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!🍰🍪
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! 😃
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! 🏠
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!😊
In preparation for the Bake Off, the cooking club attempted some baking this afternoon and in the Spirit of Burns, we made some Jammy Jacks (because Robert Burns loved Jammy Jacks Of course!). We took the traditional flapjack recipe and added some strawberry jam in middle for an extra sweet taste!🍓
Pupils followed the recipe, step by step, using the scales to weigh out their wet and dry ingredients and mix them together into a sticky flapjack base. They layered half of their mixture into a greaseproof baking tray, added a layer of jam and topped with the other half of the flapjack mixture. ⚖We popped our baking in the oven to cook for 25 minutes. Then, tidy up time, which I must say everyone pitched in and gave and hand and soon enough, the hall was spick and span and all of our equipment was tidied away ready for next week’s recipe; Cheese twists🧀🐭.
This was such a super opportunity for us to practise some of the measurement learning we have been doing as part of our maths topic and have some fun learning a new recipe! Look out for Jammy Jacks coming home in tubs tomorrow! 😋😍
This afternoon the P4-7 kicked off cooking club by making a simple recipe; tortilla wrap pizzas with Miss Douglas and Mrs Kyle. They followed the recipe, step by step, and added their favourite toppings; Ham, pepperoni, pineapple, chicken and pepper. There was great debate whether pineapple belongs on a pizza!🍍 👩🍳👨🍳😋
After getting cleaned up, we started thinking about the Week 4’s GREAT LESWALT BAKE OFF! We worked in groups to plan our cookies. Each group could choose 2-3 toppings and ingredients to add to their cookie mix. Some opted for white chocolate and kinder bueno chunks, other groups opted for milk chocolate cookies and Terry’s chocolate orange. We can’t wait to bake and test our cookies soon! 🙂
By that time, everybody’s pizzas were ready! Some chose to take it home for dinner, but almost everybody chose to eat their pizza straight away – I think this was a good sign! Well done Team P4-7! 👩🍳👨🍳😋
This morning we welcomed Millie Craig from ‘AirBus’ into our P4-7 classroom for a fun morning of STEM learning. Millie is an aeronautical engineer who has recently graduated from the University of Glasgow and now lives and works in London. We were fascinated listening to Millie tell us about her super interesting job, as an engineer, who works on satellites – how impressive!! 🛰️
Millie brought with her some Lego (always a crowd favourite) and a project for us to be AirBus Engineers. We split into two groups, each with the task of building satellites. We were all given a role in the group; 3 fitters (responsible for building the satellites, in order) a Project Manager (responsible for quality assurance of the satellites), a Recycling Manager (who had the satisfying job of breaking up the Lego for reuse), a Transport Manager (whose job was to oversee the movement of the product) and the Customer who kept an excel spreadsheet up to date with how many satellites had been completed by each time, how many defected satellites they made and the number of incomplete Lego satellites left when time ran out.
Pupils were so engaged in the project and teamwork was a clear strength for both of the groups- Go Team P4-7! 😄 They had the opportunity after each round to make changes in their team to improve their production line’s efficiently and used problem solving and critical thinking skills to make changes to increase the customer’s satisfaction and their groups profits.
Ultimately the ‘Naso’ Team were the winners! And were treated to a packet of Haribo’s for their hard work. 🍭We had a really super morning with Millie and can’t thank her enough for travelling all the way from London for this workshop with us! 👩🚀What a fun and engaging way to learn about Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths! 🔍And who knows, maybe we have some future aeronautical engineers in our school too!
Today Primary 4-7 welcomed back one of their favourite visitors Kathryn Purchase from History Alive. Kathryn delivered a super informative presentation on World War 2; the rise of the Nazi Party, the Battle of Britain, life on the home front, conscription rationing, evacuees and VE Day, she really updated us life between 1939 and 1945! 😊
Kathryn is so knowledgeable and interesting to listen to, she kept us on the edge of our seats as we immersed ourselves in all things WW2. The children had so many super questions, particularly about life here in Leswalt during war times. We shared with Kathryn some tales of Leswalt School during WW2 from our old school log book from war period, where the headmaster would share news of evacuees and changes to life in and out of school.🔥
Kathryn had brought with her some amazing real-life artefacts, we had a great time exploring and role-playing with them – the deactivated guns and uniforms especially. ⚠️💣
What an exciting way to really kick-start our WW2 topic! 🙂
This afternoon all the boys and girls headed along to Leswalt Church for our annual Christmas Service with Reverent Marlene. She shared with us about the story of Christmas and the importance of celebrating love with friends and family.
The 6 volunteers told a story about the beginning of Christmas celebrations through sweeties!
Galaxy Chocolate representing the Galaxy God created🌌
Sour Haribos representing Adam and Eve’s sin🍬
Love hearts representing the love ❤️
Jelly babies representing God’s son – baby Jesus👶
Starbursts representing God’s sign to the 3 Kings⭐
Liquorice All-Sorts representing God’s acceptance of everybody👥
We shared 3 of our favourite songs from the school show; ‘This Place is Jumping, ‘Christmas Time is Here’ and ‘Stop that Knocking’🎄. And just as Reverent Marlene said, we enjoyed sharing a wholesome afternoon together celebrating Christmas!❤️
From everybody at Leswalt Primary, we wish everybody a Christmas filled with love and happiness and love forward to welcoming the boys and girls back to school on Tuesday the 6th of January 2026 (?!)😀.
At school, one of our favourite Christmassy activities is making cards. This year, the boys and girls have been working hard to make Christmas cards for our lovely Leswalt community.🎁 Our fantastic P6 and 7’s elves along with Mrs Kyle went a wee walk through the village this morning delivering cards as a little thank you for all the kindness and generosity we receive from our wee village year-round! 💌❤️
