Stewart Fisher from Dunskey golf club has just finished a 4 week slot of Tri golf as an after school club. Every Thursday, younger pupils stayed after school to pick up some top golfing tips from the professional. They worked hard on their swing and got some target practise in, in our gym hall.
Rory McIlroy – watch out! Our little golfers are shouting “Fore!”
P1-4 have been cooking up a storm at Leswalt Primary raising money for Children in Need. This terms topic is Citizenship and the class were given responsibility for planning, organising and running this year’s fundraising activities.
Iona from P4 explained that their first task was to brainstorm different ideas of how they could raise as much money as possible. “We then had to vote for our favourite ones and the ones we chose were selling wristbands, quizzes, Pudsey buns and a teacher’s Big Maths Challenge! We also chose a ‘Champion’ themed come as you are day.”
The children then spilt into groups and were given responsibility for one activity.“We had to create posters, make quizzes, calculate costs and a daily timetable to keep ourselves organised.” Jenna P4The class then had to share their plans with the whole school, so chose to launch Children in Need 2015 at assembly.
The children worked extremely hard over the next few weeks, selling out of wristbands and received an amazing amount of orders for their Pudsey buns. One pupil in particular (Logan P4), gave up his Saturday morning to help boost the sales of quizzes in Leswalt shop!
On the day, over 250 buns were made and delivered home to customers. Nearly 100 wristbands were sold and over 100 quizzes were marked and a winner chosen.
The teachers also had to test their brains with a Big Maths challenge and the losers – Mrs Baillie and Miss Cambridge- received a cream pie in the face courtesy of Gregor Reid, and Logan Wilson. Mrs Mc Knight the organiser of all events sat smugly in the corner, as the winner of the Big Maths test.
The grand total raised on the day was £246.01 which is a fantastic amount for such a small school. Mrs McKnight would like to give thanks for the support from parents, Soleburn and Gillian and all the girls at Leswalt Store for their efforts but a special mention must go to the girls and boys in P1-4 who have worked their little socks off and proven themselves to be very responsible citizens!
P1-4 are having a great time every Tuesday with some rhythmic drumming input. Ably led by Paul, who uses story-telling to inspire the drumming, the children are learning about animal fables as well as getting creative with their drumming. Everyone is really enjoying this – including the teachers!
Leswalt Primary held their own minutes silence at 11am on Wednesday 11th November at the war memorial at the village. Jamie and Kathryn read aloud their pieces of writing which they had completed in class about Remembrance Day. Mrs Ferguson read through the inscription on the monument and laid the poppies made by pupils from P1-4. Some pupils chose to leave their poppies at the memorial as a sign of respect. It was a poignant and thoughtful time of remembrance – just as it should be.
Both classes has a visit from the SSPCA on Friday. Tracey came along and spoke to the younger class about her role in helping care for animals in Scotland, before moving to P5-7 and have a workshop session on Scotland’s wildlife.
All the children enjoyed this visit and had plenty of questions for our visitor.
