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Pupils and staff rocked up to school today for another fun Friday in aid of Red Nose Day 2023. House Captains Rose and Thomas had been selling official red noses all week and donations were popped into the bucket today as we all wore the things which make us happy!

Red Nose Day is all about raising money to help those in need whilst bringing a smile to everyone’s faces – and we did just that with Leswalt’s Got Talent!

Parents and friends joined us to enjoy a varied entertainment programme; from cheerleading to Scots Poetry; a Tik Tok sketch of acting and singing to little Elsa dancers; a marshmallow and jaffa cake eating competition to singing and musical theatre! Mrs Buchanan and House Captain had the unenviable job of judging – a tough call!

1ST place – Hamish (able assisted by his brother Colin) singing ‘Naughty’ from Matilda the Musical

2nd place – Alexander reciting ‘Address to a Haggis’

3rd place – Keira and Aria-Rose dancing to Let it Go from Disney Frozen

All very worthy winners AND approximately £150 was raised for Red Nose Day through ‘nose sales’, pupils’ non-uniform donations and kind audience members adding to the bucket too!

Thank you all!

     Curling Report by Thomas And Tristan   

At the NWC on Monday the 13th of March there was a big curling competition for all the schools in the Rhins region. We sent two teams – team Leswalt and team Leswalt-Portpatrick. Both teams were in the same section and really enjoyed themselves! It just didn’t go our way on the day as Team Leswalt didn’t do too well, but Team Leswalt-Portpatrick did a bit better! Overall, Team Leswalt came 9th and Team Leswalt-Portpatrick came 8th  

Well done to our buddies at Kirkcolm who came 2nd! Rephad won the competition. Many thanks to Mags Agnew for accompanying us and the coaching. We all enjoyed our day! Curling is Cool! 

Today P5-7 enjoyed a whole day of WW2 activities!

Several pupils dressed up for the occasion and some brought in memorabilia from home too.

The day was action packed : from learning about Dunkirk to using 2D/3D shape knowledge to design a gas mask box; listening to music from that era whilst learning to sew on a button just like the Make Do and Mend campaign; working in pairs on an information treasure hunt about Pearl Harbour and looking at artefacts brought in by Carys, Amelia and Kaiden and planning own Evacuation propaganda poster or designing own WW2 powerpoint or Sway as part of their assessment!

Tomorrow, the pupils will be sharing their WW2 homework research activity – some have shared theirs with me already and they look amazing!

Such a busy day – full of learning and hard-working pupils!

Thank you and well done to Ewan Clark, Thomas Agnew and Daisy Doyle for representing Leswalt Primary at last night’s Scots’ Song and Verse Competition.

All three performed so well and we are all very proud of them.

Thomas was awarded joint 2nd place for his recitation of Burns’ Address to a Haggis, Ewan was awarded joint 3rd place for Harry by Matthew Fitt and Daisy sang Caledonia and was was given joint 3rd place too!

Huge thanks also to Mrs Jane Sloan for accompanying Daisy on the piano.

Top work team 🥈🥉🥉

This morning, P5-7 had their last Soundtrap session with John 🙁 This has been SO much fun and the pupils have learnt lots.

Today’s focus was on podcasting, teamwork, sharing work digitally and voice recording.

Each group had a chief technician (Rose, Thomas and Alexander) who ‘built’ their group’s podcast using the music produced by pupils over previous sessions. Add to that mini interviews and background music and each group were able to plan, design and produce their own podcast!

Excellent digital skills being used – all whilst learning and having fun! It’s a win win situation!

Last year Emma Shirley was diagnosed with Leukaemia, and was unable to start Primary 1 at Leswalt Primary school with all her wee friends.  Emma has subsequently missed lots of school and had months of treatment at Glasgow Children’s Hospital.   

In December, all the boys and girls from Leswalt Primary decided when they moved back to their newly refurbished school they would hold an open afternoon , with donations to support Emma.  £320 was raised in just over 2 hours at Leswalt Primary with visitors all donating generously. 

Emma is now feeling a lot better and has been in school for a few mornings.  All her friends from Leswalt Primary school handed over the money  raised.  £200 was given to the hospital for helping Emma and £120 was given to her parents to help with the costs of them having to go back up and down to Glasgow.  Emma still has to attend Glasgow Children’s hospital on a weekly basis.

The photograph shows Leswalt Primary pupils handing over the money to Emma and mummy, Joanna Shirley.

World Book Day Blog Report  

by Rose and Thomas  

(Leswalt Primary House Captains) 

Thursday was World Book Day – a day all about reading and we had loads of exciting activities on! 

 Over the last week, our head librarians Ellie and Ben planned some great fun for all of us to enjoy.  

They organised a ‘Draw a Book Character’ competition – The entries for this were amazing!  

We also had an Accelerated Reading raffle for whoever managed to take a test and passed that day!  

We all looked at the books we can buy with our free book tokens there are so many good options!  

 As well as free book tokens we all got to pick a pre-loved book to take home as a gift from the school. 

Later, on in the younger one’s classroom, we went on a Live Video Event with David Walliams. It was so good! He read an extract from some of his books and from his new book coming out soon. Whilst listening, we all cuddled up with some yummy hot chocolate – we even had some cream and marshmallows. 

All in all, the day was great fun!  

The competition winners were: 

P1-4 Book Character winner –  Murray Reid

P5-7 Book Character winner –  Hamish McGregor

Accelerated Reading Raffle winner –  Rose Santangeli

Huge thanks to the Construction Department at DGC Stranraer Campus – particularly Scott McEwan for helping us out and building our new playground shed!

We HUGELY appreciate their help!

Our Eco Committee typed up a letter of thanks.

 *******************************************                                                                                                                      Dear DGC Stranraer Campus Construction Department,  

We would like to thank you SO much building our lovely metal shed for us!! 

We really appreciate you giving up your time to help. 

Thanks to lecturers, students, and particularly Scott McEwan for all their efforts. 

 Thank you  

 From Evan, Cara and Daisy Leswalt Eco Committee  

and all the pupils and staff of Leswalt Primary