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 holidays – there was a shocked silence! Some pupils questioned whether this might be a joke but Mrs McKnight and Mrs Ferguson worked hard to keep their faces sombre and solemn. Thankfully we didn’t need to keep this up for too long as soon there was another email with reassurance that this was just an April Fool’s joke!
But she wasn’t done with them quite yet, as this was closely followed by a request from D&G council for the boys and girls to head outside armed with a ruler and scissors and cut the grass at a height of 5cm! Those poor children…
Not to be outdone, Mrs McKnight and Mrs Ferguson had a couple of tricks up their sleeves too; from the Easter egg hunt (no eggs had been hidden!) to offering the pupils a brownie as a treat (cue a tin of laminated brown letter e’s though we did have some actual brownies too – we’re not that mean!) Thankfully, we have pupils with a sense of humour who wasted no time in trying to get their own back! All such good fun.
To continue the Easter theme, the pupils planned and designed their own decorated egg, listened to the Easter story, discussed Easter traditions, munched yummy chocolate nests made by our P1 Star Bakers Ellie and Bobby and finally, enjoyed rolling their eggs down the hill at the park in the afternoon. Some pupils found their eggs to be not of the hard-boiled variety – what a ‘yolk’!
Miss Broll had the unenviable task of judging both the egg crafts created at home (all pupils who participated in this were awarded a merit)and then the ones done in school. The results are below!
Home competition
P1-4 P5-7
1st – Rachael Drummond 1st – Hamish Mcgregor
2nd – Isla Kirkpatrick 2nd – Faye Adams
3rd – Ewan Clark 3rd – Breagh Kirkpatrick
In-class competition
P1-4 winner P5-7 winner
Roman Haver Tristan Millar
We also said goodbye to Oscar who is heading off to a new school after the holidays! We wish him all the very best from everyone at Leswalt Primary.
Happy Easter holidays to you all!
