On Friday 27th May a choreographer travelled all the way from Fife to teach the pupils of Leswalt Primary school a very special dance. The school will be travelling to The Royal Highland Show on Friday 24th June, to represent Dumfries and Galloway in unique main ring event.
Nine schools from different regions in Scotland will perform in the main ring and represent 9 different types of Farming. Leswalt Primary will represent potato farming.
At 2pm, after taking the microphone to say a few words the boys and girls will strut their stuff to The Proclaimers “500 Miles”, dressed like tatties! It is a fast paced routine, but hopefully the boys and girls can pull it off with pride!
Will you be there to see us?!
This term the whole school topic focus at Leswalt Primary is “Farming”. The school has linked up with RHET, The Royal Highland Education Trust, to further develop this work. As part of this partnership all the pupils at Leswalt Primary went a trip to West Galdenoch Farm to learn more about Dairy Farming. Garry Mitchell is a RHET linked farmer and he spent an afternoon with the boys and girls from Leswalt. Fiona Jamieson the RHEt co-ordinator for Dumfries and Galloway was also on hand to meet the pupils and explain more.
The pupils learned how the milk from West Galdenoch helps make Kit Kats, as milk is sold to Nestle. Pupils helped feed the calves, learned more about stock welfare and paid a visit into the state of the art Rotary milking parlour.
This visit to West Galdenoch really brought alive prior learning in the classroom. Mr Mitchell said he would welcom back Leswalt Primary pupils in a few years time to help him milk his cows and gave everyone a Kit Kat biscuit to reinforce where the milk went once it left the farm.
“I enjoyed feeding his calves” said James Murray in P4
“It was funny when the wee calf was trying to lick me” Craig Anderson p4
“I liked seeing all the cows going round and round in the parlour. I enjoyed my Kit Kat!” Rhona Baillie p3
“It was interesting learning about the difference between a heifer and a cow – I could tell by the size of their bags. A heifer has not had any calves” Mark Mc Colm p7
Staff, pupils and parents at Leswalt Primary were delighted today when it was announced the Leswalt Primary was the winning Scottish school, and 2nd out of 1100 schools in the UK who took part in “The Big Pedal”.
This was the result of 15 days real effort by the whole community – to leave the cars at home and cycle to school.
Congratulations to all!
Many thanks to the Fund-raising group who recently donated over £1000 towards the development of Literacy at Leswalt Primary. This money was used to purchase reading 
materials. A range of non-fiction texts have been bought to allow pupils to experience reading more factual texts. The Oxford Reading Tree scheme has also been extended to allow pupils to read on and find out what happens to Biff, Chip and Kipper when they go to Secondary school!
The photograph shows some of the pupils with a small selection of the texts purchased.
Hot off the press!
What has been happening , and will be happening at Leswalt Primary. Have a read of our February newsletter to find out!
February newsletter
Leswalt Primary has signed up to Easy Fundraising. If you shop online, register with this website first. Supporters of Leswalt Primary then can donate a percentage of all shopping. This money goes directly to Leswalt Primary – at no extra cost to yourself. There are hundreds of internet sites linked to this – including Ebay, Amazon, John Lewis, Boots, etc. Please pass this link on and encourage others to join in too http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/.
You can now shop guilt free in the knowledge that you are helping Leswalt Primary – happy shopping!
What are the good bits, and the not so good bits about Leswalt Primary school?
We need your views! Please give some thought and get back to us with all thoughts by 18th February 2011. Have a look at the letter here for more details. Self evaluation letter Feb11
