Friends and family gathered at Leswalt Primary this afternoon to celebrate our month of Scots Learning with a packed entertainment programme! Following on from Wednesday’s judging by Mr McCracken, the pupils learnt who had won the recitation, handwriting and artwork category for each year group. Very exciting! We even had a new category this year with Faye, Hamish and Daisy all singing. The winners were: P1 – ‘Ode tae a
Earlier this year, our P5-7 pupils were set the challenge of designing their own app for a mobile phone, by the company “Make it Happen”. There were lots of wonderful suggestions. Runners up at Leswalt were all give certificates – Murray Reid – car game Daisy Doyle – book reader for dyslexics Hamish Mc Gregor – Cooking app Rose Santangeli – Dog training app. Five overall winners were chosen for
The Literacy and Expressive Arts focus since the turn of the year has been all things Scots at Leswalt Primary – from song lyrics to poetry; presentation to artwork; traditional dance to music artists past and present; significant Scottish individuals to research to designing own tartans; the learning has been centred around our homeland. What better day to celebrate the culmination of this learning than today – 25th January the
January sees the return of the RSPB’s Big Birdwatch campaign. So we decided to make the most of the beautifully crisp Winter’s day with a walk in the beautiful surroundings of the Aldouran Wetlands to carry out our survey. Buddying up younger pupils with older ones, we headed through the village armed with our bird-spotting sheets on clipboards. We missed the Wetlands very much while we were ‘living’ at Kirkcolm
As part of our Scots focus month, we invited Mrs Henry, who founded and teaches the Fearon Scottish Country Dancers , to come and teach us a thing or two about set dances! We are extremely lucky in that, when Mrs Henry isn’t dancing she is working at Portpatrick Primary supporting learners and keeping the administration side ticking over, and so we were able simply to lift the phone and
What a fantastic morning of music production we had on Tuesday! John Dinning came to deliver the first of four Soundtrap sessions with an initial focus on creating music. The class listened carefully to the instructions from John then, armed with a laptop between two and headphones each, they set off to start creating some music. All genres were investigated – and there are literally hundreds of beats, instruments and
Thanks to Ms Whorlow, P6/7 pupils from across the North Rhins trio enjoyed an action-packed day of film-making today! Lights, Camera, Action.. Scott Mackay and Belle Doyle (representing Into Film and the Scottish Youth Film Foundation) led the pupils through this exciting workshop giving them an insight into movie production. Initially the children discussed movie genres and the many, many jobs linked to the film industry; producer, director, editor, screenwriter,
Show performances done? Tick! Christmas cards written? Tick! It must be time for the Christmas party!! So, with their glad rags on, the pupils of Leswalt Primary partied all Thursday afternoon. Organised and led by their House Captains Rose and Thomas, the children enjoyed Musical Arms, the Christmas Shopping List game, Do you want to build a Snowman and a tasty half-time snack of juice, crisps and chocolate crispies made
Can you believe it’s been 3 whole years since our pupils last took to the stage to perform at Christmas time?! Today they were back with a vengeance with their Christmas play ‘Who Took all the Loo Roll?’ The show tells the story of a group of aliens who have been watching us humans from a distant planet and are intrigued by our Christmas traditions, so they decide to visit
Christmas is a time for giving – and never was that more obvious than over the last few days at Leswalt Primary! Friday saw the welcome return of Owain Evans from Scripture Union Scotland with ‘Christmas Unwrapped’ to P5-7. This session offered pupils to take part in quizzes, arts and crafts, group discussion and reflection all centred around the Nativity Story and ‘unwrapping’ the message of the birth of the
