Badminton with a Commonwealth theme

The West Mainland Badminton Festival involved Dounby, Firth and Stromness primary schools. everyone had a great time. Thank you to the Stromness Academy students who supported this event either in their leadership roles or as volunteers.

Badminton is a very popular sport in Orkney and as you can see we have some excellent facilities (this event was held at Dounby Community Sports Hall which is part of the school).

 Team Dounby with leaders and helpers from Stromness Academy

The Dounby, Firth and Stromness teams and the helpers. The Orkney 2nd team flags of The Cayman Islands and Tanzania are being waved with Orkney's own flag

Thank you to Michael Swanney at Orkney Active Schools for organising this event and to the other adults who helped in many ways.

Dounby Community School

We are a school for children aged 3 to 12 on the West Mainland of Orkney. This is a rural location on the edge of a small village. The school is surrounded by farmland and farming is the most important local industry. There are currently 177 children attending school, so we are "one form entry".
To find out more about us have a look at:

Our website is here - http://www.orkney.co/dounbycs/

Our achievement blog is here - http://dounbycommunityschool.blogspot.co.uk/

Have a look at our own page on this blog where Primary 7 went to visit a local beef farm.

Education Department - Commonwealth Themed Buns

Yesterday staff in the Education Department enjoyed buns that were decorated with the flags of Orkney and our Support a Second Team partners Cayman Islands and Tanzania.

Stromness P6 release their Troot Fry and learn all about the Scottish Parliament!

To read all about our activities this week please click the image of us below. It will take you to our P6 blog. We had great fun.