Category Archives: Dazzling Around Dunlop

Dunlop House System and Captains and Vice Captains

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:

Clerkland Captain
Clerkland Vice Captain
Glazert Captain
Glazert Vice Captain
Lugton Captain
Lugton Vice Captain

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

With warmest regards, Mrs Nouillan

Happy Harvest Helpers!

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

Healthy and Happy Dunlop Health Week 2020

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

Sibling Fun and Lockdown Highlights of Home Learning

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

Sibling Home Learning Fun

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

Lots and Lots and Lots of Fun

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.

It has been super to see all the fun he is having!

Please remember to email me any photos and I will add to them to the blog, it is lovely for us all to see the children.

with kindest regards, Mrs Nouillan

Fun Home Learning

Good morning everyone, I hope you are all enjoying the sunny weather and having lots of fun in your garden or just enjoying a community walk.

Today I received photographs from two delightful brothers and they have been having lots of fun together and playing in their garden. They have also been taking their dogs, George and Mildred on walks (if you are a child of the 70s you’ll know!!) although Mildred is taking it easy as she is recovering from an operation so only gentle walks for her!

It is so lovely for us to see the children of Dunlop Primary and ECC and I welcome all your photos for me to add to the blog.

with warmest regards, Mrs Nouillan

Dazzling Gymnast

One of our very talented P7s took part in a gymnastic competition at the weekend. Here are a couple video clips to check out her amazing talent and skill.