Primary 1-4 are still busy developing the school grounds by painting, tidying and planting. Have a look at our photos to see what they got up to this week.
Primary 1-4 went another wander to the Wetlands this week as part of their science learning and teaching. The visit today focussed on a treasure hunt to help them learn more about life cycles, as well as a sound safari, up through the glen. Yet again they had another wonderful afternoon of outdoor learning, led by the great team of volunteers at our local gardens Have a look at all
Ten of our pupils were lucky enough to have a fantastic all expenses day out at Hampden football stadium in Glasgow. The Primary 1-4 class have been getting weekly football training with Garry Mc Knight an SFA coach. This input is funded by Tesco. Garry was asked to select one school which he had been visiting and take 5 boys and 5 girls with him to the National stadium in Glasgow. Leswalt Primary
This afternoon P1-4 were due to head up to the wetlands again in Leswalt. Unfortunately the weather took a turn for the worse as it became wet and windy. So instead of the children going to the wetlands, the wetlands came to the school! Jean Sheppard popped into school and spent the afternoon with the younger pupils. She brought with her some visitors in the form of minibeasts found in
As part of their continuing work on developing the school grounds, Primary 1-4 have been busy outside painting. With their old clothes on once more, they had a wonderful afternoon of fun in the sun. The tyres were given a base coat of paint before they are transformed and the mural round the back of the school was brightened up. Have a look at the happy little gang hard at
As part of their work on the solar system, Primary 5-7 have been busy creating scale size paper mache planets for the classroom – it looks like it was a lot of fun…..and a lot of mess!
On Sunday 8th May the Parent council Fundraising group organised a fun afternoon and Cream Teas event at Leswalt Primary. In preparation for this the group had been baking lots of tasty treats as well as organising a bouncy castle, generous prize raffle, bottle stall, face painting, candy floss, nail bar and lots more of attractions. This Cream teas was well supported by the local community in Leswalt as well
This afternoon all of P1-4 went along to Leswalt Wetlands to learn a bit more about caring for the local environment. They were met by the team of excellent volunteers there who guided the pupils though various activities such as pond dipping and a scavenger hunt. The boys and girls even got to see a family of little ducklings which happened to be born the day before! All the boys
Primary 1-4 Garden Gang have started their work round the back of the school. Thanks to kind donations from parents and friends of the school the class were able to design and build their own bug hotel – which they have creatively named “Buggingham Palace”. ATS also donated a van load of tyres – watch this space to see what they will be used for!
Primary 1-4 had a visit from Generation Science this week. This touring company are based in the Glasgor Science centre and came to Leswalt Primary to lead a workshop based on programming. By the end of the afternoon all pupils were aware of how programming works and had experience of programming a lego goal keeper to move and try to save balls from scoring goals. Some of the children even
