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!
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!
This afternoon the school closed for the Summer holidays. But first, the hard work of our pupils was celebrated and the following awards were handed out –
100% attendance award – Colin Mc Gregor
Excellent attendance – Ellie Bennewith, Lily Bennewith, Hamish Mc Gregor, Beathan Wright ,Daisy Doyle
Accelerated reading star readers
P2 Eilidh Ramsay (23 tests passed)
P3 Lily Bennewith 22 tests passed
P5 Colin Mc Gregor ( 30.4) and Rachael Drummond (most books – 17)
P6 Isla Kirkpatrick (most points 37) and Ela Chang (most books – 16)
P7 Hamish Mc Gregor ( most points 87.4) and Cara Jamieson ( most books 15)
Responsible citizen | |
P1
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Jorgie – never gives us a moment of trouble. Kind, caring, always includes everyone. Works hard and tries her best, setting a super example to others. Full of chat and will happily converse with both adults and pupils alike. |
P2/3 | Thea – Always smiling. Knows right from wrong and demonstrates this. Grown in confidence. |
P5
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Ben T – kind, helpful, caring and honest. Respectful and cheery member of our wee team. |
P6
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Ellie B – hard-working, eager to please. |
P7
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Carys – super House Captain, responsible, fair and reliable. |
Who has passed Platinum rainbow tables this year?
Colin, Roman, Ela, Ewan, Ellie, Daisy, Isla, Katie, Ben G, Amelia, Carys, Kaiden, Mark, Sean and Holly
Who has passed platinum rainbow spelling this year?
Brandon, Ela, Daisy,
Gold star awards – James Hunter, Keira Richardson, Beathan Wright
Intervention effort with Mrs Kyle – Aria Rose, Ellie and Sean Paul
Excellence in effort in homework – Thea Fisher – both in class and with reading with Mrs Kyle
Outdoor education award – Cameron Mc Donald – outstanding general knowledge about birds and very helpful at recent Wetlands work.
Sports
Sports champions certificates
P1 – Beathan Wright
P2/3- Hannah Drummond
P5 – Murray Reid
P6 – Sean Mc Credie
P7 – Mark Drummond
House points shield
Most merits in p1-4 = Keira Richardson
Most merits in p5-7 = Colin Mc Gregor
Soleburn – 153 (sports) + 505 = 658
Lochnaw – 100 (sports) + 599 = 699
Winning house captain – Lochnaw – Hamish Mc Gregor
Runner up house captain – Soleburn – Carys Mc Hallum
P1-4 | P5-7 | |
Literacy award | Keira – Sets herself high standards and strives in ever task to meet them. Work is beautifully presented, neat and tidy. Her progress in reading is of particular note. | Cara – great progress! Spelling, presentation, maturity of writing. AR – passed an incredible 15 tests and read over ½ million words! |
Numeracy award | James – what can we say! Awesome progress, thrives on a challenge.
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Brandon – lightning quick mental maths king! Raised his game considerably this year – working with peers on challenging tasks, Beat That maths 72/72 in an unbelievable 1 min 17secs and powering through Platinum CLIC challenges! |
HWB award | HWB award Emma – always arrives at school smiling and happy, even though she may be feeling tired and under the weather. Joins in tasks fully and tackles them happily. Not afraid to stand up for herself when she needs to! Mother hen to the P1 boys | Ewan – need a problem solve? Mr C. Need a job done? Mr C. Need a level-headed (mostly) perspective? Mr C! Always has valid points to add to discussion, enjoys sports and being active and is always keen to lend a hand for PE organisation. One of life’s do-ers J |
NRP award | Beathan – over the year he has developed a real ‘can-do’ attitude (this is huge progress from the moany boy in term 1!). His progress across all curriculum areas is impressive and he thrives on challenge and new learning | Faye – caring and thoughtful, hard-working and self-motivated, reliable and sensible – possibly more so than me! Faye embodies every thread of the NRP values. |
Nina Agnew Creativity award – Ela Chang – First in Scots poetry. Drama club member. Singing, representing the school at Leswalt concert and Burns Club new tattie night. Baking cookies for all!
P5-7 Award for endeavour – Hamish Mc Gregor – for trying his hardest in every curricular area over his 7 years at Primary school. A great role model to all.
It was so lovely to see the boys and girls cheering each other on with a bit of friendly competition and team spirit! The highly anticipated relay race was the final race of the day – we had a four way race between each of Leswalt and Kirkcolm’s houses – Corsewall, Loch Connell, Soleburn and Lochnaw! The boys and girls positioned themselves round the track – and set off to the sound of their school mates cheering them on! 🙂 Corsewall and Loch Connell took the lead and finished joint first, followed by Soleburn and Lochnaw – but a huge, big well done to all 4 teams for all of the practise they have been putting in at break and lunchtimes over the past few weeks! 🏆 🥇
After the sports we headed to Leswalt School for a well-deserved snack and break, before we headed back outside for a Leswalt vs Kirkcolm game of football rounders – which was taken very seriously from both teams!! 🏐
SPRINT P 1 all 1st Beathan 2nd Cameron 3rd James/Parker
SPRINT P 2 Girls 1st Hannah 2nd Eilidh/Sally 3rd Thea
SPRINT P 2 Boys 1st Scott 2nd Henry 3rd Ewan
SPRINT P3 all 1st Freddie 2nd Ian 3rd Joey
SPRINT P 4 all 1st Paige 2nd Rebecca/Cameron 3rd Callum
SPRINT P 5 all 1st Murray 2nd Lyle 3rd Rachael
SPRINT P 6 Girls 1st Daisy 2nd Holly 3rd Phoebe
SPRINT P6 Boys 1st Ivan 2nd Sean 3rd Archie
SPRINT P 7 Girls 1st Sally 2nd Lydia 3rd Cara
SPRINT P 7 Boys 1st Alfie 2nd Mark 3rd Danny
SKIPPING P 1 all 1st Parker 2nd Jorgie 3rd Beathan
SKIPPING P 2 Girls 1st Hannah 2nd Sally 3rd Eilidh
SKIPPING P 2 Boys 1st Henry 2nd James 3rd Ewan
SKIPPING P3 all 1st Joey 2nd Freddie 3rd Ross
SKIPPING P 4 all 1st Callum 2nd Cameron 3rd Bryleigh
SKIPPING P 5 all 1st Lyle 2nd Colin 3rd Rachael
SKIPPING P 6 Girls 1st Holly 2nd Amelia 3rd Phoebe
SKIPPING P6 Boys 1st Ivan 2nd Sean 3rd Ewan
SKIPPING P 7 Girls 1st Carys 2nd Sally 3rd Cara
SKIPPING P 7 Boys 1st Mark 2nd Jack 3rd Steven
SACK P 1 all 1st Parker 2nd Harlow 3rd Cameron
SACK P 2 Girls 1st Hannah 2nd Sally 3rd Eilidh
SACK P 2 Boys 1st Ewan 2nd Scott 3rd Vlad
SACK P3 all 1st Ian 2nd Joey 3rd Freddie
SACK P 4 all 1st Cameron 2nd Callum 3rd Paige/ Rebecca
SACK P 5 all 1st Murray 2nd Rachael 3rd Lyle
SACK P 6 Girls 1st Daisy 2nd Phoebe 3rd Holly
SACK P6 Boys 1st Ivan 2nd Sean 3rd Alistair
SACK P 7 Girls 1st Sally 2nd Cara 3rd Faye
SACK P 7 Boys 1st Danny 2nd Mark 3rd Jack
EGG & SPOON P 1 all 1st Orla/ James 2nd Cameron 3rd Jorgie
EGG & SPOON P 2 Girls 1st Hannah 2nd Sally 3rd Eilidh
EGG & SPOON P 2 Boys 1st Ewan 2nd James 3rd Scott
EGG & SPOON P3 all 1st Joey 2nd Lily 3rd Ross
EGG & SPOON P 4 all 1st Paige 2nd Cameron 3rd Bryleigh
EGG & SPOON P 5 all 1st Lyle 2nd Colin 3rd Arran
EGG & SPOON P 6 Girls 1st Phoebe 2nd Ela 3rd Daisy
EGG & SPOON P6 Boys 1st Ivan 2nd Sean 3rd Ben G
EGG & SPOON P 7 Girls 1st Faye 2nd Lydia 3rd Sally
EGG & SPOON P 7 Boys 1st Mark 2nd Jack 3rd Danny
DISTANCE P 1 all 1st Cameron 2nd Parker/ Harlow 3rd Orla
DISTANCE P 2 Girls 1st Hannah 2nd Sally 3rd Eilidh
DISTANCE P 2 Boys 1st Scott 2nd Ewan 3rd Henry
DISTANCE P3 all 1st Freddie 2nd Joey 3rd Ian
DISTANCE P 4 all 1st Callum 2nd Rebecca/ Cameron 3rd Paige/ Rebecca
DISTANCE P 5 all 1st Murray 2nd Rachael 3rd Colin
DISTANCE P 6 Girls 1st Daisy 2nd Phoebe 3rd Holly
DISTANCE P6 Boys 1st Ivan 2nd Sean 3rd Alistair
DISTANCE P 7 Girls 1st Sally 2nd Lydia 3rd Cara
DISTANCE P 7 Boys 1st Jack 2nd Mark 3rd Alfie
Loch Connell won the inter-school house relay, with Corsewall in 2nd place, Soleburn in 3rd and Loch Naw in 4th position.
Kirkcolm were the overall winners of the day with a grand total of 192 points, and Leswalt were in 2nd place with 116 points.
We had the very BEST day at Ernespie Farm Park for our annual Leswalt Primary Summer trip! 🌞 🚜🛝🐄🐐
The windscreen wipers on the bus didn’t dampen our spirits one bit as we pulled up at the farm park. A quick snack and loo stop and we were ready to explore.
Luckily, would you believe it, the sun came out to greet us too!
So explore we most certainly did…. with fun in the indoor soft play; a farm tour in the tractor and trailer; enjoying the woodland play park; playing on the combine and ride-on tractors in the shed; cooing over animals in the petting shed (aww the cuteness of those Guinea Pigs?! There was much begging to take one home as a class pet!) and then the awesome outdoor play area! So much to do – from bouncy pillows to the go-karts, whizzing down the zip wire to the thrills of the Cresta slide! Needless to say, there were rosy cheeks all round as all the friends played together and had so much fun!
A delicious ice lolly to round off the day was a welcome treat – and paid for by Beathan’s dad! So kind of him 😍
Take a few minutes to enjoy the fantastic photos below. Making memories together ❤️
UNCRC Article 31 We have the right to play
What a brilliant few days we have enjoyed with our new Leswalt crew 😀 The fabulous P7s Brandon, Kaiden, Hamish, Mark, Faye, Carys, Cara and Katie headed off to sample the adventures of S1 at Stranraer Academy, whilst we welcomed Rebecca into P6 and the fabulous quintet to Erin, Ada, Betty, Jessica and Gregor as the new P1s!
They all made very welcome additions to their classes and their schoolmates really enjoyed their company! Just look at these smiley faces…
We can wait to welcome you back in August!
Today the brand new P6/7 class enjoyed a Fun French Day! This kicked off their three -day mini-project about the Paris Olympics 2024 with their Day 1 looking at France; Day 2 will be researching the Ancient Olympics to present day and Day 3 will focus on sports and hosting their very own Leswalt Olympics!
Fun French Day meant lots of learning French vocabulary through actions, games and songs; using their Geography skills to locate places in France and its bordering countries; computer research skills to find key facts about France and making (and eating) crepes with delicious toppings such as sugar, syrup, strawberries and Nutella with the assistance of Mrs Kyle.
The verdict was tres bien all round!
Roll on day 2…
We are very much looking forward to having our new Primary 1 pupils starting in school .
And, thanks to the digital skills of Mrs Mc Harg and the House captains we have an amazing electronic book that will help explain more about Leswalt Primary. It is just so good we had to share it with all of our parents.
Click on the link here and I am sure you will be impressed with the information, photographs and videos – all about life at Leswalt Primary.
After a night of very heavy rain , it did finally dry up to allow us to have our Sports day at Leswalt. Cheered on by classmates, friends and family everyone tried their hardest and displayed a very sporting attitude.
Many thanks must go to David Kirkpatrick and Angus Brown who helped transport all the equipment across to the park. Thank you also to Natasha for the kind gesture of a sweetie mixture which every child got at 3pm, and the Parent council for the ice lollies at the end to cool everyone down.
Results will follow soon – with the winning house announced in the last week of term. It was a successful sporting afternoon – have a look at all the athletes in action!
After taking part in a verification assessment yesterday, we are delighted to announce we have been awarded the new Digital Schools Scotland Accreditation.
Portpatrick, Kirkcolm and Leswalt are the first schools in Dumfries and Galloway to achieve this recognition for our ongoing commitment to digital technology learning and teaching.
Have a read of the report to see for yourself all the excellent work which has been recognised –
Dumfries & Galloway – Kirkcolm, Leswalt and Portpatrick Schools Validation Report 11.06.24 (1).pdf
UNCRC Rights of the Child – 28 Access to Education, 29 – Aims of Education
Our Primary 7 pupils were delighted earlier this week to be presented with their official Leswalt leavers hoodies. Thanks to the Parent council, each pupil got a new personalised hoodie – so they can forever be resplendent in red!
It was decided to give them early this year, so the P7 pupils can wear them with pride for the final month of Primary school – and then beyond!
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