P1/2 have been working on a dance throughout this term during their weekly curricular session. They entered the Nithsdale Active Schools Primary Dance Festival and won the Dance to Inspire Award!
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Christmas Party
On Thursday we held our annual Christmas Party for the whole school. We played corners, pass the parcel, Santa and his reindeer and musical statues.
School Nativity
Our Nativity this year was called ‘The Fleece Force’. We preformed our nativity at the church as part of our Christmas Service, which also included carols and the P5-7 playing Jingle Bells on the Glockenspiels.
Hagar the Viking Visits to P3/4
Today P3/4 were visited by Hagar the Viking for a Viking Workshop. This session was funded by our parent council (A huge thank you from us all).
We learnt about Viking clothing, food and their gods. We dressed up as Viking and played a Viking game called Molkky. We re-enacted Viking marriages, wearing horned helmets which were only used for important ceremonies. We also re-enacted Viking battles as vikings were also know as raiders and pirates.
Following our session we were presented with a Young Viking Historian Award Certificate.
School Defibrillator
Today we were visited by Roger Hill from the charity DH9 Foundation to donate a defibrillator to our school in partnership with the Wee Emma’s Defib Campaign. They have donated defibrillators to all primary school in Dumfries and the surrounding area, as well as all secondary school in Dumfries and Galloway.
Author Visit
Primary 1/2 and Primary 3/4 were fortunate to have a visit from the author Chae Strathie. He is well know for writing: Gorilla Love Vanilla, Dear Dinosaur, Jumblebum and many more.
He read us both Dear Dinosaur and Gorilla Loves Vanilla. We created our own dinosaur made out of food and a Ice Cream Sundae made of many unusual ingredients. Chae also sang a song about wiggly worms.
Everyone had a great time!
P3/4 Farm Trip
Today P3/4 visited Lakehead Farm in Closeburn with RHET. We have been learning about technology in the workplace. Sam, Jess and Amy showed us around the farm. They showed us technology they use to assist with looking after the cows.
Children in Need 2024
Today we held a coffee afternoon and baking competition to raise money for Children in Need.
Maths Week Scotland 2024
As a whole school the Dunscore learners worked together in groups on some outdoor maths challenges. As you can see from the pictures they had a great time and participated in some excellent learning.
They also took part in a number of the MWS events/ activities:
P1-2 and P3-4 also joined in with one of the online events and created a zine. Some of the pupils found this very tricky but we got there and then we completed our maths stories. We all worked together to come up with some ideas of what we could put in it. Some of our ideas included going into the hall to see who the tallest pupil was, what our favourite shape was and could we make our own pattern.
P1-2 and P3-4 joined in with Collie Tales which was very exciting and the pupils loved seeing what they had been up to. We also joined in with ‘Super Questers’ and this was a great hit and we are now looking at purchasing the other books in the series.
P1-2 made number pictures as you can see from the pictures. They all concentrated very hard and worked well to complete them.
P5-7 joined in with a live escape room and had great fun.
Community Bonfire Night Guys
Peter came into school to help us create guys for the community Bonfire night this year.
