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
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
