Leswalt Primary all had some fabulous frightening fun at their Hallowe’en party today. Some pupils came to school dressed in their spookiest best , and some had a costume change at lunchtime– we had a lot of zombified professions as well as some classics! The party started with the best costume from each year group – this year Patricia the dinner lady had the very difficult task of judging .
P6/7 welcome Robert McCrorie, a Community Safety Advocate for the Fire and Rescue Community Safety Team who talked to the pupils about how to keep themselves and others safe around fireworks and Bonfire Night. He talked about fireworks, sparklers and bonfires and the issues we might come across. Ellie demonstrated how to hold a sparkler safely – at arms length and not being waved about, and Colin showed us how
It’s back to school and a spooky one at that! P6/7 have enjoyed exploring all things pumpkin this week.. The week kicked off with group work as they named their pumpkins and scooped them out in preparation for soup making. Tuesday was a busy day as groups worked with Mrs Kyle to chop ingredients and cook their Spicy Pumpkin soup, roast the pumpkin seeds and use wholemeal bread to make
This afternoon, P6/7 joined a live lesson working on the use of Adobe Express. Each pupil worked on an iPad to create a multi-media collage with a spooky theme. They selected a background, added design elements, assigned animations to each object and layered sound effects over the top! What fantastic results! The pupils then screenshot their work and emailed them to me (another handy computing skill) for me to upload
Today we had the pleasure of welcoming Jack and Linea from the Children’s Parliament back to talk about Sustainability. Today’s focus was on our ‘campus’ and how we use our school building. This ties in with the Scottish Government’s aim that by 2030 they want to make sure that… all schools are eco friendly in how they heat, power and use materials at school. all spaces can be used to
This morning, P6-7 learned a very important life skill – CPR. This annual initiative was led by Resuscitation Council UK which aims to increase the number of people surviving out-of-hospital cardiac arrests by helping more people learn CPR. We spent 5 minutes listening to a doctor explain about the importance of CPR, and how CPR and use of a Defibrillator hugely increases a person’s chance of survival. We then learned
P1-4 were delighted to welcome Megan Bark, Dental Health Officer, into school this afternoon to help them learn all about dental hygiene as part of their Health and Wellbeing topic. Megan gave the pupils some hints and tips to keep their teeth sparkling clean and pupils got the chance to put her advice into practise on some puppets. Megan has set all of the pupils a challenge – to ensure
We were delighted to head to Leswalt Church this afternoon, having been invited by our Locum Minister for Leswalt, Marlene Cash. In preparation for this event, the whole school have been donating food items to distribute around the local community; the gardening club made a scarecrow whom they named ‘Les’ (short for Leswalt!); and pupils have been learning the song ‘Harvest Samba’ to perform at the church. During the service,
This week is ‘Maths Week Scotland’! It’s a chance to explore, enjoy and discover all things relating to Maths – and realise just how much Maths we use everyday – sometimes without even realising it! Each day, both classes have had lots of Maths fun doing different activities. On Monday, P6/7 watched and talked about the maths relating to Alice in Wonderland with an online Maths Live event – who
P6/7 are lucky to be enjoying Living Life to the Full sessions with Matthew Robinson from the D&G Youth Work team. This ties in perfectly with their HWB focus on Feelings and Self-Esteem. Pupils have been participating in team-building games and reflecting on different emotions and thinking about their reactions in different situations. Lots of chat and fun helping pupils to work on their self-belief and ability to recognise and
