This morning Frances Ross, a clay artist visited P4-7’s to have us to take part in the FLOCK workshop. Frances was very enthusiastic and knowledgeable on her craft; she told us about the history of clay modelling, and where clay is used in everyday life. Who knew a toilet seat or hair straighteners were made out of clay?! 🚽 We started off by practising clay molding by creating a ‘pinch
This afternoon all of Leswalt Primary school once again boarded a bus and headed into town to the Millenium Centre to watch The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Hospotch, a Glasgow company put a modern twist on an old classic – and what a show it was! 🦁 Dorothy, an inspiring singer was transported to the land of Oz, in hopes of meeting ‘The Wiz’ a big time music producer and
Today all the Primary 3-5’s were invited to Sheuchan Primary to attend an author event from David C Flanagan as part of the Big DoG Schools tour organised by Wigtown Festival Company and supported by The Foyle Foundation. David is a Scottish author, raised in Edinburgh and living in Orkney, who made the special trip down to Dumfries and Galloway to introduce himself and his books. He is both an
Continuing our Book Week celebrations, Primary 1-7 ventured to Stranraer Library this morning for some book related fun. The library staff had planned a book scavenger hunt for us to enjoy with our friends from Kirkcolm. Afterwards we were let loose in the library’s collection, free to explore, wander and choose any book we like to cosy up and enjoy! 📖 📚 We enjoyed our packed lunches then braved the
As part of their healthy eating learning P1-4 made some delicious lentil soup! They planned the meal by thinking about the Eat Well Plate and trying to incorporate foods from each group into their recipe. With the help of Mrs Warwick and Mrs Kyle, they set to work, in groups, to carefully peel and chop their vegetables, putting into practice their safe food hygiene learning. Once all the veg was
On the 12th of November Kirkcolm digital leaders and Leswalt digital leaders met at Leswalt school and learnt lots of digital leader tools to help us do our job . We learnt how to do short cuts on the computer , pin emails, how to book mark pages, co pilot and lots of other interesting fun stuff to help us to do our jobs as Digital Leaders By Rachael and
This morning P4-7 ventured to Kirkcolm for a Dairy Framing workshop, hosted by Donna from ‘Smart STEMs’. First off, we were given the opportunity to show off our farming knowledge with a game of ‘Moo or false’ (get it!😏), which really got us thinking about some weird and wonderful dairy farming facts! Afterwards, we split into groups to design our very own Smart Stem to be used on a farm
Today the whole school joined together in a celebration of Book Week Scotland this week to partake in some paired reading. 🦉Primary 1-3’s chose some of their favourites to read with their Primary 4-7 buddies! A super opportunity for the little ones to listen to a story and for the big ones to read some of their old favourites! 📖 In the afternoon, we buddied back up for a scavenger
In celebration of Book Week Scotland our P1–3 families were invited into the school to discover the fantastic bags gifted to children by the Scottish Government and Scottish Book Trust.📚All wrapped in rainbow paper the ‘postman’ delivered these gifts to the school this afternoon and the boys and girls were left in suspense to find out what could be inside.. 🎁📦 Inside each bag there were between 2–4 wonderful books,
Our lucky P7 pupils had a blast heading off with their Leswalt pals to the Curling Rink at North West Castle to kick start the curling season! 🥌 When they arrived they got their shoes swapped, learned the safety rules and had a bit of fun warming up on the cold ice! The boys and girls learned how to deliver their stone and how to use their brush to help
