Duncow Diaries

What ‘egg’sellent’effort from children with their egg designs! Mrs D and Mrs J found it such a challenge judging! What fun and well done to all!

Happy Easter everyone and we look forward to seeing you all again on Monday 13th April!

We are delighted to announce that Duncow Primary have their very own incredible SANDPIT!!!

With the help of all the pupils and some amazing parents who arrived at the end of the day, 12 bags of sand was carried round the back of our school and our sandpit was made!

The children, and adults, are enjoying this amazing new learning space. We are looking at many many more years of fun to come!

Very thankful!

Over the course of term 3, P1-3 have been learning all about people who help us, including the emergency services. Some of the children have summarised a special visit below:

PC Elliot came to the school today. We had lots of fun. We all got to try some Police clothes on and a Police helmet. We learned about strangers. We had lots of questions for her. Isla P2

PC Elliot is a girl and she is a Police Officer. She came in today. She has handcuffs and pepper spray and a baton. PC Elliot brought in some uniform and the class put it on. She told us that going with a stranger is wrong and she told us that if we were lost we could go to a Police Officer. PC Elliot told us that if something bad is happening to us we can shout STRANGER DANGER! Raife P3

We learned a lot of things about the Police but let’s start with my favourite. I loved when we dressed up like the police and took pictures. We asked questions and my one was ‘why don’t police cats exist?’ and we learned more about pepper spray and bits and bobs. Maggie P2

PC Elliot is a Police Officer. PC Elliot came to my school and we tried on a hat and hi-vis vest and it was very very fun. PC Elliot arrests people and she has equipment like pepper spray and handcuffs. Logan P3

We learned about stranger danger. We also learned that the police use vans and cars. Police wear special uniform. Police have special equipment. Police have pepper spray and it hurts a lot. They have hard vests. They have hats to wear. Tala P3

We used a daffodil as an example of what we were going to draw today.

Mrs Campbell taught us how to make the trumpet of the daffodil and the petals.

Raife

We stood up to saw our wood.

And we sawed it three times back before going forward.

And then you have to put the wood on the benchhook.

Cut on the line that you drew.

Hold the wood with your hand so that it is stable.

I loved sawing!

Rory

We went outside to look at Daffodils because we were going to make them in class

Wonder who we will give our pictures too?

By Ruairidh

We made daffodils with Mrs Campbell. We used paper and crepe paper to build daffodils. Some people used crayons.

By Hamish

We did a wee book – it was called How to Make a Zigzag Snake.

You need:

Junior hacksaw

wood

ruler

bench hook

By Matilda

We used wood to make a Zig Zag snake.

We used a hacksaw and bench hook to cut our wood.

We used glue and triangles for joining our wood.

By Spencer