Author: Miss Douglas

Getting Creative with Jane from Creative Stranraer 👨‍🎨👩‍🎨

This afternoon we had a lovely visit from a lovely lady, Jane from Creative Stranraer. Jane is involved in a project which adds some fun to the Southern Upland Way. Along the walking trail, they are hoping to add some kists filled with colourful ‘treasure’ stones for walkers to collect along the way. 🚶‍♂️

 

Jane brought along lots of stones and pens and tasked us with drawing a colourful picture on the stone. We had lots of minions, trees, patterns and animals, which Jane seemed super impressed with.🌳🐱🐶

Afterwards, in our groups, we were given a long sheet of paper to design a ‘Leswalk Mural’. We had a quick chat about the fanulous things we love most and special parts of Leswalt before starting to draw some pictures on our mural. These looked absolutely fantastic. Jane hopes to include 1 part from the murals in a collective primary school mural in Stranraer, which will be displayed along the beach. We can’t wait to see the finished project.🖌

 

We had a super fun afternoon, showing off our creativity and capturing all the fantastic parts of our wee community! 👨‍🎨👩‍🎨

 

Meta-Skills

Creative Cassidy

Collaborating Cora

Critical Thinking Chris

Focussing Fergus

 

UNCRC Articles 

Article 13 – Sharing Thoughts Freely

Article 28 – Access to Education

Article 12 – Respect for Children’s Views

Article 31 – Rest, Play Culture and Arts

 

Syrup, Sprinkles and Sticky Fingers🥞🧑‍🍳👩‍🍳

Hot plate✅ , Ingredients ✅Nutella, Biscoff, syrup and sprinkles ✅
We were all set to celebrate Shrove Tuesday with some obligatory pancake flipping! With Mrs Kyle, each group had a go at pouring their mixture onto the hot plate and flipping their pancakes 🥞!
Afterwards, it was time for toppings! Pupils could choose to add some Biscoff, sprinkle, Nutella and syrup (or all 4😅) to add to their pancakes.
Meta-skills
Collaborating Cora
Communicating Chris
UNCRC Rights
Article 12 – the right to express their views and be heard.
Article 28 – the right to education
Article 24 – the right to nutritious food

P1-3’s Perfect Patterns in the Playground 🖼️

As part of their artwork this term, P1-3 have been exploring tessellation and symmetrical patterns. 🦋 👦🏼👧🏻
This afternoon Mrs McKnight saw a rare opportunity with the dry weather and planned a fun, hands-on outdoor art activity. Pupils were challenged to create a symmetrical picture in the playground. They collected up some sticks, stones and playground toys, and worked together to create a picture on the ground which included a line of symmetry. Their pictures were super, and they had a fantastic time making them! ☺️

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THE GREAT LESWALT BAKE OFF!🍪🧑🏻‍🍳

It’s week 4 of cooking club, which means….ready, steady BAKE OFF! 👩🏼‍🍳👨🏼‍🍳

The teams, equipped with bowls, scales, sugar and all sorts of sweet treats were tasked with baking cookies this week. They followed a simple cookie recipe, adding their chosen chocolate chips and sweet treats to make their cookies original and stand out. 🍫🍪
James, Rebecca and Rachael put a lot of hard work into the presentation of their Nutella and Bueno White Chocolate cookies. Aria-Rose, Keira and Emma baked some white chocolate Rolo cookies. Murray, Colin and Ben cooked up cookies filled with M & Ms and Mini Eggs and Hannah, Eilidh, Lily and Olivia made some sweet mini marshmallow and Biscoff cookies. 😋
The teachers (judges) have very kindly offered to rate the cookies on their appearance and taste and choose the best cookies as the Bake Off Winners 🏆!
We have had such great fun baking together on a Tuesday afternoon, putting our maths measuring skills into practice and learning some yummy recipes along the way!🤩
Well done Team P4-7🥰!!

Food and Farming at Loch Inch 🧺🥔🐮🌽🧑‍🌾

It’s a busy week in School this week! Today, P4-7 ventured to Loch Inch, Castle Kennedy for a workshop all about Food and Farming. This was organised by the Royal Highland Education Trust. Once we were arrived, we were split up into groups to explore 5 different farming workshops and meet some local farmers and farm industry workers.

1 – Gamekeeping with Connor🦃

Connor, the fifth generation Loch Inch Game Keeper had brought with him a range of different animals including pheasants and deer horns for us to have a little look at. He explained that his job is much more than just shooting animals, he maintains the landscape.

 

2- Sheep Farming and Red Meat with Alison Clark🐏

Alison had brought with her 4 fluffy friends; 2 sheep and 2 lambs. She told us about the everyday uses of wool and the special markings her sheep had on them.

3 – Gordon’s Agricultural Machinery with Graham Knox 🚜

We were very impressed by the CLAAS chopper that Graham had parked at Loch Inch. He took us a little tour around the chopper, explaining the parts and the silage process and then we all got a little seat inside.

  1. Dairy Farming with Lactalis🐄🥛🧀

We were surprised to learn that a sheep can produce 20 bottles of a milk a day! The volunteers had brought with them some machinery from a milking parlour to demonstrate that process of cows being milked. Afterwards, we learned little bit about the processes at Lactalis and how our milk and cheese is made and ready for us to eat and drink.

  1. Meat Health with Abbey  🐄🥩

Abbey spoke to us about the different types of red meat; lamb, beef and pork. She challenged us to sort some foods into meat type and explained that as part of her job, she encourages people to eat more red meat. She explained that we should be eating 70g of red meat every day! Afterwards, she gifted us a little sticky cow, sheep or pig to take home – always a crowd pleaser 🙂.

We had a super morning at Loch Inch, learning more about Food and Farming and showing off what we know too!🙂

UNCRC Articles 

Article 24 – Right to the best possible health
Article 28 – Right to education
Article 29 – Goals of education
Article 31 – Right to relax, play and take part in cultural life

Meta Skills 

Communicating Cate

Sense Making Samira

Critical-Thinking Chris

Curiosity Carlos

A Visit from Stranraer Pipe Band 🥁

 

Continuing on the Scots Celebrations, this afternoon we were visited by members of Lochryan Pipe Band who had brought along different Scots instruments to show the boys and girls how they are played following their Scots language focus in school. The band played us some different songs, including Scotland the Brave played on the bagpipes and various different drums, which was affa guid! 🎵🥁Ben and Emma both had a go on the drum, and the band were very impressed!
John  explained that the Pipe Band are  hoping to recruit some young performers to join the Pipe Band and invited the boys and girls along to their open afternoon on the 8th of March between 12-4pm at the Pipe Band Hall in Stranraer!

A super opportunity to learn an instrument and enjoy a new hobby!
Meta Skills
Collaborating Cora
Communicating Cate
Sense Making Samira
UNCRC Rights
1. Right to Education (Article 28)
2. Right to Develop Talents and Abilities (Article 29)
3. Right to Culture, Arts, and Participation (Article 31)
4. Right to Express Themselves (Article 13)

 

 

P4-7 Cooking Club – Cheese Twists 🧀👨‍🍳

This week, the cooking club set out to make some cheese twists! Hands washed, equipment ready, recipes in hand and oven pre-heating, we were raring to go. Pupils followed a simple 12 step recipe which saw them rolling out a sheet of puff pastry, brushing it with a light layer on butter, grating a layer of cheese on top and slicing it into it into thin strips and twisting with their hands.
While the cheese twists were in the oven, we got tidied up and enjoyed a couple of biscuits to settle our tummy’s while we waited on our cheese twists to be ready to try. 😋
Next week, we are looking forward to our final week of cooking club and putting our skills to the test in the LESWALT BAKE OFF!🍰🍪

Trip to the Museum ⚠️🚌

This morning Leswalt and Kirkcolm upper classes headed into Stranraer to visit the Museum. This term, our social studies topic is WW2, and to enhance our learning, we organised a trip with Madeline from the museum to get hands on with some of their real artefacts!⚠️
We learned about Stranraer in the past and during war time. We started with a tour around the museum, looking at some of the local artefacts which had been donated and hearing stories about evacuees and local figures. Upstairs, there were 4 boxes waiting for us, each with artefacts, old newspaper articles and documents which link to a WW2 personnel. Each group had the job of investigating the artefacts and figuring out who the owner would be. We had artefacts belonging to; an engineer, a WW2 house wife, an evacuee and a member of the woman’s land army. Afterwards, we then had to become museum curators themselves and arrange the artefacts in a ‘mini’ exhibition.🪖
Overall this was such a fantastic way to spend the morning and a great way to engage with what our local community has to offer. We are so grateful to the wonderful staff at Stranraer Museum for welcoming us in the morning and making use of their facilities and we hope to have many reasons to return in the future! 😃

A Wee Showcase wi’ Big Talent 🏆🎭

This afternoon we welcomed families into school to showcase our Scots Learning. 🤩 This month, pupils have been super busy writing out their poem in the very best handwriting and creating some super creative artwork to represent their poem and today we got to show it all off and announce the winners.

The audience were treated to Scots’ songs, wonderfully expressive recitations and a display of fantastic artwork and handwriting. Well done to all the weans! And a big thank you to families at home for all the effort and hard work behind the scenes! 🏠

Leswalt Primary School Burns Results 2025

DRUMROLL…🥁

Class 1

Poem – Mince and Tatties

Recitation winners:

  1. Noah
  2. Ellis
  3. Leo

Illustration winners:

  1. Albie
  2. Noah
  3. Jack

Handwriting winners:

  1. Leo
  2. Jack
  3. Noah

Class 2

Poem – Crocodile

Recitation winners:

  1. Erin
  2. Phoebe
  3. Betty

Illustration winners:

  1. Phoebe
  2. Erin
  3. Jessica

Handwriting winners:

  1. Erin
  2. Ada
  3. Betty

Class 3

Poem – The Sair Finger

Recitation winners:

  1. Jorgie
  2. Cameron
  3. Arla

Illustration winners:

  1. James
  2. Jorgie
  3. Arla

Handwriting winners:

  1. Cameron
  2. Jorgie
  3. Beathan

Class 4/5

Poem – Street Talk & My Auld Buits

Recitation winners:

  1. Eilidh
  2. Hannah
  3. Lily

Illustration winners:

  1. Keira
  2. Eilidh
  3. Lily

Handwriting winners:

  1. Hannah
  2. Keira
  3. Eilidh

Class 7

Poem – Anything by Burns

Recitation winners:

  1. Colin
  2. James
  3. Murray/ Rachael

Illustration winners:

  1. Murray
  2. Colin
  3. Rachael/ Rebecca

Handwriting winners:

  1. Rachael
  2. Murray
  3. Colin

UNCRC Article 31 Rest, Play, Culture, Arts

A ‘Weel-Done’ Burns Supper 🍽

Tables set, Saltire hanging, bagpipes piping! It was time for Leswalt’s annual Burns Supper! The whole school sat down to enjoy some haggis neeps and tatties and celebrate the work of Burns and celebrate Scotland! 🍽

 

Murray, our super P7, was a very able and organised chairperson who welcomed everybody to the Supper and ensured the proceedings ran smoothly. Ben, read the Selkirk Grace before P1 Leo and P7 Colin escorted the Haggis from the kitchen into the dinner hall to the sound of some bagpipes playing in the background. Colin, very confidently and professionally then addressed the haggis which signalled it was time to eat! Pupils sat down to a full haggis supper; haggis, neeps and tatties. Some enjoyed sausages and pizza instead.🍕😀

 

Afterwards, we enjoyed some poetry recitations from Ellis (P1), Phoebe (P2) James (P3). P1-3 entertained us with their song ‘Ye Cany Shove Yer Granny’ 👵🚌

 

Colin and Ben followed with an amusing toast to our brilliant P7 Lassies Rachael and Rebecca and Rebecca followed with quite a witty reply. Lily (P5) and Eilidh (P4) recited their poems with great enthusiasm.

 

Our fantastic P7 James gave us a chuckle with his ‘Toast to Leswalt School’ and Murray got quite the laugh with his final Vote of Thanks. P4-7 entertained with their song ‘Marie’s wedding’ 👰

 

The company sang ‘Auld Lang Syne’ at the end of a highly successful and entertaining Burns Supper at Leswalt Primary. A huge well done to our fantastic P7’s for their hard work to plan and deliver such a fantastic Burns Supper!😊

UNCRC Articles

Article 31 Rest, Play, Culture, Arts

Article 8 – Identity

Article 7 – Name and Nationality

 

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