Feis Rois P1-4 are getting musical input from Feis Rois every Tuesday morning for the next 12 weeks. This morning we were visited by Mairi and Paul and learned all about the instruments they play, the fiddle and acoustic guitar. We listened to two beautiful Scottish songs and were also treated to Mairi and Paul singing Scots and Gaelic songs. Over the next few weeks we will be learning our
This morning, P5-7 had their last Soundtrap session with John 🙁 This has been SO much fun and the pupils have learnt lots. Today’s focus was on podcasting, teamwork, sharing work digitally and voice recording. Each group had a chief technician (Rose, Thomas and Alexander) who ‘built’ their group’s podcast using the music produced by pupils over previous sessions. Add to that mini interviews and background music and each group
Last year Emma Shirley was diagnosed with Leukaemia, and was unable to start Primary 1 at Leswalt Primary school with all her wee friends. Emma has subsequently missed lots of school and had months of treatment at Glasgow Children’s Hospital. In December, all the boys and girls from Leswalt Primary decided when they moved back to their newly refurbished school they would hold an open afternoon , with
P1-4 kicked off our French Food topic today and what better way to do that than try some French cuisine! Macarons, croissants and pains au chocolat were a universal hit. So too were the pate and quiche. Our last course gave us some mixed taste test results…escargot! Hannah and Eilidh loved the snails, Ben and Murray less so! Up next, we will be setting up our French role play cafe
World Book Day Blog Report by Rose and Thomas (Leswalt Primary House Captains) Thursday was World Book Day – a day all about reading and we had loads of exciting activities on! Over the last week, our head librarians Ellie and Ben planned some great fun for all of us to enjoy. They organised a ‘Draw a Book Character’ competition – The entries for this were amazing!
Huge thanks to the Construction Department at DGC Stranraer Campus – particularly Scott McEwan for helping us out and building our new playground shed! We HUGELY appreciate their help! Our Eco Committee typed up a letter of thanks. *******************************************
Leswalt Primary was delighted to welcome 2 very special guests to see the news and improved Leswalt Primary school. Dawn Roberts the new Chief Executive for Dumfries and Galloway council was accompanied by Dr Gillian Brydson, Director of skills Education and Learning to see how all the money has been spent on the refurbishment of Leswalt Primary school. They arrived at Leswalt Primary school with the Scrapbook the Pupil council
We were delighted to welcome the fabulous Kathryn Purchase from History Alive into school today to work with P5-7. The class have just started a study of World War Two and, in class, had found out about the unrest in Germany after WW1, the rise of Hitler, invasion of Poland and the start of WW2 with Neville Chamberlain’s momentous speech. Kathryn brought along her amazing collection of WW2 artefacts and,
Pupils in P5-7 at Kirkcolm, Leswalt and Portpatrick Primary Schools headed off to Abernethy Barcaple Outdoor Centre on Monday for an overnight residential stay. The boys and girls participated in a range of activities whilst there including archery, abseiling, a challenge course, climbing wall, and team problem solving challenges. Pupils overcame fears and developed their team-working skills throughout the course of our trip. After a fun-filled day of activities, everyone
Safer Internet Day was actually Tuesday 7th February (yesterday!) but we were actually in deepest, darkest Barcaple yesterday abseiling and climbing through muddy challenge courses and so not using the internet at all! So, we kicked off this morning back in school with a chat about how to keep ourselves safe online. P.C. Conroy came in to chat to us and talk us through a presentation about internet safety. The
