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
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
