Moffat Academy Primary News 2022/23 Term 4
A-Z 'Round-up Video' of Moffat Primary 2022/23!
Station Park Fun Day
Primary Prizegiving
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Nursery Graduation
Nursery had a fantastic day for their Graduation. Parents and carers were invited to come and take part in their official ceremony and then an afternoon of bouncy castles, bikes, games and face painting followed! Congratulations to all pupils moving up to Primary one, good luck!
P7 Leavers Disco
Our P7's enjoyed a fantastic evening at the Moffat Town Hall for their P7 Leavers Disco. Thank you to the Seniors for coming along to help and the Moffat Town Hall Redevelopment Trust for having us!
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Moffat's Got Talent
P7 Graduation
P1/2 Assembly
P1/2 have had an amazing year learning and working together as a team. Their end of year assembly reflected this theme with a retelling of the story “Farmer Duck”. The children performed with confidence and courage and showed the audience what a talented, creative, team of learners they are.
Well done P1/2.
P7/S1 Transition Week
P7 pupils joined us in Secondary for a full week of transition activities. These included two days at Loch Ken for team building activities in their new classes, followed by three days of following their new S1 timetables. It has been great to meet them all and start to get to know everyone a little better. We are super proud of all of them for giving their all, and we are really looking forward to them starting with us full time in August!
Loch Ken
P2/3 Assembly
P2/3 has been learning all about Space. To finish their topic, they presented an exciting assembly today. They did a fantastic job and there certainly is “no place like space!”
UNCRC 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.
Penny Johnstone wins national art competition!
We were so pleased to hear that Penny in P2/3 had won the national Scottish Book Trust Read, Write and Count art competition! Her design will be on all of the November Read Write and Count bags all over Scotland, an amazing achievement! Penny loved her prize (art materials) and her recent photoshoot. Well done Penny 🤩🌟🎊🎉
Our pupils always love receiving their Bookbug bags and Read Write and Count bags every year, a huge thank you to the #ScottishBookTrust for providing these all over Scotland.
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UNCRC Article 29 (goals of education)
Education must develop every child’s personality, talents and abilities to the full.
P4 Music Workshops with Iona mcdonald
Thanks to the Moffat Music Society, Primary 4 experience a week of music workshops with professional musician (and previous Moffat student) Iona McDonald. Finally Iona, as part of her quartet, performed for the school at Assembly.
Article 31: You have the right to play and relax by doing things like sports, music and drama.
Glasgow Science Centre
P3/4 and P4/5 enjoyed a brilliant visit to Glasgow Science Centre on Monday 19th June. With three levels full of interactive exhibits, they learned all about the body, the world of visual illusions and how light and sound travel through different materials. An incredible IMAX showing of "Our Beautiful Planet" completed this wonderful excursion.
You have a right to the best health possible and to medical care and to information that will help you to stay well.
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P2/3 Visit to the Dark Space Planetarium
P2/3 had a great day out at the Dark Space Planetarium in Kirkcudbright on Friday. Here's a video of their day:
Fairtrade
Moffat Academy has renewed their "FairAchiever" Award for another year. A huge well done to Miss Leanne Henderson who has worked extremely hard co-ordinating the project alongside our young people. Here are some of the highlights from the feedback received.
You have provided compelling evidence showing that Fairtrade is truly embedded in the school curriculum and ethos.
This is an excellent policy - it is clear to see that you have considered each of the requirements of the FairAchiever award and worked hard to incorporate this into your policy. It really shows how committed you are to raising awareness for Fairtrade at Moffat Academy.
It’s excellent to see that your policy is supported by pupils as well as the head teacher and parent council, the bigger support, the bigger the success!
What can I say? This is an utterly amazing challenge, it's relevant, creative, well thought through, well organised, and has maximum impact and reach. It's fantastic that you got good media coverage to showcase the amazing Fairtrade work you do.
Moffat Academy lives and breathes Fairtrade, the evidence you have provided is compelling. It is clear that a lot of thought and work has gone into doing this, thank you!
Our Fairtrade Fortnight activities are also featured in the “Fairtrade in Dumfries and Galloway" Newsletter, linked below.
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UNCRC Article 24 (health and health services)
Every child has the right to the best possible health. Governments must provide good quality health care, clean water, nutritious food, and a clean environment and education on health and well-being so that children can stay healthy. Richer countries must help poorer
countries achieve this.
Feis Rois
Thank you to Feis Rois for our music tuition this term! We enjoyed celebrating Gaelic culture and song.
#determination
UNCRC Article 30: I have a right to speak my own language and to follow my family’s way of life
P5/6 Trip to Dynamic Earth
P5/6 were Earth Explorers at Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh, June 6th.
Sprint RElay
Sprint Relay Finals were held in Annan, 23rd May.
Fantastic running all round and two strong results:
Girls team: 2nd Place
Boys team 3rd Place
Go #TeamMoffat!
Article 31: You have the right to play and relax by doing things like sports, music and drama.
Sam Bowsher Bench Competition
Our young people have been very busy coming up with designs for a new 'Buddy Bench'. Local Professional Chainsaw Carving expert and former Moffat Academy pupil, Sam Bowsher is very kindly making the bench for us. He came into school today to judge the entries and the winners are listed below. Sam said he had a very difficult job as all the designs were so good! Here are the winners:
1st: Olivia P4/5
2nd: Nova P4/5
Joint 3rd: Chloe P3/4 and Poppy P5/6
4th: Gethyn P5/6
Sam will take elements of all the winning bench designs and incorporate them into one fantastic bench.
Some pupils achieved 'highly commended' for their designs. They were:
Fraser, Lochie and Frieda P3/4 and Aila and Cora P5/6.
Well done to all!
https://www.facebook.com/sambowsherchainsawcarving
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UNCRC 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.
Athletics Practice with Mr Scott
Primary Sports Day
Here are our Primary Sports Day photos from last week by S3 pupils Samantha Tait and Emily Hume.
Well done to all pupils, it was a lovely sunny day for it and a great time was had by all. Results:
Girls:
1st Ellen Lauder
2nd Julia Palmer
3rd Eva O'Neil and Lexi Goodwin
Boys:
1st Euan Little
2nd Archie Brown
3rd George Bevins and Gabriel Bullard
House Winners:
MacAdam
pictured with Isla Wolsten holme and George Bevins
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UNCRC Article 31 (leisure, play and culture)
Every child has the right to relax, play and
take part in a wide range of cultural and
artistic activities.
Primary Health Week
Granny Mave Birthday Cards
Mr Gallacher, the Primary House Captains and the nursery went along to help cheer Mave's arrival at 2pm, video to follow!
Thank you to Anne Garrett for inviting us and to Cora, Ava, Isla, Olly and Finn who kindly came along to help present Mave's cards.
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UNCRC Article 13 (freedom of expression)
Every child must be free to express their thoughts and opinions and to access all kinds of information.
Whilst at Granny Mave’s Birthday celebration we met Tom Hanley, the Secretary, CTC Dumfries and Galloway Local Members' Group. Tom was part of the support group helping Granny Mave through Dumfries & Galloway. He had two jobs; driving the support van and then leading the group from Moffat to Castle Douglas. Tom has emailed us this message that he’d like to share:
‘A really wonderful moment in Moffat - I was carrying a newspaper clipping from 1994 - taken outside Moffat Hall with Mavis (and guess who?), PLUS Steve Ovett PLUS 3 teenage Pipers(official welcome) for Mavis' original round Scotland Fund-Raiser.(1110 miles)
On Wednesday, Mavis' Birthday party, I was introduced, not only to one of the original, teenage-Pipers, but her two daughters, who were there to present Birthday cards, made by pupils in their Primary School - and what a surprise the girls got when they saw their teenage Mum in the photo! A wonderful, inspiring link between the generations!’
It was lovely to meet you Tom! Granny Mave has now completed her cycle around Scotland but you can still donate here:
Viking Chess Set P4/5
P4/5 making a Viking chess game out of wood.
P1 Northern Lights
Look at our fantastic drawings of the Northern Lights!
Wider Achievement
