Author: Miss Douglas

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.

4. 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.

5. 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

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

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

Meta-Skills

Focussing Fergus

Collaborating Cate

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!

UNCRC Articles 

Article 28 – Right to Education

Article 31 – Right to Culture, Rest Play and Arts

Meta-Skills

ALL OF THEM!