Our House Captains and Vice Captains have been busy over the last few weeks, organising an Easter egg-stravaganza for the final day of term! Firstly, we had our decorate a hard-boiled egg competition. We had lots of wonderful entries which made the judging a tricky decision! So much so that the House Captains ended up awarding 2nd and 3rd place to each class (and Miss Gordon had to run up
As part of our Eco Schools work, the whole school headed out on Friday morning fully armed with gloves, biodegradable bags and litter pickers for our annual village Spring Clean! We split into 5 groups and each group went to a different area of the village – Monument View, Church Grove, the main street up to the cemetery, the park and the Wetlands. We collected a whole array of things,
This week is Sign Language week and so Leswalt P5-7, always up for a challenge, signed up for a live lesson after Faye’s mum tipped us off about ti. What a valuable session this was. In the first instance, the entire live lesson was presented without any speaking or sound – this got a discussion going within the class as to what daily life must be like if you suffer
UNCRC Article 29 AND 31 Aims of Education and Rest, Play, Culture and Arts Today P5-7 headed to the Ryan Centre to join Kirkcolm, Sandhead, Drummore and Portpatrick Primaries to stage a performance of Vikings The Quest for the Dragon’s Treasure with the support of Scottish Opera! What an amazing experience! For the last few weeks, we have been working on the songs and moves in class, using the
The pupils dressed up in as much red clothing as they possibly could today, in return for a small donation towards Comic Relief. Our House Captains have been busy selling official merchandise all week and some of our families made a donation towards the worthy cause when they came in for our science afternoon. We also held our assembly on Friday, where we explored how Comic Relief helps children to
To celebrate British Science Week, we held an open afternoon today where several family members joined us for some science fun! We had lots of science stations on offer to put our STEM skills to the test, including: making a hovercraft; building spaghetti bridge; designing a parachute to get the Lego man to safety; creating fireworks in a glass; growing a rainbow; and by far the 2 most popular/messiest experiments
Our team of Cara, Brandon, Mark and Carys recently took back to the ice to take part in the annual inter-school curling bonspiel at the Ice rink in Stranraer. Every year a trophy is awarded in the memory of Mrs Baillie’s grandfather. Leswalt were skipped by Cara Jamieson and did get to the play-offs. Glenluce Primary were the eventual winners of the competition. Our team thoroughly enjoyed their day at
Books are BIG news at Leswalt Primary – we LOVE to share stories together, curl up with a good book and use what we read to help us learn more about the world around us. Last Thursday was a chance to celebrate all of this 🙂 P5-7 signed up to join a World Book Day event with none other than the award-winning author Terry Deary – he of the Horrible
Friday 8th March saw the start of British Science Week – a ten day celebration of all things Science-y! So, P1-3 hit the ground running this morning. We joined in with a live lesson hosted by Glasgow Science Centre and Caitlin from the Marine Conservation Society. We learned some brilliant facts about the coastline and marine animals around Scotland. Scotland has 61% of UK waters and it is home to
Primary 5-7 headed off to the Ryan Centre this afternoon for a musical extravaganza, provided by the Stranraer Music for All team. House Captains Hamish and Carys provided a report of their time away – This afternoon we went to the Music for All workshop at the Ryan Centre. When we got off the bus, we went into the theatre and sat down. There were two people playing instruments: Ron playing
