Monday saw the start of Book Week Scotland. The children will be engaging in lots of book related activities to help promote a love of reading. Leswalt primary gathered together to watch a live lesson from the lovely gentlemen and creators of The 3 Engineers Company! https://www.the3engineers.com/ Jon, Matt and Nick spoke a little about what they do as engineers and what the purpose of this lesson was – raising
Leswalt Primary pupils have taken some time this week to learn about, reflect on and pay their respects for Remembrance Day. P1-4 learnt about why people wear poppy to remember – and indeed what they are remembering. They also created beautiful poppy pictures which they took along to the War Memorial. P5-7 recapped on what they knew about Remembrance Day and took their learning further by finding out about the
So COP26 is taking place just 2hours up the road from us and Glasgow is on the centre-stage for this high profile Climate Change conference. Leswalt Primary pupils have been keeping up-to-date with the latest from COP 26 in school this week. They talked about how their recent Learning for Sustainability work, and the plans of the Eco-Committee, links to the subjects being discussed by world leaders and eco campaigners
Our combined Eco Committees received a visit from Dumfries and Galloway Councillors Ros Surtees (Vice Chair of Education and Learning Committee) and Dougie Campbell (Environment Champion) yesterday. Ms Surtees and Mr Campbell are keen to encourage schools throughout the region to become Eco Schools just like ours. They have heard of the North Rhins Partnership’s good work in this area and wanted the opportunity to talk to our children as
Scary faces all round at Leswalt Primary today! Where had our pupils gone? They had been replaced by all manners of witches, monsters and creatures that go BOO in the night! The House Captains of Leswalt and Kirkcolm Primary (Breagh, Malcolm and Miley) had organised a super afternoon of Halloween fun for their classmates! From a Halloween parade to apple dooking, wrap the mummy game to musical statues – the
We are delighted to announce that the North Rhins Partnership of Leswalt, Kirkcolm and Portpatrick Primary schools have been awarded national recognition in Education Scotland’s annual Learning for Sustainability awards. Having been shortlisted, we achieved a Highly Commended accolade within the Sustainability Learning Community Award category. This is an outstanding achievement, having competed against early learning, childcare, and school settings across the whole of Scotland. The awards recognise the commitment, professionalism
Today the boys and girls of Leswalt primary gathered to wish a very special man and janitor a very happy retirement. Dougie and his wife Denise were invited in for some memories, gifts and songs. The boys and girls had all written their special memories of Mr Brawls in a scrapbook. We all watched a video montage to remind Mr Brawls of the fun times he had with us at
For Maths Week Scotland 2021, P1 – 4 got busy applying their numeracy and maths skills. As well as participating in our Fun Maths Roadshow, the children created portraits using only number shapes. We are sure you will agree their portraits would grace any art gallery.
Day 4 of Maths Week Scotland and today we had fun completing LOADS of maths challenges at the visiting Maths Roadshow! We worked in pairs and moved round lots of activities – completing them and marking them off on our record sheet as we worked our way around the room. There was a huge variety of tasks on offer: angles to multiplication, tangrams to magic squares, data handling to number
Today’s maths was active, fun and tasty! What more could you ask for? In small groups, we used a recipe for flapjacks to produce a delicious filling snack whilst using our ratio, weighing, time and fraction skills. Anne-Marie in the kitchen kindly popped our baking in the school oven and, in the afternoon, we cracked on with creating our box to package up our yummy treats. Mrs F had prepared
