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Logan Gardens

What a glorious day for some fun in the sun at Logan Gardens! We jumped on the bus wearing our summer gear, sunglasses and carrying our lunch bags this morning and headed to Port Logan where we met our friends from Kirkcolm!
The boys and girls in the P1-4 class were delighted that a letter from Edward Bear landed in the teachers’ inbox inviting the boys and girls to Logan Gardens to take part in the teddy bear’s trail. Armed with their bears of various sizes, shapes and colours – they headed on the bus to the gardens to learn all about S.W.A.F.  shelter, water, air and food – all the thing that teddy bears need to live in the wild. They walked about a looked for clues in the beautiful gardens before being tasked with creating a home- fit for their bear to live using materials from the beautiful gardens around them! At the end of their session they met the one and only Edward Bear!🐻💚
The older bunch began their session “Every Pictures Tells a Story” by looking at photographs and finding out what makes a high quality image before being given a frame and investigated how changing the angle, orientation and distance can alter the way that an image is captured. We finished the session with two fun activities that tested what they’d learned earlier in the session. Firstly, they using a real camera the boys and girls were asked to capture an image which makes them happy – which on a day like today in the place that we were, this was not a difficult mission! Secondly we were asked to spot some objects along a trail which did not belong i.e. a scarf camouflaged into a tree’s branch (this was a bit hit with everyone and also left Miss D questioning her eyesight haha!) 📸🔍
After the session we enjoyed our picnic lunch by the pond with the Kirkcolm boys and girls with the sun shining and had a good old blether together before jumping back on the bus to school!🍓🍈🥪🍊
A huge thank you to all at Logan Botanic Gardens for this fantastic experience!
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Thank you Baxter Family for our New Shed!

Look at how happy we all are!

HUGE thanks to the Baxter family for their kindness in buying our school a new shed! The previous one was sadly flattened by the  storm in January and the Baxters offered to replace this with a new one and a much improved model it is too!  It was a lovely surprise when they knocked on the school door with such a kind offer.

Not only this, they also built the shed for us during the Easter holidays and popped into school to see us. Now all of our bits and bobs can be stored safely.   We can use it for furniture, gardening equipment, playground toys – and even have our bikes for Bikeability in it just now.

We greatly appreciate their generosity and kindness from our former pupils.   It was such a lovely thing for them to so for us.

Thank you 🙂

Leswalt and Kirkcolm P7s enjoy a great morning at Stranraer Academy!

Just look at those cheery faces! P7 pupils from Kirkcolm and Leswalt headed off for a fun morning of learning at Stranraer Academy today as part of their transition process.

3rd pupils were our guides and met us at the front door to take us to the Dance Studio where we joined Sheuchan P7s for a Stranraer Academy true/false quiz with Mr Hyslop. From there, we enjoyed an Art lesson with Mrs Hyslop exploring Amsterdam street art and a Science lesson with Mrs McHallum investigating acids and alkalis.

To round our morning off nicely, we ventured to the canteen and enjoyed a tasty lunch.

Safe to say, we all had a fabulous morning!

Thanks to Stranraer Academy, Mr Hyslop, Mrs Patterson, our guides Ruby and Brogan and Mrs Hyslop and Mrs McHallum for a fun morning.

Really looking forward to those three days in June now…!

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Forest School Week 1 – Bug Hunting and Pond Dipping!

This afternoon, we were all lucky enough to enjoy the first of our 6 week block of Forest School sessions with Richard Patchett with this week’s focus being ‘Bug Hunting and Pond Dipping’!

What a brilliant time we had! The sun was shining as we all headed to the pond at Aldouran Wetlands armed with nets with the very knowledgeable Richard there to tell us what we we had caught.

From Lesser and Greater Water Boatmen to Damselfly Larvae to a Great Diving Beetle larvae and at least 5 newts – the pupils all had a great afternoon pond dipping.

Just look at these happy photos! Thank you Richard – see you next week when we will be working on…ropes!

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Bikeability Fun with Mike!

P6/7 started this week on their Level 1 and 2 Bikeability course designed to ensure they are safe road users when cycling!

This week involved working in the playground and going over the basic safety rules, following a course to check their balance and accurate steering and a few fun games thrown in too!

Mike Blakeman is great fun to work with and is super knowledgeable about all things cycling related. Safe to say Tuesday mornings are going to be a HUGE hit over the next few weeks!

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Building Resilience and Relationships – HWB sessions with Matthew from D+G Youth Work

We were delighted to welcome back Matthew Robinson D+G Youth Information Worker for a block of six sessions starting today.

The focus for our sessions is on resilience, relationships and all the skills we need to be the best we can be – in life in general but particularly with a view to our P7s heading off to Stranraer Academy after the summer break. We always have lots of fun working with Matthew and enjoy learning lots more about ourselves through the different activities.

Thanks Matthew for coming along to work with us. Roll on next week…

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Leswalt S1 visit – hello again Cara and Hamish!

On Tuesday, we were delighted to welcome back Hamish and Cara who came along with Mrs Patterson to tell us a bit more about Stranraer Academy life!

It’s not even been a whole year since they were wearing their Leswalt school jumpers and how they seem to have grown up! Looking super smart in their Academy school uniforms, they shared some top tips with the P7s i readiness for their transition visits over the coming weeks.

Thanks for coming to visit us Cara and Hamish!

Finding our Inner Kung Fu Panda

This afternoon we were delighted to welcome Mark Pogson into school to do a session with the boys and girls on QiGong – a Chinese art of  breathing, and meditation. They were taken through a mixture of movements and breathing techniques designed to make them feel super zen – perfect for this time in the school calendar when everything is so busy 🙈!
Both classes took part in a 30 minute session. They used their arms and legs to create different poses while imagining a ball in their arms, they used this ball to create body poses and help to control their breathing – making them very quite, concentrated and most importantly relaxed. The time just flew in and they were all surprised when the sessions ended as it felt like no time had passed ☺️🥋
A huge thank you to Mark for delivering this session, it was definitely a big hit at Leswalt Primary.
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Brilliant bowling

P1-4 have been getting into  bowling as part of their P.E focus this term.

 Dan, Colin, Bobby and and co. from Kirkcolm Bowling club were happy to bring some of their bowling gear to the school and this gave the pupils some hands on expert experience in developing their skills in bowling and learn more about the game. 

They had an excellent time and we are very grateful to the gentlemen at Kirkcolm Bowling Club to make the time and effort to come into the school and take time out of their own personal lives for us. It is much appreciated and another example in how our local community continues to support us! 

 

 

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