Leswalt Primary School

 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 a great opportunity to meet pupils from other schools.   Rachael came third in the P7  girls  and Olivia came third in the P6 girls .

We are very proud of both of you! 🏸🥉🥉

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 tree look?

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 adult and children’s author, best known for his ‘Captain Pete’ series of children’s stories. Today David introduced us to his book ‘Captain Pete and the Undersea Adventure’; a story of Pete and his mouse TM. 🐭 We loved listening to David’s hilarious accents as he read us Chapter 1 of his book.📖🦉

A great session which really got the creative juices flowing – some freshly inspired authors -to-be after today!? Who knows!✏️

Meta Skills 

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 wet and wild walk to the Ryan Centre cinema to watch ‘The Wild Robot,’ a movie about Roz, a shipwrecked robot who ends up stranded on a remote island🤖.

A super way to spend a rainy day! ☔️😁

UNCRC Articles

Article 31 – Rest, play, culture and arts

Article 29 – Aims of education

Article 17 – Access to information

Meta Skills

Curiosity Carlos

Communicating Cate

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 prepped and ready to go, they added some stock and left the soup to boil away for the afternoon⏲️. On Wednesday morning, they enjoyed their healthy soup –  the perfect way to warm our tummies on a cold wet day!

Well done Primary 1-3!⭐️

UNCRC Articles

Article 24 – Health, water food and environment

Article 31- Rest, play, culture and arts

Meta Skills

Focussing Fergus

Creativity Cassidy

Collaborating Cora

Curiosity Carlos

Leading Li

On the 12th of November Kirkcolm digital leaders and Leswalt  digital leaders met at Leswalt  school and learnt lots of digital leader tools to help us do our job . We learnt how to do short cuts on the computer , pin emails, how to book mark pages, co pilot and lots of other interesting fun stuff to help us to do our jobs as Digital Leaders

By Rachael and Ben

This morning P4-7 ventured to Kirkcolm for a Dairy Framing workshop, hosted by Donna from ‘Smart STEMs’. First off, we were given the opportunity to show off our farming knowledge with a game of ‘Moo or false’ (get it!😏), which really got us thinking about some weird and wonderful dairy farming facts! Afterwards, we split into groups to design our very own Smart Stem to be used on a farm – which will then be entered into a competition to have them made into a real 3D printed model! We had some very interesting and impressive agri-tech designs, including drones which have cameras, feed the cows and even make music to encourage cows to produce a higher quantity and quality of milk🥛🐄 (you heard it here first). Next up.. Dragon’s den?!

A super opportunity to learn more about dairy farming and for a fun wee get together with friends! 🏫❤️

Today the whole school joined together in a celebration of Book Week Scotland this week to partake in some paired reading. 🦉Primary 1-3’s chose some of their favourites to read with their Primary 4-7 buddies! A super opportunity for the little ones to listen to a story and for the big ones to read some of their old favourites! 📖

In the afternoon, we buddied back up for a scavenger hunt! Around the playground, pupils hunted for some well-known cropped book covers! They worked together to work out what the full book cover might be. Miss Douglas and Mrs Mcknight chose their favourite books to be ‘star prizes’. Mrs McKnight’s favourite book is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ which was found by Colin and Noah and Miss Douglas’ favourite is ‘Room on the Broom’, which was found by Phoebe and Aria! Well done to everyone and our 4 star prize winners!🍫

Next Wednesday, we continue our Book Week celebrations by venturing to Stranraer library for some book fun and on Thursday P3-5 will be going to Sheuchan Primary with Miss Douglas for a BIG DOG Author visit!✍