Primary 1-4 were delighted to receive an injection of brand new toys and beanbags to their class this week. A few weeks ago the younger pupils wrote letters to the Parent council asking if they could help fund some new role play equipment and games for the class. Mrs Mc Knight went shopping for the class and they are now the proud owners of comfy bean bags, a bright rug
Primary 1-4 and Mrs Mc Knight were getting creative making ice art this week. Armed with pipettes full of food colouring the younger pupils were able to observe how the dye travelled through different frozen blocks that Mrs Mc Knight brought from home. This work is all part of their focus this term on “Weather”. And, the weather was so cold at Leswalt this week , once their wonderful ice art
All of Leswalt Primary headed off to Leswalt wetlands today to look for the signs of winter all around us in the local community. Holly bushes, robins, icicles, frost and even a frozen pond were all around us on this crisp wintery walk. It was a good way to blow away the cobwebs on a December afternoon and walk a wee daily mile.
Primary 4 and 5 pupils enjoyed a jaunt into Stranraer Academy this morning. They went to watch a performance by “Theatre in schools”. The performance today was called “Up to speed”, and the 2 performers captivated the whole audience for an hour. The children later got to try out some of the drama techniques they used in their performance . This performance was enjoyed by all Primary schools in the Stranraer
Primary 1-4 at Leswalt Primary have been enjoying their electricity topic. Recently they have been ; Moving about like electrons, to show how a current works, playing matching games with electrical circuit symbols Drawing their own circuit diagrams Testing for insulators and conductors Thinking about electrical safety Making up their own circuits to get bulbs glowing. Have a look at all the active learning our little scientists have been
Today Portpatrick and Leswalt pupils headed over to Kirkcolm to enjoy a ‘Get Together Day’! Initially the idea was to head to the shore for a Summer Eco Beach Clean in the morning, enjoy some playtime together outside in the sunshine at break and have a Inter-Schools Sporty afternoon, participating in races against one another in the June warmth. But the weather had very different ideas! Still…we’re not ones to let the Scottish
P1-4 , Mrs McKnight, Mrs Smith and Mrs Dinsmore headed off to Largs on Tuesday to enjoy a fun day in the sunshine in Largs! Their first pit-stop was at Vikingar where they saw lots of artefacts and had a chance to dress up as Vikings. The class have really enjoyed learning about this topic this term and loved seeing the Viking rooms set-up at Vikingar! Phoebe, Auryn and Erin
The partnership football team of Leswalt /Portpatrick United finished off the Summer season of fun days on winning form. Today they won every game to get through to the final at the Sandhead tournament – against their new trio partnership school of Kirkcolm. It was a very tense final, with Mrs Baillie being very diplomatic on the sidelines and avoiding showing allegiance to any one of her schools. At full
The joint partnership football team from Leswalt and Portpatrick Primary schools took part in the first fun day tournament of this term – with great success. The boys and girls played at Rephad fun night and progressed unbeaten to the final. This competition was open to all schools in the Stranraer cluster. In the final they played Belmont Primary, who eventually won. Well done to all who played – there was
Alexander took great pride in showing the school some of his lambs, last week. Mum had taken the lambs to Nursery, for his little brother and popped in at Leswalt Primary on the way past so that everyone in school could also see the new borns. Alexander lived handling them and letting all his friends see the lambs.
