Leswalt Primary opened it’s door to Parents and friends of the school this week and had a Christmas Open afternoon. Everyone was able to make a wide variety of Christmas crafts and artwork with the pupils in classrooms. The Christmas music was playing, and the glitter was out in force. The afternoon concluded with a performance by Arden, Kayleigh and Kathryn of Christmas Carols played on the cornet. The whole
All the children enjoyed a turkey dinner in school last week. With the Christmas music playing in the background they sat down together, with staff to enjoy the traditional Christmas meal with all the trimmings. And the verdict – “it was yummy!”
On Friday 11th of December the whole school went a trip to see the pantomime “Jack and the Beanstalk” at Ayr Gaeity theatre. Having left Leswalt in the morning, they enjoyed a delicious lunch at the Stage Door Café in Ayr, before a wee wander round the shops and the performance. At half time, ice creams were provided and Phoebe was lucky enough to find a golden ticket – which
Mrs Smith recently took Primary 1 a walk round Aldouran Wetlands. AS part of their STAR awards in wider achievement the children are expected to be able to say where the Wetlands are. So, one crisp December morning Mrs Smith and her happy little gang of p1 pupils went a walk to see for themselves. Have a look at the happy wee faces!
Stewart Fisher from Dunskey golf club has just finished a 4 week slot of Tri golf as an after school club. Every Thursday, younger pupils stayed after school to pick up some top golfing tips from the professional. They worked hard on their swing and got some target practise in, in our gym hall. Rory McIlroy – watch out! Our little golfers are shouting “Fore!”
P1-4 have been cooking up a storm at Leswalt Primary raising money for Children in Need. This terms topic is Citizenship and the class were given responsibility for planning, organising and running this year’s fundraising activities. Iona from P4 explained that their first task was to brainstorm different ideas of how they could raise as much money as possible. “We then had to vote for our favourite ones and the
Both classes has a visit from the SSPCA on Friday. Tracey came along and spoke to the younger class about her role in helping care for animals in Scotland, before moving to P5-7 and have a workshop session on Scotland’s wildlife. All the children enjoyed this visit and had plenty of questions for our visitor.
The children of Leswalt Primary had a fun Hallowe’en party in school. This was organised by Primary 7 pupils as part of their STAR awards programme. Everyone looked really fantastic and spooky – have a look at our photographs!
Primary 1-4 have been learning all about their local community this term. As part of their learning, Richard Arkless MP was invited in to explain more about his role in helping the local community develop. He was asked lots of very thoughtful questions by the pupils including; “What is the best/worst part about your job?” “What would you really like to see changes in Stranraer?” “Do you ever argue with
A few weeks ago a visitor to the school asked the children what was the monument on their school jumpers and at the top of the hill. Answers included “the Queen used to live up there” and “the Nazis landed there”. Mrs Baillie thought it was important all the boys and girls knew the significance of the monument which has been adopted as the school logo, and felt they should
