Leswalt Primary School

The stage was set, the glitter and fake beards had been applied, the cast were ready and the audience sat in anticipation of the annual Leswalt Primary Christmas Show! It was time to launch ‘It’s Chriiiistmas!”

Friends and family had flocked from far and wide – clearly word had got about as to just how amazing all of our pupils perform. And perform they most certainly did! The roof was well and truly lifted with the sound of their happy singing as they put on their production of ‘It’s Chriiiiistmas’ –  the story of  a Christmas Chart show which retells each step of the Nativity and ends with a rousing and cheery song inviting everyone to sing along and remember the importance of togetherness at this time of year.

We cannot express just how proud we are of each and every one of our performers! They were absolutely AMAZING!

PS – Next stop The Christingle in Leswalt Church on Christmas Eve when you will be treated to another fabulous singing performance! Hope we see you there!

Article 31 – Rest, Play, Culture and Arts

 

House Captains Daisy and Isla have been planning this event for weeks and today was the day!

Wearing their best togs, the boys and girls were ready for an afternoon of Christmas partying fun – and that’s exactly what they got!

All the favourites were there: Musical Islands, The Grand Old Duke of York, Christmas Corners, Pass the Parcel – a quick refreshment break for juice, crisps and a delicious sweet snack provided by Hannah and Rachael’s mum from Simpson’s Bakery – and then a visit from a very special visitor! You may have an idea who that might have been…

Fortunately – but totally unsurprisingly to the teachers of course! – each and every pupil was on the Nice list and so Santa had a little gift for all! He then headed off to a rousing farewell song of Jingle Bells – he’s a busy man with a lot to do in the next few days!

Check out these lovely photo memories…

The school and community came together for the Parent council organised Santa dash this afternoon, after school today.

To the festive tunes from the brass band, little Santas raced round the village to raise funds for the Parent council.

All entrants were provided with a Santa hat at the start and medal at the end – many thanks to Leswalt village stores for this sponsorship.

At the end, hot chocolate, mince pies and shortbread was on hand for all – many thanks to Lidl for donating this.

Thank you also to the musicians and members of the community association who also helped out.  It was a fun event that spread the Christmas cheer round the streets of Leswalt!  The fundraising total will be announced next week.

Over the last 4 week, we’ve had the pleasure of Stuart Fisher’s company who has taken each class on a weekly basis for 30 minutes of tri-golf. We’ve covered things from hitting long range shots using drivers and irons (in our PJs as it was Children in Need!), target practise with the large sticky target, and putting. We put all of our new skills into practise through lots of fun games and activities that Stuart setup.

Thanks to Stuart for taking the time to come in to Leswalt Primary – we’ve had a fab few weeks!

UNCRC article 31 – we have the right to play.

The scene was set…lights twinkling on the decorated trees, cheery children decked out in their Festive knits, crackers laid on the tables, Christmas tunes pumping and the smell of a delicious dinner wafting around the hall! It was time for Christmas Lunch at Leswalt!

What a delicious lunch was enjoyed by everyone. Such a lovely time to all be together. Just look at these smiling faces…

 

This morning we were delighted to welcome back Owain Evan’s from Scripture Union with the fantastic Christmas Unwrapped presentation! Fun games and a thought-provoking quiz got everyone on their feet and engaged. This covered Christmas traditions  and threw up some very interesting answers…

Owain told the class that Jesus’ coming was spoken of over 351 times in the Bible! Each group participated in a chance to work together to share their knowledge of the Christmas Story. They saw examples of a typical 1st Century Hebrew home and heard about some of the ‘prettier ideas’ that the Nativity Story has included over the centuries!
The hands-on activities continued as each group got a sequencing task to work through to some Christmas tunes but it wasn’t quite as straightforward as they might have hoped! It took a bit of figuring out to spot the ‘wild card’ 🤣

The morning continued with a wordsearch including all the key points covered. Super speedy word finding, followed by a video clip re-telling the Nativity dispelling those age-old myths!

The session ended with each pupil getting the chance to create their own commemorative ceramic tile selecting a key message from the Christmas Story – just look at these amazing designs below!

UNCRC Articles 13 Sharing Thoughts Freely, 29 Aims of Education and 31 Rest, Play, Culture and Arts.

 

 

PC Mc Gregor paid a visit to Leswalt Primary today to collect all the donations from the children for their Police Scotland Youth volunteers Christmas appeal.

The boys and girls had brought in lots of items such as shower gel, biscuits, tins of soup, toothpaste and gloves.  These items will be made up into mini hampers and distributed amongst elderly people in the community.

The photograph shows the Eco Committee handing over the goodies to PC Mc Gregor.  Well done to all at Leswalt Primary for thinking of others at this time of year.

To mark World Kindness Day last month, P6/7 created their own Kindness Advent Calendar!

Each day in December, a different class member has opened a homemade envelope to reveal the kindness suggestion inside. These, so far, have ranged from looking out for any one in the playground who could do with a buddy to thanking folks at home for just being themselves and offering to lend a hand (Ela is going to help clean the kitchen – think Christmas Day would be a perfect day to offer her help there!)

The pupils came up with their own kindness suggestions and it offers an opportunity to highlight those little things we can all do to bring a smile to everyone’s faces! ❤️

Primary 6/7 enjoyed some more technology fun this morning using their laptops and the Scratch Coding website! We joined an online Teams session with lots of other schools to create our own Christmas Wonderland adding coding to make our chosen sprites (with a Christmas theme so we had lots of polar bears, reindeer and snowflakes!) dance, sing and even clone themselves! Daisy worked out how to record Ellie speaking and add that to her talking polar bear too! It was great fun to see so much creativity on show!

 

UNCRC – Article 29 Aims of Education

Article 31 Rest, Play, Culture, Arts

Our superstar singers of Leswalt Primary went on tour on Friday night and performed at Leswalt community concert.  Our little choir of volunteers opened the show with a sneak preview of two songs which they will all perform in their forthcoming Christmas show.

Fourteen of our pupils gave up their Friday night to entertain the local community in Leswalt Memorial hall.  Many thanks must go to the boys and girls, and their parents for this support. All the children have been rewarded with a merit for their efforts.  And, the feedback from the audience was that they were great!

Well done everyone!