Primary 5-7 recently travelled to Carlingwark for 2 days of Outdoor Education fun. The weather was initially very wet, but it soon dried up and did not stop the children having a lot of fun.
Primary 5, 6 and 7 recently travelled to Newton Stewart cinema to take part in the Galloway Music Festival. They were competing in the Galloway Music Festival, and every single pupil in the class was both singing and playing a musical instrument. After the adjudicator had fed back to all of the schools, Leswalt Primary was delighted as they were announced as winners. As well as the whole class competing
Leswalt Primary has cycled once again to National success. This week it was announced that we have won the “Big Pedal” competition for the whole of Scotland! The school was also runner up in the whole of the UK, small schools category. This is the 4th year in which the school has been in the awards for this initiative. At Leswalt Primary we are delighted to achieve success in this
As part of the newly formed partnership between Leswalt and Portpatrick Primary Schools, children have been taking part in some exciting outdoor learning to find out more about each of the school’s communities. Firstly, Leswalt pupils invited Portpatrick School to visit their community. The whole school travelled to Leswalt and spent some time getting to know each other in the classrooms. The pupils then worked in mixed schools teams to
With the new partnership schools arrangement in place, the pupils of Leswalt primary invited the pupils of Portpatrick Primary to come and join them for a day of outdoor learning. Unfortunately, it happened to be a very wet and windy day. All pupils covered themselves up with waterproofs and had a memorable day in the Aldouran Woods. Back in the school they shared a warm and tasty snack from the
In January the focus for literacy at Leswalt has been Scots language. And, all of the pupils learned some Scots poetry to recite. Mr Dougie Brawls the Janitor, was give the very difficult job of judging the poetry, artwork and handwriting. The winners were as follows- BURNS RESULTS 2014 CLASS POEM RECITATION WINNERS ILLUSTRATION WINNER HANDWRITING WINNER P1 Twa Leggit Mice 1.Phoebe Gaw 2.Finlay Scott 3.Auryn Kirkpatrick& Erin Jamieson Auryn
On Friday 24thJanuary 2014, Leswalt Primary held its fifth annual Burns Supper. The whole school sat down together to enjoy this tradition. Abbie Mc Quillan , P7, was a very able and organised chairperson who ensured the proceedings ran smoothly. Arden Mc Intyre, said the ‘Selkirk Grace’ before Mr Andy Ross piped in the haggis. Erin Jamieson, P1, proudly carried the haggis into the company. The haggis was presented toTommy
Leswalt and Portpatrick Primary schools have recently been involved in Partnership schools implementation, which is currently being phased in across Dumfries and Galloway. Practically, this means that both schools now have Mrs Sheila Baillie as Headteacher. As part of this new partnership arrangement, learning, sporting and social events are being planned to bring pupils and staff of both schools together. At the weekend, pupils from Portpatrick Primary joined up with
