Leswalt Primary School

 

P5-7 have had many great weeks with Feis Rois teaching us how to play the ukulele. Some of us even bought our own instruments! Eilidh and Jessica were our teachers for this and they were very kind, patient and fun! Today we got the chance to round off our ukulele sessions, by performing to the P1-4 class. We sang some Gaelic and African songs and played along to these using different chords on the ukulele too. We had a blast and we think our audience enjoyed the session too! Check out our photos to get a taste of what we were doing!

 

 

 

On Wednesday, P5-7 headed over to Leswalt Parish Church where they were met by Rev. Claire and two Elders, Geoff and Jean. We have been looking at worship and artefacts within religion and our focus at the moment is Communion. To help this ‘come to life’, we enlisted the help of Rev Claire and what a great afternoon we had! We were taken through a ‘mini Communion’ and Rev Claire told us about the symbolism of this event. It was a very interesting afternoon. We know lots more now thanks to Rev Claire, Geoff and Jean!

On Friday the 3^rd Jack, Jamie, Emily and Arden went to Rephad Primary school to take part in the Rotary Quiz. There were 28 questions and 7 rounds and they got 20 right.  The rounds included: geography, mathematics, children literature, general knowledge, science and history.

They came joint third! Well done Team Leswalt!

 

 

On Friday the 24th of February P7 went to the North West Castle accompanied by Karen Anderson. We were there with Kirkcolm Primary and Port William Primary. It was so exhilarating to find out more about curling. We started off learning how to throw the stone, then how to brush the stone, and after that, how to curl the stones. We were taught by John Agnew – he was a good coach and taught us lots. We had a five minute interval with juice and biscuits and then had our own mini bonspiel. Our team played Port William and we won both ends 3-0. We all really enjoyed it and most of us are planning to go back on a Tuesday evening to the Curling Club.

Emily said, ” I really enjoyed learning how to curl and cant wait to start on Tuesday evenings.”

Arden was a little more wary as she commented,  ” It was good, but I found it quite tricky and kept falling.”

Jamie loved it and exclaimed, ” I can’t wait to start on a Tuesday. I am going with Jack.”

Jack joked that  “My favourite part was Emily doing the Bambi impression!  I am going to start going on a Tuesday evening.”

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Take a look at these short reports written by our P7s about their Transition experience last Friday. Sounds like they can’t wait to go!

P.7 at the Academy

On Friday the 17^th the p7s went to the academy. My mum took us and  we were the first school there. There we had some activities: basketball, science and team building.

Basketball:

This was amazing. We worked on shooting and passing and different team games. Someone ran into a wall – oops!

I even got invited to join them to play basketball on a Friday night.

Science:

We had to do lots to try to find out who committed the crime. We needed to do an experiment to drop water and pen and impressions on cups, and finding out what substance was put in the coffee and investigating finger prints.

Break:

We sat with new friends and old friends and had blether with them and had a snack.

Team building:

Team building – well for this we had a big parachute and played cat and mouse, hungry shark and ball games.

I can’t wait to go to the Academy. I’d like to say a big thank you to Mr Dawson and Mr Law for letting us come and arranging lots of different activities. I was a little unsure about the academy but now I can’t wait to go.

Jack Rickard P7

 

P7 Transition Day!

On the 17^th of February 2017, Leswalt p7 pupils travelled in Ms Anderson’s car into the Academy.

We did a range of activities such as basketball, science and team building. My personal favourite was basketball. Dean was our instructor for it. We had a fifteen minute break in between. I saw some of my friends in other schools who were not in my group and we had a good blether. Our p7’s were in group 3 with some people from Belmont, Sheuchan and Rephad. It was really nice to meet new faces and get to chat about yourself and letting them get to know you.

I was really worried for the induction day but I learned once I was there that I did not need to worry at all. I had a really good time. I got to meet some of the teachers that I might get once I go; for example I met Mrs White the science teacher and the head teacher Mr Dawson. They were very nice and friendly with cheery faces to walk in and see. We also met some of the year one pupils. We got to ask them questions as they went through the same thing as us last year. I was really happy that I met new faces and got to see around. Now I know where three classrooms are so I won’t get lost looking for them in the future. I cannot wait to go on our next set of transitions!

 by Arden McIntyre

 

P7 day at the Academy

On Friday the 17^th of February the P7s set off to the Academy accompanied by Karen Anderson. We went to the cafeteria and got sorted in to our groups. Then went to basketball with the YMCA. We played a warm up game of tunnel tig and then went to do some shooting in groups of 4s and 5s then we did some passing in a group of 3.Then we had races of over and under left and right.

After that we went to do some science with the head of science Mrs White. There was a video about somebody tampering with coffee there was a note and we had 5 pens. We needed to investigate! We dabbed them each on paper 20 times and then put 5 drops of water and did the same with the sample. It was either A B C D E it was C. We also bit in to a polystyrene cup and coloured this in and examine our teeth to compare dental imprints.

We went back to the cafeteria to have a break then headed to the assembly hall to do some team building. We played cat and mouse, life guards and sharks. We got the chance to ask some questions and the 1^st years answered them. Then we tried on blazers. At the end we had a speech from Mr Dawson. I thought it was a great morning!

By Jamie Drennan

P.7 at the Academy!

On Friday the 17^th of February, the P.7s travelled to Stranraer Academy with Jack’s Mum Karen for a transition event. We met lots of new primary sevens that would be in S1 with us. First of all we went to the gym hall for some basketball with the YMCA. We practiced some shooting and played some tunnel tig.

After that we went to one on the social subjects classrooms for science. In science we had to investigate a crime: Somebody had put something in somebody else’s coffee, left a note, and left a half-eaten pear! We had to figure what pen they used, what they’d put in the coffee, whose fingerprints were on the note, and what teeth marks were on the pear by biting a polystyrene cup to see what our teeth looked like.  Once we had figured it all out, we went to the canteen for a break.

After break we all went to the assembly hall and did some team-building exercises with a parachute, then we played some board games. Both of those activities were fun and I really enjoyed them. During the board games we got our blazer sizes taken too.

Just before we left, the deputy head and the head teacher came and talked to us and said they hoped we had enjoyed ourselves.

Thank you to all the staff and helpers that made this possible. I really enjoyed that day and can’t wait to move up!

Emily Cochran

 

 

Ukulele

We have started learning the ukulele with Eilidh and Jessica from Feis Rois. They are teaching us how to play it and its really fun! We know three chords already and quite a lot of songs! We have to listen very carefully to their instructions. We will have more lessons every Monday for the rest of this term, so hopefully we’ll be able to show off our ukulele talents to everyone soon!

Report by Kayleigh Williams P6

                                   

 

 

P5-7 have started some work on investigating polygons and headed outside to work this morning in the Winter sunshine.

Working in teams, using sticks and following task cards; the pupils explored different 2D shapes together and put their knowledge of angles to good use too.

We will use this information to find out more in class and will hopefully get back outside again soon to do some more fun maths tasks.

Well done everybody!