Day: February 3, 2026

A Visit from Stranraer Pipe Band 🥁

 

Continuing on the Scots Celebrations, this afternoon we were visited by members of Lochryan Pipe Band who had brought along different Scots instruments to show the boys and girls how they are played following their Scots language focus in school. The band played us some different songs, including Scotland the Brave played on the bagpipes and various different drums, which was affa guid! 🎵🥁Ben and Emma both had a go on the drum, and the band were very impressed!
John  explained that the Pipe Band are  hoping to recruit some young performers to join the Pipe Band and invited the boys and girls along to their open afternoon on the 8th of March between 12-4pm at the Pipe Band Hall in Stranraer!

A super opportunity to learn an instrument and enjoy a new hobby!
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1. Right to Education (Article 28)
2. Right to Develop Talents and Abilities (Article 29)
3. Right to Culture, Arts, and Participation (Article 31)
4. Right to Express Themselves (Article 13)

 

 

P4-7 Cooking Club – Cheese Twists 🧀👨‍🍳

This week, the cooking club set out to make some cheese twists! Hands washed, equipment ready, recipes in hand and oven pre-heating, we were raring to go. Pupils followed a simple 12 step recipe which saw them rolling out a sheet of puff pastry, brushing it with a light layer on butter, grating a layer of cheese on top and slicing it into it into thin strips and twisting with their hands.
While the cheese twists were in the oven, we got tidied up and enjoyed a couple of biscuits to settle our tummy’s while we waited on our cheese twists to be ready to try. 😋
Next week, we are looking forward to our final week of cooking club and putting our skills to the test in the LESWALT BAKE OFF!🍰🍪

Trip to the Museum ⚠️🚌

This morning Leswalt and Kirkcolm upper classes headed into Stranraer to visit the Museum. This term, our social studies topic is WW2, and to enhance our learning, we organised a trip with Madeline from the museum to get hands on with some of their real artefacts!⚠️
We learned about Stranraer in the past and during war time. We started with a tour around the museum, looking at some of the local artefacts which had been donated and hearing stories about evacuees and local figures. Upstairs, there were 4 boxes waiting for us, each with artefacts, old newspaper articles and documents which link to a WW2 personnel. Each group had the job of investigating the artefacts and figuring out who the owner would be. We had artefacts belonging to; an engineer, a WW2 house wife, an evacuee and a member of the woman’s land army. Afterwards, we then had to become museum curators themselves and arrange the artefacts in a ‘mini’ exhibition.🪖
Overall this was such a fantastic way to spend the morning and a great way to engage with what our local community has to offer. We are so grateful to the wonderful staff at Stranraer Museum for welcoming us in the morning and making use of their facilities and we hope to have many reasons to return in the future! 😃
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