At the start of the term, all of our pupils were given the opportunity to apply for various positions of responsibility in the school, including: Pupil Council, Eco Committee, House Captains, Digital Leaders and Monitor jobs. The purpose of this is to ensure that pupils’ have a voice in everything we do and know that they can make a positive impact on our school. Having looked through the applications and/or
P6/7 were delighted to welcome Jack and Linnea to their class today to lead them through a Dignity in School Children’s Parliament session. The class met Dodger the Red Squirrel and considered the rights Dodger has as well as the rights we all have – and the ones we share/differ. We linked these to our Children’s Rights and thought about the Digni-tree as it has safe, happy and healthy as
Pupils are the North Rhins Schools are delighted to share that they have been awarded the Gold Rights Respecting School Award from UNICEF. Having already achieved their Bronze and Silver awards, both Leswalt and Kirkcolm Primaries have been working hard over the last 18 months to achieve their Gold award, with our Pupil Council reps leading on this. The award is split into 3 strands – it aims to teach
The gardening club at Leswalt Primary has started, under the support and guidance of Mrs Richardson. Last week 28th Aug – Had an introduction to gardening – growing plants, veg, fruit, flowers, herbs Why we garden – look nice, medicine, cosmetics, dyes, food our mental health and keeping us fit We then had a walk and talk about the garden and they showed me all the nooks Today 4th Sept
We were greeted at the door this morning by lots of smiling faces (who have all grown so much taller!), glad to be back at school for a new year! This year we are joined by our new P1 pupils – Gregor, Ada, Erin, Betty and Jessica – have a keek at their cutes faces below! We also have Rebecca joining P6 who will make an excellent addition to the
This afternoon the school closed for the Summer holidays. But first, the hard work of our pupils was celebrated and the following awards were handed out – 100% attendance award – Colin Mc Gregor Excellent attendance – Ellie Bennewith, Lily Bennewith, Hamish Mc Gregor, Beathan Wright ,Daisy Doyle Accelerated reading star readers P2 Eilidh Ramsay (23 tests passed) P3 Lily Bennewith 22 tests passed P5 Colin Mc Gregor ( 30.4)
As the boys and girls are somehow full of energy on the final week of school, we have tried to squeeze in as much fun as possible. So this morning, Kirkcolm Primary headed across to Leswalt Primary for a morning of inter-school sports. ♥️ 👬 We competed in the sprint, skipping, egg and spoon, the sack and the long distance races in the following groups (thankfully the wind died down
We had the very BEST day at Ernespie Farm Park for our annual Leswalt Primary Summer trip! 🌞 🚜🛝🐄🐐 The windscreen wipers on the bus didn’t dampen our spirits one bit as we pulled up at the farm park. A quick snack and loo stop and we were ready to explore. Luckily, would you believe it, the sun came out to greet us too! So explore we most certainly did….
For the past three Monday afternoons P1-3 have headed along the road to the Wetlands. Mrs Sloan met us there and had organised some fun activities for us to do. We spent time helping to make the Wetlands beautiful for all to enjoy by weeding and tidying up. We learned about squirrels and tried hard to be quiet to see if we could spot any, we weren’t successful! We got taken
What a brilliant few days we have enjoyed with our new Leswalt crew 😀 The fabulous P7s Brandon, Kaiden, Hamish, Mark, Faye, Carys, Cara and Katie headed off to sample the adventures of S1 at Stranraer Academy, whilst we welcomed Rebecca into P6 and the fabulous quintet to Erin, Ada, Betty, Jessica and Gregor as the new P1s! They all made very welcome additions to their classes and their schoolmates
