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
Today we were lucky enough to enjoy a Coding session using Scratch led by Karen Creighton our local RAiSE teacher. The pupils enthusiastically logged on to the website (Mrs F had set up their logins prior to the session) and followed a set of instructions to code their sprite to do different actions! Strangely enough, the pupils seemed much more au fait with this than their teacher! Coding has
Final event, to culminate our January focus on Scots verse and song, was this afternoon’s Showcase Assembly! Friday Friday brought us towards the closure of our Scots festivities with the Showcase Assembly in the afternoon. Pupils, parents and staff gathered for an afternoon packed full of winning recitations and sing-along Scots class songs. Every class stage had been judged on their handwriting, artwork and poetry recitation on Wednesday by
Day two of our Scots Festivities! Thursday Thursday, being Rabbie’s birthday, was booked as our day for the annual Burns Lunch. We were lucky enough to have Mr Gaw as our piper and Mr Neville Wright who came along to deliver the Immortal Memory about ‘Rabbie the Rockstar!’. The P1-4 regaled their audience with ‘The Wee Kirkcudbright Centipede’ and P5-7 gave a rousing rendition of The Proclaimers song ‘I’m on my way’.
Rabbie would have been delighted! Leswalt Primary pupils, staff, parents and guests have been treated to a Scots-fest celebration over the last few days. Pupils have been working extremely hard throughout the course of this month on a trio of homework tasks; handwriting, artwork and poetry recitation of their set poem. And what a power of work the children put in – just amazing! Wednesday Wednesday saw the dawning of judgement
