Pupils and staff rocked up to school today for another fun Friday in aid of Red Nose Day 2023. House Captains Rose and Thomas had been selling official red noses all week and donations were popped into the bucket today as we all wore the things which make us happy! Red Nose Day is all about raising money to help those in need whilst bringing a smile to everyone’s faces
Curling Report by Thomas And Tristan At the NWC on Monday the 13th of March there was a big curling competition for all the schools in the Rhins region. We sent two teams – team Leswalt and team Leswalt-Portpatrick. Both teams were in the same section and really enjoyed themselves! It just didn’t go our way on the day as Team Leswalt didn’t do too well, but Team Leswalt-Portpatrick did a
Today P5-7 enjoyed a whole day of WW2 activities! Several pupils dressed up for the occasion and some brought in memorabilia from home too. The day was action packed : from learning about Dunkirk to using 2D/3D shape knowledge to design a gas mask box; listening to music from that era whilst learning to sew on a button just like the Make Do and Mend campaign; working in pairs on
Thank you and well done to Ewan Clark, Thomas Agnew and Daisy Doyle for representing Leswalt Primary at last night’s Scots’ Song and Verse Competition. All three performed so well and we are all very proud of them. Thomas was awarded joint 2nd place for his recitation of Burns’ Address to a Haggis, Ewan was awarded joint 3rd place for Harry by Matthew Fitt and Daisy sang Caledonia and was
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. *******************************************
