Moffat Academy Primary 2022/23 Term 2

Primary

P4-P7 Christmas Parties

P1-P3 Christmas Party

Church Crafts Afternoon

Thank you to Rev Elsie Macrae and SU Scotland Regional Worker for Dumfries & Galloway Owain Evans who came into school on Monday 19th December to provide an exploration of the Christmas story along with some crafts for our P7s.

P1-P3 Christmas Concert

On Thursday 15th December, P1-3 presented, “Our First Christmas Play”, an amusing tale about a forgetful Santa needing a bit of help on Christmas Eve! It was lovely being able to invite parents/carers into the school again to enjoy our yearly Christmas Concert, after an absence of two years due to Covid. It was great to see the hall full of people and the children performing with both confidence and a real sense of fun. Well done, all!

Christmas Lunch

Pupils enjoyed a fantastic Christmas lunch put on by the school canteen on Thursday 15th December. It was very tasty!

Fairtrade Stall

The Fairtrade Team held a stall at the P1-P3 Christmas Concert on Thursday 15th December. Well done to all involved!

Cluster P7 Science Transition

This term, we welcomed Mrs Biggins to the Science/Physics department for a teaching placement. In her last week, she invited all P7 from our Cluster Primaries to visit the Science dept and take part in a Harry Potter themed Potions lesson. The young people learned about the colours of the pH scale when they were 'sorted' in to their Hogwarts Houses by using a special Sorting Potion (Universal Indicator). They also got the chance to try out spells such as 'Accio' using a wand and can, and 'Lumos' using an energy stick. The lesson finished off with the 'Incendio' spell where they saw Mrs Ayling set fire to Mrs Biggins' hand!

Moffat Primary Christmas Crafts, Coffees and Catch-ups Event

We would like to say a huge thank-you to everyone who supported our Primary Christmas Craft and Coffee afternoon. It was lovely to see so many families back in the school together, after a difficult two years.

We raised over £1000 which will make a big difference to the learning and lives of our pupils.

A special thank-you to; Willow and Wilde, DG Funkyfaces, Tesco, Little's Bakers, Hugos , and our Local Crafters for their generous donations.

Moffat Primary Sportshall Athletics

Moffat Academy hosted the Annandale and Eskdale Sportshall Athletics Finals 2022 on Friday 2nd December. 20 schools attended and between 400 and 500 children taking part.

Thank you to over 30 young sports leaders from the secondary schools in our area and RunJumpThrow Moffat for all their help delivering the event. A huge thank you to Calum Graham and Annandale and Eskdale Active School and Community Sport.

Moffat Primary were proud to achieve second place in the Large Schools section, only 5 points behind the 1st place position. Congratulations to Newington Primary who took first place!

Moffat Academy Christmas Tree at St Andrews Church

Some of our pupils went to St Andrew's Parish Church Moffat on Friday 25th November to decorate a Christmas Tree. They had great fun and enjoyed seeing all the other lovely trees.

Article 29 (goals of education) Education must develop every child’s personality, talents and abilities to the full. It must encourage the child’s respect for human rights, as well as respect for their parents, their own and other cultures, and the environment.

P6 Children in Need Fayre

P6 held their Children in Need Fayre today! It was great fun. Well done to all P6 pupils, you were amazing!

UNCRC Article 6 (life, survival and development) Every child has the right to life. Governments must do all they can to ensure that children survive and develop to their full potential.

Gymnastics with Mr Scott and Mr Meola

Primary classes have been completing a block of gymnastics with Mr Scott and Mr Meola in PE and for one lesson we had a focus on group balances. The classes all engaged well with this task and enjoyed working together to create fantastic group balances.

David Macphail Author Visit with the Wigtown Book Festival on Tour

We were delighted that Moffat Primary was chosen as one of forty D&G primary schools to receive a fully funded author visit as part of the Big DoG School's Tour, organised by Wigtown Festival Company with support from Baillie Gifford.

On Monday 7th November, we welcomed the fantastic children's author David Macphail to Moffat Primary. David discussed how he became an author and then read the first chapter in his book 'Top Secret Grandad and Me: Death by Soup' followed by lots of pupil questions! David then discussed how he creates his stories using mindmaps.

David was very entertaining and interactive with the pupils and they thoroughly enjoyed the session.

A huge thank you to David Macphail and the Wigtown Book Festival team!

UNCRC Article 28 (right to education) Every child has the right to an education. Primary education must be free and different forms of secondary education must be available to every child.

Nursery

scottish singing at the harmony club

The Nursery children went along to the town hall to sing their Scottish Songs to the Harmony Club earlier this month. A great time was had by all.

Beattock and Moffat Academy Cluster