Some of our pupils made the most of the spring sunshine and had fun snuggling up in their den together – and even had a wee snooze in their little shelter.
Look at the fun they had together outdoors!
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Football success!
Our trio partnership football team had their first outing in over 2 years , and despite nicer having trained in school or playing together as a team they came together extremely well.
The team of pupils from Kirkcolm, Leswalt and Portpatrick schools had 3 wins, 2 losses and 2 draws. What a result!
Well done to all for their enthusiasm and team spirit. The next games are on the 25th March .
Final day fun!
Gifts galore, Santa strolling past and Christmas lunch – what’s not to love ?!
Christmas arts and crafts
The boys and girls of leswalt have had some Christmas arts and crafts fun this week. Mini gingerbread houses, Christingles and Holly wreaths were all made with the Christmas tunes playing in the background !
Funding for playground development
The parent council have been awarded £10,000 from Killgallioch Wind farm! That is amazing.
This money recognised the efforts of the fundraising initiative started by Andrew in P7 and the subsequent efforts of others to provide additional funding in recent sponsored activities.
Many thanks must also go to Elaine Mc Gregor and Mags Agnew who have been working on this bid and promoting the fundraising. The money will be for new playground equipment – including outdoor gym equipment and an outdoor classroom.
Well done to all pupils and parents for the part you have played in this – top teamwork!
Now we will have both a shiny new school and new playground to look forward to!
Spreading the Christmas cheer
On a wet and windy last day of term Mrs Claus and her elves (aka Mrs Ferguson and Mrs Baillie and the p5-7 children) went a wander round the village to distribute the Christmas cards all of p1-7 had made in school to some of the elderly residents of Leswalt.
Many doors were opened, to delighted faces and the children wished all “Merry Christmas”. It was a lovely way to spread the Christmas cheer, even the rain didn’t dampen our smiles!
New playground markings
In September we were successful in receiving some funding from Maths Week Scotland. Mrs Mc Harg put in a funding bid for a grant. The only condition was that we had to use this to promote Maths, so we decided to purchase a new playground marking in the shape of a giant target. This will enable pupils to work with numbers in a fun way both at break times and during lessons if they go outdoors.
Today the team from Sovereign play were on site to install the new maths target round the back of the school to give the children another focus at playtimes and maths lessons. We all went a wander round this morning to check it out and were delighted with the final design.
Wee woolly bunnets!
Primary 1-4 have been very creative and have all made some very cute Christmas woolly bunnets with Mrs Mc Knight.
Everyone made elf sized winter warmer head wear in class, using lots of brightly coloured wool. These creations will be entered as part of the Royal Highland Education Trust (RHET) competition to make a Christmas decoration using wool. The boys and girls will send off their photographs to be judged. And, once made they took great pleasure at hanging them all on the Christmas tree in the school hall for everyone to see.
Well done p1-4 , they all look very cute and cosy!
Well done Andrew – a fabulous fundraiser!
Huge thanks and congratulations must go to Andrew and his family who have shown great initiative and decided to get out walking, get fit and raise money for Leswalt Primary in the process.
Andrew has been asking friends and family to sponsor his efforts of walking. Yesterday Andrew and some of his family walked 8 miles.
Andrew would like the money to benefit the school playground, so is passing his fundraising to the parent council to combine with the recent money they were awarded.
To date Andrew has raised an amazing £437 – with the promise of more coming in!
Well done young man – we are very proud of you!
Thank you Mark and Rachael!
Over lockdown, Mark and Rachael Drummond we budding entrepreneurs who set up and ran their own farm shop at Barbeth. They sold delicious home baking, crisps, tablet and all sorts of yummy treats. Mark and Rachael very kindly decided to donate all of their profits to their school.
Grandpa Simpson was very impressed with all of their efforts too and said he would match whatever they raised .
So, Mark came into school with the amazing total of £350 this week! Wow!Well done team Drummond/Simpson!
Rachael thought the school could maybe buy a laptop with the money. Mark said he wanted something more fun. Mrs Baillie thought while a laptop can be fun, it would be good for all the boys and girls to have some fun together , after a long lockdown away from each other. Mrs Baillie has suggested the boys and girls could perhaps have a fun day away (when we are allowed to!) and enjoy it together. She has asked the boys and girls to think if they have any other ideas for the use of they money -maybe mums and dads have ideas too?
Thank you Mark and Rachael, we will put the money to good use!
