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Our newly appointed Eco Committee met for the first time today.

• P7 – Faye & Brandon
• P6 – Isla
• P5 – Colin
• P3 – Ellie
• P2 – Thea
• P1 – Cameron

After a successful interview process, our new members were happy to join us for our first meeting to agree our targets for our next Eco Flag application.  After carrying out a  L environmental-review-2023_2025, the group agreed that the targets we will focus on for the next two year action plan will be:

• Litter and Waste
• Global Citizenship
• Climate Action

Our pupils were keen to get cracking.  Hamish, Faye and Cara had already organised a litter survey in our school grounds, followed by a litter pick.

 

Our older members visited both classes to explain what has been agreed and chatted about how everyone will have a role to play in helping us achieve our eco-friendly goals.

UNCRC Rights of the Child:

• Article 12 Respect for children’s views
• Article 13 – Sharing thoughts freely
• Article 15 – Setting up and joining groups
• Article 24 – Health, water, food and environment

Blog Post by Hamish & Isla –

Yesterday morning the P1-4 class made some delicious salsa using their home-grown tomatoes! 

In the middle of June, pupils planted some tomato plants and when we came back from the summer holidays, they were fully grown and had lots of tomatoes on them! So, Mrs Warwick decided to make some yummy salsa with the class! Everyone helped to make it and most of them enjoyed it when they tried some. They even gave some to the big class to taste test. If you’d like to make some salsa of your own here’s the link to the website they used – How to make salsa | BBC Good Food 

See below for some photos of p1-4 with the salsa!

This morning the P5-7 class had a visit from some volunteers from MacMillan Cancer Support. This is a short report about their visit! 😊 

The volunteers who came to visit were Mr and Mrs McMiken and Mrs Sloan. They told us about the different ways that they have raised money, such as Granny Maeve cycling 1049 miles around Scotland, she is an amazing 85 years old!!!  Granny Maeve alone raised £75,000 for charity! Go granny Maeve!!!  They also told us some facts about MacMillan Cancer Support. It was founded in 1911 by Douglas MacMillan. Back then there were no NHS. They also told us about what the charity does to help people living with cancer. They hand out grants for anything people living with cancer might need help with, for instance fuel for driving to the hospital in Edinburgh.  

We are going to have a MacMillan Cancer Support Coffee morning on September 29th and are really looking forward to seeing lots of people there to raise money for this deserving cause. 

Thanks to the volunteers from MacMillan Cancer Support – you really are super- heroes! 

 By Carys, Hamish and Cara

P7 House and Vice Captains 

 

                                                   

 

Hello and a HUGE welcome to session 2023-2024 at Leswalt Primary.

So good to see the happy, smiling faces of all staff and pupils this morning – and an extra big welcome to our new P1s!

We can’t wait to get started – this year is going to be lots of fun!

 

 

How lucky are we? Kaiden and Aria-Rose brought in cupcakes for everyone to have at playtime as an end of term treat.

Huge thanks to their family for being so thoughtful – as pupils have  enjoyed a number of treats from them over the course of this year and previous ones too.
Such generosity is much appreciated! 
Thank you Kaiden, Aria-Rose and family ❤️

At our most recent Pupil Council meeting, it was highlighted that we don’t have many non-fiction books in the school library. So our responsible pupils wrote to the Community Reuse Shop to enquire about donations of books. They very kindly invited us to pop into the shop to look through the books and pick a selection for our school.

 

Olivia from Kirkcolm, Alexander from Leswalt and Jack from Portpatrick all went on Wednesday morning to browse the huge range of books available. After an hour of hunting (some were hunting more than others – there were times where pupils were lounging on the floor engrossed in a book they found!!), they each left with a bag of books for their school.

 

Thank-you to the Community Reuse Shop for your generosity. We are looking forward to getting our new books into our school library for pupils to enjoy.

This afternoon, the ever popular Rev. Clare joined us for a chat about life as a minister. This was the final event in our Careers in the Community focus. It was SO good to see her and talk about different aspects of her work (listening, praise, leading, prayer and most importantly…love). She was able to give an insight into the many roles of a minister – the job isn’t just an hour on a Sunday! The pupils also took the opportunity to ask her lots of questions too.

Moreover, it gave us the chance to say a HUGE thank you to her as she is retiring as a minister and so won’t be leading church services for us in school or across the road in Leswalt Church. She did however promise to come and visit us sometime with her gospel choir – so at least it’s just a goodbye for now.

Alexander and Fraser presented her with a handmade card designed and created by Leswalt Primary pupils, a bouquet of flowers, a Leswalt Primary pen and an extra-special certificate ‘Pride of Leswalt’, thanking her for being such a good friend to us all at school!

Looking forward to seeing you again soon Rev. Clare!

 

 

Today marked the end of Evan’s primary school years as he’s off on holiday next week.

But we didn’t want him just to slip out of the door at 3pm, so we had an afternoon of celebration for him!

We enjoyed juice, biscuits, sweets and crisps and watched a power point  of the cutest photos all about the main man Evan!

Have a fabulous holiday Mr S and all the very best for S1 at Stranraer Academy.

Don’t be a stranger 🙂

This morning, pupils at Leswalt Primary participated in an aerobics session with Moray – a gym instructor from the Ryan Centre.

Squats, jumps, planks… you name it – they did it! It was a great active sports session and there were a few flushed faces as they headed outside afterwards for break!

Thanks Moray!

Today was possibly the most perfect Friday EVER! Why? Because we all went to the beach!

When teachers were thinking about where to go for our summer school trip, they came up with the idea of all heading the short bus ride to Sandhead beach.

That sounded pretty amazing in itself but there was even more fun to be had as we met and fed farm animals and alpacas at Golden Sands Sandhead; had the pleasure of pony rides along the beach (thanks Isla’s mum Iona and her big sister Breagh for providing this); enjoyed ice creams from Alison McKeen’s van; munched our picnic lunch with our buddies in the sunshine; played in the park and then splashed in the sea!

“That was the best trip ever!” said one P5 and I am sure that everyone (pupils and staff) would absolutely agree!

Just take a look at these photo memories…