Into school, essentials done, some Maths work completed and we all dashed outside to enjoy a little snow fun!
Just look at all the cheery, chilly chops smiling in the photos below!
For many, it was the first ‘turkey and all the trimmings’ of the season as the pupils and staff of Leswalt Primary sat down to a delicious Christmas lunch today.
Primary 7 pupils set the tables, switched on the Christmas tunes to add to the party atmosphere and welcomed their classmates into the hall. Crackers were pulled, turkey was scoffed and we all enjoyed a fabulous plate of festive food. Judging by those clean plates and big smiles – the meal was a hit!
The festive tunes were playing, the home baking was ready on the tables; the tea was brewing; handmade Christmas crafts were ready to be sold – yes, Leswalt Primary were ready to welcome friends and family into their school for the afternoon!
And what a wonderful afternoon it was! The children sang their little hearts out giving two performances of their ‘sneak peek’ of show songs – to rapturous applause! P5-7 pupils were busy tour guides; selling crafts for school funds; helping out in the kitchen; welcoming guests into the building and helping out with P1-4 crafts. Busy little elves!
P1-4 were busy making fabulous ‘shaving foam’ snowmen pictures (very cool!) and Christmas tree fir cones!
All afternoon, family and friends streamed through our shiny new door to spend the afternoon with us – all giving generously to the Glasgow Children’s Hospital who are caring for our schoolfriend Emma. Over £300 was raised at the door for this fabulous cause.
The fabulous Parent Council ran a very successful Tombola stall – and photos were also taken of the fabulous playground equipment we now have too. Many thanks to all for their help with this. More of that to follow next week…
It was great to see Mr Brawls and Mrs B who came back to their roots and were amazed at the changes made to Leswalt Primary building!
Special mention must go to Faye Adams who had her own little fund-raising enterprise going. She made woolly hat decorations, which she had sold to family and friends over the last few weeks, baked pancakes and ran a lolly stall at the Open Afternoon – all of which raised £100 for the charity too! Well done Miss Adams (and family!)
Our visitors enjoyed a tour of our school; a chat with pupils and friends; a delicious afternoon tea; the chance to buy some original home-made Christmas decorations and entertainment from the pupils too!
It was so good to see past pupils who dropped by. One of whom even parked his moped in the school carpark and made the teachers feel dreadfully old! Thank you Ethan, Finlay, Kayleigh, Arden, Megan, Logan, Jack, Andrew, Gregor, Chloe, Joshua, Aidan, Malcolm, Auryn and Breagh – we really appreciated you all taking the time to come in and say hello! Our door is always open if you are free to pop in again.
We hope to see you all again on Wednesday 21st December (1:30pm and 7pm) for the school show! Put the date in your diaries…
This Friday (2nd December), we are opening our doors to family and friends to welcome them into our shiny, new school and share an afternoon of early Festive fun; all whilst fund-raising to support one of our school friends!
Come along between 1:30pm – 4pm to be in with a chance to purchase one of our homemade Christmas decorations; sit back with a cuppa and some delicious home-baking and enjoy a sneak peak of a few Christmas show songs with some entertainment from Leswalt pupils at 2:30pm!
Plus, you’ll be able to see our refurbished school and all the happy, smiling faces in it!
We have been busy elves for the last few weeks learning our show songs; making Christmas crafts to sell (cue lots of glitter!); designing posters to advertise our Open Afternoon; delivering leaflets around the village; making phone calls to invite special guests along; writing letters to ask for home-baking; making yummy chocolate crispies and organising our sales tables.
Lots of work but very worth it – as all donations collected at the door will be presented to Glasgow Children’s Hospital who are caring for and supporting one of Leswalt Primary pupils.
So, pop the date in your diaries!
Remember:
Our digital leaders from across our partnership held an online meeting via Teams today. We came together to create a Christmas trivia quiz for pupils to enjoy. This provided a theme for us to learn how to use Microsoft Forms.
Our Digital Leaders used our Higher Order Thinking Skills to work collaboratively on a shared ‘form’ online. The children had to remember and understand how to access and design questions using the software. They also used their applying and creativity skills to select and insert appropriate images and themes to present the quiz in an appealing way for the user. In addition, they had to analyse and evaluate the functionality of the quiz. For example, they had to set up the software to automatically mark the quiz to give the user feedback and a game score for their results.
Thank you to Alexander, Hamish, Danny, Havana, Cameron and Conor for working hard on this.
# Successful Learners
Why not click or scan here to play the quiz for yourself!
Leswalt Digital Leaders, Alexander and Hamish, have gone a step further and completed their own quiz independently.
Digital Leaders Leswalt Christmas Quiz Report
This week, we (digital leaders Alexander and Hamish) had a meeting with Ms Whorlow and our partnership digital leaders. In the meeting, we learned to make quizzes and, with the fab teaching of Ms Whorlow, we got the hang of it in seconds! So with our new skill, we were challenged with making a Christmas quiz. In just 15 minutes we had made the quiz. But there was one extra thing to do … CHALLENGE THE TEACHERS! With some difficulty, the teachers were all emailed with the quiz and they loved it! Why don’t you try the quiz too? Just scan the QR code or click the link below!
Enjoy!
-Hamish McGregor and Alexander Clark
Why not have a go for yourself – click here!
What a day to come back on Term 2 – Halloween!Â
As you can imagine, it was all go with the start of Term 2 ahead of us and Halloween festivities taking place .
Pupils came with scary costumes bagged and ready to go for a quick change at lunchtime. Afterwards we had our Halloween costume judging competition! We did this altogether with Kirkcolm combined and had both a Leswalt and Kirkcolm winner in each primary. What a super effort all the boys and girls made today, with some truly spook-tacular costume ideas and some that showed real hard work at home. Both House Captains and teachers were so impressed.Â
A cheery bunch lined up to join us at Leswalt Primary this morning – but it seems lots of pupils forgot to get dressed for school! Pjs, cuddly dressing gowns, snuggly hoodies and cosy slippers seemed to be the dress code – and that was just the teachers! There were also some fabulous storybook characters joining us too and all in the name of Children in Need.
To add to the Friday fun, everyone enjoyed some Tri-Golf with Stuart Fisher. At breaktime, Ms Stevenson and Rose (House Captain) painted Pudsey faces for a donation and Mrs Kyle and Thomas (House Captain) supervised the Pudsey biscuit decorating table.
To round-off Book Week Scotland, the pupils held a book swap so they’re all home with a new book to cuddle up with this weekend.
We raised over £140 for Children in Need – what a fabulous amount for a little school!
As part of our Book Week Scotland celebrations, parents/grandparents were invited into school today to see P1-3 pupils being presented with their Bookbug (P1) and Read, Write, Count (P2-3) bags.
This initiative, ran by the Scottish Book Trust and Scottish Government, sees every P1-3 child receive a free bag which contains beautiful books, educational games and writing materials. The bags are designed to help build parents’ confidence and encourage families to include easy and fun reading, writing and counting activities into their everyday lives.
After being gifted with their bags, pupils then spent some time in class exploring the contents with parents, grandparents and P4 buddies: P1s curled up to listen to some stories; some pupils played snap using their card games; and P2s had fun trying to create various tangram shapes – although it seemed to be more of a challenge to get the tangram pieces back into the holder at the end than it was to create the shapes!!
We hope you all enjoy exploring the contents of the bag with your child at home!
P5-7 have been enjoying the Glasgow Science Centre Powering the Future workshops over the last two terms and today we were delighted to welcome Megan and Aileen from GSC in person!
We enjoyed a busy morning of active learning finding out more about renewable energy sources and the ways in which Scotland is working towards a greener future.
Megan and Aileen were on hand to offer guidance, demonstrate some very cool experiments and answer questions.
P5-7 literally had a blast participating in this workshop this morning! HUGE thanks to the GSC for taking the time to come and visit us – greatly appreciated!
Take a look at the photos below…
The rain dried up and the sun was shining so Leswalt pupils donned their Winter cosies and wellies and headed to Aldouran Wetlands to meet members of Stranraer Rotary Club. They had invited us along to plant purple crocus bulbs as part of Rotary International’s Purple for Polio awareness campaign.
Polio is a disease which can cause paralysis. Fortunately there is a vaccination which is given to children and so it has akmost been eradicated worldwide. Almost – but not quite. The Purple 4 Polio campaign was introduced by Rotary International in 1985 as a way to remind us all of this awful disease and to help raise awareness towards fundraising. A life-changing vaccine for a child costs just 20p! But, in some countries, this isn’t readily available.
Our Leswalt pupils were welcomed by a team of Rotary volunteers led by Mr Gordon Wemyss. The helpers dug the holes, whilst the willing children followed behind planting the bulbs into the holes. A whopping 3000 crocus bulbs were planted!
So, keep your eyes peeled next Spring for a beautiful array of crocuses – and remember Purple 4 Polio!
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