On Friday afternoon, we welcomed Cathy from the Community Reuse shop into school to create beautiful Christmas mirrors with our P4-7’s. Following on from our visit to The Reuse Shop before the October Holidays, Cathy showed us a fabulous way to upcycle old plates and turn them into beautiful mirrors.🪞 The boys and girls got their aprons on and sleeves rolled up ready for some messy craft. Cathy had brough
This afternoon, we kick started our Halloween party fun by judging the winners of the pumpkin carving competition. The House Captains, Lily and Olivia along with the teachers had the tricky decision of choosing the most spook-tastic, creative pumpkin. In the end, we managed to choose 2 winners from each class; P1-3 – Maeva and Phoebe P4-7 Keira and Lily A big well done girls, we loved your designs and
It was back to school at Leswalt Primary today – just in time for the spooky season! And, to ensure all were ready for Hallowe’en every child went home with a pumpkin today! These were kindly donated to the school from Kirkcolm Community trust, as they were left over from the recent pumpkin patch. Children can carve these at school and bring them back to school on Friday for judging,
This term, the Primary 4-7 class have been learning all about Fairtrade products and the impact that buying Fairtrade can have on Fairtrade countires’ farmers and communities.🗺️ To top off a fabulous term and celebrate our topic, we thought it would only be right to sample some Fairtrade bananas and chocolate for ourselves! We enjoyed a selection of bananas, locally grown strawberries marshmallows and flapjacks dipped in into some delicious
Special Delivery!🚪🥰 This morning, the sun was shining and P4-7 were very excited to head out into the village to deliver some bags filled with delicious harvesty goodies. The boys and girls loved door hopping, meeting some of the Leswalt community members and handing over some cupboard fillers! 🥔🥣🍅 We really did have a lovely morning and we hope we managed to put smiles on🛍️🚪 some peoples’ faces! 😄 Thank
Armed with tatties, beans, soup and the biggest carrots and leeks we have ever seen!! (courtesy of Papa Finlay’s garden), we headed across to the church for our annual Harvest Celebration🥕🫘🍠. When we arrived, we saw lots of mummies, daddies and member sf our families there, ready to celebrate harvest with us. Reverend Marlene led a lovely service and explained that a lot of the food we eat comes from
Pillows and jumpers at the ready! Thursday saw the whole school learn how to ‘Restart a Heart’ as part of a nationwide drive to train as many people as possible in CPR. We learned about the 3Cs – CHECK – check for danger, then gently shake the person’s shoulders to see if they are responsive. CALL – dial 999 and put the phone on loud speaker. CPR – check if
As part of their ‘food journeys’ focus this term, P4-7 have been learning all about the food we eat and where it comes from.. the perfect opportunity to get cooking! This week’s focus was ‘food miles’, we challenged ourselves to create a recipe which incorporated foods from all over the world and came up with a Slow Cooker ‘All Over the World Rainbow Curry’.✈️🍛 Yesterday morning we split up into
The digital leaders went to Kirkcolm and had a fab day. They learned how to make a QR code and loads more such as using Microsoft copilot and and Canva. Mrs McHarg taught us all about ICT, this can help us to make ICT more fun for pupils from p1 to p7. The digital leaders shared break time with Kirkcolm and had a brilliant time. They are learning about internet
This afternoon boys and girls from both classes welcomed their families into school to show off our Big Maths! Whether you’re Primary 2 or Primary 7, Big Maths is a big deal! We kicked off the afternoon with big business.. our Learn It tests with the added fun of our families joining in with the Primary 6-7 test! Primary 1’s had fun with their big people in the hall, showing
