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Netball Fun

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 days to the Academy next term! Rachael’s team (team 6) even finished the morning as overall champions! 
A huge thank you to Stranraer Academy PE department and Linda Paterson for organising our morning of fun!
Collaborating Cora
Communicating Cate
Leading Li
Adapting Aleksander
Article 31 – The right to relax and take part in leisure activities   

Rotary Quiz for our Whizz Kids

A huge well done to our four Primary 7 pupils who represented the school at last night’s Rotary Club quiz, which was held at Park Primary School. Murray, Colin, Rebecca and Rachael faced some tough questions and opposition from other local primary schools. Although they weren’t placed on the day, we are very proud of their efforts and team work! 🤩

Meta Skills:
Focussing Fergus
Collaborating Cora
Communicating Cate
Sense Making Samira

Stories, Sips and Smiles

Without the company of the P6 and 7s today our Primary 1-5s has plenty of  fun celebrating World Book Day! We started the day by listening to some audio books while designing our book covers then after break tuned into the CBBC live lesson where we followed the reading map to explore lots of different ✨reading vibes✨
We ended the day cuddled up with a story with biscuits and hot chocolate to enjoy – what more could you ask for on a miserable, wet afternoon! 📖🍵

Boys and girls will be arriving home with their book tokens, so pupils can go and collect their £1 free book! 

Meta Skills:
Curiosity Carlos
Focussing Fergus 
Collaborating Cora

UNCRC Articles
Article 28 — Right to education
Article 13 — Freedom of expression
Article 31 — Right to rest, play, culture and the arts

A Big Thanks to the Rotary Club

This afternoon we were delighted to welcome three lovely gentlemen from Stranraer Rotary Club in to speak to us about litter and the importance of keeping our wee community clean!🚮 Ben and Murray were pleased to see Donald McColm that they’d met at the Rotary Lunch again and were excited to see that he had brought along some of the hi-vis vests they had modelled at the lunch along with some bags and litter pickers. 
We were wowed with some litter- related facts about how long it takes certain foods and materials to break down in the environment from a banana (2-3 weeks), plastic (2000 years) to glass (an eternity) to help us to put into perspective how damaging litter can be 😮
The big Stranraer clean-up has proven that our neck of the woods is in need of some greater care, with over 500 bags worth of rubbish being collected over the course of a year and the boys and girls were appalled to learn that that would fill our entire hall!! We learned that we need to take action now and play our part, starting with the 3 Rs
  • Reduce
  • Reuse
  • Recycle 
Together the boys and girls worked together to organise the rubbish into plastic, paper and aluminium and we chatted about how we do this in school and home. We were most excited to get out into the community at our next litter pick to try out some the great new litter pickers that Stranraer Rotary Club and Leswalt Community Association had very kindly purchased for our use. Donald himself had designed and made triangle shaped bag holders that will really help us to make sure we keep Leswalt litter-free!😄

Rotary Lunch Fun

Today we sent away Murray and Ben to represent the school at the yearly Rotary Lunch along with Lyle and Arran from Kirkcolm, accompanied by Mrs Kyle!

This is a fantastic opportunity for the pupils to engage with the members of The Rotary Club who consistently do so much for the schools and community of The Rhins. Today they listened to a talk from Bob Bruce about his 30 years serving in the Army, where he was in charge of 8000 soldiers (big responsibility!) Bruce also told them about how he now serves as the councillor of Edinburgh Castle.

The boys also enjoyed a hearty lunch of fish and chips courtesy of the North West Castle! 🐟

Meta Skills 

Focusing Fergus

Critical Thinking Chris

Curiosity Carlos

Articles

Article 17 – Access to Information

Book Bug at Leswalt

In celebration of  Book Week Scotland our P1–3 families were invited into the school to discover the fantastic bags gifted to children by the Scottish Government and Scottish Book Trust.📚All wrapped in rainbow paper the ‘postman’ delivered these gifts to the school this afternoon  and the boys and girls were left in suspense to find out what could be inside.. 🎁📦

Inside each bag there were between 2–4 wonderful books, a fun activity booklet, and either a card game with maths resources or a magnetic whiteboard with numbers – all designed to make learning at home exciting and enjoyable. We also explored the online resources that go hand‑in‑hand with the bags, giving families even more ways to support literacy and numeracy together.
The highlight of the day was, of course, handing out the bags in class. The children’s faces lit up, before during and after the wrapping paper was removed
  • ✨ P2 pupils had lots of fun wit their new binoculars
  • ✨ P1 pupils practised sums on their magnetic boards
  • ✨ P3 pupils had a blast with their charade cards (these will come in handy next time Leswalt has a power cut I’m sure!)
A huge thank‑you to all the parents and family members who joined us. If you couldn’t make it, don’t worry – your child’s bag is waiting in their school bag. Take a peek and enjoy the fab resources together! 🙂

Sliding into Curling Season

Our lucky P7 pupils had a blast heading off with their Leswalt pals to the Curling Rink at North West Castle to kick start the curling season!  🥌 When they arrived they got their shoes swapped, learned the safety rules and had a bit of fun warming up on the cold ice! The boys and girls learned how to deliver their stone and how to use their brush to help their stone to glide along the ice!

After that, it was was game on! 💪The first half gave everyone plenty of practise sliding stones and sweeping like pros, before the second half brought two thrilling matches which ended in a nail-biting tie with Sandhead Primary! No medals this time (but you never know, another Leswalt curling Olympic champion might be on their way), but loads of laughs, teamwork, and new skills picked up along the way.

A huge shout-out to the amazing team at North West Castle Ice Rink for giving our older pupils this fantastic chance to try curling. 🧹🥌

Collaborating Cora
Communicating Cate
Integrity Imani

Article 31 – The right to play and leisure activities

Socks, Smiles & Standing Up

This Monday marked the beginning of Anti-Bullying Week at our school—a special time to celebrate kindness, friendship, and standing up for one another. To start the week, pupils wore odd socks to school! 🧦This fun tradition helps us show that being different is something to be proud of—our unique qualities make us who we are. ❤️👬

We also joined in with the BBC’s Live Lesson, all about how we can ‘Power Up!’ to stop bullying with this year’s theme “The Power of Good” and we shared ideas of how we can continue to make our wee school the kind, caring place that it is!

Remembrance Day

Today, Leswalt Primary pupils took a walk to the village memorial to remember all the brave people who helped keep us safe in the past. Since it’s meant to be very rainy tomorrow, we went a day early .
Everyone stood quietly as P7 pupil James read the famous poem In Flanders Fields. He did a brilliant job! His voice was clear and calm, and the words helped us think about the soldiers who fought in wars long ago.
After the poem, we all stood still for two minutes before laying our hand-made wreath in front of the memorial, this was done by our oldest pupil James and youngest pupil Leo.
Communicating Cate
Critical Thinking Chris

Bright Lights and Safe Nights: Firework Safety in P4-7

Our upper class were delighted to welcome Robert McCrorie, a Community Safety Advocate from the Fire and Rescue Community Safety Team. He spoke to the pupils about staying safe around fireworks and Bonfire Night celebrations. 🎇

Robert covered important safety topics including fireworks, sparklers, and bonfires, highlighting potential hazards. Hannah  gave a great demonstration on how to hold a sparkler safely—at arm’s length and without waving it around—unfortunately nobody offered to do a demo of  the vital Stop, Drop and Roll technique in case clothing catches fire. 👩‍🚒🔥

The session also explored what should never be added to a bonfire and the reasons why, along with key rules and regulations for purchasing and using fireworks responsibly. 🎇🎆

Collaborating Cora
Critical Thinking Chris
Initiate Ivy

  • Article 19 – Protection from violence, abuse, and neglect: Children have the right to be protected from all forms of harm. Learning how to stay safe around fireworks and bonfires supports this right.
  • Article 6 – Right to life, survival, and development: Teaching children how to prevent accidents and respond to emergencies (like Stop, Drop and Roll) helps safeguard their well-being and development.

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