Getting Muddy at the Rugby 🏉

Today P4-7 welcomed back Niamh, the school’s Rugby Development Coach back to start a block of lessons to develop our Rugby skills. We started off with a game of ‘Capture the Flag’ which aimed to support our tactical thinking and ‘Switch’ to practise changing positions and avoiding opponents. 😄 Afterwards, we headed away from the comfort of the concrete to grass to practise some ‘contact’ activities on a soft surface.

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P1-3’s Vet Visitor🐶🐱

Today, P1-3 were very excited to welcome Ailsa Buchanan into school to talk us about her job as a Vet, especially given the number of aspiring vets we have in the school!🐾 Ailsa told us all about the skills and qualities she needed to become a vet. She explained that in order to be a vet,  you must have a kind and  caring personality and love animals! Which was great

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Star Bakers Celebrate Sweet Success ⭐️

Yesterday, P 4-7 Star Bakers Rebecca, Rachael and James celebrated their bake off success with a trip to The Coffee Bean in Stranraer with Miss Douglas! We decided that it was only right, after their hard work, to sample what cakes the  Coffee Bean had to offer😄. They enjoyed a luxury hot chocolate, with cream and marshmallows (or course) and a slice of Malteser traybake. The critics gave the Coffee

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All The Services, No Emergency 🚑🚒🚨🚔🆘

Yesterday, P1-3 welcomed some special visitors into school to get VERY hands on exploring their health and well-being topic – People Who Help Us! Part of this was looking at people who can help us when we find ourselves in danger and need urgent assistance and thus… Emergency Services Afternoon was made! Big thank you to Mrs Warwick for her excellent work in co-coordinating all these kind volunteers to come to

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A Big Thanks to the Rotary Club

This afternoon we were delighted to welcome three lovely gentlemen from Stranraer Rotary Club in to speak to us about litter and the importance of keeping our wee community clean!🚮 Ben and Murray were pleased to see Donald McColm that they’d met at the Rotary Lunch again and were excited to see that he had brought along some of the hi-vis vests they had modelled at the lunch along with

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Getting Creative with Jane from Creative Stranraer 👨‍🎨👩‍🎨

This afternoon we had a lovely visit from a lovely lady, Jane from Creative Stranraer. Jane is involved in a project which adds some fun to the Southern Upland Way. Along the walking trail, they are hoping to add some kists filled with colourful ‘treasure’ stones for walkers to collect along the way. 🚶‍♂️   Jane brought along lots of stones and pens and tasked us with drawing a colourful

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Syrup, Sprinkles and Sticky Fingers🥞🧑‍🍳👩‍🍳

Hot plate✅ , Ingredients ✅Nutella, Biscoff, syrup and sprinkles ✅ We were all set to celebrate Shrove Tuesday with some obligatory pancake flipping! With Mrs Kyle, each group had a go at pouring their mixture onto the hot plate and flipping their pancakes 🥞! Afterwards, it was time for toppings! Pupils could choose to add some Biscoff, sprinkle, Nutella and syrup (or all 4😅) to add to their pancakes. Meta-skills Collaborating

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P1-3’s Perfect Patterns in the Playground 🖼️

As part of their artwork this term, P1-3 have been exploring tessellation and symmetrical patterns. 🦋 👦🏼👧🏻 This afternoon Mrs McKnight saw a rare opportunity with the dry weather and planned a fun, hands-on outdoor art activity. Pupils were challenged to create a symmetrical picture in the playground. They collected up some sticks, stones and playground toys, and worked together to create a picture on the ground which included a

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THE GREAT LESWALT BAKE OFF!🍪🧑🏻‍🍳

It’s week 4 of cooking club, which means….ready, steady BAKE OFF! 👩🏼‍🍳👨🏼‍🍳 The teams, equipped with bowls, scales, sugar and all sorts of sweet treats were tasked with baking cookies this week. They followed a simple cookie recipe, adding their chosen chocolate chips and sweet treats to make their cookies original and stand out. 🍫🍪 James, Rebecca and Rachael put a lot of hard work into the presentation of their

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Internet safety day💻😀

  Today the digital leaders Ben and Rachael ran an assembly for internet safety day. They were talking about smart tech safe choices, exploring the safe and responsible use of artificial intelligence. First of all we watched a cbbc live lesson that talked about chatbot. Then we introduced our chatbots that they needed to design and there is a winner in each class. Then we watched a cbbc news round

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