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!
Rachael and Rebecca Represent Leswalt at K’nex Regional Final!
Our future budding engineers Rebecca and Rachael travelled to Dumfries yesterday to participate in the Glasgow Science Festival Creating Engineers Regional Final! The girls had won the local Rhins competition last term and we now competing on a bigger stage!
As expected, they were exemplary representatives of our wee school and they worked hard to complete the tough challenge of planning, designing and building a K’Nex digger complete with a cab, steering wheel, arms and a bucket. We may be a little biased but we thought their finished product was FABULOUS!
Although the girls did not win the regional competition, they are winners in our eyes and we are very proud of them. Well done you two 
UNCRC Article 29 Aims of Education
Meta Skills – Collaborating Cora Communicating Cate Adapting Aleksander
Egg-cellent Easter Fun at Leswalt Primary!
This week, the pupils of Leswalt have had an egg-citing time exploring the Easter story through arts and crafts, baking, finding out about cultural traditions and becoming quiz masters! 
Working together, the older pupils buddied up with their younger friends as they planned, designed and decorated hard boiled eggs.
Mrs Baillie had the unenviable task of judging the decorated eggs – tough decision as they had all been so creative!
The winners were…
P1-4 1st – Beathan and his Minion
2nd – Aria-Rose and her fluffy bunny
3rd equal – Eilidh with her Ninja Turtle and Cameron with his witch
P6/7
1st – Ewan with his couped ewe(!)
2nd – Ben G with Pikachu
3rd equal – Rachael with her butterfly and Isla with her Minecraft egg
They then had great fun rolling their eggs down ‘the burn’. We talked about the symbolism of the eggs being rolled too.
As P1-4 had learnt lots about the Easter Story before the holidays, they taught the older ones all they knew and then everyone worked in pairs to create quizzes for one another using Microsoft Forms! 
P1-4 also baked a Simnel cake with the help of Mrs Kyle and James made some yummy chocolate crispy nests! Cameron could tell me that they had decorated the cake with 11 toppings representing the disciples – not 12 as Judas had betrayed Jesus. This cake is traditionally eaten at Easter time and the boys and girls enjoyed munching it up!
What a fun week we have had learning about Easter
UNCRC
Article 14 – Freedom of Thought and Religion
Article 31 Rest, Play, Culture, Arts
Article 29 Aims of Education
Meta-Skills
Collaborating Cora Leading Li Initiative Ivy Communicating Cate
Cross Country Fun in the Sun 
P6/7 headed to Green Valley this morning for the annual Rhins Primary Cross Country event.
All pupils ran/walked a mile and represented their school with exemplary behaviour – so proud of them!
Colin came 2nd in the P6 boys category and Rachael was 1st in the P6 girls – superb effort!
Well done all 
Paint Throwing Fun for Holi Festival!
As part of their RME topic learning about the Hindu festival of Holi, P6-7 pupils donned some very old clothing and headed outside on Friday afternoon to take part in paint throwing! Pupils learned all about the origins of the festival and how Hindus celebrate this by lighting bonfires and throwing colourful paint powder at each other, so we thought we’d have a go ourselves! Have a keek below at the fun in action! Apologies if any children still have bright red or blue faces and hands tomorrow!
Visit to Leswalt Church
P6-7 pupils visited Leswalt Church on Friday morning as part of their RME topic, learning about Christian artefacts, worship and rites of passage. Rev. Marlane Cash kindly met us at the church and was on hand to explain to everyone about the significance of various artefacts, including the font, pulpit, lecturn, chalice, communion wafer, organ, Bible and cross. Pupils even got the opportunity to try one of the communion wafers – but emphasised that this hadn’t been blessed! Pupils were all of a sudden keen to attend church for Communion after learning that even children get offered the red wine!
Marlane then explained how Sunday worship usually looks and spoke about hymns, Bible readings, the sermon that she leads, the Lord’s Prayer and the benediction. Pupils asked lots of questions to further their learning.
We had a great afternoon learning about Christianity in an interactive way – thanks to Marlane for giving up her time to speak to us.
UNCRC Article 14 – freedom of thought & religion
Into Film Spring Screening
This afternoon the boys and girls enjoyed a little trip to the Ryan Centre to enjoy an end of term treat after a jam-packed term! After having an early lunch, we jumped on the coach and headed to the cinema where we were joined by other schools including our friends from Kirkcolm!
We watched the film ‘Inside Out 2,’ a fab tale about a girl called Riley and her very many emotions and how she navigates through the big change of growing up, friendships and new feelings. It was a fun-filled rollercoaster of emotions which made us laugh from start to finish! 
Many of us had already watched the original ‘Inside Out’ film and were a bit apprehensive about how the sequel could possibly live up to the hype of the first film, but we were very pleasantly surprised – a 5 
rating from all of us!
rating from all of us!After a super busy term and very thorough litter pick this morning to give our fab little community a little Spring clean we had absolutely earned ourselves a wee treat in the form of a movie afternoon! 
Yesterday’s trip to Kirkcolm to watch their Easter show got us mood for another good performance!
Yesterday’s trip to Kirkcolm to watch their Easter show got us mood for another good performance!A huge big thank you to the Ryan Centre Staff and organisers of the Into Film Festival as well as the Parent Council for paying for our transport 
Article 31 – The Right to Relax and Play
Article 13 – The Right to Freedom of Expression
Article 13 – The Right to Freedom of Expression
Meta Skills – Feeling Felix
Spring clean litter pick
Today, armed with litter-pickers and bin bags the pupils of Leswalt Primary decided to give their community a spring clean!
In groups they headed round the village to see what they could spot and tidy up. The had some fun finds! Erin found 50p, which she said she was later going to buy a mixture from the shop with. Ben found what he thought was an orange rag – only to discover that it was actually his own jumper – which had blown off the washing line some time ago! James asked his group to do a litter pick in his garden – which they did ( and then proceeded to think they could go into every garden in Leswalt)
All and all, it was a successful morning out and about doing their bit for the community and environment – look at how much litter they found!
Farewell Roman and Ellie
Today was the last day at Leswalt Primary for Roman and Ellie, as they are moving out of the area. This week staff at school have ensured they have had fun times to remember with their friends at Leswalt Primary. There has been gifts, cards and even a specially created video by Mrs Ferguson Roman and Ellie
Today, it was the turn of Roman and Ellie to hand over gifts – in the form of some beautiful cupcakes which spelled out ” Goodbye Leswalt Primary – Ellie and Roman x”
We wish you all the very best in your new school!
Working together with Children’s Parliament!
This afternoon, Leswalt P6/7 welcomed back Jack, Linnea and Jill from the Children’s Parliament. We all worked together creating our 4 Cs board game – campus, culture, community and curriculum and sharing our ideas and opinions.
Our comments and illustrations will be collated to create a ‘ludo’ style game which can be shared in schools across Scotland! Jack, Linnea and Jill encourage us to talk about our Children’s Rights, our climate and what we see as priorities. We really enjoy this chat time!
Excitingly, they’re working on an event to be held in May – hopefully outside and with special visitors (and us of course!) Watch this space for more information to follow… 
Rotary Club Quizzers
A huge well done to our four Primary 7 pupils who represented the school at the recent Rotary Club quiz, which was held at Belmont Primary School. Ben, Ewan, Isla and Amelia faced some tough questions and opposition from other local primary schools. Although they weren’t placed on the day, we are very proud of their efforts and team work! 
