Before the half term holidays Dalry Primary was experiencing election fever as the annual vote to choose our Clan Chiefs and Deputes arrived.

In the weeks before polling day the candidates wrote and performed amazing video hustings speeches and produced brilliant campaign posters. Many staff commented that this election was the hardest and most passionately fought in their time at Dalry. Each morning before school and at break and lunch candidates were seen canvassing for support and waving banners.

Dalry democracy has never been healthier.

Our election day results were announced by Mr Linton and P6 who put on a brilliant election day special assembly teams call.

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It was only last week that Mrs Honeyman was able to present the successful candidates with their official badges of office. So now that they have their proper accoutrements of office let us present the Chiefs and Deputes for 2021-22

Alba

Caledonia

Dalriada

Scotia

Congratulations to all our great candidates successful and unsuccessful.

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There’s a lot of great work going up on display all around the school at the moment. Well done on the hard work to all the classes and well done on the hard work to all the staff putting up displays, but most of all to our queen of the staple gun, Mrs Arundel.

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P1b enjoyed doing junk modelling this week.

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P7a had Bikeability lessons this week led by Ms Low.

There had safety checks, learned to ride and turn safely and to signal.

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There was also the ever popular SLOW RACE, with finalists Xiu, Kiraz and Arin.

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Primary 4B are enjoying a game of snake. This involves their math skills which includes addition and probability.

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Primary 4B had a fabulous visit to Gorgie Farm. This was the first session of a very exciting project that the school will be involved in this year. 

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Some of our newly selected climate reps in P6 and P7 attended the first Edinburgh Primaries Youth Climate Summit online this week.

They discussed all the things we are doing at Dalry to be more sustainable, including recycling, learning about the environment, litter reduction and most of all our current project to grow food at the school supported by Love Gorgie Farm.

They also expressed their hopes for things that could change in school. One was that they would love to see a green electricity source, like wind or solar power installed. Another was that there be more recycling in the playground. One of the other schools pointed out that tetrapacks (especially milk and water cartons) are not always put in the recycling by the children and that tap water as an alternative would be even better.

Lots of great ideas from the children involved that will be carried forward and discussed by the council’s education team.

Our climate reps this year are

P6 Shamaillah and Hassan

P7a Aarush and Sieanna

P7b Juan and Sara

The newly formed Pupil Equalities group met for the first time. Their first task is to read and review some books that we have ordered in to improve the diversity of the books we are using in school. The children will decide which year groups the titles are most suited to, and how they should be used in school. Eilish, Archie, Saanvi, Prigya, Nate, Zenab, Mindy, Nell and Sam are all very enthusiastic about their new role in school and have lots of great ideas to develop the curriculum at Dalry.

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