Leswalt Primary School

The Garden Gang!

The gardening club at Leswalt Primary has started, under the support and guidance of Mrs Richardson.

Last week 28^th Aug –

Had an introduction to gardening – growing plants, veg, fruit, flowers, herbs
Why we garden – look nice, medicine, cosmetics, dyes, food our mental health and keeping us fit
We then had a walk and talk about the garden and they showed me all the nooks

Today 4^th Sept the tasks were –

Hang the bug hotels up donated by Lidl
Start clipping back the willow dome and have a good sweep up
Set up a night time camera to see what animals might appear!

Bug boxes up

Tidying up

Willow dome makeover

In the run up to the October holidays and they are planning on doing some indoor and outdoor planting, making some bird feeders and continuing to clear the back garden.

Many thanks must go to Mrs Richardson for all her enthusiasm and skills in leading this group.

Welcome Back!

We were greeted at the door this morning by lots of smiling faces (who have all grown so much taller!), glad to be back at school for a new year!

This year we are joined by our new P1 pupils – Gregor, Ada, Erin, Betty and Jessica – have a keek at their cutes faces below! We also have Rebecca joining P6 who will make an excellent addition to the team.

We hope that everyone comes home tonight having had a great first day back at school – albeit a little dishevelled and tired (and that’s just the teachers!) and that they are ready and raring to go all over again tomorrow!

End of term awards and closing ceremony

This afternoon the school closed for the Summer holidays. But first, the hard work of our pupils was celebrated and the following awards were handed out –

100% attendance award – Colin Mc Gregor

Excellent attendance – Ellie Bennewith, Lily Bennewith, Hamish Mc Gregor, Beathan Wright ,Daisy Doyle

Accelerated reading star readers

P2 Eilidh Ramsay (23 tests passed)

P3 Lily Bennewith 22 tests passed

P5 Colin Mc Gregor ( 30.4) and Rachael Drummond (most books – 17)

P6 Isla Kirkpatrick (most points 37) and Ela Chang (most books – 16)

P7 Hamish Mc Gregor ( most points 87.4) and Cara Jamieson ( most books 15)

Responsible citizen
P1	Jorgie – never gives us a moment of trouble. Kind, caring, always includes everyone. Works hard and tries her best, setting a super example to others. Full of chat and will happily converse with both adults and pupils alike.
P2/3	Thea – Always smiling. Knows right from wrong and demonstrates this. Grown in confidence.
P5	Ben T – kind, helpful, caring and honest. Respectful and cheery member of our wee team.
P6	Ellie B – hard-working, eager to please.
P7	Carys – super House Captain, responsible, fair and reliable.

Who has passed Platinum rainbow tables this year?

Colin, Roman, Ela, Ewan, Ellie, Daisy, Isla, Katie, Ben G, Amelia, Carys, Kaiden, Mark, Sean and Holly

Who has passed platinum rainbow spelling this year?

Brandon, Ela, Daisy,

Gold star awards – James Hunter, Keira Richardson, Beathan Wright

Intervention effort with Mrs Kyle – Aria Rose, Ellie and Sean Paul

Excellence in effort in homework – Thea Fisher – both in class and with reading with Mrs Kyle

Outdoor education award – Cameron Mc Donald – outstanding general knowledge about birds and very helpful at recent Wetlands work.

Sports

Sports champions certificates

P1 – Beathan Wright

P2/3- Hannah Drummond

P5 – Murray Reid

P6 – Sean Mc Credie

P7 – Mark Drummond

House points shield

Most merits in p1-4 = Keira Richardson

Most merits in p5-7 = Colin Mc Gregor

Soleburn – 153 (sports) + 505 = 658

Lochnaw – 100 (sports) + 599 = 699

Winning house captain – Lochnaw – Hamish Mc Gregor

Runner up house captain – Soleburn – Carys Mc Hallum

	P1-4	P5-7
Literacy award	Keira – Sets herself high standards and strives in ever task to meet them. Work is beautifully presented, neat and tidy. Her progress in reading is of particular note.	Cara – great progress! Spelling, presentation, maturity of writing. AR – passed an incredible 15 tests and read over ½ million words!
Numeracy award	James – what can we say! Awesome progress, thrives on a challenge.	Brandon – lightning quick mental maths king! Raised his game considerably this year – working with peers on challenging tasks, Beat That maths 72/72 in an unbelievable 1 min 17secs and powering through Platinum CLIC challenges!
HWB award	HWB award Emma – always arrives at school smiling and happy, even though she may be feeling tired and under the weather. Joins in tasks fully and tackles them happily. Not afraid to stand up for herself when she needs to! Mother hen to the P1 boys	Ewan – need a problem solve? Mr C. Need a job done? Mr C. Need a level-headed (mostly) perspective? Mr C! Always has valid points to add to discussion, enjoys sports and being active and is always keen to lend a hand for PE organisation. One of life’s do-ers J
NRP award	Beathan – over the year he has developed a real ‘can-do’ attitude (this is huge progress from the moany boy in term 1!). His progress across all curriculum areas is impressive and he thrives on challenge and new learning	Faye – caring and thoughtful, hard-working and self-motivated, reliable and sensible – possibly more so than me! Faye embodies every thread of the NRP values.

Nina Agnew Creativity award – Ela Chang – First in Scots poetry. Drama club member. Singing, representing the school at Leswalt concert and Burns Club new tattie night. Baking cookies for all!

P5-7 Award for endeavour – Hamish Mc Gregor – for trying his hardest in every curricular area over his 7 years at Primary school. A great role model to all.

Leswalt primary slideshow June 24 (youtube.com)

Leswalt Primary 7 leavers – June 2024 (youtube.com)

Partnership Fun!

As the boys and girls are somehow full of energy on the final week of school, we have tried to squeeze in as much fun as possible. So this morning, Kirkcolm Primary headed across to Leswalt Primary for a morning of inter-school sports. ♥️ 👬

We competed in the sprint, skipping, egg and spoon, the sack and the long distance races in the following groups (thankfully the wind died down and so Mrs Baillie did not have to chase sacks across the field!) 🏃‍♂️ 🏃‍♀️ 🥄 🥚

It was so lovely to see the boys and girls cheering each other on with a bit of friendly competition and team spirit! The highly anticipated relay race was the final race of the day – we had a four way race between each of Leswalt and Kirkcolm’s houses – Corsewall, Loch Connell, Soleburn and Lochnaw! The boys and girls positioned themselves round the track – and set off to the sound of their school mates cheering them on! 🙂 Corsewall and Loch Connell took the lead and finished joint first, followed by Soleburn and Lochnaw – but a huge, big well done to all 4 teams for all of the practise they have been putting in at break and lunchtimes over the past few weeks! 🏆 🥇

After the sports we headed to Leswalt School for a well-deserved snack and break, before we headed back outside for a Leswalt vs Kirkcolm game of football rounders – which was taken very seriously from both teams!! 🏐

Another thank-you to all of the parents who came along to watch and show their support (you even managed to avoid a Mum/Dads race!) and to those who helped to transport equipment across to the playing field.

And a well done to all of the competitors who showed fantastic sportsmanship and team spirit!

See below for the results of each race –

SPRINT P 1 all 1st Beathan 2nd Cameron 3rd James/Parker

SPRINT P 2 Girls 1st Hannah 2nd Eilidh/Sally 3rd Thea

SPRINT P 2 Boys 1st Scott 2nd Henry 3rd Ewan

SPRINT P3 all 1st Freddie 2nd Ian 3rd Joey

SPRINT P 4 all 1st Paige 2nd Rebecca/Cameron 3rd Callum

SPRINT P 5 all 1st Murray 2nd Lyle 3rd Rachael

SPRINT P 6 Girls 1st Daisy 2nd Holly 3rd Phoebe

SPRINT P6 Boys 1st Ivan 2nd Sean 3rd Archie

SPRINT P 7 Girls 1st Sally 2nd Lydia 3rd Cara

SPRINT P 7 Boys 1st Alfie 2nd Mark 3rd Danny

SKIPPING P 1 all 1st Parker 2nd Jorgie 3rd Beathan

SKIPPING P 2 Girls 1st Hannah 2nd Sally 3rd Eilidh

SKIPPING P 2 Boys 1st Henry 2nd James 3rd Ewan

SKIPPING P3 all 1st Joey 2nd Freddie 3rd Ross

SKIPPING P 4 all 1st Callum 2nd Cameron 3rd Bryleigh

SKIPPING P 5 all 1st Lyle 2nd Colin 3rd Rachael

SKIPPING P 6 Girls 1st Holly 2nd Amelia 3rd Phoebe

SKIPPING P6 Boys 1st Ivan 2nd Sean 3rd Ewan

SKIPPING P 7 Girls 1st Carys 2nd Sally 3rd Cara

SKIPPING P 7 Boys 1st Mark 2nd Jack 3rd Steven

SACK P 1 all 1st Parker 2nd Harlow 3rd Cameron

SACK P 2 Girls 1st Hannah 2nd Sally 3rd Eilidh

SACK P 2 Boys 1st Ewan 2nd Scott 3rd Vlad

SACK P3 all 1st Ian 2nd Joey 3rd Freddie

SACK P 4 all 1st Cameron 2nd Callum 3rd Paige/ Rebecca

SACK P 5 all 1st Murray 2nd Rachael 3rd Lyle

SACK P 6 Girls 1st Daisy 2nd Phoebe 3rd Holly

SACK P6 Boys 1st Ivan 2nd Sean 3rd Alistair

SACK P 7 Girls 1st Sally 2nd Cara 3rd Faye

SACK P 7 Boys 1st Danny 2nd Mark 3rd Jack

EGG & SPOON P 1 all 1st Orla/ James 2nd Cameron 3rd Jorgie

EGG & SPOON P 2 Girls 1st Hannah 2nd Sally 3rd Eilidh

EGG & SPOON P 2 Boys 1st Ewan 2nd James 3rd Scott

EGG & SPOON P3 all 1st Joey 2nd Lily 3rd Ross

EGG & SPOON P 4 all 1st Paige 2nd Cameron 3rd Bryleigh

EGG & SPOON P 5 all 1st Lyle 2nd Colin 3rd Arran

EGG & SPOON P 6 Girls 1st Phoebe 2nd Ela 3rd Daisy

EGG & SPOON P6 Boys 1st Ivan 2nd Sean 3rd Ben G

EGG & SPOON P 7 Girls 1st Faye 2nd Lydia 3rd Sally

EGG & SPOON P 7 Boys 1st Mark 2nd Jack 3rd Danny

DISTANCE P 1 all 1st Cameron 2nd Parker/ Harlow 3rd Orla

DISTANCE P 2 Girls 1st Hannah 2nd Sally 3rd Eilidh

DISTANCE P 2 Boys 1st Scott 2nd Ewan 3rd Henry

DISTANCE P3 all 1st Freddie 2nd Joey 3rd Ian

DISTANCE P 4 all 1st Callum 2nd Rebecca/ Cameron 3rd Paige/ Rebecca

DISTANCE P 5 all 1st Murray 2nd Rachael 3rd Colin

DISTANCE P 6 Girls 1st Daisy 2nd Phoebe 3rd Holly

DISTANCE P6 Boys 1st Ivan 2nd Sean 3rd Alistair

DISTANCE P 7 Girls 1st Sally 2nd Lydia 3rd Cara

DISTANCE P 7 Boys 1st Jack 2nd Mark 3rd Alfie

Loch Connell won the inter-school house relay, with Corsewall in 2nd place, Soleburn in 3rd and Loch Naw in 4th position.

Kirkcolm were the overall winners of the day with a grand total of 192 points, and Leswalt were in 2nd place with 116 points.

Adventures at Ernespie!

We had the very BEST day at Ernespie Farm Park for our annual Leswalt Primary Summer trip! 🌞 🚜🛝🐄🐐

The windscreen wipers on the bus didn’t dampen our spirits one bit as we pulled up at the farm park. A quick snack and loo stop and we were ready to explore.

Luckily, would you believe it, the sun came out to greet us too!
So explore we most certainly did…. with fun in the indoor soft play; a farm tour in the tractor and trailer; enjoying the woodland play park; playing on the combine and ride-on tractors in the shed; cooing over animals in the petting shed (aww the cuteness of those Guinea Pigs?! There was much begging to take one home as a class pet!) and then the awesome outdoor play area! So much to do – from bouncy pillows to the go-karts, whizzing down the zip wire to the thrills of the Cresta slide! Needless to say, there were rosy cheeks all round as all the friends played together and had so much fun!

A delicious ice lolly to round off the day was a welcome treat – and paid for by Beathan’s dad! So kind of him 😍

Take a few minutes to enjoy the fantastic photos below. Making memories together ❤️

UNCRC Article 31 We have the right to play

Aldouran Wetlands Fun for Leswalt P1-3!

For the past three Monday afternoons P1-3 have headed along the road to the Wetlands. Mrs Sloan met us there and had organised some fun activities for us to do. We spent time helping to make the Wetlands beautiful for all to enjoy by weeding and tidying up. We learned about squirrels and tried hard to be quiet to see if we could spot any, we weren’t successful!

We got taken on a bird hunt to learn the names of birds often seen at the Wetlands. The highlight was getting to see newly hatched Moorhens up close, this was very cool!

On route back to school we managed to find time to squeeze in a little play at the park.

A perfect way to spend a Monday afternoon!

Hello to the Leswalt Newbies!

What a brilliant few days we have enjoyed with our new Leswalt crew 😀 The fabulous P7s Brandon, Kaiden, Hamish, Mark, Faye, Carys, Cara and Katie headed off to sample the adventures of S1 at Stranraer Academy, whilst we welcomed Rebecca into P6 and the fabulous quintet to Erin, Ada, Betty, Jessica and Gregor as the new P1s!
They all made very welcome additions to their classes and their schoolmates really enjoyed their company! Just look at these smiley faces…

We can wait to welcome you back in August!

Bon Appetit Leswalt P6/7!

Today the brand new P6/7 class enjoyed a Fun French Day! This kicked off their three -day mini-project about the Paris Olympics 2024 with their Day 1 looking at France; Day 2 will be researching the Ancient Olympics to present day and Day 3 will focus on sports and hosting their very own Leswalt Olympics!

Fun French Day meant lots of learning French vocabulary through actions, games and songs; using their Geography skills to locate places in France and its bordering countries; computer research skills to find key facts about France and making (and eating) crepes with delicious toppings such as sugar, syrup, strawberries and Nutella with the assistance of Mrs Kyle.

The verdict was tres bien all round!

Roll on day 2…

Primary 1 welcome book –

We are very much looking forward to having our new Primary 1 pupils starting in school .

And, thanks to the digital skills of Mrs Mc Harg and the House captains we have an amazing electronic book that will help explain more about Leswalt Primary. It is just so good we had to share it with all of our parents.

Click on the link here and I am sure you will be impressed with the information, photographs and videos – all about life at Leswalt Primary.

On your marks, get set go ! For Sports day!

After a night of very heavy rain , it did finally dry up to allow us to have our Sports day at Leswalt. Cheered on by classmates, friends and family everyone tried their hardest and displayed a very sporting attitude.

Many thanks must go to David Kirkpatrick and Angus Brown who helped transport all the equipment across to the park. Thank you also to Natasha for the kind gesture of a sweetie mixture which every child got at 3pm, and the Parent council for the ice lollies at the end to cool everyone down.

Results will follow soon – with the winning house announced in the last week of term. It was a successful sporting afternoon – have a look at all the athletes in action!