Author: Miss Douglas

Highland Show 2026🐮🧑‍🌾⭐

Waterproofs☑️
School Bags☑️
Snacks☑️
More snacks☑️
We were all set for our trip to the Royal Highland Show 2026! Despite the early 7:30am start, pupils and staff boarded the bus with bags of excitement ready for a full day of fun!😄We travelled in style on the Translink coach and had a quick pit-stop at Monkton Services for the toilet and some fresh air. On the road again, we had arrived in Edinburgh before we knew it! 🚌
When we arrived, we split up into our smaller groups with our adult and together decided on a quick itinerary on how we were going to tackle the busy showground!🐮 Some groups decided to start with some lunch, while others were keen to get stuck into their tour around the field! There was so, so much to see that Mrs Baillie had tried to group pupils on their interests and age, so that pupils could prioritise the areas best suited to them. Some group’s first stop was the machinery, while others were there for the ponies, others groups were keen to gather up some freebies in the food and gift tents! The excitement of the activities actually made us forget that the weather was a tad drizzly!🌦️
After a full day of exploring, we met back up with our friends from Kirkcolm ready to board the bus back to Leswalt. We had fully anticipated that after the excitement of the day and the early start, we’d have some sleepy heads and a quiet trip home… not quite! The bus was booming with many, many, many renditions of ‘No Scotland, No Party’ and ‘This Little Light of Mine’🎤
A super day out, thank you to the boys and girls for all their fun, the teachers and adult volunteers and the Baxter Family for their generous donation!🥰
Stay tuned for the RHS 2026 photo-story, coming soon… 👀

Chinese Fakeaway Fun🇨🇳🥢

As part of their social studies topic, China, P4-7 today had a go at making a Chinese ‘fakeaway’. We had a look at some traditional Chinese dishes, chopsticks, and discussed some of the Chinese food we’ve tried at home. 🥢.

Today we had a go at making some vegetable spring rolls and seasoned chips with curry sauce, of course!😋 We chopped some potatoes, grated some vegetables and practised the art of rolling the perfect spring roll. Then popped our chips into the air fryer with some delicious Chinese 5 spice and our spring rolls into the oven to crisp. 20 minutes later, voila! we had some delicious Chinese favourites to try! And enjoy we did- the boys and girls all agreed that the recipe was quick, easy and one they’d love to try again at home. 🤩

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The Bill Adams Memorial Cup⚽🏆

We are super proud of our fabulous football team who took part in the Bill Adams Memorial Cup on Friday afternoon at the Stuart Binnie Arena. ⚽🏆The team, made up of boys and girls from Leswalt and Kirkcolm played exceptionally well and managed to win one of their games! Well done to everybody who took part and Miss Agnew, our fantastic football coach!😁Our fantastic footballers all received a medal, kindly donated by Bill’s family. We look forward to handing these out at the end of term Closing Ceremony🏅.

Sports Day Success!😀🏃🏼

Today was the day, we’d all been waiting for. Mrs Baillie had checked the weather, once, twice, one hundred times hoping for a dry afternoon, and that’s exactly what we got!🤞 With our eggs, spoons, sacks and ropes at the ready, we trooped over the park for our annual sports day!😄

Over the past couple of weeks, we had been heading over to the park for some practice and today the boys and girls were very excited to show off their racing skills to their friends and families. 🏅Our fabulous House Captains, Colin (Lochnaw) and Rachael (Soleburn) had organised for us to take part in a full programme of events; the sprint, skipping, sack, egg and spoon, obstacle and long-distance races and finally the relay.

Our Fabulous P7 House Captains

A big thank you to all the families and supporters who came along this afternoon and created such a lovely atmosphere and to Rachael and Colin our fabulous P7 House Captains for their great organisation and for keeping everything running like clockwork. 🫡And to Gordon from the shop who kindly donated a well needed bottle of water for every pupil and a caramel egg – a perfect sweet surprise to finish a fabulous Friday!🍫

It was so lovely to watch everybody demonstrate such fantastic sportsmanship, encouraging one another and giving everything their best go! The atmosphere was filled with laughter, encouragement, applause and the occasional dramatic finish-line finish! we had some tired legs and smiling faces  by the end and plenty of funny tales to tell. Sports day is always a great way to show that winning od always exciting, but it’s the taking part and having fun that makes the afternoon so special and our fabulous Leswalt crew exemplify this amazingly! We are so incredibly proud of everybody and hope they are too!😍

Results to follow next week, and our Sports Champion boy and girl this year to be revealed at the Closing Ceremony.. but for now, enjoy some funny action shots!😅🙂

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Hear Ye, Hear Ye P1-3 Visit the Castle of St John🫅🧎‍♀️

This morning P1-3 ventured into Stranraer with their Kirkcolm buddies to visit the town’s very own Castle of St John! The started off in the museum where they were set a scavenger hunt – a super way to explore the castle and see lots of real life artefacts. 👑Afterwards, they ventured up the (VERY!) windey staircase to a very royal room with lots of costumes and real life bits and bobs. The pupils spent some time dressing up and having fun re-enacting some castle battles.🫅🧎‍♀️
hey learned that the Castle once belonged to the Adair family from Ireland and later it turned into a prison! They were led further up the windey staircase to the roof, where they learned that the top of the castle was used for prisoners to exercise!💂🫅
A super fun trip with lots of local learning! Well done Team P1-3! 
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Rugby Returns to Leswalt🏉

On Tuesday afternoon, the rain stopped and the clouds parted all ready for some rugby in the sunshine with Niamh from Wigtownshire Rugby Club! 🏉We started off with one of our favourites – Capture the Flag, where pupils practised some of the important attacking and defending skills involved in a game of rugby.🏳️ The boys and girls split into two teams on the grass and each team were tasked with capturing the other team’s flag, while defending their own.
Afterwards, we played a game of ‘switch’ where pupils had to switch places with a friend in the circle without someone intercepting and stealing their spot! 😊
We look forwards to welcoming Niamh back again next week for some more rugby fun!
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Leswalt’s Sweet ‘Cream Teas’ Fundraiser 🍰🫖

On Sunday afternoon, Leswalt Primary welcomed friends, families and sweet-treat lovers from far and near to our fantastic ‘Cream Teas’ fundraiser organised by our Parent Council. 
Cakes were baked, stalls were set and tea and coffee brewing, we were all set and ready to go at 1 o’clock! Visitors gathered in the hall where they enjoyed some tea and coffee and were treated to a delicious selection to cakes and scones!🍰🫖A huge thank you to everybody who donated their yummy baking! 

In the hallway, Mr and Mrs McGregor sold raffle tickets and our P1-3 class offered recipe books, a bottle stall and a selection of school uniform! Meanwhile, P4-7 had been busy grafting away at their stall in the ‘big class.’ 🍾🎟️

  • Rebecca, Rachael and Olivia’s ‘Lemonade Stand’  got some fantastic feedback as the girls hand-made and sold their own lemonade🍋. 
  • Keira, Emma and Thea’s lollipop in the sand was a big hit and their ‘animal fidget’ prizes proved very tempting.🍭 
  • Our wonderful beauticians; Hannah, Lily and Eilidh had queues of children and adults lining up to have their nails painted and be glitter tattooed!✨ 
  •  Colin and Ross went with the timeless favourite; guess the panda bear’s birthday and how may sweets are in the jar, which as always, was a massive hit.🐼 
  • And our fabulous footballers has their work cut out for them outside with their ‘Beat the Goalie’ stall in the sunshine.⚽ 

It was so lovely to see all the boys and girls having fun and for their fabulous enterprise ideas to come to fruition. 🙂 

All in all, it was a very successful afternoon! All made possible by the dedicated hard work of all parents who contributed in any way to the running of the day. Not to mention the pupils who worked hard to plan and run their stalls. We really appreciate how everybody in our school community comes together to make little Leswalt such a lovely place to be!🥰 

P1-3’s Cardboard Kingdoms 🏰

Yesterday afternoon P1-3 took advantage of the beautiful warm sunny weather and ventured outside for some castle building.🌞 Armed with cardboard boxes, Frosties, toilet paper tubes and LOTS of excitement, they set to work building Leswalt Castle. 🏰
As part of their social studies topic, ‘castles,’ Primary 1-3 have been learning all about the structure and parts of a castle and what life would be like during medieval times! In their teams, P1-3’s were challenged to build their own castles. Although each team’s creation  looked quite.. different.., they were all very well thought out. Some had drawbridges, windows, turrets, flags and there was even mention of security cameras from Jorgie 😆. 
The perfect opportunity for us to show what we know about castles, but, what made the afternoon so special was watching all the children work together outside, solving problems, sharing ideas and to top it all off, the beautiful weather!😊😎
Well done Team P1-3!
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P1-3’s Medieval Morning at Kirkcolm🏰👑

This morning P1-3 welcomed back one of our favourite visitors, Kathryn Purchase from History Alive in Schools for a workshop on Castles!🏰 We all love Kathryn’s visits into school, and today was no exception. Today’s session was made even more special with a bus trip to Kirkcolm to learn about castle building through the ages with our buddies from across the partnership!🧒🧒
Kathryn is a super knowledgeable historian and fascinating to listen to, for both the children and adults! She told us all about the different types of castles and where to find them and what life would be like to live in a castle. As exciting as it sounds, Kathryn explained that the reality would be pretty cold, dark and a little smelly too..
We learned about the different people who live in the castle, from knights and servants to kings and queens! Our lovely Primary 1 Albie was knighted and should forever be known as ‘Sir Albie of Leswalt’ 🤣. 
Sir Albie making his mark.. 🙂
As part of her visit, Kathryn always brings the coolest props, the boys and girls had the best time dressing up and role playing castle life as lords and ladies! 
We look forward to using what we have learned from today’s workshop into designing and building our very own castles next week! How exciting! Stay tuned for pictures! 
A huge thank you to Kathryn for travelling down to Kirkcolm to deliver such a super workshop this morning, we can’t wait to welcome her back for our next history topic in the future!⏲️😼
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P7 Visit Stranraer Academy 🚌🏫🎒

Yesterday, Primary 7’s from Leswalt buddied up with their P7 friends from Kirkcolm for a visit to Stranraer Academy to help them get their bearings and feel prepared for their next step after the summer holidays. Their morning started with a trip to Art with Mrs Thompson, where they designed their own super heroes! How cool!🦸🏼Afterwards, their visited the Home Economics department and made a cheese toastie! 🧀

They enjoyed some lunch in the canteen, where they got to choose from lots of hot and cold options, but pasta king seemed to be super popular among our Primary 7’s! We look forward to our next visit to the Academy in June.

 

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