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Bringing History Alive⚠️

Today Primary 4-7 welcomed back one of their favourite visitors Kathryn Purchase from History Alive. Kathryn delivered a super informative presentation on World War 2; the rise of the Nazi Party, the Battle of Britain, life on the home front, conscription rationing, evacuees and VE Day, she really updated us life between 1939 and 1945! 😊

 

Kathryn is so knowledgeable and interesting to listen to, she kept us on the edge of our seats as we immersed ourselves in all things WW2. The children had so many  super questions, particularly about life here in Leswalt during war times. We shared with Kathryn some tales of Leswalt School during WW2 from our old school log book from war period, where the headmaster would share news of evacuees and changes to life in and out of school.🔥

 

Kathryn had brought with her some amazing real-life artefacts, we had a great time exploring and role-playing with them – the deactivated guns and uniforms especially. ⚠️💣

 

What an exciting way to really kick-start our WW2 topic! 🙂

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Christmas Church Service ⛪🎄

This afternoon all the boys and girls headed along to Leswalt Church for our annual Christmas Service with Reverent Marlene. She shared with us about the story of Christmas and the importance of celebrating love with friends and family.

The 6 volunteers told a story about the beginning of Christmas celebrations through sweeties!

  • Galaxy Chocolate representing the Galaxy God created🌌
  •  Sour Haribos representing Adam and Eve’s sin🍬
  • Love hearts representing the love ❤️
  • Jelly babies representing God’s son – baby Jesus👶
  • Starbursts representing God’s sign to the 3 Kings⭐
  • Liquorice All-Sorts representing God’s acceptance of everybody👥

 

We shared 3 of our favourite songs from the school show; ‘This Place is Jumping, ‘Christmas Time is Here’ and ‘Stop that Knocking’🎄. And just as  Reverent Marlene said,  we enjoyed sharing a wholesome afternoon together celebrating Christmas!❤️

 

From everybody at Leswalt Primary, we wish everybody a Christmas filled with love and happiness and love forward to welcoming the boys and girls back to school on Tuesday the 6th of January 2026 (?!)😀.

 

 

 

Sent with Love.. Christmas Cards for our Community💌📭

At school, one of our favourite Christmassy activities is making cards. This year, the boys and girls have been working hard to make Christmas cards for our lovely Leswalt community.🎁 Our fantastic P6 and 7’s elves along with Mrs Kyle went a wee walk through the village this morning delivering cards as a little thank you for all the kindness and generosity we receive from our wee village year-round! 💌❤️

🎄🎅Party Time 🥳🎉

Christmas show ✅ Time to let loose and PARTY!🎉

Our House Captains Rachael and Colin have been working hard with Mrs Adams to plan a very special Christmas Party for everybody and they did exactly that. 😍

This afternoon all the boys and girls got their glad rags on and partied the afternoon away.🕺 We played musical statues and Christmas corners before stopping for some juice, crisps, top-hats and chocolate crispy cakes – kindly made by Mrs Kyle! Afterwards we had time for build the snowman with toilet paper. ⛄Then soon enough, we were ready for a sing of ‘Jingle Bells’ and sure enough a bell ringing could be heard and the door opened to reveal the man in red himself!🎅

Thankfully, every pupil had made the ‘nice’ list and so Santa gave a present to all. After waiting excitedly for everyone to get their gift, the pupils all opened theirs and there were smiles all round! Santa just knows doesn’t he?!Santa also brought a very special  delivery to our Primary 7’s – their P7 leavers hoodies, which they’re welcome to wear to school! 😀

A huge thank you to our wonderful House Captains for organising such a fantastic party! 😄

 

Success for Soleburn 🏆

This morning all the boys and girls cosied in to watch the Premiere of ‘Baubles’ on the big screen! 📽 We had lots of big smiley faces watching the performance and feeling proud of all the hard work we have put in over the past few week to make the show a big success. There were lots of giggles, especially at the Sleepy Sheep (Leo) who plonked himself down on his beanbag and napped away, quite relaxed!😆
This special treat was made even more sweet for Soleburn House and Captain Rachael, who enjoyed some hot chocolate with cream, marshmallows and biscuits (of course) to celebrate having the most house points in Term 2! 🍫 A big well done to both House Captains Rachael and Colin and Team Soleburn! 🏆

⭐IT’S SHOWTIME!⭐

✨Leswalt Primary Present Baubles✨

Let’s set the scene; the lights were dimmed, Christmas tree sparkling, fake beards applied, Mary’s baby bump stuffed… we were all ready for our big performance of ‘Baubles’.

Friends, family and fans from far and wide filled the hall and all the boys and girls waited excitedly back stage for the performance of their lives, and that it was! 🎬🍿

Through their tree-mendous acting  and super singing (😏) the boys and girls did an amazing job of weaving the traditional Christmas story into a primary school setting. Mr Potts the school janitor had been hard at work making baubles for the neglected school Christmas tree, each one linking to part of the nativity story!🎄

As always, we are exceptionally proud of all the boys and girls and can’t thank families enough for all the hard work which has clearly been put in at home to make sure everybody was able to say their lines so confidently and clearly. Well done everybody!😍

For more of Leswalt Primary’s fabulous Christmas singing, come along to the Christingle Service in the church on Christmas Eve at 6:30pm (not an ad). 

Roll the credits…. 

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Christmas Crafts and Carols 🎤🎨🎄

 

This afternoon we welcomed families into school to purchase some of the Christmas crafts we have been working hard on as part of our ‘enterprise’ topic. Primary 1-3 sold some cute sock snowmen, pine cone Christmas trees and tasty Oreo reindeer, which went down a treat!⛄Primary 4-7 sold their pine cleaner Christmas trees and tree decorations.🎄Afterwards we gave a wee sneak preview of some of the songs from our school show to get us all warmed up and ready for tomorrow’s performances.🎤

 

As always, thank you so much to everybody who managed to come along this afternoon and to those who purchased some of our crafts! There remaining crafts will be taken across to the hall tomorrow and they can be purchased there too! 😀

 

To finish off the superb afternoon, Leo’s Granny Dawn, very kindly, handed out beautiful personalised mugs and hot chocolates to all of the boys and girls, on behalf of Leswalt community association! How lucky are we?! Thank you very much to Leswalt community for this very generous gesture! 😍

 

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It’s Not Christmas Without Chocolate.. 🍫

A huge big thank you to Allan Jenkins from  who delivered a 29 chocolates bars to school today for all the boys and girls at Leswalt to enjoy! These delicious treats were a very kind donation from Stranraer Development Trust and the Millenium Centre and will be given out tomorrow after our school show as a wee treat for everybody’s hard work🍫.  I think the lovely big smiley faces show just how grateful and happy we are!😄

Christmas with Owain and Stranraer Baptist Church🎄🎅

On Friday morning Leswalt and Kirkcolm’s upper classes visited the Baptist Church in Stranraer to learn about the true Story of Christmas with Owain and some of the church volunteers!✝️
We enjoyed chatting with Owain about our families Christmas traditions. Owain explained that a lot of the traditions we have in our houses are based on the Nativity story. Afterwards, we split up into groups and acted out parts of the Nativity story. We had donkeys, Mary, Joseph, 3 Kings!🤴🤴🤴
Then, we rotated around 4 fun Christmassy stations; colouring, wrapping, wreath decorating and our Christingles. Through our activities, we learned some really interesting facts about Christmas and the Nativity.
After we had finished all 4 activities, we got together to place a candle on the map of Stranraer to spread Christmas wishes to everybody! Huge thank to Owain and his lovely helpers for a fab and engaging session – as always!
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Leswalt’s Big Festive Feed 🍽️

ts tiiiiimeee, Tables set, crackers ready, Christmas jumpers on and Christmas songs ringing; today was of course Leswalt’s annual Christmas lunch!🎄 Pupils and staff at Leswalt sat down and enjoyed some delicious Turkey, stuffing, chipolata sausages, brussel sprouts and chocolate brownies and ice cream for dessert (of course!)🦃
Just what we needed to get us all in the Christmas mood ready for our first Christmas show dress rehearsal in the afternoon!🎁❄️

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