Category Archives: Citizenship

Citizenship, Primary 1 21/22, Primary 2 21/22, Primary 3 21/22, Primary 4 21/22, Primary 5 21/22, Primary 6 21/22, Primary 7 21/22

Harvest Collection 2021

November 5, 2021 Mrs Nouillan Leave a comment

Our newly elected Captains and Vice Captains met to plan and organise this year’s Harvest collection, and this year they chose the AYRSHIRE (EAST) FOODBANK (seeded by The Trussell Trust)to be the receiving charity.

AYRSHIRE (EAST) FOODBANK

‘We don’t think anyone in our community should have to face going hungry. That’s why we provide three days’ nutritionally balanced emergency food and support to local people who are referred to us in crisis. We are part of a nationwide network of foodbanks, supported by The Trussell Trust, working to combat poverty and hunger across the UK.’

Today our Harvest collection was expertly led by the Vic Captains and after collecting the food items they then had the hard job of packing this ready for the foodbank to collect.

The Captains and Vice Captains, extend a huge thank you to our school community for their generosity and kindness.

I would like to extend a huge thank you to the Captains and Vice Captains for their citizenship and raising awareness for food poverty.

Kind regards, Mrs Nouillan

Citizenship, Primary 7 21/22

Primary 7 Mixed Media Art

November 2, 2021 Miss White 1 Comment

Today in class we were making pictures of the wild fires in Australia. We used wax pastels to make a fire effect, after this we used charcoal to make a smudged look. As a class we are looking at how Climate Change is affecting our planet.

P7 Blogger OW

Citizenship, Dazzling Around Dunlop, News and Updates, Primary 1 21/22, Primary 2 21/22, Primary 3 21/22, Primary 4 21/22, Primary 5 21/22, Primary 6 21/22, Primary 7 21/22

Dunlop House System and Captains and Vice Captains

October 6, 2021 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.

Our house are named after local places and each house is represented by a different colour, we encourage pupils to wear their house colours on days throughout the year.

Clerkalnd = Blue
Glazert = Yellow
Lugton = Red

P7 House Captains and P6 Vice 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, this will be when we are allowed to 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 lift the much coveted House Cup. This is a prestigious moment for the Captain and Vice Captain and they are cheered along by a delighted house!

Over the last two weeks, House Captain and Vice Captain election fever hit Dunlop Primary and I want to thank again all our prospective P7 and P6 candidates for showing commitment to their house and delivering wonderful election speeches! Both Mrs Kelly and myself were delighted to see so many children keen to take on leadership roles with in our school.

After voting, I am pleased to announce the following candidates were elected by their peers:

As always, I am looking forward to working alongside the Captains and Vice Captains.

With warmest regards, Mrs Nouillan

Citizenship, Primary 6 20/21, Primary 7 20/21

John Muir Discovery Award

June 23, 2021 Miss White Leave a comment

This session Primary 6 and 7 have been working towards the John Muir Discovery Award. As part of our journey the children have had the opportunity to experience pond dipping, geocaching, orienteering and learnt more about the history of Dunlop.

The John Muir Award is a fantastic way to encourage our young people to become more aware of their surroundings and it was lovely to see all of the primary 6 and 7 children having fun and learning more about nature.

Primary 6 created ThingLink presentations to showcase their experience, click on the links below to have a look at some of the work they produced.

https://www.thinglink.com/scene/1446489011269926914

https://www.thinglink.com/scene/1444320706606137347

We are incredibly proud of all of our pupils and delighted to say that the have been successful in achieving their Discovery Award. Primary 6 will continue on their John Muir journey as they move into Primary 7.

Citizenship, 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, Staff

Mrs Wilson – An Inspirational Head Teacher

May 3, 2021 Mrs Nouillan Leave a comment

On Friday, the whole school came together outdoors in a Covid safe way to let Mrs Wilson know what she meant to us, how we appreciated her hard work and commitment to Dunlop and to wish her well on her new and exciting chapter.

Mrs Wilson was the kindest, most nurturing, upbeat person you could ever hope to meet and we were so fortunate to have her lead Dunlop Primary School and ECC for seven years.

Mrs Wilson supported many children and staff over the years, and she was a trusted and valued colleague and friend to us all. We will all miss Mrs Wilson, and of course, we will miss her assemblies from her garden shed.

We presented Mrs Wilson with lots of gifts as a token of how much she meant to us and then she took a walk of honour around the park to say goodbye to each child.

Thank you Mrs Wilson for being our Head Teacher and for always working so hard for Dunlop Primary School and ECC.

You are an inspiration!

https://www.fischy.com/songs/you-are-an-inspiration/?token=1620039275

Take care Mrs Wilson and don’t forget to wave to us when you are walking Tilly and Toby!

With kind regards, Mrs Nouillan and everyone at Dunlop Primary and ECC

Citizenship, 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, Uncategorized

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.

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

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

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