The Primary 7 boys and girls from the North Rhins Partnership had a visit to Skills Development Scotland today. As part of Developing the Young Workforce, Lucy, Kathryn & Connor gave the pupils an overview of the careers services available at Stranraer Academy. Our pupils learned that they will have a subject choice chat in S2, with follow up visits for each other year to help them plan career options
As part of our Book Week Scotland celebrations, P1-3 pupils all received a Bookbug (P1) or a Read, Write, Count (P2-3) bag this afternoon, as part of the Scottish Government and Scottish Book Trust initiative. Parents/carers popped into school to learn how to use the bags at home to make the most of the learning opportunities that they offer. After pupils were gifted with their bags, everyone then spent the
Primary 7 from Portpatrick, Leswalt and Kirkcolm were treated to a curling experience at the North West Castle today. The children were split into teams of 5 with each member allocated aged a role as either sweepers, throwers or a skip skip. Gail gave a motivating speech, sharing the great Olympic success we have in our community. She explained the format of the day and the terminology of curling such
Today the pupils of Leswalt Primary headed to the war memorial to pay their respects ahead of Remembrance Day tomorrow. Before we left, we watched a short video clip from PoppyScotland and talked about the reasons behind the poppies which the House Captains Hamish and Carys had been visiting each class with over the last week. We took some time to think about how their donations would be used and
Mrs Dinsmore popped into school on Wednesday to say a fond farewell to her time as Clerical Assistant at Leswalt Primary – a post which she has been in for 23 years! Staff celebrated Mrs Dinsmore’s well-deserved retirement with some tea and cake (kindly made by Michelle, Daisy’s mum) and presented her with some gifts and cards from all in the school community. Thank you for all of your hard
This week is Computing Science Week – a chance for us all to investigate, discuss and explore different aspects of the Computing Science world. From chatting about the HUGE variety of jobs under the Computing Science umbrella, watching and talking about women in engineering (hopefully we have a few budding male and female engineers of the future in our class!), exploring coding using Spheros at our college campus day and
Well, just take a look at those photographs… what a fabulous day! Huge thanks to Ms Whorlow, Fiona Herron Stranraer Campus manager, Susan Boland Early Education and Childcare Lecturer and Mrs Hall and Miss Creighton from DG STEM Team for organising this fantastic DYW/STEM day at Dumfries and Galloway College Stranraer Campus. The pupils enjoyed an action-packed day of activities from Childcare games and art and craft activities to Technology
Where had all the smiling, fresh-faced children of Leswalt Primary gone? The bell rang at 9am and staff opened the door to be faced with…. a frightening array of Halloween characters! After a busy morning’s work (ever witnessed a zombie doing their subtraction task?!) – the House Captains and Vice House Captain put their party plans into action for an afternoon of frighteningly fabulous fun! The action kicked off with
This afternoon, we were delighted to welcome Mrs Hall from the D&G STEM learning team with the Fun Maths Roadshow! We got the chance to work on some mind-boggling puzzles which encouraged us to solve problems, use trial and error, look for patterns and show determination to crack those number and shape conundrums. We could choose whether to work alone or with a buddy and enjoyed a great afternoon of
Want to save some pennies and do your bit for the planet? Well, our Leswalt Primary Halloween Swap Shop is for you! Our Eco Committee have organised a costume reuse initiative. Browse our Sway and see what’s on offer. 🙂 If you have any outfits you’d like to donate, please send them in and our committee will do the rest! Click on ‘Go to this Sway’ link below and press
