In Primary 6/7 we have been looking at what creates a rights respecting school.  For this activity we were in the playground drawing around our partners body and writing positive affirmations about our partners inside the outline.

P3-4 newsletter Term 1 2023 updated

On Friday 22nd September Primary 7 visited Dumfries High School for the day. We were learning all about the risks associated with social media and the right to the protection of our privacy (article 16).

We discussed the dangers of social media and what we can do to keep ourselves safe.

We split into small groups and each group had to create and perform a short role-play scenario associated with different social media platforms.

We learnt a rap all about social media also.

During lunch time the school captains took us to the gym hall for a game of dodgeball.

After lunch we went back to the drama studio to rehearse our play and at 2pm our parents came to watch our performance.  We were all a little nervous but we did really well and really enjoyed our day!

Throughout the day we had a chance to develop our communication, team work, performance and resilience skills.

As part of our Rights Respecting Schools and Outdoor Learning we went out into the playground with our chalk.  We had to draw around our partner’s outline and make sure we put our name to it.  Then we had to go around everybody’s and identify the positive qualities they have.  We wrote these inside the body outline.  It was nice to look at all the nice things people said about us.

Primary 5 have been really busy setting up our learning environment and creating our class charter.  Pupils chose a ‘Minions’ theme and we had a lot of discussion about what rights were most important to us and how pupils and staff will work together to make sure all of P5 are accessing these rights.

We have been busy talking about children’s rights, and agreeing on our responsibilities for our class charter. P2/3 chose a busy bee theme!

We all signed our charter as a promise to remember our responsibilities.

The rights P2/3 agreed were most important for their class charter were –

Term 1 –

Outdoor Learning

Indoor –

We designed our own coat peg pictures!

Our class trip top Lochthorn Library

We enjoyed our visit to the library and choose our own books to read.

Visitors in class –

Our school cleaning staff visited us to tell us about their jobs. We know we have responsibilities to help look after our classroom too, and make it a nice environment to play and learn in.

We are counting up to 100 days at school on ten frames on our rocket!

At the beginning of Term 1 we spent time getting to know each other better.  We took part in team building activities, getting to know you bingo and created self portraits in a Minecraft style.  To become familiar with our new classroom we did a class scavenger hunt.  We shared what our hopes were for Primary 4 and created a display with our hopes on a hot air balloon.

At the beginning of P4 we took some time to learn more about children’s rights.  From our learning we chose 4 articles to focus on as a class to ensure our class is a place we can all learn.  From this we created a class charter and we chose a Pokemon theme.  As a class we have agreed what the children will do and what the adults will do to ensure our rights are met.  We all have a responsibility to make sure our rights are met.

We have been busy learning all about our rights. We worked together to create our class charter.