Digital Leaders present Safer Internet Day 2025!

Today, we participated in Safer Internet Day 2025 – an annual event which explores all the ways in which we can use the amazing source that is the internet in the safest  way possible!

This year’s theme is ‘Too Good to be True’ and gave us all a chance to consider all the offers which we might see online and how to keep ourselves protected from scams.

Our learning this morning was led by our Digital Leaders Rachael and Murray. They presented the whole school with an information powerpoint, held a quiz to check everyone had been listening and set a ‘Design an Cyber Superhero’ competition for all to get to involved in! Working as buddies, older and younger pupils worked together to create their best designs and what wonderful superheroes they all produced!

The Digital Leaders then had the unenviable task of judging the Cyber Superheroes!

And the winners are…

P1 – Gregor                                     Runner-up – Erin

P2 – Jorgie                                      Runner-up – Cameron

P3/4 – Hannah                             Runner-up – Keira

P6 – Rebecca                                 Runner-up – Roman

P7 – Ellie                                         Runner-up – Ela

We all joined the BBC Live lesson at 11am which was a fun 30 minutes of interactive games and top tips about how to stay safe online. P6/7 followed this up by using this theme for their Literacy Comprehension lesson.

A busy Safer Internet Day!

UNCRC

Article 17  – Access to Information

Article 29 – Aims of Education

Meta Skills

Initiative Ivy

Integrity Imani

 

Rachael and Rebecca’s K’Nex Triumph!

As winners of our in-school K’Nex Challenge before Christmas, Rachael and Rebecca were chosen to represent Leswalt Primary at the Rhins Cluster Creating Engineers Challenge held yesterday at St Joseph’s Primary Stranraer. This exciting K’Nex Challenge is run annually by the Glasgow Science Festival.

The girls were set the task of designing an exercise bike using K’Nex. They needed to sketch their plan, work together and have a finished product ready to be judged – all within a one hour time-scale!

Rachael and Rebecca were super role-models for our school – they were polite and mannerly, listened well and worked together co-operatively. Mrs Kyle, who had accompanied them, was very proud of them.

Two judges took the time to look at all the K’Nex models before leaving the room to discuss their findings.

They then returned to tell the waiting competitors who had won and…drum roll please… Rachael and Rebecca WON!

Next stop…the regional K’Nex finals in Dumfries! Well done girls – you have done our wee school proud!

UNCRC

Article 29 Aims of Education

Article 31 Rest, Play, Culture, Arts

Meta-skills

Initiative Ivy,  Adapting Aleksander,  Focusing Fergus

Curling is cool!

Our Primary 7 pupils enjoyed a taster coaching session in curling today.  Under the expert guidance of Gail Munro MBE and all the coaching staff at Stranraer Ice rink our senior pupils were brushing and curling their way to victory!

All pupils have arrived back at school with certificates for their participation and details of how they can enjoy more curling at an after school club – please look school bags for details.

We could have the next Bobby Lammie or Vicky Wright ( Olympic gold medallists) in our schools again!

Thank-You Santa’s Float!

Mrs McHarg attended a cheque presentation on Wednesday night at the Ryan Centre on behalf of both Kirkcolm and Leswalt Schools, who have each received £200 from the Santa’s Float proceeds.
A huge thank-you to both the YMCA and Stranraer & Rhins Young farmers who organise the Santa’s Float, for this very generous donation to our schools. The money will go towards helping to fund transport costs which will enable us to give our pupils a wide range of experiences throughout the year and not let our rural location be a barrier to participation.

Burns Lunch Celebrations!

Today we enjoyed our annual Burns’ Lunch – a little later than we had initially planned due to the storms but it was worth the wait!

Daisy led the celebrations in her role as chairperson inviting Betty in P1 to carry in the haggis, our ‘Address to a Haggis’ P7s to recite the poem with gusto (thanks Ben G, Ela, Sean, Holly and Ewan!) and Sean to say the Selkirk Grace before we all tucked into our tasty lunch!

Following this we enjoyed listening to the toasts. Ben G and Ewan gave the Toast to the Lassies – with a little bit of teasing thrown in! Holly and Amelia gave the Reply to the Lads with an equal measure of joking. Isla and Ellie were invited to give their Toast to the School which celebrated all things good about our wee school. Ela rounded up our lunch with a Vote of Thanks before we all joined in with a rousing rendition of Auld Lang Syne.

A braw wee afternoon with the weans!

Bringing the Scottish Wars of Independence Alive!

 

Today we had the pleasure of welcoming Kathryn Purchase from History Alive to the P6/7 classroom! The pupils have been investigating Scotland at the time of Wallace and Bruce and Kathryn’s presentation brought this history period alive and visual – and what an amazing morning we all had!

Kathryn took us on a whistle-stop tour of Scotland (and England and France!) at the time of the 1280s onwards. We learnt about the influence of the French Normans, the rule of Edward I, the importance of the Church and the power struggle which was taking place in Scotland caused by the death of King Alexander III. We enjoyed sharing what we had already learnt about this – we have researched as far as Wiliam Wallace so far – and Kathryn told us about the battles and key figures which followed next culminating in the reign of Robert the Bruce.

My goodness but the battles were gruesome! Kathryn had some replicas and explained about the Scottish victories and defeats and how important weaponry was.

The class enjoyed exploring the replicas and costumes – it was such a great way to learn!

Just  take a look at the photos below…

 

Celebrating Scots’ Month at Leswalt Primary

The pupils of Leswalt Primary have had a super busy month with all things Scots! Each pupil was set the challenge of learning a Scots poem, writing it out in the very best handwriting and creating some fabulous artwork to go with it. These formed January’s homework tasks.

On Monday, Mrs Buchanan had the unenviable job of judging this  – she was ably assisted by Mrs Cash Leswalt Church’s minister. Phew! They had a very tricky job on their hands!

But, to keep the excitement going…. the pupils only found out who were the winners today at our annual Scots’ Showcase Afternoon to which friends and family were warmly invited to attend!

The audience were treated to Scots’ songs, wonderfully expressive recitations and a display of fantastic artwork and handwriting. Well done to all the weans!

Leswalt Primary School Burns Results 2025

Class 1

Poem – Wee Red Motor

Recitation winners:

1. Erin

2. Ada

3. Jessica

Illustration winners:

1. Erin

2. Betty

3. Jessica

Handwriting winners:

1. Gregor

2. Jessica

3. Erin

Class 2

Poem – The Elephant

Recitation winners:

1. Cameron

2. Jorgie

3. Beathan

Illustration winners:

1. James

2. Cameron

3. Beathan

Handwriting winners:

1. James

2. Jorgie

3. Cameron

Class 3

Poem – The Circus

Recitation winners:

1. Hannah

2. Kiera

3. Emma

Illustration winners:

1. Kiera

2. Thea

3. Emma

 

Handwriting winners:

1. Hannah

2. Eilidh

3. Aira-Rose

Class 4

Poem – Magic Pizza

Recitation winners:

1. Ellie Burton

Illustration winners:

1. Lily Bennewith

Handwriting winners:

1. Lily Bennewith

Class 6

Poem – A Dug a Dug

Recitation winners:

1. Colin

2. Roman

3. Murray/ Rachael

Illustration winners:

1. Murray

2. Roman

3. Rebecca

Handwriting winners:

1. Rachael

2. Rebecca

3. Ben

Class 7

Poem – Anything by Burns

Recitation winners:

1. Ela

2. Daisy

3. Holly/Isla/Ben

Illustration winners:

1. Ellie

2. Sean

3. Ela

Handwriting winners:

1. Holly

2. Amelia

3. Ewan/Ela

UNCRC Article 31 Rest, Play, Culture, Arts

 

 

January Sun Rugby Fun with Niamh!

Another fabulously fun session with Niamh today (who did say  this class was her favourite one to visit!) Every pupil listens well, follows instructions and gets stuck in – oh my do they get stuck in?! The state of their clothes and hands  is testament to that!

Niamh is super keen for each and every one of them to come along to the Junior Rugby sessions on a Sunday as  they all show great promise! It would be fantastic to see some of them take her up on this offer… 🙂

UNCRC   Article 31 Rest, Play, Culture, Arts

Ellie and Sean represent Leswalt Primary at the Rotary Lunch!

Big thank you to Ellie and Sean for representing Leswalt Primary so well at the recent Rotary Lunch. Their polite manners were as expected from this pair and we were delighted to nominate them to attend.

Mr Alec Ross talked about To a Mouse by Robert Burns and gave an excellent recitation  and explanation of this. Ellie and Sean enjoyed the chat with Rotary Club members and other P7 pupils representing our local area. They also enjoyed a slap-up lunch!

A lovely way to start the week – and a chance to thanks 2 very Responsible Citizens for their great behaviour!

UNCRC

Article 31 – Rest, Play, Culture, Arts.

Article 29 – Aims of Education

Bagpipes!

Primary 1-4 were delighted that their input from Lighthouse musicians today had the added bonus of a special visitor in the form of Mr John Harvey and his bagpipes.

John played some traditional, and not so traditional songs on his bagpipes for all to jig along to.  He also allowed pupils the chance to have a go playing them and try on some kilts.

This musical input ties in perfectly with the current Scots literacy focus we have in school for the month of January.  The children enjoyed the pipes being played – and Mrs Baillie had some explanations to people on the phone to her this afternoon!

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