Today we were delighted to welcome Mike from Bikeability to our P6/7 classroom to kick-off our practical cycle sessions! This starts officially next week but today’s session dealt with an introduction, getting to know Mike and about his lifelong interest in bikes and safety checks on our bikes. What a fabulous opportunity for us 🚲 Our sessions will take place over 6weeks and we help us to become safe and
Thanks to funding from the Edinburgh Mathematical Society, Leswalt Primary’s playground is now the proud owners of two new, colourful playground markings! A fabulous Snakes and Ladders game is ready and waiting for the pupils to enjoy at breaktimes – as well as a numbers to 10 rocket which they can use to play Hopscotch! Both games offer the perfect opportunity to have lots of fun with their friends whilst
Our future budding engineers Rebecca and Rachael travelled to Dumfries yesterday to participate in the Glasgow Science Festival Creating Engineers Regional Final! The girls had won the local Rhins competition last term and we now competing on a bigger stage! As expected, they were exemplary representatives of our wee school and they worked hard to complete the tough challenge of planning, designing and building a K’Nex digger complete with
This week, the pupils of Leswalt have had an egg-citing time exploring the Easter story through arts and crafts, baking, finding out about cultural traditions and becoming quiz masters! 🐣 Working together, the older pupils buddied up with their younger friends as they planned, designed and decorated hard boiled eggs. Mrs Baillie had the unenviable task of judging the decorated eggs – tough decision as they had all been so
P6/7 headed to Green Valley this morning for the annual Rhins Primary Cross Country event. All pupils ran/walked a mile and represented their school with exemplary behaviour – so proud of them! Colin came 2nd in the P6 boys category and Rachael was 1st in the P6 girls – superb effort! Well done all 🏃🏻♀️☀️🎉
