated an interest in live theatre and the Eden Project has given lots of ideas as how a Dalry site can be developed- more to come on that later.

The Centre for Alternative Technology guided young people through the various ways in which their lifestyles could become Carbon neutral.

Food for thought.

S1 MUSIC – HALLOWEEN TONE POEMS

S1 created their own TONE POEMS for HALLOWEEN. A tone poem is a piece of music which conveys a story or scene through music. Students planned their compositions, deciding on their choice of instruments and sound effects. Then they practised, recorded and evaluated their work.

Congratulations!

Well done to the nine girls who took part in the Active Schools Dance Competition. They performed to a very high standard in front of the judges when they were assessed back in October. We are expecting the results any day now.

French theatre visit

Le Café – une pièce de théâtre

Nous sommes allés voir une pièce de théâtre au lycée de Castle Douglas, qui s’appelle “Le Café”. Il y avait seulement deux acteurs, qui jouaient beaucoup de rôles différents. C’était quelque chose de différent… c’était drôle, très amusant et utile pour le français.

Term 1 in Art and Design at Dalry School

It has been a very busy term in the Art and Design Department.

S1 have been designing and making Venetian Masks. See their exciting designs in gold, silver, black and white below.

S2 pupils have been improving their observational drawing skills and have started designing a Chang style piece of body adornment. Look out for photos of their 3d design pieces at the end of November.

S3 pupils have been working on their graphic design skills creating a design for a skateboard based on the theme of “Zoo York”.

In S4 pupils have been working on their design folios for National 5. Look out for the photos of their striking final outcomes at the end of November. Below are photos of pupils 3d paper models.

P5/6/7 have been busy designing and making bright, colourful and eye-catching Carnival Masks to link with their class theme Rio 2016.