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
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
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
£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
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
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,
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
