Today, P5-7 recapped on their term 3 French Food and Drink topic by hosting their own mini cafe for their classmates!
Having created some French themed table decorations, designed menu cards and created handy phrase cards to be placed on the tables – the pupils were all ready to say Bonjour!
With some background French cafe style jazz music playing, the pupils took it in turns to role-play as the waiter/customer and order from the delicious menu including pain au chocolat, croissant avec buerre ou fromage ou confiture, brioche et crepes au chocolat. There was also jus d’orange and jus de pomme to wash the tasty snacks down!
On the Thursday the 12th of May, we planted potatoes with Mrs Richardson. We planted the potato seeds in tyres that used to have flowers in them – reusing and recycling! We needed to make sure that we covered them up in soil. We also watered them so they didn’t dry out. We really enjoyed it and it will be great to help in our mission to be more eco-friendly. Hopefully we get a great crop of tatties to enjoy when we harvest them!
It is Schools’ Week at Logan Botanic Gardens! Leswalt Primary ventured there today. Read the fabulous blog reports below to find out more…
Logan Gardens Trip by P1-4
P1-4 enjoyed a fun morning at Logan Gardens with ranger Kate. Our activity was called The Teddy Bear’s Picnic and we had to take along with us our favourite stuffed toys. We learned about something called S.W.A.F. This stood for Shelter, Water, Air and Food, all the things our bears needed for survival. We then enjoyed some fun activities using our senses including Musical Trees, a Rainbow Nature Search and building an island for our bears to live on.
Logan Gardens Trip by Hamish McGregor
This morning, the whole of Leswalt Primary went to Logan Botanic Gardens. The P5-7 class found out about the Science of Plants (Botany). We started by learning about the different parts of a flower (stem, stamen, pollen, stigma) and the class did a roleplay of the lifecycle of a plant – I dressed up as a bee! After this, we were handed out hand lenses and we looked really closely at plants, petals, flowers and leaves. The lenses made each thing 10x bigger! We did lots of other fun activities too like; wearing blue or red lens glasses to see the plants as birds or bees do; hiding raisins as a squirrel would and pretending to be flying seeds for seed dispersal. It was a really fun and enjoyable trip!
Logan Gardens Trip by Alfie Baker
Today our whole school went on a bus to Logan Gardens. When we got there, we lined up and a leader took us to find out about the life cycle of a plant. The wee ones had a teddy bear’s picnic. We got to use hand lenses to magnify plants and bugs – we could even see the tiny hairs on flowers! We saw two geese (the mum and dad) and seven goslings walking about the gardens and swimming on the pond. For lunch, we sat on a big tarpaulin and ate our packed lunches and chatted. We headed back to school after a lovely morning.
As part of our Eco work this term, Mrs Richardson suggested we grow cress and then use what we’d grown! A great lesson in sustainability.
Over to…. our three intrepid Blog reporters; Faye Adams, Rose Santangeli and Carys McHallum for more information!
We started growing cress with our class. Mrs Richardson helped us. We grew the cress on a paper towel on a plate in the portacabin. We did this on the 21st April and, on the 5th May, we harvested it and ate it in egg and cress sandwiches. I’m not keen on egg so I tried just cress but I wasn’t too sure of it! By Faye
Two weeks ago, we started growing cress in our classroom. We put the tiny seeds on a paper towel on a plate and kept them wet. The cress was kept in the classroom, in the middle of our desk. Mrs Richardson guided us on what to do, how to look after them and how not to drown them! Our table was doing really well with their cress growing – though on the 12th day it did look a bit squashed! We tried to revive the cress with more water and this did help to bring it back to life. We cut it up (harvested it) on the 5th May and added it to egg mayo (eggs brought in by Hamish and Malcolm) to make egg and cress sandwiches. I enjoyed the cress; it had a peppery flavour. This taught me that I could easily grow cress at home! By Rose
We started growing cress on the 21st April. At first it grew the tiniest bit but it was still growing! Don’t worry we did water it and that helped it to really grow! Because we weren’t at school last Monday, it went an extra day without water and so it looked as if it had died. But a good water really helped it. We mixed it in with egg mayo from eggs from the McGregor’s chickens. Everybody helped to make sandwiches and tried the egg and cress – or just cress sandwiches. I LOVED it! Thank you Mrs Richardson! By Carys
The sun shone, the pupils listened and the presentations were informative and fun – safe to say the North Rhins Partnership Safety morning was the most resounding success!
This term’s Health and Well-Being focus for the upper primaries was centred on Risk-Taking Behaviour; in short, what to do if faced with an emergency situation. Having discussed this as a staff, it was felt there was no better plan than to get as many local emergency services as possible together to offer the pupils a first-hand experience directly from those who dealt with such situations. And what a response we got from the community! No less than seven presenters offered their time covering RNLI, Police, Ambulance, Fire Service, Coastguard, Scottish Power and Farming!
Working in small groups and armed with a clipboard for note-taking; the pupils moved round each station in 15 minute slots. Listening to the presentations, finding out about the kits carried by each service and asking their pre-prepared questions – the groups collected a wealth of information.
Summing up the morning, Mrs Baillie led the group in talking about these jobs based in their local community, considering the many employability skills required and discussing whether the jobs were paid careers or voluntary. It was interesting for the children to understand the value of volunteer work and giving back to their community.
All in all, it was an excellent morning of learning in the sunshine with friends. And, they are all a great deal more safety savvy now too!
A huge thank you must go to all of the services for giving up their time – one having come of their fourth night shift! Their input was most welcome by us all.
Enjoy flicking through the photos below to see for yourselves.
Alexander Clark – our term 3 reading raffle winner was presented with an Easter egg by our House Captains Malcolm and Breagh.
To be in with a chance of winning the reading raffle, you need to read a book, take a test on the book and score 100%! Your name is recorded on the 100% Readers wall and then it is entered into a raffle at the end of term. So the more books you read, the more chance you have to win and today that very winner was Alexander Clark!
Alexander said “I really enjoy reading lots of books. I school, I choose books from the library and read them in Chill n’ Read time. At home, I read the Oor Wullie books and the Scottish Farmer to check the prices of the livestock!”
Reading is a great skill to have! Who will be the Reading Raffle Champion in term 4!
Pupils from P5-7 boarded the bus this sunny Wednesday morning to head to Green Valley for the Rhins Primary Cross Country Challenge!
A LONG overdue event, there was such an air of excitement as the schools met up!
Carys and Brandon got together to write up this blog report – Breagh lent a hand too. Read all about their morning below…
Cross Country was at Green Valley. There is lots of other stuff at Green Valley too like the driving range, cafe, bar, function room and golf course.
We had to leave at 9:30am from the school as the buses needed to do double runs between schools. There was 15 people at cross country from each school. The Active Schools team led us all in a warm-up then our first race was at 10:45am.
The hardest part about cross country is the actual running but we all kept on going and had a great time. All the schools were cheering their team mates on.
Every one did one race – P5s did 1/2 mile and P6 and P7 had to do a mile around the Green Valley course.
Everyone took part and did really well! In fact, Fraser was 4th for the P6 boys and Murray was 2nd for the P7 boys!
Thank you so much to Alison Murray, the Active Schools team and Green Valley for hosting this great event!
It was a day of egg-cellent fun for our last day of term – which just so happened to be April Fool’s Day too. Being at school on April 1st doesn’t happen very often so we made the most of it!
Mrs Baillie was on fine form, pranking the pupils not just once but twice! Initially, an email was read out telling them of the unfortunate cancellation of the Easter holidays – there was a shocked silence! Some pupils questioned whether this might be a joke but Mrs McKnight and Mrs Ferguson worked hard to keep their faces sombre and solemn. Thankfully we didn’t need to keep this up for too long as soon there was another email with reassurance that this was just an April Fool’s joke!
But she wasn’t done with them quite yet, as this was closely followed by a request from D&G council for the boys and girls to head outside armed with a ruler and scissors and cut the grass at a height of 5cm! Those poor children…
Not to be outdone, Mrs McKnight and Mrs Ferguson had a couple of tricks up their sleeves too; from the Easter egg hunt (no eggs had been hidden!) to offering the pupils a brownie as a treat (cue a tin of laminated brown letter e’s though we did have some actual brownies too – we’re not that mean!) Thankfully, we have pupils with a sense of humour who wasted no time in trying to get their own back! All such good fun.
To continue the Easter theme, the pupils planned and designed their own decorated egg, listened to the Easter story, discussed Easter traditions, munched yummy chocolate nests made by our P1 Star Bakers Ellie and Bobby and finally, enjoyed rolling their eggs down the hill at the park in the afternoon. Some pupils found their eggs to be not of the hard-boiled variety – what a ‘yolk’!
Miss Broll had the unenviable task of judging both the egg crafts created at home (all pupils who participated in this were awarded a merit)and then the ones done in school. The results are below!
Home competition
P1-4 P5-7
1st – Rachael Drummond 1st – Hamish Mcgregor
2nd – Isla Kirkpatrick 2nd – Faye Adams
3rd – Ewan Clark 3rd – Breagh Kirkpatrick
In-class competition
P1-4 winner P5-7 winner
Roman Haver Tristan Millar
What a haul of Easter crafts! Well done all!
Ellie and Bobby – Star Bakers!
1,2,3…roll!
Murray had egg on his…hands!
Eurgh! Murray got a surprise to find his egg was runny!
Isla’s face says it all – unimpressed with her raw egg!
Yum! Thanks Ellie and Bobby!
Check that grass is 5cm tall Hamish!
Delicious brownies…!
We also said goodbye to Oscar who is heading off to a new school after the holidays! We wish him all the very best from everyone at Leswalt Primary.
The children in Primary 1 – 4 have been working hard on producing a radio show transmission with Dumfries and Galloway Youth Music Group as part of our Feis Rois traditional music programme.
This radio show is the culmination of a block of sessions which focussed on the development of early music and communication skills and health & wellbeing and promotes the enjoyment of music. Singing games, exploring musical instruments and games were included in each session.
Phew! It’s been a busy few days of sport for some Leswalt Primary pupils.
Friday saw the Primary football tournament held at the 3G pitch. Our fabulous North Rhins Team were placed 3rd in this mini-league! For a team who rarely gets to play together, this was outstanding! Alexander, Rose, Brandon, Fraser, Murray and Aidan from Leswalt P5-7 joined their Portpatrick and Kirkcolm friends to form the team. Many thanks must also go to Rose’s dad for stepping into the role of coach and guiding and encouraging our football stars.
On Monday it was the return of the Rhins badminton competition after a two year absence. Five pupils from P5-7 entered the competition and all played fantastically well with Murray being placed 3rd in the P7 Boys and Cara 2nd in the P5 Girls. Alfie, Alexander, Aidan, Cara and Murray were excellent representatives for Leswalt Primary. Alison Murray popped out today to present the two medals and told the pupils that there would be a Summer Badminton tournament to look forward to too! They are looking forward to it already.
All of the pupils who have taken part in these sporting activities have been awarded a merit for representing their school. Well done you sporting superstars!
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