On Friday 9th December, Leswalt Community Council held their annual concert. They’d extended an invitation to us to coma along and enjoy the Christmas fun! As is often the case at this busy time of year, some pupils who’d have loved to have come along had other family plans – and Hamish, Ela and Daisy were already performing in the Stranraer Drama Club panto! Such a wealth of talent in
Into school, essentials done, some Maths work completed and we all dashed outside to enjoy a little snow fun! Just look at all the cheery, chilly chops smiling in the photos below!
For many, it was the first ‘turkey and all the trimmings’ of the season as the pupils and staff of Leswalt Primary sat down to a delicious Christmas lunch today. Primary 7 pupils set the tables, switched on the Christmas tunes to add to the party atmosphere and welcomed their classmates into the hall. Crackers were pulled, turkey was scoffed and we all enjoyed a fabulous plate of festive food.
The festive tunes were playing, the home baking was ready on the tables; the tea was brewing; handmade Christmas crafts were ready to be sold – yes, Leswalt Primary were ready to welcome friends and family into their school for the afternoon! And what a wonderful afternoon it was! The children sang their little hearts out giving two performances of their ‘sneak peek’ of show songs – to rapturous applause!
This Friday (2nd December), we are opening our doors to family and friends to welcome them into our shiny, new school and share an afternoon of early Festive fun; all whilst fund-raising to support one of our school friends! Come along between 1:30pm – 4pm to be in with a chance to purchase one of our homemade Christmas decorations; sit back with a cuppa and some delicious home-baking and enjoy
Our digital leaders from across our partnership held an online meeting via Teams today. We came together to create a Christmas trivia quiz for pupils to enjoy. This provided a theme for us to learn how to use Microsoft Forms. Our Digital Leaders used our Higher Order Thinking Skills to work collaboratively on a shared ‘form’ online. The children had to remember and understand how to access and design questions
What a day to come back on Term 2 – Halloween! As you can imagine, it was all go with the start of Term 2 ahead of us and Halloween festivities taking place . Pupils came with scary costumes bagged and ready to go for a quick change at lunchtime. Afterwards we had our Halloween costume judging competition! We did this altogether with Kirkcolm combined and had both a Leswalt
A cheery bunch lined up to join us at Leswalt Primary this morning – but it seems lots of pupils forgot to get dressed for school! Pjs, cuddly dressing gowns, snuggly hoodies and cosy slippers seemed to be the dress code – and that was just the teachers! There were also some fabulous storybook characters joining us too and all in the name of Children in Need. To add to
As part of our Book Week Scotland celebrations, parents/grandparents were invited into school today to see P1-3 pupils being presented with their Bookbug (P1) and Read, Write, Count (P2-3) bags. This initiative, ran by the Scottish Book Trust and Scottish Government, sees every P1-3 child receive a free bag which contains beautiful books, educational games and writing materials. The bags are designed to help build parents’ confidence and encourage families
P5-7 have been enjoying the Glasgow Science Centre Powering the Future workshops over the last two terms and today we were delighted to welcome Megan and Aileen from GSC in person! We enjoyed a busy morning of active learning finding out more about renewable energy sources and the ways in which Scotland is working towards a greener future. Megan and Aileen were on hand to offer guidance, demonstrate some very
