Laurieknowe Primary School.

We are finishing this busy and challenging week with a non-uniform day.  Please join in.

Home learning packs will be available for collection from our school office tomorrow between 11:30am and 2:00pm.   They must be collected by an adult.  Please use entrance off School Lane.

If you are able to nominate another parent or carer to collect on your behalf, please notify school first.   We are unable to send packs home without consent.

If you are unable to collect tomorrow, please inform school so that we can plan alternative arrangements.

Where possible please email school as our phone lines are very busy at this time.

Thank you for your continued support.

MESSAGE TO PARENTS FROM DIRECTOR SKILLS, EDUCATION AND LEARNING

Dear Parents

Covid19 Pandemic

I wanted to write to all families to confirm the message from the First Minister earlier this afternoon that schools and nurseries across Scotland will close from the end of the school day on Friday.  I will provide more detail on how we plan to support you and your family during this very difficult time as soon as this information becomes available.

We will send all information directly to Headteachers and will ensure that all Council communication channels (Website, Facebook and Twitter) are updated with the latest information for you.

If you are a worker within Health and Social Care or the Emergency Services, or if you have a senior phase pupil preparing for exams, targeted information will follow.

We ask that you continue to remain in contact with your school and your Headteacher if you have any concerns at all.  Thank you for your support as we work through this difficult time.

Yours sincerely

Dr Gillian Brydson

Director Skills, Education and Learning

Dumfries and Galloway Council

Primary 3 have enjoyed reading and learning about the book, ‘Flotsam’. The little boy in the book uses a magnifying glass to look at different sea creatures. We went on a walk around the school to see what we could discover!

In Primary 6-5W, we have been learning all about Local Government.

We spent the afternoon of February 12th visiting the Dumfries and Galloway Council Headquarters and meeting some of the councillors who work there.

The pupils enjoyed a tour around the beautiful building which included the opportunity to have a debate in the Debate Chamber, look around the Party Conference Rooms and even sit at the desk of Elaine Murray.

We had a very enjoyable and valuable experience and the pupils represented the school perfectly.

P6-5W would like to send a huge thank you to the staff at Headquarters and to the parent helpers who made the trip such a success.

In P6R we have been learning all about Space over the last term. What is the most interesting thing you have learned about Space this term?

In Primary 6-5W, we are learning all about “Local Government”.

This week we have been very busy. On Tuesday 4th February, we welcomed Elaine Murray, the Lead Councillor at Dumfries and Galloway Council to our classroom. Elaine was very impressed by the knowledge, manners and enthusiasm the pupils demonstrated and described the pupils as a “credit to their school”.

On Thursday 6th February, we held our own local election in class to appoint a team of councillors. These councillors will be in charge of making decisions that meet the needs of their classmates.

Congratulations to the Galaxy Party, led by Chloe Geddes, for winning the class election. 

P3D had great fun at their recent Parent Workshop! P3D’s challenge was to build a bridge using only newspaper, tape and our knowledge of strong shapes. The results were very impressive!

Primary 7 pupils were very lucky on Thursday morning as they received an insightful talk from Mr Moore about World Wars1 & 2. Mr Moore spoke about different memorabilia that he has as well as talking about his visit to Dachau Concentration Camp. Thank you very much, Mr Moore!

We are very pleased to have welcomed everyone back after the holidays.  We hope that everyone had a great time and that you are all ready for the adventure of Term 3.

Christmas Jumper Day – Friday 13th December

Our annual Christmas jumper and non uniform day for Save The Children, is this Friday.

Pupils may wish to wear a Christmas jumper/tee-shirt on this day, but there is no obligation to do so. As always, there is no charge but donations will be most welcome for this worthwhile cause.

P7N thoroughly enjoyed our Parent Workshop today! In groups we had to construct a model WW2 aircraft using only cardboard and tape. Have a look at our fantastic work below!

We would all like to thank the adults that came along!

Classes and staff have been working hard creating art work for the hall.  I am sure you will agree that it looks amazing!

In P6-5W we have been participating in inquiry based learning as part of our Moving Models topic.

We learned about a school in Colombia where children had to travel to school on a dangerous zipline. We had to design and create our own cable cars to transport these children to school safely.

We had great fun using boiled eggs as our very own school children and testing our cable cars on a huge zipline that stretched all the way from the top floor of the school down to the ground floor!

Pupils across the school enjoyed talks from the NSPCC (Childline) on Thursday 28th November. Pupils in Primary 6 and Primary 7 also took part in a more in-depth Workshop in their own class!

A big thank you to the staff from NSPCC (Childline) for delivering the sessions today!

Dear Parents and Carers,

As you may appreciate organising photographs for our large school can be complicated, we will do our very best to ensure that all individuals and family group pictures are taken.  Our plan, outlined below, is what we will aim to achieve.  However, the length of time it takes to get through everyone is variable and sometimes we have to make last minute changes, which we will try to keep you informed of.

WEDNESDAY

• Individual Photographs of all pupils in Primary 4 – Primary 7 AND P3/4H.
• Family groups with the eldest sibling in above classes.

FRIDAY:

• Individual photographs of all pupils in Nursery, Primary 1 and Primary 2 and class P3D.
• Family groups with the eldest sibling in above classes.
• Catch up of missed individuals or groups, where possible.

Thank you.

After learning so much about the Titanic during Term 1, P6-5W have put a lot of time and effort into recreating some of the sleeping cabins from the Titanic. We all tried to be as creative as we could and many of us had to share our ideas family members to work together on creating our work.

The results were fantastic! We spent an afternoon in class showing off our wonderful work and providing peer feedback using post-it notes.

Our shoebox cabins are on display in the school along with all the lovely feedback notes we received. If you see our work around the school, feel free to write your own feedback on post-it note!

P6-5W are really looking forward to speaking with expert Titanic historian, David J Kaplan when they return from their October Holidays.

They will taking part in a trans-Atlantic video call with Mr Kaplan where they will have the opportunity to have all their Titanic related questions answered by an expert.

The question and answer session is scheduled to take place on Wednesday October 30th.

The Nursery morning class wrapped up with hats, cosy jackets and gloves for a walk to Tesco this week to buy some snack. The children chose fruit and had a go scanning at the self-service tills. To give us some energy for our walk, we had a quick snack before heading back.

Primary 3D went outside to create numbers using natural objects. We had lots of fun collecting leaves, stones and twigs! Look at what we created!

P7N enjoyed taking Maths outdoors today, tying in with Maths Week Scotland activities taking place in school!

The pupils were given a ‘Frogs & Lily Pad’ problem solving task to complete in groups with chalk and 6 bean bags. Some of the groups solved the problem in the target of 15 moves!  A lot of thinking and acting out the solution were needed for this one! Do you think you could solve the problem? Click on the link above and have a go!

Mr N & P7N

Primary 7 pupils had a fantastic morning at Dumfries Academy on Thursday 26th September. They got the chance to visit the main assembly hall as well as taking part in a Basketball session delivered by the Academy’s PE staff. Laurieknowe were also joined by Primary 7 pupils from Troqueer Primary. Some excellent Basketball skills were on show!

All P7 Transition events can be found on the P7 Transition Page