Today we held our Sponsored Dodgeball Event and what a day it has been!
We have played around 75 games of Dodgeball and all pupils have thoroughly enjoyed themselves. They have worked so well in their teams and supported each other, either playing or refereeing!
At the moment the total raised is an amazing £655! Well done to everyone who has collected sponsors and if there are any other donations outstanding please could they be handed in by Monday.
Thanks
Miss Atkins
Primary 1/2 have been selected as one of the winners of the Pocket Garden design competition! The competition is run by Keep Scotland Beautiful in partnership with the Garden for Life Forum.
The challenge was to design a miniature garden that uses edible plants, plants that attract wildlife, and to reuse something which would otherwise have been thrown away.
The themes were Our Heritage, One Planet Picnic and Wildlife Gardening so we had to show what we want to celebrate through our Pocket Garden. With Kirsty as our gardening advisor, we chose to celebrate Wildlife Gardening. We are very thankful for all her help and support and she is going to help us throughout the build and growing stage too.
This is a fantastic opportunity for the children to investigate plants and food, develop creative design skills and apply that knowledge to creating a sustainable garden while working a s a team.
As you can imagine, we are thrilled to have been chosen and are now looking forward to building our design. The garden will be around the size of a wooden pallet and will be photographed or filmed to feature in an online showcase for a public vote on the Keep Scotland Beautiful website between 13 June to 23 June. Keep watching our school blog and Class Dojo for updates on progress and a reminder of when you can go and vote!
Thanks
Miss Atkins
Today some pupils from P5-7 took part in the Queen of the South Community Plate at Palmerston. There were 8 schools competing and our team won!
Ben, Jack, Reuben, Cameron, Finlay, Isak, Joesph and Jamie played very well throughout the rounds and then went into the semi-final. This went to penalties, which was very exciting and we got through to the final and won 1-0.
We want to say a huge thank you to Colin, our coach and Mr Carter for his support today.
This was a new competition held by Queen of the South and so we are very lucky to be the first name engraved on the plate! This plate will be kept at Palmerston in their trophy cabinet. We were given a trophy to keep in the school.
We have bee learning to do Take a way and Dividing.
In our Hall of Fame we have all of our awards. I will now give you some photos and a video.
Today we were sorted into our pupil forum I was put in the technicians .
A few days ago the P5-7 class got salmon eggs and now almost all of them have hatched!
The entire school was thrilled by them, but sadly a couple of them died before they hatched.
Now the salmon are called fry’s. We were given the salmon eggs by Morag who works for Nith catchment fishery trust.
P5/6/7 have been given Salmon eggs by the Nithdale River Trust, we were excited. The whole Class have watched them hatch into some baby salmon on the 2nd week of having them. The white things on the filter are the empty eggs that have hatched by Ella
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In our library we have lots of books that you can read. My book level is 3.8-5.9 and l will now give you some photos of our library and a video.
We have been exploring Children’s Mental Health Week for our assembly this week. Every child in the school created a picture with their own personality islands. We were using the resources from the Place2Be Website:
https://www.place2be.org.uk/
