This afternoon we had a lovely visit from a lovely lady, Jane from Creative Stranraer. Jane is involved in a project which adds some fun to the Southern Upland Way. Along the walking trail, they are hoping to add some kists filled with colourful ‘treasure’ stones for walkers to collect along the way. 🚶♂️ Jane brought along lots of stones and pens and tasked us with drawing a colourful
Hot plate✅ , Ingredients ✅Nutella, Biscoff, syrup and sprinkles ✅ We were all set to celebrate Shrove Tuesday with some obligatory pancake flipping! With Mrs Kyle, each group had a go at pouring their mixture onto the hot plate and flipping their pancakes 🥞! Afterwards, it was time for toppings! Pupils could choose to add some Biscoff, sprinkle, Nutella and syrup (or all 4😅) to add to their pancakes. Meta-skills Collaborating
As part of their artwork this term, P1-3 have been exploring tessellation and symmetrical patterns. 🦋 👦🏼👧🏻 This afternoon Mrs McKnight saw a rare opportunity with the dry weather and planned a fun, hands-on outdoor art activity. Pupils were challenged to create a symmetrical picture in the playground. They collected up some sticks, stones and playground toys, and worked together to create a picture on the ground which included a
It’s week 4 of cooking club, which means….ready, steady BAKE OFF! 👩🏼🍳👨🏼🍳 The teams, equipped with bowls, scales, sugar and all sorts of sweet treats were tasked with baking cookies this week. They followed a simple cookie recipe, adding their chosen chocolate chips and sweet treats to make their cookies original and stand out. 🍫🍪 James, Rebecca and Rachael put a lot of hard work into the presentation of their
Today the digital leaders Ben and Rachael ran an assembly for internet safety day. They were talking about smart tech safe choices, exploring the safe and responsible use of artificial intelligence. First of all we watched a cbbc live lesson that talked about chatbot. Then we introduced our chatbots that they needed to design and there is a winner in each class. Then we watched a cbbc news round
Today Olivia and Lily got the chance to represent Leswalt Primary and travelled to Sheuchan Primary school to take part in the cluster heat of the KNEX engineering challenge. It is a great opportunity where pupils have the chance to demonstrate their creative design and build skills by solving set engineering challenges using the construction set K’NEX. Our girls used their communication skills alongside their design and build skills to
It’s a busy week in School this week! Today, P4-7 ventured to Loch Inch, Castle Kennedy for a workshop all about Food and Farming. This was organised by the Royal Highland Education Trust. Once we were arrived, we were split up into groups to explore 5 different farming workshops and meet some local farmers and farm industry workers. 1 – Gamekeeping with Connor🦃 Connor, the fifth generation Loch Inch Game
Continuing on the Scots Celebrations, this afternoon we were visited by members of Lochryan Pipe Band who had brought along different Scots instruments to show the boys and girls how they are played following their Scots language focus in school. The band played us some different songs, including Scotland the Brave played on the bagpipes and various different drums, which was affa guid! 🎵🥁Ben and Emma both had a
This week, the cooking club set out to make some cheese twists! Hands washed, equipment ready, recipes in hand and oven pre-heating, we were raring to go. Pupils followed a simple 12 step recipe which saw them rolling out a sheet of puff pastry, brushing it with a light layer on butter, grating a layer of cheese on top and slicing it into it into thin strips and twisting with
This morning Leswalt and Kirkcolm upper classes headed into Stranraer to visit the Museum. This term, our social studies topic is WW2, and to enhance our learning, we organised a trip with Madeline from the museum to get hands on with some of their real artefacts!⚠️ We learned about Stranraer in the past and during war time. We started with a tour around the museum, looking at some of the
