Alexander and Ewan Clark brought three of their pet lambs into school this afternoon for a ‘Meet and Greet the Sheep’ session! The pet lambs are called Diddly Squat, Diddly Dee and Diddly Dum and happily wandered around our cloakroom being fed from the bottle by pupils. Alexander told us all a little about each lamb too. They are just over a fortnight old and weren’t at all fazed by
Leswalt Primary donned their gloves, fetched a litter-picker and carried their rubbish sack as they worked in groups to tidy up their village this morning. The Spring sunshine shone brightly as the pupils made sure their local area looked beautiful. Several bags of rubbish were collected meaning the village looks more fabulous than ever! As a result of the children’s hard work, Leswalt has achieved 2nd place in the Keep
There was an excellent turn out from our cluster primary schools at this year’s annual Primary 7 Rotary Quiz. Teams of four from each school competed to be this year’s champions. There were a number of categories such as: Geography Technology Entertainment Nature The questions were very entertaining and wide ranging. A good few of them challenged the grown-ups in the audience too. The winners were as follows: Rephad Sandhead
As part of British Science Week celebrations, P5-7 enjoyed a Science afternoon. Each activity table was set up for either a Biology, Chemistry or Physics investigation and pupils worked in pairs around each task. From planting seeds and using magnifying glasses to take a closer look at leaves and flowers; to building electrical circuits and exploring the wires inside plugs; to creating irreversible chemical reactions between Bicarbonate of Soda and
It was an early start for all on Thursday morning as Leswalt Primary boarded a bus headed for the Glasgow Science Centre! This is British Science Week and so our trip tied in nicely. It was made possible through us receiving a successful grant from the British Science Association, a rural transport support grant from the Glasgow Science Centre and a very generous parental donation. Our grateful thanks goes to
Pupils and staff rocked up to school today for another fun Friday in aid of Red Nose Day 2023. House Captains Rose and Thomas had been selling official red noses all week and donations were popped into the bucket today as we all wore the things which make us happy! Red Nose Day is all about raising money to help those in need whilst bringing a smile to everyone’s faces
Curling Report by Thomas And Tristan At the NWC on Monday the 13th of March there was a big curling competition for all the schools in the Rhins region. We sent two teams – team Leswalt and team Leswalt-Portpatrick. Both teams were in the same section and really enjoyed themselves! It just didn’t go our way on the day as Team Leswalt didn’t do too well, but Team Leswalt-Portpatrick did a
Today P5-7 enjoyed a whole day of WW2 activities! Several pupils dressed up for the occasion and some brought in memorabilia from home too. The day was action packed : from learning about Dunkirk to using 2D/3D shape knowledge to design a gas mask box; listening to music from that era whilst learning to sew on a button just like the Make Do and Mend campaign; working in pairs on
Thank you and well done to Ewan Clark, Thomas Agnew and Daisy Doyle for representing Leswalt Primary at last night’s Scots’ Song and Verse Competition. All three performed so well and we are all very proud of them. Thomas was awarded joint 2nd place for his recitation of Burns’ Address to a Haggis, Ewan was awarded joint 3rd place for Harry by Matthew Fitt and Daisy sang Caledonia and was
Feis Rois P1-4 are getting musical input from Feis Rois every Tuesday morning for the next 12 weeks. This morning we were visited by Mairi and Paul and learned all about the instruments they play, the fiddle and acoustic guitar. We listened to two beautiful Scottish songs and were also treated to Mairi and Paul singing Scots and Gaelic songs. Over the next few weeks we will be learning our
