Please find a link below to our Term 1 newsletter.
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Welcome Back
Welcome back and welcome to our new families joining our school. It is great to see our pupils return safe, happy and ready to learn. Our new pupils have already settled and are being well looked after by their older peers.
Our Staff Team at Dunscore.
Miss Atkins – Principal Teacher, Mrs Robertson – Class Teacher, Mr Rudd – Class Teacher, Ms Romay – Class Teacher, Mr Law – P.E. Teacher, Mrs Carr – Learning Assistant, Ms Ross – Senior Clerical Assistant, Mr Sloggett – Facilities Assistant and John Carter – Head Teacher.
Class Organisation
The organisation of 3 class groups will run from Monday to Thursday, unless there is staff absence. Friday we will have 2 classes, P1-3 and P4-7.
Monday-Thursday Friday
P1-2 – Miss Atkins P1-3 – Miss Atkins
P3-4 – Mr Rudd P4-7 Mr Rudd
P5-7 – Mrs Robertson
Meet the Teacher – Tuesday 3rd September 3.10pm-4.10pm
This is an informal drop in session for you to meet your child’s teacher and find out what they will be doing in class.
Our school improvement priorities for 2024-2025 are to:
- Update and further develop our planning and progression pathways for numeracy and maths. Embed the last session’s progress on our literacy progression pathways, particularly writing, into our planning and assessment formats.
- Further develop and embed digital literacy learning and digital skills across our school.
- Continue to improve communication with parents and increase opportunities for positive parental involvement and engagement in the life and work of the school.
John Carter
Head Teacher
End of the Year 2023-2024
We would like to wish everyone a wonderful Summer Holiday. We will reopen to pupils on Wednesday 21st August 2024.
We thought we would share the wonderful words of Mr Wright (Parent) as they are a fitting send off to our P7s.
Protected: Song for Dunscore 60th Anniversary Video
Our 60th Anniversary School Song
During term 1, Emily helped us create a song to celebrate the school’s 60th Anniversary in it’s current building. Last week Emily and Claudia helped us record the song to share with everyone. We hope you like it!
Where did our Wee Brew money go this year?
Miss Atkins shared with us today that the money went to Mantchombe School.
They decided to spend the money on solar panels so that they can study at night time.
Assembly with MOOL (Massive Outpouring of Love)
Today Louise from MOOL spoke to us during assembly about the work of MOOL within Dumfries and Galloway supporting refugees. This linked to our right of the month (Article 10/22 – Contact with Parents and Refugee Children). She was joined by Sarab and her son Naeem, who are refugees from Syria. Their stories were very thought proving and helps us understand what it’s like to be a refugee. A huge thank you to Louise, Sarab and Naeem for taking the time to visit us this morning and share their stories.
STEM AMBASSADOR VISIT TO P3/4
P3/4 were visited today by two STEM Ambassador from the University of Edinburgh called Alex and Amber. They helped us to programme using the Micro:bits. We created Data Monsters which could tell us the temperature.
STEM – Lego Spike with Mrs Hall
P3/4 have been learning to solve design problems with Lego and programming using Lego Spike kits with Mrs Hall from the DG STEM Team.
P3/4 Making Fruit Kebabs
P3/4 were learning about the importance of personal hygiene and kitchen safety as part of Health and Wellbeing. They demonstrated their learning though making fruit kebabs. Next they created written instructions in writing.
