On Friday morning Leswalt and Kirkcolm’s upper classes visited the Baptist Church in Stranraer to learn about the true Story of Christmas with Owain and some of the church volunteers!✝️ We enjoyed chatting with Owain about our families Christmas traditions. Owain explained that a lot of the traditions we have in our houses are based on the Nativity story. Afterwards, we split up into groups and acted out parts of
ts tiiiiimeee, Tables set, crackers ready, Christmas jumpers on and Christmas songs ringing; today was of course Leswalt’s annual Christmas lunch!🎄 Pupils and staff at Leswalt sat down and enjoyed some delicious Turkey, stuffing, chipolata sausages, brussel sprouts and chocolate brownies and ice cream for dessert (of course!)🦃 Just what we needed to get us all in the Christmas mood ready for our first Christmas show dress rehearsal in the
A big well done must go to our confident individuals who took part in the recent Leswalt community Christmas concert. Nine little people gave up their Friday evening to entertain everyone in Leswalt Memorial hall with their super singing of festive tunes. Mrs Baillie rewarded all with a merit for being such confident individuals and a sweet treat as thank you for their time. This little choir will be joined
A huge congratulations and well done to Rachael Drummond and Olivia Fidler who both managed to secure third place in the Rhins cluster Badminton competition! Rachael and Olivia have regularly been attending the Active schools club with Alison Murray and have been training up their skills in the sport to smash it in the inter schools championship. A massive well done to both girls. It is a fab sport and
The pupils of Leswalt Primary school have created their own very unique Christmas tree which will be on display in Leswalt village Church for the next two weeks, as part of the Crhistmas tree festival which has invited different groups and people in our community to submit their tree creations. We do not only have one star on our tree – but lots of stars! 🌟 How fantastic does this
This morning Frances Ross, a clay artist visited P4-7’s to have us to take part in the FLOCK workshop. Frances was very enthusiastic and knowledgeable on her craft; she told us about the history of clay modelling, and where clay is used in everyday life. Who knew a toilet seat or hair straighteners were made out of clay?! 🚽 We started off by practising clay molding by creating a ‘pinch
This afternoon all of Leswalt Primary school once again boarded a bus and headed into town to the Millenium Centre to watch The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Hospotch, a Glasgow company put a modern twist on an old classic – and what a show it was! 🦁 Dorothy, an inspiring singer was transported to the land of Oz, in hopes of meeting ‘The Wiz’ a big time music producer and
Today all the Primary 3-5’s were invited to Sheuchan Primary to attend an author event from David C Flanagan as part of the Big DoG Schools tour organised by Wigtown Festival Company and supported by The Foyle Foundation. David is a Scottish author, raised in Edinburgh and living in Orkney, who made the special trip down to Dumfries and Galloway to introduce himself and his books. He is both an
Continuing our Book Week celebrations, Primary 1-7 ventured to Stranraer Library this morning for some book related fun. The library staff had planned a book scavenger hunt for us to enjoy with our friends from Kirkcolm. Afterwards we were let loose in the library’s collection, free to explore, wander and choose any book we like to cosy up and enjoy! 📖 📚 We enjoyed our packed lunches then braved the
As part of their healthy eating learning P1-4 made some delicious lentil soup! They planned the meal by thinking about the Eat Well Plate and trying to incorporate foods from each group into their recipe. With the help of Mrs Warwick and Mrs Kyle, they set to work, in groups, to carefully peel and chop their vegetables, putting into practice their safe food hygiene learning. Once all the veg was
