The school has recently got a lot of new clubs including:
.Coding club
.Golf club
.Comic club
.Drawing club
.Acro club
.Dancing club
All of these are student led clubs.
Category Archives: Meta Skills
Holocaust memorial
P6-7 went to the parish church when we got there we recited a poem and two pupils from Dumfries Academy laid a wreath. The Border News where there filming the ceremony and at the end four pupils got interviewed and we had biscuits.
Pupils commemorate the hero who saved children from the Nazis – Latest From ITV News
The Burns Tea Party
At the Burns tea party we had to sing poems and songs. There were snacks like Irn Bru, tattie scones and pancakes.
Pupils Cubs
Pupils here have bean making clubs. The clubs are : Dance Club, Acro Club, Golf Club , Drawing Club, Coding club and Comic Club.
A lot of children have been signing up and attending these clubs. There is a club on every day sometimes even two. These clubs are enjoyable and good for learning new skills.
P6-7 residential
P6-7 went on residential from the 17th to the 19th of March 2025. We got a bus 🚍 from school to Whithaugh Park with Moniaive Primary. We travelled for an hour and a half! When we arrived we got our bags of the 🚍 . We headed to the main cabin called ‘The Oak’ and we put our bags inside. One of the leaders came in and gave us some important information.
We spilt into groups for activities, we did the following:
- Abseiling, rock climbing, swimming, archery, low ropes,
- raft building, zip line, night walk, inflatable obstacle course,
- Ben and Ella both P7 have picked there favourites activities and they where:
- swimming,
- Inflatable obstacle course.
You brought your own snacks to eat when you got hungry or if you didn’t like dinner. The rooms were good quality and we had good chats in them 🙊.
Warhammer club
Ben Mcfadzean started a Warhammer club that runs during Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday lunch time.They are building figures at the moment but after they have finished they will paint them.They can complete activities to earn collectible cards from their leader.
The school playground is so good 😎!!
The playground equipment is so cool!👌 Me and Harley took pictures of our playground equipment⚽️”.
Meta-Skills: Creativity
P3/4 are learning about Meta-Skills as part of Health and Wellbeing. We have been learning about ways we can show and use our creativity. We were introduced to the character Creativity Cassidy and used our creativity to create a 40 piece structure from Lego.
