Month: March 2018

The staff, parents and pupils of Leswalt Primary enjoyed an afternoon of Science as part of our British Science Week celebration.

British Science Week runs from 9^th-16^th March and is designed to raise awareness of all things Science-y and encourage boys and girls to hone their investigative skills.

The Leswalt Primary pupils worked on a range of Science tasks; Magic Ink to Poo from the Past, Coding with Lego WeDo to bird nest building, programming the Mouse Maze to Electrical Circuits to name but a few! Parents enjoyed working on these with pupils too. Creating ‘poo’ for a Science experiment – what’s not to like!

Parents and pupils go stuck into the activities with great gusto – having a shot at the many STEM (Science, Technology, Maths and Engineering) activities on offer. It was a very busy but fun afternoon. One mum was amazed at how quickly the time flew!

Fun Science activities, all working together and raising awareness of important ecological issues equals a very successful afternoon’s learning. Watch out for those future scientists!

Check out our photos below!

A huge congratulations must go to Phoebe Gaw and Jenna Calderwood for their supreme confidence and participation in the Stranraer Burns club competition.

Against all other Rhins Primary schools, Phoebe won the p3,4,5 class! And Jenna won the p6,7 class! Both girls gave their poems lots of expression and actions to impress the judges.

Such was the high standard from Leswalt, the school was awarded the trophy for the best school in the competition!

Well done girls, we are all very proud of you !

#confident individuals

 

Thursday 1st March was World Book Day! The children enjoyed a wonderful day of reading based activities all designed to encourage us all to take the time to read.

The pupils arrived at school this morning armed with a pre-loved book which they then donated to The Great Book Swap. What a vast array of fabulous books were on the table for pupils top choose from. Each book had been signed by its owner and a short message of goodwill written inside.

The boys and girls thoroughly enjoyed choosing their new books which are now ready to go to their new homes to be loved all over again.

The P1-4 class are enjoying their class novel, Demon Dentist and the P5-7 class are sharing Charlotte’s Web as it had been read to Mrs Ferguson when she was a pupil at primary school. You are never too old to enjoy listening to a story!

D.E.A.R. time was had three times during the day. This stands for Drop Everything And Read for five minutes. From the littlest P1 – to the teachers, everyone downed tools and enjoyed their book – you truly could have heard a pin drop!

Pupils were also aiming to take an Accelerated Reading test in class wherever possible too. So many words being gobbled up by our resident book worms!

In addition to all of this, pupils are coming home with their World Book Day tokens today, which can be used towards to purchase of a brand new book. Lots of boys and girls have also handed in their entries for the ‘Design a Book Token’ competition already – but there’s still time if anyone fancies entering this.

Enjoy your new books everybody – it’s most definitely the weather to cuddle up and enjoy a story!