Author: Mrs Baillie

Primary 1-4 were delighted to receive an injection of brand new toys and beanbags to their class this week.  A few weeks ago the younger pupils wrote letters to the Parent council asking if they could help fund some new role play equipment and games for the class.  Mrs Mc Knight went shopping for the class and they are now the proud owners of comfy bean bags, a bright rug and a mountain of new toys for the infants to enjoy.

Many , many thanks must go to the Parent council for providing the money for our younger pupils to enjoy. 🙂

Primary 1-4 and Mrs Mc Knight were getting creative making ice art this week.  Armed with pipettes full of food colouring the younger pupils were able to observe how the dye travelled through different frozen blocks that Mrs Mc Knight brought from home.  This work is all part of their focus this term on “Weather”.

And, the weather was so cold at Leswalt this week ,  once their wonderful ice art shapes were put outside – they all re-froze!

 

All of Leswalt Primary headed off to Leswalt wetlands today to look for the signs of winter all around us in the local community.  Holly bushes, robins, icicles, frost and even a frozen pond were all around us on this crisp wintery walk.  It was a good way to blow away the cobwebs on a December afternoon and walk a wee daily mile.

Primary 4 and 5 pupils enjoyed a jaunt into Stranraer Academy this morning. 

They went to watch a performance by “Theatre in schools”.  The performance today was called “Up to speed”, and the 2 performers captivated the whole audience for an hour.  The children later got to try out some of the drama techniques they used in their performance .  This performance was enjoyed by all Primary schools in the Stranraer cluster.

Primary 1-4 at Leswalt Primary have been enjoying their electricity topic.

Recently they have been ;

Moving about like electrons, to show how a current works,

playing matching games with electrical circuit symbols

Drawing their own circuit diagrams

Testing for insulators and conductors

Thinking about electrical safety

Making up their own circuits to get bulbs glowing.

 

Have a look at all the active learning our little scientists have been up to!

 

 

 

The partnership football team of Leswalt /Portpatrick United finished off the Summer season of fun days on winning form.  Today  they won every game to get through to the final at the Sandhead tournament – against their new trio partnership school of Kirkcolm.

It was a very tense final, with Mrs Baillie being very diplomatic on the sidelines and avoiding showing allegiance to any one of her schools.  At full time the score was 0:0.  The tension was further heightened as it went to a penalty shoot off to decide the winners.  Kirkcolm narrowly won on penalties, but Leswalt and Portpatrick football team can hold their heads high that they played very well and demonstrated great sportsmanship.  

Runners up Sandhead fun day 2017

The joint partnership football team from Leswalt and Portpatrick Primary schools took part in the first fun day tournament of this term – with great success.

The boys and girls played at Rephad fun night and progressed unbeaten to the final.  This competition was open to all schools in the Stranraer cluster.  In the final they played Belmont Primary, who eventually won. 

Well done to all who played – there was great team work and sportmanship displayed throughout.  Special thanks must go to Ewan Dodds for coaching at Leswalt and Alec Ross for managing the team at this tournament.

 

Alexander took great pride in showing the school some of his lambs, last week. Mum had taken the lambs to Nursery, for his little brother and popped in at Leswalt Primary on the way past so that everyone in school could also see the new borns.

Alexander lived handling them and letting all his friends see the lambs. 

This afternoon Primary 1-4 enjoyed a visit to school from Zoolab.  This visit was to tie in with the current topic of “the Rainforest”.  Zoolab brought with them a variety of animals that could live in the rainforest climate.  The children got the chance to handle many of these animals – including a snake which ate 5 mice for tea the previous evening ( and the children were encouraged to feel lumpy bits in the body!)

The majority of children enjoyed the experience – have a look at the photographs to gauge reactions!