This afternoon Alison Murray from Active Schools visited Leswalt to hand out some certificates to our super sporty runners!🏃👟 Rachael and Murray both took part in Alison’s 3 week running club to prepare them for the Cross Country at Greenvalley. Rachael and Murray joined Alison each of the 3 weeks and so were awarded ‘Gold’ for their fantastic commitment and effort! 🥇 It was great to see this hard work
To celebrate World Earth Day, we got together this afternoon for an assembly with Mrs Adams. We started off by having a think about what ‘World Earth Day’ might celebrate. Gregor wondered if it could be about ‘looking after the world’ and Cameron impressed us with his suggestion that it’s all about ‘stopping climate change’. 🌏 Colin was able to take Cameron’s idea even further, explaining that Climate change is
Yesterday, we welcomed Niamh from Wigtownshire Rugby back for our final session of rugby this term. We warmed up with a fan favourite – capture the flag 🙂. Afterwards, pupils paired up with a peer of similar height for some contact practice. Niamh reminded us of the rules, foot in the hoop, eye to thigh, cheek to cheek, bands of steel, shoulder boulder knock them over.. and they did exactly
Today P5-7 braved the wild weather and headed to Green Valley for the annual inter-school cross country event.🏃Last term’s Friday afternoon ‘Leswalt Park Run’ practice has clearly paid off, all pupils repeated the school so well, with great determination, resilience and good sportsmanship. First up, was the Primary 5 girl 1/2 mile race. A big well done to Lily for her super effort!🤩 Afterwards, Primary 6 and 7 boys and
Today was filled with Easter fun. Our fabulous House Captains, Rachael and Colin have been busy organising a day of Easter Fun. P4-7 kick started the day with some Easter Baking. They had been saving up their class cash all term, and decided to splash the cash by purchasing some ingredients to make Mini Egg Cheesecakes. The perfect opportunity to put into practice the measurement skills we’d been developing as
This afternoon both classes took to the playground for a big spring clean before the Easter Holidays🚯🗑. Armed with litter pickers, plastic bags and lots of energy, we worked in teams to collect as much rubbish as we could. Down the burn, across the football pitch, inside the willow dome, everywhere was targeted. A couple of bin bags later the playground is looking spotless, all started for a fresh start
Sumdog recently ran a competition for all of the pupils in Dumfries and Galloway schools. An amazing 1820 pupils took part. And young Gregor was 9th out of all these pupils! 🏆 Well done Gregor, you marvellous mathematician. We are all very proud of you 😍
Today, Leswalt school was filled with so many creative costumes and so much laughter🤭! Pupils were asked to dress as something beginning with the first letter of their name, and they certainly rose to the occasion! We had astronaut Arthur🧑🚀 , Emma the Elf 🧝, Leo the Leprechaun 🌈, Aria the Asda bag 🤭 and so many other hilarious costumes too! Staff couldn’t resist the chance to get stuck in
On Wednesday afternoon, P4-7 showcased their fantastic Ram Tam Music learning. With Helen, from Ram Tam musicians, P4-7 have been working hard this term to learn more about rhythm, beat, musical notes and how to play the tin whistle! 🪈P1-3 were invited along as a fantastic audience to listen to our super rendition of ‘Baby Shark’ and ‘Ally Bally’.🎶 Learning to play a musical instrument is such a super opportunity
A huge well done to our four Primary 7 pupils who represented the school at last night’s Rotary Club quiz, which was held at Park Primary School. Murray, Colin, Rebecca and Rachael faced some tough questions and opposition from other local primary schools. Although they weren’t placed on the day, we are very proud of their efforts and team work! 🤩 Meta Skills: Focussing Fergus Collaborating Cora Communicating Cate Sense
