Leswalt Primary School

This morning we welcomed Millie Craig from ‘AirBus’ into our P4-7 classroom for a fun morning of STEM learning. Millie is an aeronautical engineer who has recently graduated from the University of Glasgow and now lives and works in London. We were fascinated listening to Millie tell us about her super interesting job, as an engineer, who works on satellites – how impressive!! 🛰️

Millie brought with her some Lego (always a crowd favourite) and a project for us to be AirBus Engineers. We split into two groups, each with the task of building satellites. We were all given a role in the group; 3 fitters (responsible for building the satellites, in order) a Project Manager (responsible for quality assurance of the satellites), a Recycling Manager (who had the satisfying job of breaking up the Lego for reuse), a Transport Manager (whose job was to oversee the movement of the product) and the Customer who kept an excel spreadsheet up to date with how many satellites had been completed by each time, how many defected satellites they made and the number of incomplete Lego satellites left when time ran out.

Pupils were so engaged in the project and teamwork was a clear strength for both of the groups- Go Team P4-7! 😄 They had the opportunity after each round to make changes in their team to improve their production line’s efficiently and used problem solving and critical thinking skills to make changes to increase the customer’s satisfaction and their groups profits.

Ultimately the ‘Naso’ Team were the winners! And were treated to a packet of Haribo’s for their hard work. 🍭We had a really super morning with Millie and can’t thank her enough for travelling all the way from London for this workshop with us! 👩‍🚀What a fun and engaging way to learn about Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths! 🔍And who knows, maybe we have some future aeronautical engineers in our school too!

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This afternoon all the boys and girls headed along to Leswalt Church for our annual Christmas Service with Reverent Marlene. She shared with us about the story of Christmas and the importance of celebrating love with friends and family.

The 6 volunteers told a story about the beginning of Christmas celebrations through sweeties!

• Galaxy Chocolate representing the Galaxy God created🌌
•  Sour Haribos representing Adam and Eve’s sin🍬
• Love hearts representing the love ❤️
• Jelly babies representing God’s son – baby Jesus👶
• Starbursts representing God’s sign to the 3 Kings⭐
• Liquorice All-Sorts representing God’s acceptance of everybody👥

We shared 3 of our favourite songs from the school show; ‘This Place is Jumping, ‘Christmas Time is Here’ and ‘Stop that Knocking’🎄. And just as  Reverent Marlene said,  we enjoyed sharing a wholesome afternoon together celebrating Christmas!❤️

From everybody at Leswalt Primary, we wish everybody a Christmas filled with love and happiness and love forward to welcoming the boys and girls back to school on Tuesday the 6^th of January 2026 (?!)😀.

At school, one of our favourite Christmassy activities is making cards. This year, the boys and girls have been working hard to make Christmas cards for our lovely Leswalt community.🎁 Our fantastic P6 and 7’s elves along with Mrs Kyle went a wee walk through the village this morning delivering cards as a little thank you for all the kindness and generosity we receive from our wee village year-round! 💌❤️

✨Leswalt Primary Present Baubles✨

Let’s set the scene; the lights were dimmed, Christmas tree sparkling, fake beards applied, Mary’s baby bump stuffed… we were all ready for our big performance of ‘Baubles’.

Friends, family and fans from far and wide filled the hall and all the boys and girls waited excitedly back stage for the performance of their lives, and that it was! 🎬🍿

Through their tree-mendous acting  and super singing (😏) the boys and girls did an amazing job of weaving the traditional Christmas story into a primary school setting. Mr Potts the school janitor had been hard at work making baubles for the neglected school Christmas tree, each one linking to part of the nativity story!🎄

As always, we are exceptionally proud of all the boys and girls and can’t thank families enough for all the hard work which has clearly been put in at home to make sure everybody was able to say their lines so confidently and clearly. Well done everybody!😍

For more of Leswalt Primary’s fabulous Christmas singing, come along to the Christingle Service in the church on Christmas Eve at 6:30pm (not an ad). 

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This afternoon we welcomed families into school to purchase some of the Christmas crafts we have been working hard on as part of our ‘enterprise’ topic. Primary 1-3 sold some cute sock snowmen, pine cone Christmas trees and tasty Oreo reindeer, which went down a treat!⛄Primary 4-7 sold their pine cleaner Christmas trees and tree decorations.🎄Afterwards we gave a wee sneak preview of some of the songs from our school show to get us all warmed up and ready for tomorrow’s performances.🎤

As always, thank you so much to everybody who managed to come along this afternoon and to those who purchased some of our crafts! There remaining crafts will be taken across to the hall tomorrow and they can be purchased there too! 😀

To finish off the superb afternoon, Leo’s Granny Dawn, very kindly, handed out beautiful personalised mugs and hot chocolates to all of the boys and girls, on behalf of Leswalt community association! How lucky are we?! Thank you very much to Leswalt community for this very generous gesture! 😍

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A huge big thank you to Allan Jenkins from  who delivered a 29 chocolates bars to school today for all the boys and girls at Leswalt to enjoy! These delicious treats were a very kind donation from Stranraer Development Trust and the Millenium Centre and will be given out tomorrow after our school show as a wee treat for everybody’s hard work🍫.  I think the lovely big smiley faces show just how grateful and happy we are!😄