Yesterday afternoon P1-3 took advantage of the beautiful warm sunny weather and ventured outside for some castle building.🌞 Armed with cardboard boxes, Frosties, toilet paper tubes and LOTS of excitement, they set to work building Leswalt Castle. 🏰 As part of their social studies topic, ‘castles,’ Primary 1-3 have been learning all about the structure and parts of a castle and what life would be like during medieval times! In their
This morning both schools Primary 7 girls – Allyssa, Ruby, Rachael and Rebecca headed to Stranraer Academy with Mrs Adams for some netball fun! We met girls from all of the other primary schools and quickly got into our teams for some games! ⛹️♂️All four of our fabulous Primary 7 girls were fabulous on and off the court, playing and mixing well with the other girls ahead of their transition
This morning P1-3 welcomed back one of our favourite visitors, Kathryn Purchase from History Alive in Schools for a workshop on Castles!🏰 We all love Kathryn’s visits into school, and today was no exception. Today’s session was made even more special with a bus trip to Kirkcolm to learn about castle building through the ages with our buddies from across the partnership!🧒🧒 Kathryn is a super knowledgeable historian and fascinating
Yesterday, Primary 7’s from Leswalt buddied up with their P7 friends from Kirkcolm for a visit to Stranraer Academy to help them get their bearings and feel prepared for their next step after the summer holidays. Their morning started with a trip to Art with Mrs Thompson, where they designed their own super heroes! How cool!🦸🏼Afterwards, their visited the Home Economics department and made a cheese toastie! 🧀 They enjoyed
Yesterday, our fabulous Primary 6 Olivia buddied up with her friends for Kirkcolm for the annual P6 Operation Safety Input at Stair Park. This was a fantastic opportunity for our P6’s to show what they know and develop their understanding of our Term 3 topic ‘Risk Taking Behaviours’. The session aimed to support pupils to understand and manage risks. Leswalt and Kirkcolm worked their way around 7 stations; 1. Fire
One of our favourite parts of North Rhins Partnership is how both schools come together and the opportunities they have to be successful and make friends!😍 Our fabulous football team showed this off superbly on Friday Evening as they took part in Sheuchan Primary School’s football tournament! ⚽The boys have been working hard this term on Friday afternoons to practise and develop their skills with Miss Agnew at Kirkcolm and
The results are in.. drumroll please…🥁 Leswalt Primary are RUNNERS UP!🥈 Primary 4-7 wowed the judges with their creation of their ‘Sustainable School’ which we are super proud of! The project has encouraged us to think about ways we could make Leswalt Primary a more sustainable building. We worked with sustainability experts McTaggart Construction and D&G councils ‘Environmental Safety Officer’ Cailtin (AKA Beathan’s Mummy) to really think about what
The true sign of summer – a trip to Logan Botanic Gardens! A what wonderful weather for it!😊☀️This morning we joined our friends from Kirkcolm for a super fun morning of outdoor learning, exploring the lovely local landscape. When we arrived at the gardens, we enjoyed a little snack and chat with out friends out on the grass before splitting up into two groups for our workshops. Primary 1-4, ventured
PC MacGregor and PC Jack joined P5-7 this morning to talk to us about the dangers of substance misuse. She explained that drugs are substances that alter our brain chemistry. She told us that some drugs are bad for us and others are good, we were very surprised to learn that chocolate is actually a drug?! (A delicious one of course)🍫 We spoke about the dangers of smoking and peer
Our Sumdog superstar, Gregor Mc Guffie has done it again. 🤩 In the most recent Sumdog competition, Gregor has ended up in 3rd place for the whole of Dumfries and Galloway – out of 1753 pupils! Well done to our little marvellous mathemetician – we are very proud of you! 👏👏👏
