Author: Mrs Baillie

We welcomed 6 new Primary one pupils to Leswalt Primary today.  They were all boys – and all seemed to have a great time!  Hopefully they will come back to school for some more fun tomorrow……..

 

The children of p1-4 invited Jane Sloan into Leswalt Primary so they could say a special thank you for all the help all the volunteers at Leswalt Wetlands have given the school this term.  While the children were developing the school grounds, they mad some planters out of tyres.  So, for a thank you to Mrs Sloan and her team,  they made them a special ladybird and bumble bee planter for the Aldouran Wetlands to enjoy.

The children passed on their grateful thanks;

P1-4 at Leswalt have been very lucky this term and have had the chance to take part in lots of fun activities at the Wetlands.  Some of the activities include pond dipping, mini beast hunt, nature weaving and life cycles.  We love the Wetlands at Leswalt because every time we go there is always something different to do.  We were also excited to discover that there will soon be a new addition at the Wetlands, a 3 metre tall Gruffalo!  We think Jane and the team at the Wetlands are great and they do a brilliant job giving up their own time to make the Wetlands a fun place to go!Charlotte (P4), Aidan (P1), Nicole (P2)

P1-4 have been spending a lot of time at the Wetlands this term.  Jane Sloan and her team of volunteers planned lots of fun activities for us to take part in such as pond dipping, a scavenger hunt and planting Mexican Hat plants!  It is a lot of fun to go to the Wetlands and there are lots of things to see and do such as fairy doors, bug hotels, wood carvings and ducks.  Very soon they will have a new Gruffalo carving.  He is going to be huge.  3 metres tall!  We now we are very lucky at Leswalt Primary to have the Wetlands right on our doorstep.      Millie (P4), Andrew (P2), Murray (P1)

Our topic this term was called Living and Non-living Things and we were very lucky that we had the Wetlands so close by to visit.  We got to take part in lots of games and activities and they all linked in well with our topic and what we were learning in the classroom.  Soon there will be a new carving at the Wetlands, a 3 metre tall Gruffalo!  We can’t wait to go and visit it.  Thank you to all the volunteers at the Wetlands for planning so many fun activities for us.   Kirstie (P4), Cameron (P4), Robin (P2) 

  End of session celebration of achievement 1 July 2016

Mrs Baillie welcomed a packed gym hall full of parents and friends of the school to the annual closing ceremony before calling upon Mrs Anne Ferguson to hand out the prizes.

Attendance certificates   100 % – Kathryn Topping

Behaviour certificates  

P1- Malcolm Mc Gregor

P2- Gregor Reid

P3- Phoebe Gaw

P4- Logan Wilson

P5 – Finlay Mc Millan

P6- Emily Cochrane

P7- Lauren Anderson Finlay Cowan – responsible citizens

 

Accelerated Reading

Star reader in p2 – Gregor Reid

Star reader in p3 Finlay Scott

Star reader in p4 – Charlotte Gaw

Star reader in p5 –Alastair Brown

Star reader in p6 – Emily Cochran and Arden Mc Intyre

Start reader in p7 – Kathryn

Star reader in p1-4 = Finlay Scott

Star reader in p5-7 = Kathryn Topping

 

Super Spellers

Ethan Smith, Charlotte Gaw and Megan Mc intyre

 

Marvellous mathematicians

Jenna Calderwood, Rebecca Brown, Alistair Brown

 

STAR awards – Gold level

Malcolm Mc Gregor, Breagh Kirkpatrick, Murray Williams, Auryn Kirkpatrick, Phoebe Gaw, Erin Jamieson, Millie Smith, Charlotte Gaw, Kayleigh Williams, Megan Mc Intyre,  Arden Mc Intyre, Lauren Anderson Kathryn Topping

 

Sports champions                        

P1- Murray Williams

P2 – Robin Mc Lean

P3 – Auryn Kirkpatrick

P4- Millie Smith

P5 – Kayleigh Williams

P6 – Jamie Drennan

P7 – Lauren Anderson

Winning house –

Soleburn     to collect by house captains Kathryn Topping and Kerr Calderwood

Sports champion p4-7

girl-   Kayleigh Williams

boy-   Jamie Drennan

P1 Booklets presented by Mrs Smith to Aidan Adams, Malcolm Mc Gregor, Maisie Sloan, Breagh Kirkpatrick and Murray Williams

Robert Burns Society prizes – To people who recited poetry at Ryan Centre – Jenna Calderwood and Lauren Anderson

– Literacy              p1-4 Gregor Reid        p5-7 Kathryn Topping

– Numeracy            p1-4   Malcolm Mc Gregor p5-7  Lauren Anderson

– Health and Wellbeing     p1-4 Erin Jamieson  p5-7  Arden Mc Intyre

Achievement award for learning p1-4 – Gregor Reid

Creativity award (Nina Agnew) – Jack Rickard

Endeavour award (Mrs Buchanan) – Finlay Cowan

Ewan Dodds football medals to the team, with most improved player going to Ethan Smith

Leaving gifts to Miss Cambridge And Rev Mike Sheppard – From the parent council and staff and pupils

Presentation of leaving gifts to P7 pupils; Rebecca Brown, Finlay Cowan, Kathryn Topping, Lauren Anderson and Kerr Calderwood

Afternoon concluded with Mrs Baillie Headteacher expressing her grateful thanks to all pupils, parents and staff for support and hard work throughout the session

 

 

Our partnership football team, incorporating pupils from Portpatrick Primary school has finished off a very busy summer season of games with 4 tournaments in the last 4 days!

On Friday, they entered Park Primary football tournament and won every game, taking them to the final where they were narrowly beaten 3:1 by Rephad in the final.

On Saturday they were in action again at Castle Kennedy Primary, and on Sunday they ended up runners up at Sandhead fun day football tournament, after numerous wins again.

Yesterday they played their final games in the summer league, which has been playing on a Monday night at the 3G pitch in Stranraer.  The team finished a very credible 4th, out of all 12 primary schools in our area.

Well done to all who have played in the team.  Many thanks must  go to Ewan Dodds who has given up a lot of his own personal time to coach the children.  Thanks also to all the parents who have helped transport footballers and supervise them at matches this year.

What a team!

Primary 1 have been busy out and about in the village on a mission – as 2d shape hunters!

Armed with clipboards and their special “shape hunter” hats, the young team headed out and about to find a trail of 2d shapes which Mrs Smith had set out for them in the village and Wetlands.  Once all the trail was recovered the young Shape hunters set about their second mission of locating 2d shapes in the environment.  Look at our photographs to see what they found.

The younger class had another afternoon of outdoor learning at Aldouran Wetland gardens.

They were busy learning about life cycles and had fun as they learned in the natural environment.

Primary 1-4 are still busy developing the school grounds by painting, tidying and planting.  Have a look at our photos to see what they got up to this week.

Primary 1-4 went another wander to the Wetlands this week as part of their science learning and teaching.  The visit today focussed on a treasure hunt to help them learn more about life cycles, as well as a sound safari, up through the glen.

Yet again they had another wonderful afternoon of outdoor learning, led by the great team of volunteers at our local gardens

Have a look at all the fun they had while learning!

Ten of our pupils were lucky enough to have a fantastic all expenses day out at Hampden football stadium in Glasgow.  The Primary 1-4 class have been getting weekly football training with Garry Mc Knight an SFA coach.  This input is funded by Tesco.  Garry was asked to select one school which he had been visiting and take  5 boys and 5 girls with him to the National stadium in Glasgow.  Leswalt Primary were delighted to be selected as the only school in Dumfries and Galloway.  

On Monday 23rd May, Jenna Calderwood, Millie Smith, Iona Rickard, Kirstie Mac Donald, Charlotte Gaw, Logan Wilson, Boyd Sloan, Euan Mc Credie, Cameron Mc Cutcheon and Gregor Reid met at school at 7.30am.  They headed off to Hampden accompanied by Garry Mc Knight (SFA Coach), Ewan Dodds (Leswalt Primary school football coach) and Mrs Smith from the school.

At Hampden the children had a tour of the stadium, watched the freestylers performing football tricks, trained in the indoor facility, met some premier league footballers, got their photograph taken with the Scottish cup and even got to play football on the pitch at Hampden.  The children had lunch provided to them at Hampden before leaving for home with a goodie bag packed with items such as t-shirt, water bottle and football for each of them. 

Logan Wilson in Primary 4 said his favourite part was “when we got to run out the tunnel and onto the pitch at Hampden with everyone cheering for us”.  Euan Mc Credie and Boyd Sloan were delighted to tell the class the next day that they had scored 10 goals between them – and as Mrs Baillie the Headteacher pointed out, that will be a good story to tell their grand children when they are older …..all about the day they played football at Hampden and scored so many goals!