Day: March 12, 2026

Magnificent Maths Brains 🧠 🥉

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 been learning to new, exciting concepts.➕➖➗🟰
The P7 trio began the morning with a poster making competition based on “The Story of Money.” 💰 This creative task encouraged teams to explore how money has developed over time, from early trading systems to the modern forms of currency we use today. In the weeks leading up to the challenge the Primary 7s had been busy researching foreign currency and up and coming, new digital currencies including Bitcoin- impressive stuff! 💷💵💳🪙
Teams were challenged to take part in a Prophecies game which challenged pupils to think strategically to place numbers on a grid, predicting how many numbers would be placed in that row/column. Have a go at home! https://mathgameswithbaddrawings.com/games/prophecies 💭
The final part of the day challenged pupils to answer past paper questions in the form of a relay race! The three P7, really put their heads together and showed excellent team and work and mathematical thinking! 😁
Colin, James and Rebecca represented Leswalt exceptionally well and were so well deserving of the 3rd place prize!🥉Their effort, positively and hard work and truly inspiring and we are all so proud of them!😁

Meta Skills:

Curiosity Carlos

Collaborating Cora

Communicating cate

Focusing Fergus

Articles:

Article 28 – Access to Education

Article 29 – Aims of Education

Celebrating Science Week!⚛

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;
  1. 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!💥
  2. Rapid Freeze Ice Cream 🍨Pupils observed how salt and ice reacted quickly to freeze their ice cream ingredients!
  3. Boat Building – Pupils explored the concept of floating and sinking. They were challenged to build a boat, which held the most dinosaurs. They had to think carefully about the material they used, their water resistance and durability. ⚓
  4. House Building with the digital leaders- Pupils set to work, using their mini saws and cardboard and MakeDo kits to design and build some houses to add to Leswalt’s Housing Development. 🏠
Pupils and parents rotated around 3 of the 4 fun activities. We look forward to finishing off our final rotations tomorrow 😄!
UNCRC Articles 

Article 29 Aims of Education

Meta Skills

Focusing Fergus,

Collaborating Cora

Curiosity Carlos

Burns club competition🌟🌟

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! 👏👏👏

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