Welcome! We hope that after having a look at our blog you will find out some more information about life at little Leswalt Primary School.
It is not the quantity – but the quality that counts!
Christmas with Owain and Stranraer Baptist Church🎄🎅
On Friday morning Leswalt and Kirkcolm’s upper classes visited the Baptist Church in Stranraer to learn about the true Story of Christmas with Owain and some of the church volunteers!✝️
We enjoyed chatting with Owain about our families Christmas traditions. Owain explained that a lot of the traditions we have in our houses are based on the Nativity story. Afterwards, we split up into groups and acted out parts of the Nativity story. We had donkeys, Mary, Joseph, 3 Kings!🤴🤴🤴
Then, we rotated around 4 fun Christmassy stations; colouring, wrapping, wreath decorating and our Christingles. Through our activities, we learned some really interesting facts about Christmas and the Nativity.
After we had finished all 4 activities, we got together to place a candle on the map of Stranraer to spread Christmas wishes to everybody! Huge thank to Owain and his lovely helpers for a fab and engaging session – as always!
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Sense-Making Samira
Critical Thinking Chris
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Article 12 – Respect for Children’s Views
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Article 30 – Minority, Culture, Language & Religion
Article 31 – Rest, Play & Culture
Leswalt’s Big Festive Feed 🍽️
ts tiiiiimeee, Tables set, crackers ready, Christmas jumpers on and Christmas songs ringing; today was of course Leswalt’s annual Christmas lunch!🎄 Pupils and staff at Leswalt sat down and enjoyed some delicious Turkey, stuffing, chipolata sausages, brussel sprouts and chocolate brownies and ice cream for dessert (of course!)🦃
Just what we needed to get us all in the Christmas mood ready for our first Christmas show dress rehearsal in the afternoon!🎁❄️
UNCRC Articles
Article 30 – Minority, Culture, Language & Religion
Article 31 – Rest, Play & Culture
Community concert choir
A big well done must go to our confident individuals who took part in the recent Leswalt community Christmas concert.
Nine little people gave up their Friday evening to entertain everyone in Leswalt Memorial hall with their super singing of festive tunes.
Mrs Baillie rewarded all with a merit for being such confident individuals and a sweet treat as thank you for their time.
This little choir will be joined by some more of their friends to perform at the Christingle service in Leswalt Church on Christmas Eve. Look out for them on their next stop on their tour!
Badminton superstars
A huge congratulations and well done to Rachael Drummond and Olivia Fidler who both managed to secure third place in the Rhins cluster Badminton competition!
Rachael and Olivia have regularly been attending the Active schools club with Alison Murray and have been training up their skills in the sport to smash it in the inter schools championship.
A massive well done to both girls. It is a fab sport and a great opportunity to meet pupils from other schools. Rachael came third in the P7 girls and Olivia came third in the P6 girls .
We are very proud of both of you! 🏸🥉🥉
Christmas tree festival
The pupils of Leswalt Primary school have created their own very unique Christmas tree which will be on display in Leswalt village Church for the next two weeks, as part of the Crhistmas tree festival which has invited different groups and people in our community to submit their tree creations.
We do not only have one star on our tree – but lots of stars! 🌟
How fantastic does this tree look?
Clay Bird Workshop🐦
This morning Frances Ross, a clay artist visited P4-7’s to have us to take part in the FLOCK workshop. Frances was very enthusiastic and knowledgeable on her craft; she told us about the history of clay modelling, and where clay is used in everyday life. Who knew a toilet seat or hair straighteners were made out of clay?! 🚽
We started off by practising clay molding by creating a ‘pinch pot’ which slowly but surely turned into monsters, lions, football trophies (ofc course Colin!). Pupils were able to take these home! 🎁We then moved onto putting the skills to use to form a bird shell which took shape of a beak and tail feathers at either end. Pupils did a fantastic job at this – they listened so well and were able to apply their skills with ease! Afterwards, we added some colour – We had a little look at British garden birds and some pupils chose to make robins and sparrows, other opted for spotty rainbow birds. 🐦🦅Frances then took the birds away to fire in her studio’s kiln. The birds will be displayed in an exhibition in Castle Douglas for all to see.
A super opportunity for us to do something a little different and have a go at clay modelling! Everyone seemed to really enjoy it! Keep an eye out for some interesting pinch pots making their way home! 👩🎨👨🎨
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Article 13 – Freedom of Expression
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Leswalt go to the Panto.. Oh yes they did!🎬🎭
This afternoon all of Leswalt Primary school once again boarded a bus and headed into town to the Millenium Centre to watch The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Hospotch, a Glasgow company put a modern twist on an old classic – and what a show it was! 🦁 Dorothy, an inspiring singer was transported to the land of Oz, in hopes of meeting ‘The Wiz’ a big time music producer and landing a contract as a Rock Star! Along the way she meets new friends; the tin man, the cowardly lion, the scarecrow and a hilarious farting witch, who had us in fits of laughter!🧚♂️🧚♀️
Everybody really enjoyed themselves; we were all particularly amused by Glinda the good witch with a very sassy edge and lot of gas, who we all agreed really was the star of the show!😂 🩷
A lovely way to begin the Christmassy festivities and get us all inspired for our School Show! 🎅
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Focusing Fergus
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Article 31 – Rest, Play & Culture
P3-5 Author Visit🐭✏️
Today all the Primary 3-5’s were invited to Sheuchan Primary to attend an author event from David C Flanagan as part of the Big DoG Schools tour organised by Wigtown Festival Company and supported by The Foyle Foundation.
David is a Scottish author, raised in Edinburgh and living in Orkney, who made the special trip down to Dumfries and Galloway to introduce himself and his books. He is both an adult and children’s author, best known for his ‘Captain Pete’ series of children’s stories. Today David introduced us to his book ‘Captain Pete and the Undersea Adventure’; a story of Pete and his mouse TM. 🐭 We loved listening to David’s hilarious accents as he read us Chapter 1 of his book.📖🦉
A great session which really got the creative juices flowing – some freshly inspired authors -to-be after today!? Who knows!✏️
Meta Skills
Creativity Cassidy
Collaborating Cora
Curiosity Carlos
Focussing Fergus
Articles
Article 13 – Freedom of Expression
Article 31 – Rest, Arts, Play & Culture
Trip to Stranraer 📚🤖
Continuing our Book Week celebrations, Primary 1-7 ventured to Stranraer Library this morning for some book related fun. The library staff had planned a book scavenger hunt for us to enjoy with our friends from Kirkcolm. Afterwards we were let loose in the library’s collection, free to explore, wander and choose any book we like to cosy up and enjoy! 📖 📚
We enjoyed our packed lunches then braved the wet and wild walk to the Ryan Centre cinema to watch ‘The Wild Robot,’ a movie about Roz, a shipwrecked robot who ends up stranded on a remote island🤖.
A super way to spend a rainy day! ☔️😁
UNCRC Articles
Article 31 – Rest, play, culture and arts
Article 29 – Aims of education
Article 17 – Access to information
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Curiosity Carlos
Communicating Cate
Soup-er Chefs! 🍲🧑🏻🍳
As part of their healthy eating learning P1-4 made some delicious lentil soup! They planned the meal by thinking about the Eat Well Plate and trying to incorporate foods from each group into their recipe. With the help of Mrs Warwick and Mrs Kyle, they set to work, in groups, to carefully peel and chop their vegetables, putting into practice their safe food hygiene learning.
Once all the veg was prepped and ready to go, they added some stock and left the soup to boil away for the afternoon⏲️. On Wednesday morning, they enjoyed their healthy soup – the perfect way to warm our tummies on a cold wet day!
Well done Primary 1-3!⭐️
UNCRC Articles
Article 24 – Health, water food and environment
Article 31- Rest, play, culture and arts
Meta Skills
Focussing Fergus
Creativity Cassidy
Collaborating Cora
Curiosity Carlos
Leading Li
