The official Outdoor Classroom Day may have been rained off last Thursday, but that didn’t stop us from celebrating it a week later! This afternoon, we split into 3 groups and rotated around 3 different activities on offer – gardening (which included letting P5-7 pupils loose with a pair of secateurs on the willow dome!!); creating ‘grass heads’ using tights, grass seed, compost and plastic cups; and a village litter
We were visited this morning by 2 members of the Community Safety Team who brought some exciting news! A few months ago, all pupils were tasked with designing a poster encouraging people to put their litter in the bin. 20 of these posters were selected by the Community Wardens and turned into weather-proof versions. They will be distributed on lamp posts all around the village this weekend, to encourage everyone
Our Primary 6 pupils headed off to Stair Park today to participate in Operation Safety – a whole day session involving different workshops provided by various agencies, including the emergency services. Pupils had inputs from – Police Scotland, learning about drug and alcohol awareness and vandalism Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, learning about home safety Youth Work on internet safety Coastguard on water safety Scottish Ambulance Service on First Aid
Using the new food technology resources that all primary schools in our cluster now have, our senior pupils have been making a wide variety of different dishes this week with Mrs Kyle sharing her expertise and helping the all with those vital life skills. On the menu this week were – sticky toffee muffins, pasta carbonara and chocolate brownies – yum! Pupils all enjoyed cooking, and eating the different foods.
This morning, Tony from NSPCC joined P5-7 to lead them through the Speak out.Stay safe workshop. This followed this online assembly and activity which the class worked on last week. The workshop began by introducing the mascot Buddy – a speech mark designed to encourage all pupils to talk about what is on their mind. Tony talked to them all about different types of abuse in a sensitive and age-appropriate
Today we welcomed our new Minister, Rev Marlene Cash into school to take her first ever assembly with all the boys and girls of Leswalt Primary. Marlene is the new minister for Leswalt and Kirkcolm and hopes to link up a lot with us in school. Today we learned why geese are not really that silly, and the importance of all working together. We also learned that before she was
This afternoon, Leswalt Primary pupils hopped on the bus and headed down to Logan Botanical Gardens as part of their annual schools’ week event. The sun was shining, the air was warm – if perhaps the sky looked a little threatening as the afternoon wore on. But it takes more than a shower of rain to dampen the spirits of Leswalt pupils! After a quick picnic lunch, the P1-3 pupils
What a glorious day! Sunshine, friends and delicious scones and traybakes – what’s not to love?! Thanks to the hard work of the fabulous Parent Council and friends – many visitors, family and friends were treated to a tasty afternoon tea and the chance to browse some stalls being run by the pupils and parents. A magnificent total of over £1200 was raised! This is a superb amount which will
Primary 1-4 have been on a musical tour around Scotland over the past 10 weeks with Paul and Becky from Feis Rois. We started our tour in Glasgow where we learned a song called ‘Jeelie Piece’. We then hopped over to South Uist and learned a Gaelic waulking song called ‘Hey Man Do’. This song would have been sang whilst people made tweed. After South Uist we headed to Islay
