Soup Glorious Soup!

Using the vegetables kindly gifted by Barsolus to P7 on their trip there yesterday, P5/6 made a pan of delicious soup. Mrs Kyle took them in small groups to prepare the vegetables by washing, peeling, chopping and grating and adding them to the big pot of lentils, bacon, stock and water. The smell wafting down the corridor was amazing! In the afternoon, everyone sat down to enjoy a mug of

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Barsolus Trip

What a great trip we had to Barsolus today! Primary 7 were kindly invited to visit Gillian and the crew to learn how plants benefit humans and how farming practices work from field to fork. Gillian explained about the seasonality of different crops and how Barsolus need to time planting of vegetables such as Brussel Sprouts perfectly so they are ready to harvest for our Christmas dinners! Our pupils also

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A Marvellous Macmillan Coffee Morning at Leswalt Primary!

£340.85! Yes – a whopping £340.85 was raised this morning by our amazing P5-7 pupils backed by our fabulous community for Macmillan Coffee Morning! Faye and Ewan wrote this report about the very successful event. On Friday the 29th of September, Leswalt Primary held a coffee morning to help raise money for Macmillan Cancer support. This is what we got up to!  Once our visitors arrived, they were greeted by

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Maths Week Scotland 2023

Maths Week Scotland 2023 The children of the North Rhins Partnership Schools got their calculating brains in gear to participate in Maths Week Scotland. Each school took part in a fantastic array of maths related a… Go to this Sway Why not see what we’ve been up to?  Click on the link then select play. 🙂 UNCRC Rights of the Child: Article 29 – Aims of Education

Planning our Macmillan Coffee Morning!

Following our visit from Mrs Sloan and Mr and Mrs McMiken about their involvement as volunteers with Macmillan Cancer Support, lots has been going on behind the scenes with regards to P5-7’s preparation for their fund-raising coffee morning! Primary 5 got together to draft a letter to be sent out to family and friends, Primary 6 have been busy planning and designing information posters to be displayed in the shop,

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Welcome To Our New Eco Committee

Our newly appointed Eco Committee met for the first time today. P7 – Faye & Brandon P6 – Isla P5 – Colin P3 – Ellie P2 – Thea P1 – Cameron After a successful interview process, our new members were happy to join us for our first meeting to agree our targets for our next Eco Flag application.  After carrying out a  L environmental-review-2023_2025, the group agreed that the targets

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Super Salsa with P1-4

Blog Post by Hamish & Isla – Yesterday morning the P1-4 class made some delicious salsa using their home-grown tomatoes!  In the middle of June, pupils planted some tomato plants and when we came back from the summer holidays, they were fully grown and had lots of tomatoes on them! So, Mrs Warwick decided to make some yummy salsa with the class! Everyone helped to make it and most of them

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All About MacMillan Cancer Support

This morning the P5-7 class had a visit from some volunteers from MacMillan Cancer Support. This is a short report about their visit! 😊  The volunteers who came to visit were Mr and Mrs McMiken and Mrs Sloan. They told us about the different ways that they have raised money, such as Granny Maeve cycling 1049 miles around Scotland, she is an amazing 85 years old!!!  Granny Maeve alone raised £75,000

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Welcome Back!

Hello and a HUGE welcome to session 2023-2024 at Leswalt Primary. So good to see the happy, smiling faces of all staff and pupils this morning – and an extra big welcome to our new P1s! We can’t wait to get started – this year is going to be lots of fun!    

Break-time Cupcakes from Kaiden and Aria-Rose!

How lucky are we? Kaiden and Aria-Rose brought in cupcakes for everyone to have at playtime as an end of term treat. Huge thanks to their family for being so thoughtful – as pupils have  enjoyed a number of treats from them over the course of this year and previous ones too. Such generosity is much appreciated!  Thank you Kaiden, Aria-Rose and family ❤️