We were delighted to head to Leswalt Church this afternoon, having been invited by our Locum Minister for Leswalt, Marlene Cash. In preparation for this event, the whole school have been donating food items to distribute around the local community; the gardening club made a scarecrow whom they named ‘Les’ (short for Leswalt!); and pupils have been learning the song ‘Harvest Samba’ to perform at the church.
During the service, we discussed our favourite foods and learned where some of them come from. Marlene got pupils up to the front of the church to demonstrate how food isn’t distributed equally around the world – it often depends on how much money you have. But we learned that Harvest contains the letters ‘share’ and that this is a time for sharing food and making sure that everyone has enough to eat.
After the pupils sang their hearts out, P1-6 headed back to school and our P7 pupils went around the village with Mrs Baillie and Mrs Kyle to distribute our bags of donated food.
Thank you to everyone who was able to donate some food, to those who managed to attend the service today and to Marlene for a lovely service. We look forward to visiting the church again soon!
