Primary 6 and 7 recently had 3 fun filled days of outdoor education at Lockerbie Manor. Please see below for a link to just some of the adventures they had – Lockerbie Manor ~ February 2025 – YouTube
This afternoon, we were delighted to welcome back Jack and Linnea from the Children’s Parliament with another interesting session about caring for our environment. Each session so far we have focused on a different element – curriculum (how our learning helps us to explore and find out more about our area), campus (when we made models about what we would view as part of our environment), community (an online session
Have a look at some of the activities we have done today!
The troops arrived safely at their destination at Lockerbie Manor and got stuck straight in to axe throwing, fencing and the climbing wall. They were having that much fun, not one pupil wanted to phone home! Tea was either roast chicken or sausages with roast potatoes, and Yorkshire puddings, followed by ice cream. Yum! Lots of fun was had in the bedrooms with pyjama parties involving lots of toiletries for
Today, we participated in Safer Internet Day 2025 – an annual event which explores all the ways in which we can use the amazing source that is the internet in the safest way possible! This year’s theme is ‘Too Good to be True’ and gave us all a chance to consider all the offers which we might see online and how to keep ourselves protected from scams. Our learning this
As winners of our in-school K’Nex Challenge before Christmas, Rachael and Rebecca were chosen to represent Leswalt Primary at the Rhins Cluster Creating Engineers Challenge held yesterday at St Joseph’s Primary Stranraer. This exciting K’Nex Challenge is run annually by the Glasgow Science Festival. The girls were set the task of designing an exercise bike using K’Nex. They needed to sketch their plan, work together and have a finished product
Our Primary 7 pupils enjoyed a taster coaching session in curling today. Under the expert guidance of Gail Munro MBE and all the coaching staff at Stranraer Ice rink our senior pupils were brushing and curling their way to victory! All pupils have arrived back at school with certificates for their participation and details of how they can enjoy more curling at an after school club – please look school
Mrs McHarg attended a cheque presentation on Wednesday night at the Ryan Centre on behalf of both Kirkcolm and Leswalt Schools, who have each received £200 from the Santa’s Float proceeds. A huge thank-you to both the YMCA and Stranraer & Rhins Young farmers who organise the Santa’s Float, for this very generous donation to our schools. The money will go towards helping to fund transport costs which will enable
Today we enjoyed our annual Burns’ Lunch – a little later than we had initially planned due to the storms but it was worth the wait! Daisy led the celebrations in her role as chairperson inviting Betty in P1 to carry in the haggis, our ‘Address to a Haggis’ P7s to recite the poem with gusto (thanks Ben G, Ela, Sean, Holly and Ewan!) and Sean to say the Selkirk
Today we had the pleasure of welcoming Kathryn Purchase from History Alive to the P6/7 classroom! The pupils have been investigating Scotland at the time of Wallace and Bruce and Kathryn’s presentation brought this history period alive and visual – and what an amazing morning we all had! Kathryn took us on a whistle-stop tour of Scotland (and England and France!) at the time of the 1280s onwards. We
