Burns Birthplace Museum – Emma Drennan On Monday the 18th of March 2013, the pupils of Leswalt Primary School jumped on a James King bus and the first question was; “I wonder what it will be like at the museum?” They were going to the Burns Birthplace Museum because their topic was Scotland and they had learned wonderful Scottish poems in January. As all 37 pupils arrived at the museum,
The boys and girls at Leswalt Primary had a fun day on Friday 15th March when they all arrived at school in their pyjamas to help raise money for Comic Relief. As well as paying for the privilege of wearing their nightwear to school the pupils also had the “Great Leswalt Bake off” and sold off delicious home baking. And, all week the school had been selling the official red
The boys and girls at Leswalt Primary are using the village shop to help develop their maths. This week they were across looking for 3d shapes and doing some estimation and rounding in the calculations. Staff at school have developed a programme of work, in line with the experiences and outcomes of Curriculum for Excellence, entitled “Leswalt Store maths”. They would like to thanks Mrs Gillian Murdoch, owner of Leswalt
On Thursday 14th February, P5-7 from Leswalt Primary had a treat when they were invited to come and meet Andy Nicholson, who is an archaeologist based in Dumfries. His special area of expertise is swords and swordsmanship. As they found out, Andy is passionate about his subject and enjoys taking part in battle re-enactments in his spare time. (He has even had TV and film parts) He impressed the cildren
At Leswalt Primary pupils are keen to learn more about skills for learning, life and work. We have started a new initiative “Careers in our community” which sees different employment prospects being in the spotlight as people volunteer to come in and be in the hot seat. Careers under focus this term include vet, police, Minister, British Telecom, Beauty therapy, engineering, nursing, Citizens advice and the Army.
On Friday 25th January 2013 Mrs Jane Sloan had the very difficult task of judging all the Scots poetry handwriting, artwork and recitations at Leswalt Primary. The pupils had been working very hard on the challenges throughout the month of January as part of the whole school focus on “Scotland” has an inter-disciplinary topic. At a special assembly, parents and friends of the school came along to see and hear
On Tuesday 29th January 2013, Leswalt Primary held its fourth annual Burns Supper. The whole school sat down alongside invited guests, including staff and parents. Cameron Walker, P7, was a very able and organised chairperson who ensured the proceedings ran smoothly. Jack Rickard, P3, said the ‘Selkirk Grace’ before Mr Andy Ross piped in the haggis. Iona Rickard, P1, proudly carried the haggis into the company. The haggis
