It’s been 9 long weeks since we last saw their little faces at school, and we were delighted to see so many happy smiling faces at the door of Leswalt Primary on Monday morning. It was P1-3’s first day back since the New Year – the building has been rather quiet without them! They were all glad to see each other and be back with their friends.
We’re super happy to have P1-3 back with us at school and hope they all had a brilliant first day back – fingers crossed it’s not too much longer before P4-7 can join us on 15th March .
Lockdown 2021 meant that we could not have our usual in school Scots poetry focus as all learning was taking part at home. But, this did not stop us! Our in inaugural North Rhins inter school Scots poetry competition took place on Friday 29th January and was judged by local Burns enthusiast, Mr Alec Ross.
This event took place on Microsoft Teams, where everyone could see the beautiful handwriting and creative artwork. Pupils recited their poems with gusto, over the internet.
On a wet and windy last day of term Mrs Claus and her elves (aka Mrs Ferguson and Mrs Baillie and the p5-7 children) went a wander round the village to distribute the Christmas cards all of p1-7 had made in school to some of the elderly residents of Leswalt.
Many doors were opened, to delighted faces and the children wished all “Merry Christmas”. It was a lovely way to spread the Christmas cheer, even the rain didn’t dampen our smiles!
Normally at this time of year the staff and pupils would be rehearsing getting ready to put on a Christmas show in Leswalt village hall for the community to enjoy.
Unfortunately, COVID prevented our usual Christmas concert. However, even a World wide pandemic could not stop the creativity and sense of fun of Leswalt staff and pupils .
Click on the link here to see how Christmas 2020 will always be remember for being special.
It’s Christmaaaaas!!! Well… it’s definitely getting closer! There’s a definite festive feel in the air at Leswalt as the staff and pupils wore their cheery Christmas jumpers and headwear to school today AND had the added bonus of tucking in to a tasty turkey lunch – complete with crackers and some Christmas tunes of course! Great fun!
Christmas knitwear out in force at Leswalt!
Miss Lily our P1 elf!
Big smiles from P2 – Murray, Roman, Colin, Rachael, Ruby and Ben.
P3 are ready to have fun! Ela, Ewan, Sean, Hamish, Isla, Amelia, Ellie and Holly.
Say ‘cheese’ P4 – Mark, Hamish, Brandon, Faye, Carys and Cara.
Looking very Christmassy P5 – Alexander, Rose, Struan, Oscar, Thomas, Fraser, Noah and Tristan.
P6 ready to sparkle and shine – Murray, Breagh, Malcolm and Aidan.
Are the P7 elves naughty or nice?! Hmm.. Andrew, Chloe, Joshua, Gregor, Jack and Luke.
These three amigos enjoyed not just seconds but thirds of lunch!!
Serving up a treat!
Ben and Roman ready to munch!
Ruby and Lily – friends together.
Ewan and Rachael ready to tuck in!
Colin and Murray are all smiles!
Look at those cheery faces from Ela and Ellie!
Cracker pulling from Amelia and Holly!
A lovely photo of Mark, Brandon and Kaiden.
Cara and Hamish had great fun!
The P4-7 ladies – Breagh, Rose and Chloe!
123 pull! Go Oscar and Malcolm!
All smiles from Struan.
Noah, Alexander and Thomas enjoyed the banter!
Luke, Joshua and Murray enjoying the spread.
Mrs Baillie photo-bombed Andrew, Aidan and Murray!
Don’t mess with Patricia the chef Mrs McKnight!
Leswalt Primary say ‘cheese’!
Rose, Jack and Gregor had a great lunch.
Murray with his festive headwear!
Isla and Amelia – full-up and ready for a breath of fresh air outside.
Faye, Ela and Ellie the tidy-up elves lent a hand to clear up. Thank you ladies!
In September we were successful in receiving some funding from Maths Week Scotland. Mrs Mc Harg put in a funding bid for a grant. The only condition was that we had to use this to promote Maths, so we decided to purchase a new playground marking in the shape of a giant target. This will enable pupils to work with numbers in a fun way both at break times and during lessons if they go outdoors.
Today the team from Sovereign play were on site to install the new maths target round the back of the school to give the children another focus at playtimes and maths lessons. We all went a wander round this morning to check it out and were delighted with the final design.
Primary 1-4 have been very creative and have all made some very cute Christmas woolly bunnets with Mrs Mc Knight.
Everyone made elf sized winter warmer head wear in class, using lots of brightly coloured wool. These creations will be entered as part of the Royal Highland Education Trust (RHET) competition to make a Christmas decoration using wool. The boys and girls will send off their photographs to be judged. And, once made they took great pleasure at hanging them all on the Christmas tree in the school hall for everyone to see.
Well done p1-4 , they all look very cute and cosy!
We were delighted today to get a good news telephone call to say that a Leswalt Primary pupil is a runner up in the annual Alister Jack MP Christmas card competition.
This competition is open to all schools in Dumfries and Galloway. Hundreds of pupils took part in it. And, our very own Chloe Kennedy is a runner up! Chloe’s design will go inside the card, which will be sent out from Westminster.
As a prize, Chloe will receive a certificate and Amazon gift voucher to spend online.
Huge thanks and congratulations must go to Andrew and his family who have shown great initiative and decided to get out walking, get fit and raise money for Leswalt Primary in the process.
Andrew has been asking friends and family to sponsor his efforts of walking. Yesterday Andrew and some of his family walked 8 miles.
Andrew would like the money to benefit the school playground, so is passing his fundraising to the parent council to combine with the recent money they were awarded.
To date Andrew has raised an amazing £437 – with the promise of more coming in!
