We may have mentioned before our pride in having the utterly fabulous Vicky Wright (Olympic Gold Medallist) and equally amazing Bobby Lammie (Olympic Silver medallist) as past pupils of our wee village school! And with this in mind, Malcolm (one of our House Captains) approached teachers with a thought…might Leswalt get a Gold postbox in honour of the Ladies’ Curling Team’s success? Only one way to find out Malcolm, and
From February 21st- March 6th is 2022’s Fairtrade Fortnight and so P5-7 Leswalt pupils spent some time finding out more. Working in Talk Partners, the pupils researched the key questions about this topic: What is Fairtrade? When this started? Why it started? Where can Fairtrade products be bought? Who Fairtrade works with? How we can do our bit to help! They used reference materials, website links, a video clip and
As part of our journey towards Rights Respecting Schools Silver status, the children have been discussing all of the rights within the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). They have discussed what rights they feel are most important and have explained their views. Here is just a sample for you to see what responsible citizens we have! RRS-Silver-Our-Views-On-Rights-video If you would like to find out more about
