Super Safety Input in the Spring Sunshine!

The sun shone, the pupils listened and the presentations were informative and fun – safe to say the North Rhins Partnership Safety morning was the most resounding success! This term’s Health and Well-Being focus for the upper primaries was centred on Risk-Taking Behaviour; in short, what to do if faced with an emergency situation. Having discussed this as a staff, it was felt there was no better plan than to

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Alexander – our 100% Reading Raffle Champion!

Alexander Clark  – our term 3 reading raffle winner was presented with an Easter egg by our House Captains Malcolm and Breagh. To be in with a chance of winning the reading raffle, you need to read a book, take a test on the book and score 100%! Your name is recorded on  the 100% Readers wall and then it is entered into a raffle at the end of term.

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Run Leswalt Run – it’s time for Cross Country Fun!

Pupils from P5-7 boarded the bus this sunny Wednesday morning to head to Green Valley for the Rhins Primary Cross Country Challenge! A LONG overdue event, there was such an air of excitement as the schools met up! Carys and Brandon got together to write up this blog report – Breagh lent a hand too. Read all about their morning below… Cross Country was at Green Valley. There is lots

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Easter Egg-stravanza (with just a little Fool’s Fun!)

It was a day of egg-cellent fun for our last day of term – which just so happened to be April Fool’s Day too. Being at school on April 1st doesn’t happen very often so we made the most of it! Mrs Baillie was on fine form, pranking the pupils not just once but twice! Initially, an email was read out telling them of the unfortunate cancellation of the Easter

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D & G YMI Music Show

The children in Primary 1 – 4 have been working hard on producing a radio show transmission with Dumfries and Galloway Youth Music Group as part of our Feis Rois traditional music programme. This radio show is the culmination of a block of sessions which focussed on the development of early music and communication skills and health & wellbeing and promotes the enjoyment of music. Singing games, exploring musical instruments and

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