Today was filled with Easter fun. Our fabulous House Captains, Rachael and Colin have been busy organising a day of Easter Fun. P4-7 kick started the day with some Easter Baking. They had been saving up their class cash all term, and decided to splash the cash by purchasing some ingredients to make Mini Egg Cheesecakes. The perfect opportunity to put into practice the measurement skills we’d been developing as
This afternoon both classes took to the playground for a big spring clean before the Easter Holidays🚯🗑. Armed with litter pickers, plastic bags and lots of energy, we worked in teams to collect as much rubbish as we could. Down the burn, across the football pitch, inside the willow dome, everywhere was targeted. A couple of bin bags later the playground is looking spotless, all started for a fresh start
Sumdog recently ran a competition for all of the pupils in Dumfries and Galloway schools. An amazing 1820 pupils took part. And young Gregor was 9th out of all these pupils! 🏆 Well done Gregor, you marvellous mathematician. We are all very proud of you 😍
Today, Leswalt school was filled with so many creative costumes and so much laughter🤭! Pupils were asked to dress as something beginning with the first letter of their name, and they certainly rose to the occasion! We had astronaut Arthur🧑🚀 , Emma the Elf 🧝, Leo the Leprechaun 🌈, Aria the Asda bag 🤭 and so many other hilarious costumes too! Staff couldn’t resist the chance to get stuck in
On Wednesday afternoon, P4-7 showcased their fantastic Ram Tam Music learning. With Helen, from Ram Tam musicians, P4-7 have been working hard this term to learn more about rhythm, beat, musical notes and how to play the tin whistle! 🪈P1-3 were invited along as a fantastic audience to listen to our super rendition of ‘Baby Shark’ and ‘Ally Bally’.🎶 Learning to play a musical instrument is such a super opportunity
A huge well done to our four Primary 7 pupils who represented the school at last night’s Rotary Club quiz, which was held at Park Primary School. Murray, Colin, Rebecca and Rachael faced some tough questions and opposition from other local primary schools. Although they weren’t placed on the day, we are very proud of their efforts and team work! 🤩 Meta Skills: Focussing Fergus Collaborating Cora Communicating Cate Sense
This afternoon P4-7 visited the Ryan Centre to enjoy a musical performance by a very talented clarinet choir. After taking our seats, the musicians entertained us with some music from the talented composter John Williams, which we managed to link to the Star Wars Movies!🌟 The 4 musicians challenged us to think of some tricky animal songs, which they replicated using their instrument. We watched in amazement as one of
Today 3 of our fabulous Primary 7’s, Colin, James and Rebecca had the exciting opportunity to take part in the Enterprising Maths Challenge at Douglas Ewart High School in Newton Stewart. They joined 11 other teams from the Rhins and Machars to show off their amazing maths brains! 🧠 The challenge was made up of three different activities, designed to really get their maths brains thinking and applying what they’ve
We are having lots of fun celebrating British Science Week this week in school. This afternoon, we welcomed parent into school to join in with some exciting experiments and investigations. Pupils and their parents rotated around 4 sciency stations; Fizzy exploding hands! 🧤 (because it wouldn’t be science week without some explosions.)An age-old crowd pleaser, where we saw vinegar and baking soda react to blow up a rubber glove!💥 Rapid
We were very proud of our two confident individuals, Jorgie and Colin last night. They stepped on the stage at the Ryan centre, in front of a packed audience and recited their Scots poetry word perfect, with great expression. It was a great evening of entertainment and both Jorgie and Colin represented our school so very well. Well done to both our stars! 👏👏👏
