How beautiful have our gorgeous surroundings looked these past few days in the sunshine? It’s given us the motivation to get out and get busy! As our return to Leswalt Primary gets ever closer, our pupils have been getting their thinking caps on about ways to develop our school grounds once we’re back in residence. And they have LOTS of ideas! Aided by the super knowledgeable Mrs Richardson, the children
Leswalt Primary pupils have enjoyed a fun and varied Science Week with a host of hands-on activities and experiences. P1-4 P1-4 enjoyed a live interactive session with ‘The 3engineers’. They met Matt (Systems Engineer) and Nick (Electrical Engineer) who talked about sustainability and the use of fossil fuels, extreme weather and global warming. Their job as engineers is to invent, design and build new inventions to help reduce our impact
All for a good cause, the pupils of Leswalt Primary rocked up in cheery red clothes and handed in their donations for our Red Nose Day fun today! P1-4 and P5-7 joined together for a Fresh Air Friday with a difference today when they took part in the Great Welly Throw! Each primary had their own competition with the winners of Primary 5 (Brandon), Primary 6 (Tristan) and Primary 7
As part of our Rights Respecting Schools Silver Award, our P6’s and House Captains from across our partnership took on some responsible training today. The Diana Trust delivered a workshop on developing our older pupils as Anti-Bullying Ambassadors. This is supported by HRH The Duke of Cambridge, The Diana Award Anti-Bullying Campaign engages schools to change the attitudes, behaviour and culture of bullying by building skills and confidence to identify
As part of British Science Week 2022, primary 5-7 became engineers for the afternoon and took part in their very own engineering challenge! Before the challenge began, we watched a short video clip about Isambard Kingdom Brunel, helping us to understand what engineering is and how his work shaped the way we live today. For the challenge, pupils were put into groups of 3 and tasked with creating their own
This morning, Leswalt and Kirkcolm upper classes were lucky enough to enjoy a hands-on session with the marvellous Kathryn Purchase of History Alive! Both classes have covered the Scottish Wars of Independence as their Social Studies topic for this term – and Kathryn was the very person to help bring this historical period to life for them with her fact-busting whizz through the years in question, answering any questions pupils
Wow! What a morning we have had at Leswalt Primary. We were delighted to welcome back to our school, our Olympian medallists – Vicky Wright and Bobby Lammie. Both arrived wearing their Olympic kit, with medals round their neck for all to admire. They arrived to a heroes welcome from all the pupils at Leswalt Primary, as a great cheer went up as they walked into meet the current Leswalt
A huge well done to Alexander and Ewan Clark for representing our wee school at the Burns Federation Scots’ Competition at the Ryan Centre. Both boys did us proud; reciting their poems with expression and clarity. Here they are with their certificates. Merits awarded for being Confident Individuals! Top job Team Clark 👍
Primary 5 to 7 were keen to get outdoors to combine using their maths and technologies skills this morning. Through a practical activity which included the use of technology, children developed their understanding of the link between compass points and angles. The children logged on to Google Maps and used the shared location function to access the compass function. They were able to use the app to identify the directions
Huge thank you to Michael Hogg Senior Public Affairs Manager at the Royal Mail for following up on his promise of a special delivery for every Leswalt pupil. This was in response to the letters which Malcolm and Breagh wrote requesting a gold postbox for the village to represent Vicky Wright and her team’s Gold medal at the Beijing Winter Olympics. Mr Hogg had replied by saying that this, unfortunately,
