Yesterday, P1-3 welcomed some special visitors into school to get VERY hands on exploring their health and well-being topic – People Who Help Us! Part of this was looking at people who can help us when we find ourselves in danger and need urgent assistance and thus… Emergency Services Afternoon was made! Big thank you to Mrs Warwick for her excellent work in co-coordinating all these kind volunteers to come to
This afternoon we were delighted to welcome three lovely gentlemen from Stranraer Rotary Club in to speak to us about litter and the importance of keeping our wee community clean!🚮 Ben and Murray were pleased to see Donald McColm that they’d met at the Rotary Lunch again and were excited to see that he had brought along some of the hi-vis vests they had modelled at the lunch along with
This afternoon we had a lovely visit from a lovely lady, Jane from Creative Stranraer. Jane is involved in a project which adds some fun to the Southern Upland Way. Along the walking trail, they are hoping to add some kists filled with colourful ‘treasure’ stones for walkers to collect along the way. 🚶♂️ Jane brought along lots of stones and pens and tasked us with drawing a colourful
Hot plate✅ , Ingredients ✅Nutella, Biscoff, syrup and sprinkles ✅ We were all set to celebrate Shrove Tuesday with some obligatory pancake flipping! With Mrs Kyle, each group had a go at pouring their mixture onto the hot plate and flipping their pancakes 🥞! Afterwards, it was time for toppings! Pupils could choose to add some Biscoff, sprinkle, Nutella and syrup (or all 4😅) to add to their pancakes. Meta-skills Collaborating
As part of their artwork this term, P1-3 have been exploring tessellation and symmetrical patterns. 🦋 👦🏼👧🏻 This afternoon Mrs McKnight saw a rare opportunity with the dry weather and planned a fun, hands-on outdoor art activity. Pupils were challenged to create a symmetrical picture in the playground. They collected up some sticks, stones and playground toys, and worked together to create a picture on the ground which included a
It’s week 4 of cooking club, which means….ready, steady BAKE OFF! 👩🏼🍳👨🏼🍳 The teams, equipped with bowls, scales, sugar and all sorts of sweet treats were tasked with baking cookies this week. They followed a simple cookie recipe, adding their chosen chocolate chips and sweet treats to make their cookies original and stand out. 🍫🍪 James, Rebecca and Rachael put a lot of hard work into the presentation of their
Today the digital leaders Ben and Rachael ran an assembly for internet safety day. They were talking about smart tech safe choices, exploring the safe and responsible use of artificial intelligence. First of all we watched a cbbc live lesson that talked about chatbot. Then we introduced our chatbots that they needed to design and there is a winner in each class. Then we watched a cbbc news round
Today Olivia and Lily got the chance to represent Leswalt Primary and travelled to Sheuchan Primary school to take part in the cluster heat of the KNEX engineering challenge. It is a great opportunity where pupils have the chance to demonstrate their creative design and build skills by solving set engineering challenges using the construction set K’NEX. Our girls used their communication skills alongside their design and build skills to
It’s a busy week in School this week! Today, P4-7 ventured to Loch Inch, Castle Kennedy for a workshop all about Food and Farming. This was organised by the Royal Highland Education Trust. Once we were arrived, we were split up into groups to explore 5 different farming workshops and meet some local farmers and farm industry workers. 1 – Gamekeeping with Connor🦃 Connor, the fifth generation Loch Inch Game
Continuing on the Scots Celebrations, this afternoon we were visited by members of Lochryan Pipe Band who had brought along different Scots instruments to show the boys and girls how they are played following their Scots language focus in school. The band played us some different songs, including Scotland the Brave played on the bagpipes and various different drums, which was affa guid! 🎵🥁Ben and Emma both had a
