This afternoon, P4-7 welcomed a very special visitor into our classroom; Lydia Downie, the ambulance technician. We were all very excited when she drove into the playground in her ambulance!🚑 As part of our ‘body systems’ science topic, Lydia had very kindly offered to come in for a CPR workshop. With her, she brought the armless, legless Frank, the CPR dummy. Lydia started off by explaining how she responds to
This afternoon Alison Murray from Active Schools visited Leswalt to hand out some certificates to our super sporty runners!🏃👟 Rachael and Murray both took part in Alison’s 3 week running club to prepare them for the Cross Country at Greenvalley. Rachael and Murray joined Alison each of the 3 weeks and so were awarded ‘Gold’ for their fantastic commitment and effort! 🥇 It was great to see this hard work
To celebrate World Earth Day, we got together this afternoon for an assembly with Mrs Adams. We started off by having a think about what ‘World Earth Day’ might celebrate. Gregor wondered if it could be about ‘looking after the world’ and Cameron impressed us with his suggestion that it’s all about ‘stopping climate change’. 🌏 Colin was able to take Cameron’s idea even further, explaining that Climate change is
Yesterday, we welcomed Niamh from Wigtownshire Rugby back for our final session of rugby this term. We warmed up with a fan favourite – capture the flag 🙂. Afterwards, pupils paired up with a peer of similar height for some contact practice. Niamh reminded us of the rules, foot in the hoop, eye to thigh, cheek to cheek, bands of steel, shoulder boulder knock them over.. and they did exactly
Today P5-7 braved the wild weather and headed to Green Valley for the annual inter-school cross country event.🏃Last term’s Friday afternoon ‘Leswalt Park Run’ practice has clearly paid off, all pupils repeated the school so well, with great determination, resilience and good sportsmanship. First up, was the Primary 5 girl 1/2 mile race. A big well done to Lily for her super effort!🤩 Afterwards, Primary 6 and 7 boys and
