PC MacGregor and PC Jack joined P5-7 this morning to talk to us about the dangers of substance misuse. She explained that drugs are substances that alter our brain chemistry. She told us that some drugs are bad for us and others are good, we were very surprised to learn that chocolate is actually a drug?! (A delicious one of course)🍫 We spoke about the dangers of smoking and peer
Our Sumdog superstar, Gregor Mc Guffie has done it again. 🤩 In the most recent Sumdog competition, Gregor has ended up in 3rd place for the whole of Dumfries and Galloway – out of 1753 pupils! Well done to our little marvellous mathemetician – we are very proud of you! 👏👏👏
We absolutely love when parents come in to school to share their ideas and experiences with us.😍 This afternoon Environmental Safety Officer, Caitlin Wilson (AKA Beathan’s Mummy) visited P4-7 to talk to us about ‘sustainability’ and help us with our project; to design and build a sustainable school.💧🏫♻️ When it comes to ‘Sustainability’, Caitlin told us that the word can mean lots of different things to different people and for kids,
This afternoon, P4-7 visited the Wetlands to measure the height of some trees. As part of their angles work in maths this term, we have been learning how to use a protractor to measure angles. This afternoon, we created our own tree measuring protractors, which we were able to use to measure the height of a tree. 🙂 We used half a paper plate, a straw and string to build
This afternoon, P4-7 welcomed a very special visitor into our classroom; Lydia Downie, the ambulance technician. We were all very excited when she drove into the playground in her ambulance!🚑 As part of our ‘body systems’ science topic, Lydia had very kindly offered to come in for a CPR workshop. With her, she brought the armless, legless Frank, the CPR dummy. Lydia started off by explaining how she responds to
This afternoon Alison Murray from Active Schools visited Leswalt to hand out some certificates to our super sporty runners!🏃👟 Rachael and Murray both took part in Alison’s 3 week running club to prepare them for the Cross Country at Greenvalley. Rachael and Murray joined Alison each of the 3 weeks and so were awarded ‘Gold’ for their fantastic commitment and effort! 🥇 It was great to see this hard work
To celebrate World Earth Day, we got together this afternoon for an assembly with Mrs Adams. We started off by having a think about what ‘World Earth Day’ might celebrate. Gregor wondered if it could be about ‘looking after the world’ and Cameron impressed us with his suggestion that it’s all about ‘stopping climate change’. 🌏 Colin was able to take Cameron’s idea even further, explaining that Climate change is
Yesterday, we welcomed Niamh from Wigtownshire Rugby back for our final session of rugby this term. We warmed up with a fan favourite – capture the flag 🙂. Afterwards, pupils paired up with a peer of similar height for some contact practice. Niamh reminded us of the rules, foot in the hoop, eye to thigh, cheek to cheek, bands of steel, shoulder boulder knock them over.. and they did exactly
Today P5-7 braved the wild weather and headed to Green Valley for the annual inter-school cross country event.🏃Last term’s Friday afternoon ‘Leswalt Park Run’ practice has clearly paid off, all pupils repeated the school so well, with great determination, resilience and good sportsmanship. First up, was the Primary 5 girl 1/2 mile race. A big well done to Lily for her super effort!🤩 Afterwards, Primary 6 and 7 boys and
Today was filled with Easter fun. Our fabulous House Captains, Rachael and Colin have been busy organising a day of Easter Fun. P4-7 kick started the day with some Easter Baking. They had been saving up their class cash all term, and decided to splash the cash by purchasing some ingredients to make Mini Egg Cheesecakes. The perfect opportunity to put into practice the measurement skills we’d been developing as
