Welcome back to the last term of the year for all of our pupils!

We are hoping for summer sunshine and lots of fun during this busy term.  A newsletter will be coming out soon so please keep an eye out for that.

PE days: Mondays and Fridays

In the meantime, we have all be very busy and productive as you can imagine!

We started off the new term with a windy walk to the Millennium viewpoint. Breezy fun!

P1 have been developing their creativity skills using the new play resources that Mrs Graham purchased. Babies attended the doctors’ surgery for their blood transfusions, and I am pleased to report that they are all doing well now, and were able to travel back home with the bus driver Ted!

P1-7 have also been busy creating rocket art work and astronauts (still to be completed) for our new topic on Space!

P6/7 also received their certificates for being super Play Leaders! Thank you to Senga from Active Schools for training up our older pupils.

We visited Auchencairn for our first partnership afternoon to do PE and Health. P1-4 explored  how plants grow and each pupil got to take home their own sunflowers. P5-7 carried out some important discussions on staying safe when being online and who to talk to if they are unsure. Great work from everyone!

Back at school P1 have really loved creating their own space rockets, based on pictures they found in our topic books. Amazing!

A busy two weeks!

It was an eventful week here at Palnackie, as we finished term 3. We had our last positive play session , with our volcano experiment !

Our older pupils learned how to programme the microbit to make a random choice from a list , using arrays . Quite tricky!

We had a RHET chat with a farmer session, learning about sheep and alpacas . 🦙

Two boys achieved their bronze reader badge, well done!

And we culminated in an Easter partnership day with egg decorating , a visit from Rev John , a scavenger hunt and a quiz! Thanks to the Parent Council and Tescos for donating the eggs to every child.

Happy Easter everyone ! 😊

A busy week here in Palnackie with fitness stations in PE, volcano making with Mrs Magee and a lovely open afternoon with our parents and wider community. We hope you enjoyed it.

Our third positive play session was a big hit with some new faces. Many thanks to Miss Pringle for leading it and for the parents and children who come along to support the sessions.

We completed some fitness stations outside in the cold, sunny air .

P1 made equal groups of bricks which showed halves in number, and looked at the oi/oy sound this week.

World Book day fun with measuring our heights in books, sharing our favourite books in a carousel , book trading , book scavenger hunts and reading and writing stories !

Grant came on Friday for our fab  Feis Rois music session- ask your child what happened to Granny when she was shoved down the “ stanky”!

And finally , pupil of the week was April for leading the learning in phonics with P1 and super effort in spelling all week! 🌟

It’s a new month now and spring feels just around the corner !

It’s been a great week here in our wee school, have a look at some of the great activities we’ve taken part in .

An especially big well done to Ari who won the first bronze  badge for reading at home! Wow ! 🤩

Another busy week here in our wee school! P7s got their new hoodies , playground leaders shared some of their game with others , and our second play session for age 2+ was a hit !
P1 were learning about sharing in maths , we all had a visit from Angela who talked to us about the importance of healthy teeth and less sugar, and best of all we’ve had lots of fun playing games and using our new resources that Mrs Graham managed to order through the council towards developing play pedagogy.

Wow! A busy week ! 😊

It’s been a very short week but the children have had a very productive two days.
We all took part in an art display for Flounders cafe yesterday , and the artwork will be featured Friday evening and Saturday for viewing .

P7 also attended their first  transition session  at Dalbeattie High School and enjoyed discussing their hopes and fears for the next step .

The Pupil Council also had a meeting to discuss the rest of term and what they’d like to learn about (and how) as well as ideas for making maths more fun .

We had two lovely boys ( plus Nana & Dad) join our P1s for some play sessions led by Miss Pringle on Monday  . Cleaning shells and playing in the sand was great fun!

next session : 19th February 1-2pm

Another busy week here for us!
We started with some active spelling sessions .

We also developed our leadership skills in playground team games .

We learned about Scottish fishing and created some Paul Klee inspired fish etchings .

In Health we looked at food groups , healthy and less healthy foods , and challenged ourselves to make healthy snack swaps . P1 experimented with fruit and veg prints… when they were able to stop eating them! 🥦 🥕 🌽

Finally we had our partnership assembly and Ari won the P1 Extreme reading competition, and Hilib won Pupil of the week for excellent effort and concentration especially in Art. We are very proud of you both! 🌟

Welcome back to term 3 and a Happy New Year to all our pupils, families and the community.

It’s been so busy we haven’t managed a weekly posting, so there are plenty of pictures this week!

We have been learning all about water so far this term, and the temperature it freezes and boils at. We carried out salt and ice experiments and P1s enjoyed freeing the dinosaurs from the Ice Age!

We have also been learning about Scottish artists, and this week it was Steven Brown. P1 created tartan teddies and weaving patterns, while P3-7 recreated their own McCoos with embellishments and Scottish names.

In PE on Tuesdays we have started a block on hockey, which the children are working very hard in!

We have had a teams assembly online with our partner school Auchencairn, and we have launched the Reading for Life competition.

Ariadne was our award winner for last week and Isla brought in her pony riding trophy for most improved pony. Fantastic wider achievement!

Joseph in P1 also brought in a lovely jigsaw of animals which shared with us all to have a go.

This week has been all about Robert Burns and we dressed in tartan yesterday , then held our annual Scots poetry competition, this year at Barlochan . Well done to all who took part !

Our 1st place winner was Maddie P6, who took home the trophy

2nd place: Joseph P1

3rd place: Isla P7

A very busy three weeks!