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Dunlop House System – House Captains and House Vice Captains

October 26, 2020 Mrs Nouillan Leave a comment

When new pupils arrive at Dunlop Primary, their transition is supported by entry into a caring and supportive environment.

Each new pupil becomes a valued member of a small ‘family unit’ within Dunlop and are allocated a House. Pupils stay within their house until they leave in P7, additionally we place siblings together within a house.

At Dunlop Primary, we have three house: Clerkland, Glazert and Lugton. These are named after local areas. Each house is represented by a different colour and we encourage pupils to wear their house colours on days throughout the year.
Clerkalnd = Blue
Glazert = Yellow
Lugton = Red

House Captains

At the beginning of the school year, a P7 is elected House Captain and takes on the responsibility for the leadership and organisation of their house for the forthcoming year and they are supported by a P6 Vice Captain. The House Captains and Vice Captains work tirelessly to ensure their house members are working together to earn House Points through living and demonstrating our School Values of being happy, kind, honest and respectful.

House points are also awarded at House Events, although this year we will need to be creative with how we organise these to ensure we don’t mix bubbles!. At the end of the year, house points are added together and the house with the most points wins the overall house competition and they life the much coveted House Cup.

Recently, the P7 and P6 pupils prepared and presented an election speech to their peers and each house then chose their captains and vice captains. A huge congratulations to our House Captains and Vice Captains and also a huge thank you to all the children who worked hard to prepare and deliver their election speeches. We were delighted to see so many children keen to take on leadership roles with in our school.

House Captains and Vice Captains for 2020/2021 are (and for the very first time, we have a joint captaincy)

with warmest regards, Mrs Nouillan

Citizenship, Dazzling Around Dunlop, Primary 1 20/21, Primary 2 20/21, Primary 3a 20/21, Primary 3b 20/21, Primary 4 20/21, Primary 5 20/21, Primary 6 20/21, Primary 7 20/21

Happy Harvest Helpers!

October 7, 2020 Mrs Nouillan Leave a comment

Dear Kind Families of Dunlop

Thank you so much for your donations to our Harvest Collection, the photographs speak for themselves!

May we offer a huge thank you to you for your very generous support and The Salvation Army also extends a huge thank you too. They asked me to say, there will be many families and people from the East Ayrshire area who benefit from your kindness.

Some of our P1 pupils helped pack the Harvest ready for collection and they were exhausted by how much they had to pack!

with kindest regards, Mrs Nouillan

Citizenship, Dazzling Around Dunlop, Primary 1, Primary 2a, Primary 2b, Primary 3, Primary 4, Primary 5, Primary 6, Primary 7

Healthy and Happy Dunlop Health Week 2020

June 19, 2020 Mrs Nouillan Leave a comment

Dunlop Primary and ECC definitely has the healthiest and happiest children (and parents too!) and the photographs and film clips you sent me proves such a bold statement!

It was so lovely to receive the photographs and emails telling me what a wonderful week the children enjoyed – and it was great to see parents enjoying the fun too!

We had children and parents climbing hills, enjoying a walk around the Fairy Trails, biking, scootering, enjoying yoga and Zumba and the creativity for the Community Caterpillar was outstanding. It is lovely to see the caterpillar still continuing to grow!

The Family Sports Day Challenge was outstanding too and I was most impressed with your ingenious sporting events – the Ninja Wall still makes me laugh and I loved the wheelbarrow race and the splash pool!

To enable you all to see our wonderful children during our happy health week, please open the clip Mrs Wilson has attached on the School App. Unfortunately the clip has become a mini film and it is now too large for upload to our blog! A huge thank you to Mrs Wilson for creatively putting the photographs together into this mini film!

I have shared below just a very small selection of some of the photographs from the week.

Thank you enormously for your amazing work, participation and support – you really enabled this to be the success it was.

With kindest regards, Mrs Nouillan

Citizenship, Dazzling Around Dunlop, Primary 1, Primary 2a, Primary 2b, Primary 3, Primary 4, Primary 5, Primary 6, Primary 7

Joyful June 2020

June 3, 2020 Mrs Nouillan Leave a comment

Enjoy a wonderful June with a feeling of calm, contentment and gratitude.

https://www.actionforhappiness.org/calendars

with warmest regards, Mrs Nouillan

Citizenship, Dazzling Around Dunlop, Primary 1

Sibling Fun and Lockdown Highlights of Home Learning

May 11, 2020 Mrs Nouillan Leave a comment

Good afternoon, I hope you are all safe and well and enjoying this beautiful weather.

I received an email showing these two adorable siblings enjoying so many fabulous home learning experiences and apparently these are just the highlights of what they have been doing in the last few weeks of closure

The little brother has mostly been following the P1 curriculum, as he always wants to do what is big sister is doing and big sister has been very positively role modelling and supporting him.

Sadly to begin with, they were at home for 2 weeks self isolating as the little brother was poorly, but they still managed to be outside in the garden every day, where they learnt about garden birds and made a bug hotel and hedgehog house.

Mummy reports he is now much better and they been spending as much time as possible outside, exploring and having adventures in Dunlop’s enchanted forest and fairy glen.

They have released their butterflies and they also enjoyed watching on the blog, Mrs Gray’s butterflies.

Last week they learned about WW2 and VE Day, including interviewing the children’s Nanny (mum’s mum) about what her parents did during the war.

They made junk model spitfires and V2 rockets and even had a mock air raid in their basement with snacks and torches. They finished the week with a VE Day party, including enjoying homemade scones and trifle. The children have loved it so much, they have been asking every day when they can have another VE Day party!

I’m sure you will all agree, these are super photographs! It is lovely to see the children so busy, happy, having fun and doing lots of amazing learning.
with kind regards, Mrs Nouillan

Primary 1, Primary 2a, Primary 2b, Primary 3, Primary 4, Primary 5, Primary 6, Primary 7, Supporting your Child at Home

Newsletter from Education Scotland

May 11, 2020 Mrs Nouillan Leave a comment

Education Scotland have issued an newsletter for parents/ carers, please take a look on the link below and if you think this will be of benefit to you, you can sign up to receive a weekly update of when the newsletter is available.

https://education.gov.scot/media/mahdmrxm/parentcarernewsissue1.pdf?dm_i=LQE,6UY0V,3LDTL1,RK3PU,1

Have a look at the first issue of the Scotland Learns: Parents and Carers Newsletter to see learning activities for Literacy and Numeracy, support on wellbeing and a focus on the theme of food.

You will also find hints and tips, advice for engaging young people with autism in their learning and a creativity challenge.

Go to the Sign Up page, complete your details and tick the Scotland Learns- Parents and Carers Newsletter option. Don’t forget to click subscribe at the bottom. Doing this will ensure you receive a weekly email directly to your mailbox to let you know when a new newsletter is available.

With kind regards, Mrs Nouillan

Citizenship

Meaningful May!

May 1, 2020 Mrs Nouillan Leave a comment

Keep Calm, Stay Wise & Be Kind

This Meaningful May Calendar has daily actions for May 2020 to help us respond to this global crisis with a sense of purpose and meaning.

https://www.actionforhappiness.org/media/875760/may_2020.jpg

We can’t control what’s going on around us, but we can choose how we respond.

Join us for Meaningful May and find a daily way to respond with a sense of calm and purpose.

Take care, with warmest regards, Mrs Nouillan

Citizenship, Primary 2b, Primary 3, Primary 5

Happy 100th Birthday Colonel Tom

April 30, 2020 Mrs Nouillan Leave a comment

Happy 100th Birthday Colonel Tom, we salute you!

Today the children in the Kilmaurs/Dunlop Hub school have been researching this wonderful man and they have also made him birthday cards which are now in the post (a little late but better late than never!!)

We wish Colonel Tom a wonderful day and we hope he is enjoying lots of cake as he reads some of his 150,000 birthday cards.

And, huge congratulations to you on your new Colonel title, we all think it is very well deserved. The children of the hub think you too are a hero!

with warmest wishes, Mrs Nouillan

Dazzling Around Dunlop, Primary 3

Sibling Home Learning Fun

April 30, 2020 Mrs Nouillan Leave a comment

Good morning and isn’t it lovely to see these two having so much fun with their home learning!
These two adorable siblings have been busy with baking, science, planting, arts and crafts and they are even helping out with dishes! I also spy a Spring Scavenger sheet too!

I say it all the time, but we are really missing being at school and being with the children so it is so lovely for us all to see photographs of them!
I look forward to receiving more photographs to add to our blog.
with warmest regards, Mrs Nouillan

Dazzling Around Dunlop, Primary 1

Lots and Lots and Lots of Fun

April 29, 2020 Mrs Nouillan Leave a comment

Good afternoon, I received an email from a mummy of a P1 pupil and she has shared lots and lots of fun learning photos..in his words he said:

I have lost two teeth and had a haircut, which I didn’t like at first. I have been going on walks and bike rides, looking after tadpoles (which have now gone back to the burn). I liked making our own pizzas and smoothies (my favourite is blueberry, banana and raspberry). I have been helping wash the car and planting potatoes and vegetables in our garden. I have played in the paddling pool and we had an egg hunt and bbq at Easter and made decorations. I miss my friends but spoke to P1 classmates on the laptop, which was really good. I have been busy doing school work and getting better at reading.