Wow wow wow! Once in a lifetime opportunity just happened to come our way this morning (ok there had been a great deal of groundwork done in preparing for this by Ms Whorlow, and Mrs Henry had used some of her Easter holidays and an evening to make this happen). Four members of the filming crew of ‘Keepers’ agreed to come into Portpatrick Primary and meet with them and Leswalt
The sun shone for Leswalt Primary’s trip to Logan Botanic Gardens this morning. Every year the Gardens hold an open week for schools and two of their Rangers, who are based in Edinburgh usually, come down to lead some nature-based activities. We were excited at the prospect of meeting Kath and Kate again and enjoying the Gardens. P1-4 headed off with Kath. First of all they enjoyed a mini nature
P1-4 were learning all about personal hygiene as an introduction to their dental health topic in HWB. We learned about how easily germs can pass on to other people, particularly after sneezing and coughing. We looked at how tiny germs were and if we don’t wash our hands regularly, the germs build up and spread easily to other people. Mrs Henry pretended she had not washed her hands after the
What a wonderful morning Euan, Alistair, Ethan, Jack and Jamie had! Accompanied by Mrs Smith, the boys travelled into Stranraer Academy to take part in a mini tournament organised by Stranraer FC organiser Allan Jenkins. The Leswalt boys joined forces with Rowan, Rhian and Lachlan (their Portpatrick team-mates) and played 3 games; winning 3-0 against Sandhead and drawing 1-1 with St Josephs and 0-0 with Glenluce/Castle Kennedy. The boys then got
On Friday the 21st of April, p5-7 went on a service bus to Stranraer Museum. They had planned this trip by themselves using a bus timetable and museum exhibition information poster. Once we got there we went to St John’s Castle first – it was very interesting. Did you know that St John’s Castle was once a house, prison, a World War 2 look out and was also used for storage! After
