All the boys and girls at Leswalt Primary were delighted to receive a treat of an advent calendar for them all to open every day in December.
Leswalt Community association kindly provided all pupils with a chocolate treat. Many thanks to them for thinking of us all at school.
The photograph shows Primary 1 pupils happy with their gift!
On the first day of December, we opened our advent calendars and kicked off the the festive season with some input from the Scripture Union and “Christmas Unwrapped!”
Owain Evans joined our class to lead P5-7 through fun activities such as the Christmas Quiz, and and excerpt from “The Star” movie. In groups we tried some code breaking activities to crack the Christmas code.
We all went on to “Shine a light on Christmas” by making our own beeswax Christmas candles.
It was a fun filled festive morning which reminded us all of the true meaning of Christmas.
Despite the windy forces at work on Wednesday, 11 hardy P5-7’s took themselves off to run the annual school’s cross country competition out at Green Valley. This was re-scheduled after rain postponed the event planned before the holidays. Wednesday had glorious sunshine, slightly over shadowed by some harsh headwinds (or excellent tail winds if you are facing the right way…?)
After a warm up activity, pupils waited patiently for the schools to gather and then the races began – half a mile for p5 and one mile long for p6 and p7 pupils. Every single pupil tried their absolute best and the most evident thing was the team work the pupils displayed – cheering each other on as loudly as they could!
Well done to all for their efforts #effective contributors
Last year Emma Shirley was diagnosed with Leukaemia, and was unable to start Primary 1 at Leswalt Primary school with all her wee friends. Emma has subsequently missed lots of school and had months of treatment at Glasgow Children’s Hospital.
In December, all the boys and girls from Leswalt Primary decided when they moved back to their newly refurbished school they would hold an open afternoon , with donations to support Emma. £320 was raised in just over 2 hours at Leswalt Primary with visitors all donating generously.
Emma is now feeling a lot better and has been in school for a few mornings. All her friends from Leswalt Primary school handed over the money raised. £200 was given to the hospital for helping Emma and £120 was given to her parents to help with the costs of them having to go back up and down to Glasgow. Emma still has to attend Glasgow Children’s hospital on a weekly basis.
The photograph shows Leswalt Primary pupils handing over the money to Emma and mummy, Joanna Shirley.
Leswalt Primary was delighted to welcome 2 very special guests to see the news and improved Leswalt Primary school.
Dawn Roberts the new Chief Executive for Dumfries and Galloway council was accompanied by Dr Gillian Brydson, Director of skills Education and Learning to see how all the money has been spent on the refurbishment of Leswalt Primary school. They arrived at Leswalt Primary school with the Scrapbook the Pupil council made many years ago to request some work on Leswalt Primary. Hamish Mc Gregor recalls he was in Primary 1 when this was compiled. Hamish is now in Primary 6 and delighted to see the huge change from the photographs in the scrapbook!
While at the school, our visitors had a tour from Alexander and Faye, our most senior pupil council members now. The school also sang to them and Mrs Ferguson was also surprised when they handed over a certificate to her for working with Dumfries and Galloway council for over 25 years!
Click here to read the letter we received after the visit – Sheila Baillie 20230221 
Earlier this year, our P5-7 pupils were set the challenge of designing their own app for a mobile phone, by the company “Make it Happen”. There were lots of wonderful suggestions. Runners up at Leswalt were all give certificates –
Murray Reid – car game
Daisy Doyle – book reader for dyslexics
Hamish Mc Gregor – Cooking app
Rose Santangeli – Dog training app.
Five overall winners were chosen for the whole of Dumfries and Galloway. The lucky winners all received a Coding book, water bottle and brand new Kindle Fire tablet! The winners also get their app made for real!
At Leswalt we are delighted and excited to have one winner. Drum roll please……
Alexander Clark has created “Name your stock” – an app that is designed to allow you to identify different breeds of sheep and cows you may spot in the fields. Alexander will work in conjunction with the company to add further breeds and information to this app. One key breed he will be adding soon is his beloved Texel sheep!
You can download the app on to your own phone – Mrs Baillie already has it on her phone and was able to show the school this morning 🙂
Click on this link – https://name-your-stock.glideapp.io/dl/6471c6 and you too can download the app made by Alexander
Well done Alexander!
What a day to come back on Term 2 – Halloween!
As you can imagine, it was all go with the start of Term 2 ahead of us and Halloween festivities taking place .
Pupils came with scary costumes bagged and ready to go for a quick change at lunchtime. Afterwards we had our Halloween costume judging competition! We did this altogether with Kirkcolm combined and had both a Leswalt and Kirkcolm winner in each primary. What a super effort all the boys and girls made today, with some truly spook-tacular costume ideas and some that showed real hard work at home. Both House Captains and teachers were so impressed.
Primary 7 have recently completed a block of swimming at the Ryan Centre, over 3 weeks.
Many thanks to Mrs Agnew and staff at school for supervising them at this.
They all enjoyed learning new skills and splashing about!
