Leswalt Primary School

Today Olivia and Lily got the chance to represent Leswalt Primary and travelled to Sheuchan Primary school to take part in the cluster heat of the KNEX engineering challenge.

It  is a great opportunity where pupils have the chance to demonstrate their creative design and build skills by solving set engineering challenges using the construction set K’NEX.

Our girls used their communication skills alongside their design
and build skills to compete against fellow pupils from all the other schools in the Stranraer area. 

The challenge was to make something for a children’s playpark which had a handle to turn to make it move.  Our team made a swing.

They did a great job – well done Olivia and Lily!

META SKILLS

Collaborating

Communicating

Creativity

Critical thinking

It’s a busy week in School this week! Today, P4-7 ventured to Loch Inch, Castle Kennedy for a workshop all about Food and Farming. This was organised by the Royal Highland Education Trust. Once we were arrived, we were split up into groups to explore 5 different farming workshops and meet some local farmers and farm industry workers.

1 – Gamekeeping with Connor🦃

Connor, the fifth generation Loch Inch Game Keeper had brought with him a range of different animals including pheasants and deer horns for us to have a little look at. He explained that his job is much more than just shooting animals, he maintains the landscape.

2- Sheep Farming and Red Meat with Alison Clark🐏

Alison had brought with her 4 fluffy friends; 2 sheep and 2 lambs. She told us about the everyday uses of wool and the special markings her sheep had on them.

3 – Gordon’s Agricultural Machinery with Graham Knox 🚜

We were very impressed by the CLAAS chopper that Graham had parked at Loch Inch. He took us a little tour around the chopper, explaining the parts and the silage process and then we all got a little seat inside.

4. Dairy Farming with Lactalis🐄🥛🧀

We were surprised to learn that a sheep can produce 20 bottles of a milk a day! The volunteers had brought with them some machinery from a milking parlour to demonstrate that process of cows being milked. Afterwards, we learned little bit about the processes at Lactalis and how our milk and cheese is made and ready for us to eat and drink.

5. Meat Health with Abbey  🐄🥩

Abbey spoke to us about the different types of red meat; lamb, beef and pork. She challenged us to sort some foods into meat type and explained that as part of her job, she encourages people to eat more red meat. She explained that we should be eating 70g of red meat every day! Afterwards, she gifted us a little sticky cow, sheep or pig to take home – always a crowd pleaser 🙂.

We had a super morning at Loch Inch, learning more about Food and Farming and showing off what we know too!🙂

UNCRC Articles 

Article 24 – Right to the best possible health
Article 28 – Right to education
Article 29 – Goals of education
Article 31 – Right to relax, play and take part in cultural life

Meta Skills 

Communicating Cate

Sense Making Samira

Critical-Thinking Chris

Curiosity Carlos

This afternoon we welcomed families into school to showcase our Scots Learning. 🤩 This month, pupils have been super busy writing out their poem in the very best handwriting and creating some super creative artwork to represent their poem and today we got to show it all off and announce the winners.

The audience were treated to Scots’ songs, wonderfully expressive recitations and a display of fantastic artwork and handwriting. Well done to all the weans! And a big thank you to families at home for all the effort and hard work behind the scenes! 🏠

Leswalt Primary School Burns Results 2025

DRUMROLL…🥁

Class 1

Poem – Mince and Tatties

Recitation winners:

1. Noah
2. Ellis
3. Leo

Illustration winners:

1. Albie
2. Noah
3. Jack

Handwriting winners:

1. Leo
2. Jack
3. Noah

Class 2

Poem – Crocodile

Recitation winners:

1. Erin
2. Phoebe
3. Betty

Illustration winners:

1. Phoebe
2. Erin
3. Jessica

Handwriting winners:

1. Erin
2. Ada
3. Betty

Class 3

Poem – The Sair Finger

Recitation winners:

1. Jorgie
2. Cameron
3. Arla

Illustration winners:

1. James
2. Jorgie
3. Arla

Handwriting winners:

1. Cameron
2. Jorgie
3. Beathan

Class 4/5

Poem – Street Talk & My Auld Buits

Recitation winners:

1. Eilidh
2. Hannah
3. Lily

Illustration winners:

1. Keira
2. Eilidh
3. Lily

Handwriting winners:

1. Hannah
2. Keira
3. Eilidh

Class 7

Poem – Anything by Burns

Recitation winners:

1. Colin
2. James
3. Murray/ Rachael

Illustration winners:

1. Murray
2. Colin
3. Rachael/ Rebecca

Handwriting winners:

1. Rachael
2. Murray
3. Colin

UNCRC Article 31 Rest, Play, Culture, Arts

Tables set, Saltire hanging, bagpipes piping! It was time for Leswalt’s annual Burns Supper! The whole school sat down to enjoy some haggis neeps and tatties and celebrate the work of Burns and celebrate Scotland! 🍽

Murray, our super P7, was a very able and organised chairperson who welcomed everybody to the Supper and ensured the proceedings ran smoothly. Ben, read the Selkirk Grace before P1 Leo and P7 Colin escorted the Haggis from the kitchen into the dinner hall to the sound of some bagpipes playing in the background. Colin, very confidently and professionally then addressed the haggis which signalled it was time to eat! Pupils sat down to a full haggis supper; haggis, neeps and tatties. Some enjoyed sausages and pizza instead.🍕😀

Afterwards, we enjoyed some poetry recitations from Ellis (P1), Phoebe (P2) James (P3). P1-3 entertained us with their song ‘Ye Cany Shove Yer Granny’ 👵🚌

Colin and Ben followed with an amusing toast to our brilliant P7 Lassies Rachael and Rebecca and Rebecca followed with quite a witty reply. Lily (P5) and Eilidh (P4) recited their poems with great enthusiasm.

Our fantastic P7 James gave us a chuckle with his ‘Toast to Leswalt School’ and Murray got quite the laugh with his final Vote of Thanks. P4-7 entertained with their song ‘Marie’s wedding’ 👰

The company sang ‘Auld Lang Syne’ at the end of a highly successful and entertaining Burns Supper at Leswalt Primary. A huge well done to our fantastic P7’s for their hard work to plan and deliver such a fantastic Burns Supper!😊

UNCRC Articles

Article 31 Rest, Play, Culture, Arts

Article 8 – Identity

Article 7 – Name and Nationality

Meta-Skills

Focussing Fergus

Collaborating Cate

Today we sent away Murray and Ben to represent the school at the yearly Rotary Lunch along with Lyle and Arran from Kirkcolm, accompanied by Mrs Kyle!

This is a fantastic opportunity for the pupils to engage with the members of The Rotary Club who consistently do so much for the schools and community of The Rhins. Today they listened to a talk from Bob Bruce about his 30 years serving in the Army, where he was in charge of 8000 soldiers (big responsibility!) Bruce also told them about how he now serves as the councillor of Edinburgh Castle.

The boys also enjoyed a hearty lunch of fish and chips courtesy of the North West Castle! 🐟

Meta Skills 

Focusing Fergus

Critical Thinking Chris

Curiosity Carlos

Articles

Article 17 – Access to Information

This afternoon the P4-7 kicked off cooking club by making a simple recipe; tortilla wrap pizzas with Miss Douglas and Mrs Kyle.  They followed the recipe, step by step, and added their favourite toppings; Ham, pepperoni, pineapple, chicken and pepper. There was great debate whether pineapple belongs on a pizza!🍍 👩‍🍳👨‍🍳😋

After getting cleaned up, we started thinking about the Week 4’s GREAT LESWALT BAKE OFF! We worked in groups to plan our cookies. Each group could choose 2-3 toppings and ingredients to add to their cookie mix. Some opted for white chocolate and kinder bueno chunks, other groups opted for milk chocolate cookies and Terry’s chocolate orange. We can’t wait to bake and test our cookies soon! 🙂

By that time, everybody’s pizzas were ready! Some chose to take it home for dinner, but almost everybody chose to eat their pizza straight away – I think this was a good sign! Well done Team P4-7! 👩‍🍳👨‍🍳😋