We are delighted to announce that this session’s probationer, Miss Lauren Dyce, successfully interviewed for the Primary 3 vacancy. We are all delighted that Lauren will be staying with us. We have also been told that our probationer, who will cover P6 next session, is Miss Rebecca Smith.  Miss Smith was with us earlier in the session as a final year student.  We are delighted to be welcoming Miss Smith back into the team.

There is always great excitement at this time of year with the many awards that are received by pupils for hard word, perseverance, resilience etc.  Our first announcement is the new Head and Depute boys and girls for next session. Usually this is done at the whole school prize giving ceremony and badges are handed over by the outgoing  out going pupil leaders, sadly this cannot be the case this year.

All staff at the school are asked to give their nominations before the final selection is made.  Many congratulations to our new appointees.

Depute Head Boy: Cyran Alexander
Head Boy: Cole Bickerton

Depute Head Girl: Alex Borthwick
Head Girl: Iona MacDonald

The Drongan Nature Club potatoes were harvested at the weekend, unfortunately not by the children.  The total harvest was 120 potatoes weighing just over 3.3kg.  The largest potato weighed 155g while the smallest (and there were several) weighed just 1 gram.  The average weight of a single potato was 28g.

Yesterday saw the Drongan kids taking part in Mrs Coulter’s Garden Obstacle Course – lots of great ideas – and Mrs Mitchell’s ‘Find the Missing Partner’ (socks).  Lots of great photos and videos came in for the blog.  Today the kids have been challenged to try Mrs Bradley’s Ball Bounce and Mrs Glasgow’s Welly Toss.

Freya and Kayden, in P1 at Drongan Primary,  have been working hard to practise their words containing this week’s new joined phoneme – ee.

SSPCA – Scottish Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

We’re lucky in Scotland. It’s a beautiful country with an abundance of wildlife. From otters to owls, swans to seals and badgers to beavers, we’re blessed with a rich, diverse range of wild animals. Challenge – research one of the wild animals on this page and create an animal fact file or PowerPoint presentation.

https://www.scottishspca.org/advice/wildlife

Kayden, in P1b, gathered coins from around the house and sorted them by value.  He then used the coins to make the number of their value. What a great idea.  Well done Kayden.

Today’s focus at Drongan Hub with Miss Adams was mindfulness. The children enjoyed doing some Cosmic Yoga and DIY tie-dying using pens, elastic bands and baby wipes! The results are fab.