The festive tunes were playing, the home baking was ready on the tables; the tea was brewing; handmade Christmas crafts were ready to be sold – yes, Leswalt Primary were ready to welcome friends and family into their school for the afternoon!
And what a wonderful afternoon it was! The children sang their little hearts out giving two performances of their ‘sneak peek’ of show songs – to rapturous applause! P5-7 pupils were busy tour guides; selling crafts for school funds; helping out in the kitchen; welcoming guests into the building and helping out with P1-4 crafts. Busy little elves!
P1-4 were busy making fabulous ‘shaving foam’ snowmen pictures (very cool!) and Christmas tree fir cones!
All afternoon, family and friends streamed through our shiny new door to spend the afternoon with us – all giving generously to the Glasgow Children’s Hospital who are caring for our schoolfriend Emma. Over £300 was raised at the door for this fabulous cause.
The fabulous Parent Council ran a very successful Tombola stall – and photos were also taken of the fabulous playground equipment we now have too. Many thanks to all for their help with this. More of that to follow next week…
It was great to see Mr Brawls and Mrs B who came back to their roots and were amazed at the changes made to Leswalt Primary building!
Special mention must go to Faye Adams who had her own little fund-raising enterprise going. She made woolly hat decorations, which she had sold to family and friends over the last few weeks, baked pancakes and ran a lolly stall at the Open Afternoon – all of which raised £100 for the charity too! Well done Miss Adams (and family!)
Our visitors enjoyed a tour of our school; a chat with pupils and friends; a delicious afternoon tea; the chance to buy some original home-made Christmas decorations and entertainment from the pupils too!
It was so good to see past pupils who dropped by. One of whom even parked his moped in the school carpark and made the teachers feel dreadfully old! Thank you Ethan, Finlay, Kayleigh, Arden, Megan, Logan, Jack, Andrew, Gregor, Chloe, Joshua, Aidan, Malcolm, Auryn and Breagh – we really appreciated you all taking the time to come in and say hello! Our door is always open if you are free to pop in again.
We hope to see you all again on Wednesday 21st December (1:30pm and 7pm) for the school show! Put the date in your diaries…
