Please see the photo below regarding the Kirkcolm Church and Community Council Easter Egg Hunt. Pop along to Kirkcolm Village Hall on Monday 2nd April to participate – all welcome!!
On Monday the 12 of March, to celebrate the fact that the sun was shining, p5-7 went outside for their Maths work. We went over what we knew about angles and used new learning to calculate volume. We also shared what we already knew about shape by spotting and naming real-life 3d shapes like the portacabin, bug hotel and pencil bin! We got sticks and used them to measure and find out the
The staff, parents and pupils of Leswalt Primary enjoyed an afternoon of Science as part of our British Science Week celebration. British Science Week runs from 9th-16th March and is designed to raise awareness of all things Science-y and encourage boys and girls to hone their investigative skills. The Leswalt Primary pupils worked on a range of Science tasks; Magic Ink to Poo from the Past, Coding with Lego WeDo to
A huge congratulations must go to Phoebe Gaw and Jenna Calderwood for their supreme confidence and participation in the Stranraer Burns club competition. Against all other Rhins Primary schools, Phoebe won the p3,4,5 class! And Jenna won the p6,7 class! Both girls gave their poems lots of expression and actions to impress the judges. Such was the high standard from Leswalt, the school was awarded the trophy for the best
Primary 1-4 were delighted to receive an injection of brand new toys and beanbags to their class this week. A few weeks ago the younger pupils wrote letters to the Parent council asking if they could help fund some new role play equipment and games for the class. Mrs Mc Knight went shopping for the class and they are now the proud owners of comfy bean bags, a bright rug
Primary 1-4 and Mrs Mc Knight were getting creative making ice art this week. Armed with pipettes full of food colouring the younger pupils were able to observe how the dye travelled through different frozen blocks that Mrs Mc Knight brought from home. This work is all part of their focus this term on “Weather”. And, the weather was so cold at Leswalt this week , once their wonderful ice art
Thursday 1st March was World Book Day! The children enjoyed a wonderful day of reading based activities all designed to encourage us all to take the time to read. The pupils arrived at school this morning armed with a pre-loved book which they then donated to The Great Book Swap. What a vast array of fabulous books were on the table for pupils top choose from. Each book had been
Ni Hao! This afternoon, to add to their vast repertoire of experiences, the pupils of P5-7 welcomed Dr Meryl James from the SCILT, Scotland’s National Centre for Languages, and CISS, Confucius Institute for Scotland’s School. She gave the pupils a fascinating insight into China, its culture, a little of the geography and history of this huge country and an introduction to the language. The children looked at Chinese symbols and
Getting into the sporting spirit of the 2018 Winter Olympics, pupils from Leswalt Primary enjoyed a Curling Extravaganza today at school. P7 pupils headed off the to North West Castle in the morning, to take part in Curling coaching with some pupils from other schools. Two of our five P7s already go along to weekly curling, but this ignited the interests of the rest of the group too. They had
Today the pupils of P5-7 from Leswalt, Portpatrick and Kirkcolm travelled back to the times of Wallace and Bruce led by Kathryn Purchase from History Alive. The children sat enthralled as they listened to this turbulent period of History; from the unfortunate death of King Alexander III through to the eventual recognition of Robert the Bruce as King. This covered many years of gruesome fighting – all of which the
