We had the BEST morning! Not only were we visited by two award-winning authors – the fabulous Chae Strathie and amazing Ross MacKenzie – but we also got to buddy up with our good friends from Kirkcolm Primary to enjoy the experience! P6/7 Leswalt hopped on the bus and travelled round the coast – whereby P1-4 Kirkcolm jumped aboard and headed back to Leswalt. It was a switchover! The older
John Cooper, Conservative MP for Dumfries and Galloway, visited Leswalt P6-7 this afternoon as part of their Democracy and Government topic. John explained to the pupils about his role as an MP – representing all 78,000 citizens in D&G at the Parliament in London. He explained that he works in the House of Commons and gets to ask the Prime Minister questions. The House of Commons is controlled by the
Primary 7 pupils travelled to the Stranraer Campus of Dumfries & Galloway College this morning, as part of Scottish Careers Week. The event was organised by Skills Development Scotland and we were joined by Castle Kennedy, Glenluce and Sheuchan Primaries. After an introduction from Kathryn and Lucy (SDS), we had 3 activities that we worked our way around throughout the morning. The first activity was learning where the Careers Advisers
World Children’s Day was on Wednesday 20th November and to celebrate this, both classes at Leswalt came together yesterday morning to take part in a live assembly. This linked well with our work on Rights Respecting School work we have been doing over the past few years and continue to work on. The focus of World Children’s Day this year was looking at climate change and how we need to
As part of Book Week Scotland, P1-3 parents and family members were invited into school yesterday to find out about the Bookbug (P1) and Read, Write, Count (P2-3) bags that are provided to children by the Scottish Government and Scottish Book Trust. We looked through the contents of the bags – each child received between 2 and 4 books, an activity booklet, and either a card game and maths resource,
As part of our Democracy and Government topic, we enjoyed a chat with MSP Finlay Carson to find out more about his role in representing us in Dumfries and Galloway! He joined us via Microsoft Teams from the car as he travelled through to Castle Douglas. He’d had a busy morning of meetings in Stranraer at the Millennium Centre about a proposed new site for the railway station, a visit
Pupils arrived at school today looking as if they had just rolled out of bed! However that was not the case – today was Children in Need so we dressed in our PJs for Pudsey to help raise some money! The Pupil Council also organised some other activities to help raise fund for this very worthwhile cause, including: selling Children in Need merchandise, face painting and pancakes for Pudsey –
Today is Odd Socks Day – a day when we remember it’s cool to be different, it’s ok not to be the same as everyone else and, in fact, life is much more interesting when we don’t all look the same, like the same, do the same and believe in the same things! We celebrated our differences by wearing odd socks to school – a clear sign that we are
Pupils of Leswalt Primary paid their respects today, on Armistice Day. At 11am on the 11th day of the 11th month, all pupils visited the Memorial in Leswalt. At the memorial, Daisy, house captain, read the poem “Flanders Fields”. The oldest and youngest pupils at school, Sean and Gregor, laid the wreath. This wreath was made by all at Leswalt Primary and was made by drawing round all of their
This term, P6/7 are finding out more about Democracy and Government. We started with a chat about this yesterday which tied in some interesting History and Current Affairs which both linked to politics and government – the story of Guy Fawkes and the US elections! Today, we enjoyed an online session with the Scottish Parliament. We joined the Teams meeting and met Isabel who led us through a very interesting
