This afternoon P4-7 welcomed police officer, PC Amy McGregor into our classroom to talk to use about harmful substances and keeping ourselves safe and healthy, to support our HWB learning – substance misuse. 👮♀️🚨🚓 She spoke to us about the dangers linked to smoking and vaping, alcohol and drugs and warned us about the effects that these substances can have on our bodies and choices and most importantly the importance
This morning our P3-7’s traded their usual classroom seats for a bus journey to Stranraer Academy to meet a real-life author. Excitement levels were high as we prepared ourselves to meet the likes of Julie Donaldson, Roald Dahl or Michael Murpurgo… When we arrived we met the one and only Martin Stewart, a talented Scottish book author and former teacher from Troon!🌟 ✍ Martin has written amazing stories like Riverkeep and The Sacrifice Box,
This afternoon we had Rev Marlene in to join us during our assembly. In keeping with the infant classes’ RME topic she came to spoke about the creation story and how God created life and love. She firstly spoke about how inventions have changed the way we live and how our lives have changed as a result of them over time. She asked us what we think the most important
What a fabulous Fri-YAY we had! This morning our super Primary 7’s buddied up with our new Primary 1’s to create their ‘all about me’ flags. We loved hearing about your hobbies, pets and families. We look forward to decorating our school hallway with these!🖍🚩 In keeping with this flag theme, we buddied back up and toddled along to the park for a fun in the sunshine and play a
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
