Visit of Chief Executive and Director of Education

Leswalt Primary was delighted to welcome 2 very special guests to see the news and improved Leswalt Primary school. Dawn Roberts the new Chief Executive for Dumfries and Galloway council was accompanied by Dr Gillian Brydson, Director of skills Education and Learning to see how all the money has been spent on the refurbishment of Leswalt Primary school.  They arrived at Leswalt Primary school with the Scrapbook the Pupil council

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Bringing History Alive!

We were delighted to welcome the fabulous Kathryn Purchase from History Alive into school today to work with P5-7. The class have just started a study of World War Two and, in class, had found out about the unrest in Germany after WW1, the rise of Hitler, invasion of Poland and the start of WW2 with Neville Chamberlain’s momentous speech. Kathryn brought along her amazing collection of WW2 artefacts and,

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North Rhins Residential

Pupils in P5-7 at Kirkcolm, Leswalt and Portpatrick Primary Schools headed off to Abernethy Barcaple Outdoor Centre on Monday for an overnight residential stay. The boys and girls participated in a range of activities whilst there including archery, abseiling, a challenge course, climbing wall, and team problem solving challenges. Pupils overcame fears and developed their team-working skills throughout the course of our trip.  After a fun-filled day of activities, everyone

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Safer Internet Day – Looking After Yourself!

Safer Internet Day was actually Tuesday 7th February (yesterday!) but we were actually in deepest, darkest Barcaple yesterday abseiling and climbing through muddy challenge courses and so not using the internet at all! So, we kicked off this morning back in school with a chat about how to keep ourselves safe online. P.C. Conroy came in to chat to us and talk us through a presentation about internet safety. The

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