Yesterday, our fabulous Primary 6 Olivia buddied up with her friends for Kirkcolm for the annual P6 Operation Safety Input at Stair Park. This was a fantastic opportunity for our P6’s to show what they know and develop their understanding of our Term 3 topic ‘Risk Taking Behaviours’. The session aimed to support pupils to understand and manage risks. Leswalt and Kirkcolm worked their way around 7 stations; 1. Fire
One of our favourite parts of North Rhins Partnership is how both schools come together and the opportunities they have to be successful and make friends!😍 Our fabulous football team showed this off superbly on Friday Evening as they took part in Sheuchan Primary School’s football tournament! ⚽The boys have been working hard this term on Friday afternoons to practise and develop their skills with Miss Agnew at Kirkcolm and
The results are in.. drumroll please…🥁 Leswalt Primary are RUNNERS UP!🥈 Primary 4-7 wowed the judges with their creation of their ‘Sustainable School’ which we are super proud of! The project has encouraged us to think about ways we could make Leswalt Primary a more sustainable building. We worked with sustainability experts McTaggart Construction and D&G councils ‘Environmental Safety Officer’ Cailtin (AKA Beathan’s Mummy) to really think about what
The true sign of summer – a trip to Logan Botanic Gardens! A what wonderful weather for it!😊☀️This morning we joined our friends from Kirkcolm for a super fun morning of outdoor learning, exploring the lovely local landscape. When we arrived at the gardens, we enjoyed a little snack and chat with out friends out on the grass before splitting up into two groups for our workshops. Primary 1-4, ventured
PC MacGregor and PC Jack joined P5-7 this morning to talk to us about the dangers of substance misuse. She explained that drugs are substances that alter our brain chemistry. She told us that some drugs are bad for us and others are good, we were very surprised to learn that chocolate is actually a drug?! (A delicious one of course)🍫 We spoke about the dangers of smoking and peer
Our Sumdog superstar, Gregor Mc Guffie has done it again. 🤩 In the most recent Sumdog competition, Gregor has ended up in 3rd place for the whole of Dumfries and Galloway – out of 1753 pupils! Well done to our little marvellous mathemetician – we are very proud of you! 👏👏👏
We absolutely love when parents come in to school to share their ideas and experiences with us.😍 This afternoon Environmental Safety Officer, Caitlin Wilson (AKA Beathan’s Mummy) visited P4-7 to talk to us about ‘sustainability’ and help us with our project; to design and build a sustainable school.💧🏫♻️ When it comes to ‘Sustainability’, Caitlin told us that the word can mean lots of different things to different people and for kids,
This afternoon, P4-7 visited the Wetlands to measure the height of some trees. As part of their angles work in maths this term, we have been learning how to use a protractor to measure angles. This afternoon, we created our own tree measuring protractors, which we were able to use to measure the height of a tree. 🙂 We used half a paper plate, a straw and string to build
This afternoon, P4-7 welcomed a very special visitor into our classroom; Lydia Downie, the ambulance technician. We were all very excited when she drove into the playground in her ambulance!🚑 As part of our ‘body systems’ science topic, Lydia had very kindly offered to come in for a CPR workshop. With her, she brought the armless, legless Frank, the CPR dummy. Lydia started off by explaining how she responds to
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
