The sun was shining. The uniform was crisp and clean. And, all the boys and girls were smiling as they arrived at Leswalt Primary for their first day back at school after the Summer holidays❤ . All our new pupils – Jack, Noah, Leo, Ellis, Merida, Olivia and James tootled off into their new classes when the bell rang like they had always been here. And, everyone was in for
This afternoon, we had the pleasure of hopping aboard a bus and tootling around the shoreline to spend time with our friends at Kirkcolm Primary for our annual Inter-Schools Sports fun! 🏃🏻♀️☀️ Friends and family came to enjoy the sunshine and cheer us all on as we raced against one another on those traditional Sports Day races – flat race, egg and spoon, sack, skipping, distance and the relay! There
This afternoon we were very fortunate indeed to have the lovely Lauren in to visit us at Leswalt to talk to us about her career as a physiotherapist. Armed with lots of fun things for our wanna-be physio, nurses and doctors to play with Lauren spoke to us about her career as a Physiotherapist in Stranraer and her journey in becoming one. She explained that she went to university to
On Friday afternoon we were very excited to have Rhuri Paton (Jorgie’s Daddy) join us in school for our careers in the community assembly! At our last assembly we had Lauren, Jorgie’s mummy in so Rhuri had a tough act to follow! 🙂 Rhuri explained that since leaving university he has been through more jobs than he could even count, but this time he thinks he has finally found his
As a finale to our fabulous Forest School experience, Richard joined us this morning and worked with us all to get a little fire going in the playground for us to toast marshmallows! Lucky us! Recapping those all important safety rules first, every child had fun toasting at least 2 (some may have munched more!) marshmallows and dipping them in some melted chocolate too if they fancied! Staff felt it
It is not an exaggeration to claim that Leswalt Primary enjoyed possibly the best day ever on their school trip today! We travelled in style with a return trip to Ayr on the train (thank you to Mr James Neil for organising this for us!); scored SO many strikes whilst ten pin bowling; darted about the Laser Tag like ultraviolet ninjas; munched the tastiest lunches washed down with a welcome
To round off a very busy Monday, we had our final week of Forest School with Richard and today’s mission was to build, start and cook over a fire! Both classes banded together this afternoon so it was all hands on deck. Whilst Richard and Mrs Warwick helped children to get the fire going, the rest got to work on our stir fry prep – chopping and peeling vegetables while
What entertainment we all enjoyed this morning with Lighthouse Musicians superbly talented trio of John, Helen and Gillian and treating us to a fabulous musical medley! ❤️ Playing well-known tunes such as Disney favourites on the violin and piano plus some weel-kent Scottish tunes on the bagpipes; our Leswalt Primary audience sat enthralled! We were even treated to some Taylor Swift! 🎹🎻 🎶🎼 It was good to chat and ask them
Today we were very excited to have Lauren, Jorgie’s mummy in to speak to the boys and girls about her job as a nurse! Armed with bandages, syringes and her glamorous assistant Ralphie she arrived to tell us all about her job as a nurse! 👩⚕️ Lauren explained how she got into nursing and the skills and qualities needed prior to her training, including compassion, kindness and good communication skills.
Today we were very excited to have Cameron’s daddy in to speak to us about his job as a Vet, especially given the number of aspiring vets we have in the school!🐾 Ian told our about his background and how he first became interested in becoming a vet and his love for animals and very many pets that he has at home! He explained that in order to be a
