Moniaive Primary School

Moniaive Primary School

There were several schools in and around Moniaive in the 18th and early 19th centuries.

The main building of the current school was built in the 1880s and the area that houses the dining hall, the kitchen and the infants’ classroom was added in 1972.

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The school’s full address is:

Moniaive Primary School
Chapel Street
Moniaive
Thornhill
Dumfries and Galloway
DG3 4EJ
Tel: 01848 200 328

 

Play Area The school has a 1/3 acre playground covered in tarmac and marked out for football and netball. The playground looks onto the fields of Cessnock Farm and down the Cairn Valley.

To one side of the playground, just behind the playgroup garden, there is a school garden. There is also a small garden area to the front of the school.

The school also has the use of a grassed area to the east of the school belonging to Robert Wilson, farmer at Marwhirn. The pupils have designed play equipment, shelters and seating for this area.

SCHOOL DAY

Start: 9.15 Finish 15.39.

 

TERM TIMES

DETAILS for the 2011-12 school year (and beyond) can be found
here - http://www.dumgal.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=1466
 

CLASSES AND SCHOOL ROLL

The current roll is P1-3: 19 pupils; P4/5: 18 pupils; P6/7: 14 pupils

Pupil Roles -

We have introduced a few more 'official roles' for pupils to carry out. 

House Captains: Blue - Gavin Wilson (Cpt) & Lauren McKinna (Vice)

Red - Maia Smyth (Cpt) & Ellie Arnold (Vice)

Yellow - Chloe Lancaster (Cpt) & Kathryn Phillips (Vice)

Green - Flo Trower (Cpt) & Freya Donald (Vice)

Pupil Council: Gavin Wilson, Mais Smyth, Chloe Lancaster, Flo Trower,

Eilidh Thomson, Olivia Macklin, Lewis Phillips, Emily Goodburn, Lily Cave, Euan Philip

Eco-Schools Committee:  Maia Smyth, Ellie Arnold, Mark Anderson, Faith Goodburn, Willow Coye-Doherty, Scott Murray, iona Mcfegan

Buddies:  Gavin Wilson, Maia Smyth, Flo Trower, Kathryn Phillips, Cloe Lancaster

 

Peer Mediators:  Mathew Godridge, Georgia Watson, Eilidh Thomson, Isaac

McMillan, Chloe Lancaster, Kathryn Phillips, Maia Smyth

Junior Road Safety Officers:  Kathryn Phillips, Gavin Wilson

Librarians:  Freya Sale, Georgia Watson, Ellie Arnold, Callum McFegan,

Aaron Curran, Hannah Ogilvie, Lewis Phillips, Naomi Watson, Peter Wilson, Faith Goodburn,

 

SCHOOL STAFF

School Staff:  The following members of staff are no longer with us: Marena
McClymont, Leanne Henderson, Margo Park, Gillian Kilgour, Val McNeil,
Christine Guthrie, L Irvine.  Instead we now have:

Fiona Clanachan - Teacher P1-3; Rachel Lyagoba - Teacher P6/7; Alison
Murray - Teacher P1-3 & P4/5; Robert Law - Visiting PE Specialist; Margaret
Blackadder - Support for Learning Assistant; Alison McMillan - Classroom
Assistant

The school was inspected by HMIe in September 2006 and the Inspection Report can be found at the HMI website