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Sports Day Success!😀🏃🏼

Today was the day, we’d all been waiting for. Mrs Baillie had checked the weather, once, twice, one hundred times hoping for a dry afternoon, and that’s exactly what we got!🤞 With our eggs, spoons, sacks and ropes at the ready, we trooped over the park for our annual sports day!😄

Over the past couple of weeks, we had been heading over to the park for some practice and today the boys and girls were very excited to show off their racing skills to their friends and families. 🏅Our fabulous House Captains, Colin (Lochnaw) and Rachael (Soleburn) had organised for us to take part in a full programme of events; the sprint, skipping, sack, egg and spoon, obstacle and long-distance races and finally the relay.

Our Fabulous P7 House Captains

A big thank you to all the families and supporters who came along this afternoon and created such a lovely atmosphere and to Rachael and Colin our fabulous P7 House Captains for their great organisation and for keeping everything running like clockwork. 🫡And to Gordon from the shop who kindly donated a well needed bottle of water for every pupil and a caramel egg – a perfect sweet surprise to finish a fabulous Friday!🍫

It was so lovely to watch everybody demonstrate such fantastic sportsmanship, encouraging one another and giving everything their best go! The atmosphere was filled with laughter, encouragement, applause and the occasional dramatic finish-line finish! we had some tired legs and smiling faces by the end and plenty of funny tales to tell. Sports day is always a great way to show that winning od always exciting, but it’s the taking part and having fun that makes the afternoon so special and our fabulous Leswalt crew exemplify this amazingly! We are so incredibly proud of everybody and hope they are too!😍

Results to follow next week, and our Sports Champion boy and girl this year to be revealed at the Closing Ceremony.. but for now, enjoy some funny action shots!😅🙂

UNCRC Articles

Right 31 – Leisure Play and Culture

Hear Ye, Hear Ye P1-3 Visit the Castle of St John🫅🧎‍♀️

This morning P1-3 ventured into Stranraer with their Kirkcolm buddies to visit the town’s very own Castle of St John! The started off in the museum where they were set a scavenger hunt – a super way to explore the castle and see lots of real life artefacts. 👑Afterwards, they ventured up the (VERY!) windey staircase to a very royal room with lots of costumes and real life bits and bobs. The pupils spent some time dressing up and having fun re-enacting some castle battles.🫅🧎‍♀️

hey learned that the Castle once belonged to the Adair family from Ireland and later it turned into a prison! They were led further up the windey staircase to the roof, where they learned that the top of the castle was used for prisoners to exercise!💂🫅

A super fun trip with lots of local learning! Well done Team P1-3!

Meta- Skills

Curiosity Cassidy

Focusing Fergus

Sense-Making Samira

Rugby Returns to Leswalt🏉

On Tuesday afternoon, the rain stopped and the clouds parted all ready for some rugby in the sunshine with Niamh from Wigtownshire Rugby Club! 🏉We started off with one of our favourites – Capture the Flag, where pupils practised some of the important attacking and defending skills involved in a game of rugby.🏳️ The boys and girls split into two teams on the grass and each team were tasked with capturing the other team’s flag, while defending their own.

Afterwards, we played a game of ‘switch’ where pupils had to switch places with a friend in the circle without someone intercepting and stealing their spot! 😊

We look forwards to welcoming Niamh back again next week for some more rugby fun!

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Article 31 – Arts, Play and Culture

Leswalt’s Sweet ‘Cream Teas’ Fundraiser 🍰🫖

On Sunday afternoon, Leswalt Primary welcomed friends, families and sweet-treat lovers from far and near to our fantastic ‘Cream Teas’ fundraiser organised by our Parent Council.

Cakes were baked, stalls were set and tea and coffee brewing, we were all set and ready to go at 1 o’clock! Visitors gathered in the hall where they enjoyed some tea and coffee and were treated to a delicious selection to cakes and scones!🍰🫖A huge thank you to everybody who donated their yummy baking!

In the hallway, Mr and Mrs McGregor sold raffle tickets and our P1-3 class offered recipe books, a bottle stall and a selection of school uniform! Meanwhile, P4-7 had been busy grafting away at their stall in the ‘big class.’ 🍾🎟️

Rebecca, Rachael and Olivia’s ‘Lemonade Stand’ got some fantastic feedback as the girls hand-made and sold their own lemonade🍋.

Keira, Emma and Thea’s lollipop in the sand was a big hit and their ‘animal fidget’ prizes proved very tempting.🍭

Our wonderful beauticians; Hannah, Lily and Eilidh had queues of children and adults lining up to have their nails painted and be glitter tattooed!✨

Colin and Ross went with the timeless favourite; guess the panda bear’s birthday and how may sweets are in the jar, which as always, was a massive hit.🐼

And our fabulous footballers has their work cut out for them outside with their ‘Beat the Goalie’ stall in the sunshine.⚽

It was so lovely to see all the boys and girls having fun and for their fabulous enterprise ideas to come to fruition. 🙂

All in all, it was a very successful afternoon! All made possible by the dedicated hard work of all parents who contributed in any way to the running of the day. Not to mention the pupils who worked hard to plan and run their stalls. We really appreciate how everybody in our school community comes together to make little Leswalt such a lovely place to be!🥰

P1-3’s Cardboard Kingdoms 🏰

Yesterday afternoon P1-3 took advantage of the beautiful warm sunny weather and ventured outside for some castle building.🌞 Armed with cardboard boxes, Frosties, toilet paper tubes and LOTS of excitement, they set to work building Leswalt Castle. 🏰

As part of their social studies topic, ‘castles,’ Primary 1-3 have been learning all about the structure and parts of a castle and what life would be like during medieval times! In their teams, P1-3’s were challenged to build their own castles. Although each team’s creation looked quite.. different.., they were all very well thought out. Some had drawbridges, windows, turrets, flags and there was even mention of security cameras from Jorgie 😆.

The perfect opportunity for us to show what we know about castles, but, what made the afternoon so special was watching all the children work together outside, solving problems, sharing ideas and to top it all off, the beautiful weather!😊😎

Well done Team P1-3!

UNCRC Articles

Article 12 – Right to Children’s Views

Article 19 – Right to quality education

Article 31 – Right to Play, Rest and Leisure

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Creativity Cassidy

Collaborating Cora

Critical Thinking Chris,

Leading Li

Focusing Fergus

Sense-Making Samira

Netball Fun

This morning both schools Primary 7 girls – Allyssa, Ruby, Rachael and Rebecca headed to Stranraer Academy with Mrs Adams for some netball fun! We met girls from all of the other primary schools and quickly got into our teams for some games! ⛹️‍♂️All four of our fabulous Primary 7 girls were fabulous on and off the court, playing and mixing well with the other girls ahead of their transition days to the Academy next term! Rachael’s team (team 6) even finished the morning as overall champions!

A huge thank you to Stranraer Academy PE department and Linda Paterson for organising our morning of fun!

Collaborating Cora

Communicating Cate

Leading Li

Adapting Aleksander

Article 31 – The right to relax and take part in leisure activities

P1-3’s Medieval Morning at Kirkcolm🏰👑

This morning P1-3 welcomed back one of our favourite visitors, Kathryn Purchase from History Alive in Schools for a workshop on Castles!🏰 We all love Kathryn’s visits into school, and today was no exception. Today’s session was made even more special with a bus trip to Kirkcolm to learn about castle building through the ages with our buddies from across the partnership!🧒🧒

Kathryn is a super knowledgeable historian and fascinating to listen to, for both the children and adults! She told us all about the different types of castles and where to find them and what life would be like to live in a castle. As exciting as it sounds, Kathryn explained that the reality would be pretty cold, dark and a little smelly too..

We learned about the different people who live in the castle, from knights and servants to kings and queens! Our lovely Primary 1 Albie was knighted and should forever be known as ‘Sir Albie of Leswalt’ 🤣.

As part of her visit, Kathryn always brings the coolest props, the boys and girls had the best time dressing up and role playing castle life as lords and ladies!

We look forward to using what we have learned from today’s workshop into designing and building our very own castles next week! How exciting! Stay tuned for pictures!

A huge thank you to Kathryn for travelling down to Kirkcolm to deliver such a super workshop this morning, we can’t wait to welcome her back for our next history topic in the future!⏲️😼

Meta Skills

Focusing Fergus

Curiosity Carlos

Sense-Making Samira

UNCRC Articles

Article 17 – Access to Information

Article 29 – Right to Education

Article 28 – Access to Education

P7 Visit Stranraer Academy 🚌🏫🎒

Yesterday, Primary 7’s from Leswalt buddied up with their P7 friends from Kirkcolm for a visit to Stranraer Academy to help them get their bearings and feel prepared for their next step after the summer holidays. Their morning started with a trip to Art with Mrs Thompson, where they designed their own super heroes! How cool!🦸🏼Afterwards, their visited the Home Economics department and made a cheese toastie! 🧀

They enjoyed some lunch in the canteen, where they got to choose from lots of hot and cold options, but pasta king seemed to be super popular among our Primary 7’s! We look forward to our next visit to the Academy in June.

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Article 28 – Right to Education

Meta Skills

Collaborating Cora

Communicating Cate

Operation Safety for Olivia!🚒

Yesterday, our fabulous Primary 6 Olivia buddied up with her friends for Kirkcolm for the annual P6 Operation Safety Input at Stair Park. This was a fantastic opportunity for our P6’s to show what they know and develop their understanding of our Term 3 topic ‘Risk Taking Behaviours’. The session aimed to support pupils to understand and manage risks. Leswalt and Kirkcolm worked their way around 7 stations;

1. Fire safety – can they spot the fire hazards in a home and how to manage these! 🧯🔥🚒
2.The Coastguard! (very important for this time of year in this area…) what to do if they spot somebody drowning and how to keep themselves safe in water. 🥽🚣‍♀️
3. Drugs and Alcohol – linking our input from PC McGregor and PC Jack last week, what are the harmful effects of drugs and alcohol 👎?
4.Electricity with Scottish Power – spotting electrical hazards in the home and how to prevent these ⚡💡🔌
5.Community, Council & Criminal – looking at certain acts and who is responsible for preventing and managing these! Is it a criminal problem for the police? A problem for the community to manage themselves? Or something we should turn to the council to help prevent? 🧐🤔
6.Drugs and Alcohol – linking our input from PC McGregor and PC Jack last week, what are the harmful effects of drugs and alcohol 👎?
7. Internet Safety input with Youth Work, discussing the do’s and don’t’s online

A huge thank you to all involved and all the wonderful local emergency services for the time they have put into organising and delivering their inputs!😊

UNCRC Articles

Article 6 – Right to Life and Survival

Article 12 – Respect for Children’s Views

Article 19 – Right to Protection From Harm

Article 24 – Health, Food, Water & Environment

Meta Skills

Collaborating Cora

Integrity Imani

Initiative Ivy

Communicating Cate

Friday Night Football Fun!⚽

One of our favourite parts of North Rhins Partnership is how both schools come together and the opportunities they have to be successful and make friends!😍

Our fabulous football team showed this off superbly on Friday Evening as they took part in Sheuchan Primary School’s football tournament! ⚽The boys have been working hard this term on Friday afternoons to practise and develop their skills with Miss Agnew at Kirkcolm and Friday afternoon was the perfect opportunity for the boys to put their skills to the test! We are super proud of how they boys played; their effort determination and teamwork! A super way to spend a Friday evening, playing football in the sunshine with your friends! 😀

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