Category: Newsletters

Primary 1-4 have been learning all about school in the past.  As part of this project they looked at lots of old school photographs, from Leswalt Primary.

This afternoon they tried to re-create a school photograph from the past.  What do you think?!

 

Leswalt Primary continues to be the Primary school with the highest average on “Beat the Street”. 

With one day to go, can we hold onto our lead?  Keep on walking folks!  You are all doing a fantastic job!

The children of P1-4 have been learning more about school long ago with the help of some visitors and a loan box from the museum.

Mrs Buchanan, Mrs Nina Agnew and Mrs Claire Kennedy came in to all tell the boys and girls how life at Leswalt Primary school has changed.  The whole school learned a lot from the question and answer session; like how the toilets used to be outside and children had to bring vegetables to school for their soup at lunchtime!  Old log books and registers from the school long ago were also looked at – along with a big box of fascinating photographs from the past.

The class also tried writing like they did in the past – using chalk boards and ink wells (with varying degrees of success!)

Have a look at the photographs to see how they all got on!

Leswalt Primary has been once again beating the street of Stranraer!

The whole school accompanied by some parents spent a sunny Friday afternoon getting fit together.

Primary 4 recently enjoyed a morning competing in a whole variety of different sports, at London Road playing fields.  While they were there, they also got the chance to get some double points at a mobile Beat the Street box

Well done to our team of 4!

As part of their project on life long ago, P1-4 have had some fun playing with toys on loan from the Musuem.  Do you know what they all are?

 

All of Leswalt Primary headed into Stranraer this afternoon in an effort to “Beat the Street”.  The school split up into 4 groups and headed off in different directions.

Mrs Ferguson and her squad managed to beep an impressive 10 boxes in 1 hour – covering 4.5 miles.  Way to go!

Thanks to the effort of the whole school today they are now in 5th place out of 50 teams taking part.  Well done little Leswalt!

Have a look at the fun we had while out walking……

We welcomed 6 new Primary one pupils to Leswalt Primary today.  They were all boys – and all seemed to have a great time!  Hopefully they will come back to school for some more fun tomorrow……..

 

The children of p1-4 invited Jane Sloan into Leswalt Primary so they could say a special thank you for all the help all the volunteers at Leswalt Wetlands have given the school this term.  While the children were developing the school grounds, they mad some planters out of tyres.  So, for a thank you to Mrs Sloan and her team,  they made them a special ladybird and bumble bee planter for the Aldouran Wetlands to enjoy.

The children passed on their grateful thanks;

P1-4 at Leswalt have been very lucky this term and have had the chance to take part in lots of fun activities at the Wetlands.  Some of the activities include pond dipping, mini beast hunt, nature weaving and life cycles.  We love the Wetlands at Leswalt because every time we go there is always something different to do.  We were also excited to discover that there will soon be a new addition at the Wetlands, a 3 metre tall Gruffalo!  We think Jane and the team at the Wetlands are great and they do a brilliant job giving up their own time to make the Wetlands a fun place to go!Charlotte (P4), Aidan (P1), Nicole (P2)

P1-4 have been spending a lot of time at the Wetlands this term.  Jane Sloan and her team of volunteers planned lots of fun activities for us to take part in such as pond dipping, a scavenger hunt and planting Mexican Hat plants!  It is a lot of fun to go to the Wetlands and there are lots of things to see and do such as fairy doors, bug hotels, wood carvings and ducks.  Very soon they will have a new Gruffalo carving.  He is going to be huge.  3 metres tall!  We now we are very lucky at Leswalt Primary to have the Wetlands right on our doorstep.      Millie (P4), Andrew (P2), Murray (P1)

Our topic this term was called Living and Non-living Things and we were very lucky that we had the Wetlands so close by to visit.  We got to take part in lots of games and activities and they all linked in well with our topic and what we were learning in the classroom.  Soon there will be a new carving at the Wetlands, a 3 metre tall Gruffalo!  We can’t wait to go and visit it.  Thank you to all the volunteers at the Wetlands for planning so many fun activities for us.   Kirstie (P4), Cameron (P4), Robin (P2)