As part of their social studies topic, China, P4-7 today had a go at making a Chinese ‘fakeaway’. We had a look at some traditional Chinese dishes, chopsticks, and discussed some of the Chinese food we’ve tried at home. 🥢. Today we had a go at making some vegetable spring rolls and seasoned chips with curry sauce, of course!😋 We chopped some potatoes, grated some vegetables and practised the art
We are super proud of our fabulous football team who took part in the Bill Adams Memorial Cup on Friday afternoon at the Stuart Binnie Arena. ⚽🏆The team, made up of boys and girls from Leswalt and Kirkcolm played exceptionally well and managed to win one of their games! Well done to everybody who took part and Miss Agnew, our fantastic football coach!😁Our fantastic footballers all received a medal, kindly
Today was the day, we’d all been waiting for. Mrs Baillie had checked the weather, once, twice, one hundred times hoping for a dry afternoon, and that’s exactly what we got!🤞 With our eggs, spoons, sacks and ropes at the ready, we trooped over the park for our annual sports day!😄 Over the past couple of weeks, we had been heading over to the park for some practice and today
This morning P1-3 ventured into Stranraer with their Kirkcolm buddies to visit the town’s very own Castle of St John! The started off in the museum where they were set a scavenger hunt – a super way to explore the castle and see lots of real life artefacts. 👑Afterwards, they ventured up the (VERY!) windey staircase to a very royal room with lots of costumes and real life bits and
On Tuesday afternoon, the rain stopped and the clouds parted all ready for some rugby in the sunshine with Niamh from Wigtownshire Rugby Club! 🏉We started off with one of our favourites – Capture the Flag, where pupils practised some of the important attacking and defending skills involved in a game of rugby.🏳️ The boys and girls split into two teams on the grass and each team were tasked with capturing
On Sunday afternoon, Leswalt Primary welcomed friends, families and sweet-treat lovers from far and near to our fantastic ‘Cream Teas’ fundraiser organised by our Parent Council. Cakes were baked, stalls were set and tea and coffee brewing, we were all set and ready to go at 1 o’clock! Visitors gathered in the hall where they enjoyed some tea and coffee and were treated to a delicious selection to cakes and
Yesterday afternoon P1-3 took advantage of the beautiful warm sunny weather and ventured outside for some castle building.🌞 Armed with cardboard boxes, Frosties, toilet paper tubes and LOTS of excitement, they set to work building Leswalt Castle. 🏰 As part of their social studies topic, ‘castles,’ Primary 1-3 have been learning all about the structure and parts of a castle and what life would be like during medieval times! In their
This morning both schools Primary 7 girls – Allyssa, Ruby, Rachael and Rebecca headed to Stranraer Academy with Mrs Adams for some netball fun! We met girls from all of the other primary schools and quickly got into our teams for some games! ⛹️♂️All four of our fabulous Primary 7 girls were fabulous on and off the court, playing and mixing well with the other girls ahead of their transition
This morning P1-3 welcomed back one of our favourite visitors, Kathryn Purchase from History Alive in Schools for a workshop on Castles!🏰 We all love Kathryn’s visits into school, and today was no exception. Today’s session was made even more special with a bus trip to Kirkcolm to learn about castle building through the ages with our buddies from across the partnership!🧒🧒 Kathryn is a super knowledgeable historian and fascinating
Yesterday, Primary 7’s from Leswalt buddied up with their P7 friends from Kirkcolm for a visit to Stranraer Academy to help them get their bearings and feel prepared for their next step after the summer holidays. Their morning started with a trip to Art with Mrs Thompson, where they designed their own super heroes! How cool!🦸🏼Afterwards, their visited the Home Economics department and made a cheese toastie! 🧀 They enjoyed
