Dalrymple Primary School and ECC

Primary 1 collected apples from the school orchard. They were washed, chopped, mashed up and squeezed to make apple juice. It tasted delicious.

October is International Walk to School Month and as such we would encourage all children to walk or cycle to school.  It increases both fitness and feel good levels.  Go on, give it a go!

The children have been very busy in the ECC this week with lots of math’s experiences to explore. We have learned that some shapes are 3 dimensional and some are only 2 dimensional. We have been exploring numbers, counting, measuring as well as learning some new mathematical language.

Here are overviews of what each class plan to cover in Term 1, (August to October).

P1

P2

P3

P4/5

P5/6

P6/7

After writing and delivering speeches, the following pupils were elected by the pupils to be House Captains and Vice Captains this year.  Well done to all those who took part and special congratulations to those who were elected.

Hollybush

As part of the P6/7 PATHS curriculum, the class had to decide on what they wanted to do to make a difference in the school. They decided they were going to take over lunch bin hall duties and wanted to create an informative video explaining the ways we can protect the environment. The pupils planned and wrote the scripts, videoed the scene and edited them together. Here is the final video; we hope you enjoy it!

Today we made dens, did some wall climbing, rescued some mannequins, went orienteering and made our way through a rope path blindfolded! Tonight we are having a disco and eating some ice cream! Had a fantastic time and looking forward to telling everyone back home.

Some more pictures/videos

Another great day at Inverclyde. Today we had fun at an inclusion session, basketball, team building, lacrosse and rugby! We finished the day with a murder mystery!

Primary 7’s have had a great first day at Inverclyde! Today they had a go using the gymnastics equipment used by the Scottish Olympic team, played handball and even shot a few arrows at archery!

On Friday 17th March, we held a coffee morning to raise money for Ayrshire Cancer Support. There was a selection of home baking, tea or coffee as well performances from the nursery, p4/5 and p6/7. We greatly appreciate all donations of baking and prizes that were handed in by family members and the community. Today, at assembly, a representative from Ayrshire cancer support visited to collected the check with our donation. Thanks to those that attended and bought raffle tickets; we managed to raise an amazing £395!

This week in Primary 5/6 parents were invited to our parent/pupil progress meetings. We were all delighted with our progress especially our parents, always a worrying time for us pupils. This was very different for us because we met in person, we haven’t met for the last few years because of the Covid pandemic.

This was a very different meeting as pupils also met with the teacher and their parents/guardians. We had a meeting lasting 15 minutes where we looked at our assessment tracking on the computer and discussed the progress we have made.

I enjoyed this kind of meeting as I like to know how I am doing and the progress I have been making. (Kathryn)

I liked seeing how I have been doing, I felt included in the discussion. (Ayanna)

Written by Ayanna and Kathryn

On the 11th November we carried a poppy wreath and multiple memorial crosses to our local memorial. There awaited Rev Hendrie and other local members. We all placed our memorial crosses next to the wreath.