The Wigtown Book Festival is always looked forward to with anticipation. This year’s event was a huge hit with the Leswalt Primary pupils who were lucky enough to attend on both the Friday and Tuesday. There were already a number of Philip Ardagh fans in the P5-7 class, so they were delighted to go to Wigtown to meet the man himself. Before going, they looked up some information on
Leswalt Primary School held an open afternoon on Friday 27th September and set about transforming their school. The hall became a music performance venue, the P5-7 classroom a French café, and the P 1-4 classroom a cinema. Parents and friends were invited along to sample the delights on offer. Mrs Parker had prepared a varied selection of harvest themed songs with the children and they were greatly enjoyed by
Pupils from Leswalt Primary School today viewed construction works being undertaken for the 18-turbine wind farm on Carscreugh Fell, 3km north east of the village of Glenluce. The 40 pupils from the school’s primary 1 to 7 classes (ages 5-11) made the trip to look at the work being undertaken on the piling of the site and establishing the foundations for the turbines, including deliveries of concrete and steel. They also
P5-7 at Leswalt Primary School recently paid a visit to Leswalt Parish Church. This trip was part of their RME in school, as they are currently learning all about “Christianity in our community”. Merryn Walker in Primary 6 provides an insight as to what they learned- “Leswalt Church is a Parish church because it serves everyone in Leswalt Parish. On Sundays on average, 45 people come to church. There are
Mrs Sheila Baillie, Head teacher at Leswalt Primary School welcomed a packed hall full of parents, and friends of the school to the end of session celebration of achievement award ceremony. Football awards (presented by Euan Dodds) to Ben Cowan, Cameron Walker, Kieran Dodds, Tommy Kerslake, Craig Anderson, James Murray, james Boyce, Emma Drennan, Freya Bathgate, Kerr Calderood, Finlay Cowan, Jack Rickard and Jamie Drennan. The most improved player of
Galloway Activity Centre Trip On Tuesday the 18th of June 2013, all of Leswalt Primary school went to take part in four different activities at Galloway Activity Centre. These activities were; sailing, kayaking, mountain biking and either laser quest or orienteering. Sailing was one of our favourite activities. Everyone in primary 5-7 were in threes as they headed out onto the loch. The first person steers, the second person
Leswalt Primary recently had their whole school sports day. It was very well attended by family and friends of all the pupils. Following all the events, the adults enjoyed some teas,coffees and homebaking while the pupils cooled down with an ice cream. The winning house and sports champions will be announced at the end of term service on Tuesday 2nd July.
The Primary 1 pupils at Leswalt Primary have recently been learning all about money as part of their Maths learning and teaching. To consolidate and reinforce the real life applications of money the pupils have been out and about spending their pennies. The boys and girls first went to Leswalt stores and spent money in the shop, using a shopping list provided by staff. Mrs Gillian Murdoch, owner of Leswalt
The super cyclists of Leswalt Primary have done it again. After deciding to “take it easy” this year after previous success last year in winning the National event, the pupils from Leswalt Primary have ended up in 3rd place!
At the recent Rhins Cross country event at Lochinch Castle, Leswalt Primary experienced great success; In the P5 girls race Merryn Walker was first, Rhona Baillie was second and Freya Bathgate was third. In the p5 boys race Finlay Keenan was 2nd. In p6 Emma Drennan won the girls race. And in P7, Cameron Walker won the boys race. Leswalt was also 3rd in the inter-school relay race. Well
