We are delighted to announce that the North Rhins Trio Partnership has been awarded our Anti-Bullying Ambassador Respect Badge! Our Primary 6 pupils along with our house captains underwent anti-bullying ambassador training as part of the Diana Award. As a results, and in combination with our Rights Respecting Schools Silver Award, our pupils have completed an action plan of 6 activities to gain this award. Educating students on children’s rights
All three school communities came together on Saturday for our annual Kirkcolm Mini Walk to raise funds for our schools and to enjoy a social fitness activity together. Despite the threat of rain, the weather stayed dry enough to allow our walkers to enjoy a run or a stroll around the beautiful scenery of our Kirkcolm coastal area. First, second and third places are awarded for the boys and girls
Having received 20 fantastic free Microbits for our school, Mrs McKnight’s P1-4 and Mrs Ferguson’s P5-6 decided to join a Code Along Live Lesson today hosted by Education Scotland! What better way to learn than by working together, learning by doing and being guided step-by-step?! As the P7 pupils were enjoying their S1 Stranraer Academy transition day, P1-6 decided to buddy up and find out more together. The Digital Leaders
As part of younger pupils learning all about caring for babies, our younger pupils enjoyed the company of Miss Maeva Mc Harg. Mrs Mc Harg brought in her baby daughter, who has just turned one, to allow all to appreciate all the more, what caring for a baby involves. This is part of the health and well being teaching planned for p1-4 this term. There was lots of questions for
After a long delay due to Covid, the annual Primary 7 Rotary Lunch event recommenced today. Breagh and Aidan represented Leswalt Primary at this year’s event where the guest speakers were Bejing Olympic Gold and Silver Curling Medallists Vicky Wright (Gold), Bobby Lammie (Silver) and Hammy McMillan (Silver). They enjoyed a tasty lunch of Tomato soup or fruit juice, followed by fish and chips. This was followed by a Q
Today, P5-7 recapped on their term 3 French Food and Drink topic by hosting their own mini cafe for their classmates! Having created some French themed table decorations, designed menu cards and created handy phrase cards to be placed on the tables – the pupils were all ready to say Bonjour! With some background French cafe style jazz music playing, the pupils took it in turns to role-play as the
Tattie Report – By Aidan and Rose On the Thursday the 12th of May, we planted potatoes with Mrs Richardson. We planted the potato seeds in tyres that used to have flowers in them – reusing and recycling! We needed to make sure that we covered them up in soil. We also watered them so they didn’t dry out. We really enjoyed it and it will be great to help in
It is Schools’ Week at Logan Botanic Gardens! Leswalt Primary ventured there today. Read the fabulous blog reports below to find out more… Logan Gardens Trip by P1-4 P1-4 enjoyed a fun morning at Logan Gardens with ranger Kate. Our activity was called The Teddy Bear’s Picnic and we had to take along with us our favourite stuffed toys. We learned about something called S.W.A.F. This stood for Shelter, Water,
As part of our Eco work this term, Mrs Richardson suggested we grow cress and then use what we’d grown! A great lesson in sustainability. Over to…. our three intrepid Blog reporters; Faye Adams, Rose Santangeli and Carys McHallum for more information! We started growing cress with our class. Mrs Richardson helped us. We grew the cress on a paper towel on a plate in the portacabin. We did this
The sun shone, the pupils listened and the presentations were informative and fun – safe to say the North Rhins Partnership Safety morning was the most resounding success! This term’s Health and Well-Being focus for the upper primaries was centred on Risk-Taking Behaviour; in short, what to do if faced with an emergency situation. Having discussed this as a staff, it was felt there was no better plan than to
