The boys and girls of Leswalt Primary raised money fro Children in Need in a variety of different ways this year. Official Pudsey headbands and wristbands were sold in school all week, pupils had a non uniform spotty dress up day and primary 7 offered all the opportunity to finger paint a Pudsey bandana. The grand total is still to be calculated – however currently it is standing at well over £120.
The photographs show Leswalt pupils showing their spots ,as well as the spottiest children in school, with their prizes.
On Tuesday, the whole school created a ‘factory line’ to create fantastic little snowmen to sell at Leswalt Christmas Fair on Sunday 20th November. The snowmen were inspired by beautiful handmade gifts given to the teaching staff from the Gaw Family (Noah, Phoebe and Charlotte).
The staff and children loved the snowmen so much, they decided to make lots to sell so others could enjoy having one too. Many thanks to Mrs Gael Gaw for coming along and helping the school produce their gorgeous snowmen. Everyone worked so well together and high quality items were created as a result.
On Monday14th November, PC Siobhan Pellet visited Leswalt School
as part of their HWB topic on Emergencies and Basic First Aid. She talked about the role of the police and other emergency services. The children learned about what an emergency is and how to call 999 and also learned to call 101 for the Police when it is not an emergency.
The children practised making 999 calls. They need to know their name, address, mum and dads full names and their telephone number. We will be practising all of this with the children.
On the 10th of November 2016 P.5-7 of Leswalt video conferenced with P.6 of Castle Douglas Primary school. We exchanged questions and answers. We found out a lot more about Castle Douglas Primary and talked with Mrs Bathgate. They knew a lot about us because they had done their research on our blog. We are maybe going to arrange another video conference soon.
P1-4 have been learning about why Hindu’s celebrate Diwali. It is to remember the story of Rama and Sita where they defeated the evil demon king Ravana. They then became much loved King and Queen. They read the story then acted it out. They then wrote about the main events in the story.
Hanuman the monkey king helps Rama to find Sita
The monkeys help Hanuman build a bridge so they can rescue Sita from the evil demon king
Rama shoots an arrow in to the heart of the evil demon king and rescues his wife Sita.
The mummy group that won! Luke was completely covered by the end of the music!
Noah being dressed as a mummy
Not quite sure who is under all those bandages! Is that you in there Andrew?!
Robin being dressed as a mummy
Scary clown dancing!
Our very own superhero – Noah, P1
The best dressed winners, Malcolm and Megan
P1-4 dookin for apples
The girls dancing away to Halloween tunes!
Struan showing off his super robot dancing!
Auryn the witch!
On Monday 31st October, the whole school dressed up in a variety of wonderful costumes to celebrate Halloween. There were pirates, minions, witches, werewolves and many more scary sights to be seen! A fun filled afternoon was had including games such as; Dress the Mummy (with loo roll!), Musical Zombies, Pin the Nose on the Pumpkin, Halloween corners, Best Dancer and Best Dressed. Best dressed outfits were fantastic home made numbers by Malcolm McGregor, P2 and Megan McIntyre, P6. Lots of tasty treats were given as prizes, ending with everyone receiving a special treat for their effort with costumes and excellent behaviour on such an exciting day. The pupils also had great fun ‘dookin’ for apples and learning about the history of Halloween and why it is celebrated. I think the photos show just what a fun afternoon it was!
Primary 1-4 have been learning all about school in the past. As part of this project they looked at lots of old school photographs, from Leswalt Primary.
This afternoon they tried to re-create a school photograph from the past. What do you think?!
Here are some reports written by the P6s about the Wigtown Book Festival trip. We hope you enjoy reading!
Shoo Rayner
On Wednesday the 28th of September the whole school went to Wigtown Book Festival. When we got off the bus we split in to P5-7 and P1-4 because we were in separate tents and had different authors to listen to. The wee ones had Tracey Corderoy who talked about her Shifty McGiftey books and the big class had Shoo Rayner (that’s who I’m going to be telling you about).
When we got to the tent, we had a seat and began listening to him. He was telling us about a story he had read and began to get all scared about it! Then he told us about his new book called Scaredy Cats. He drew a picture of one of the cats in it, Dr Catula, and read the story about one of the cats. There are 9 cat stories in this book. They sounded really good!
They are the new books and honestly I think a lot of people liked it. He was really inspirational and was so good at reading aloud. At the end of it he asked us a few questions and he told us that he has actually written over 200 books – he even illustrates his books as well! He is just about to start writing the third and final book in his trilogy is about dragon.
He told us his contract had asked him to write 20,000 words on his last one! I think he is a very good author and illustrator and is doing a very good job. I would definitely buy another one of his books. Overall everyone really liked going to Wigtown Book Festival and listening to Shoo Rayner – it was very much appreciated!
By Kayleigh Williams P6
On Wednesday P1-7 went to Wigtown Book Festival. The P5-7s went to see Shoo Rayner. P1-4 went to see Tracey Corderoy in a different tent and she talked about her Shift McGiftey books.
Shoo Rayner has illustrated and written over 200 books so far. He went to Art College and met a person called Colin McNaughton who inspired Shoo Rayner to become an illustrator…and so he did! Mostly Shoo writes short picture books but recently he tried something a bit different!
One day he got mail which read ‘SHOO RAYNER YOU HAVE TO MAKE A BOOK THAT MUST HAVE AT LEAST 20,000 WORDS!’ It was a contract from his publisher.
He told us that he thought ‘oh no, 20 000 words!’ but he got started quickly because he likes a challenge! He has written two books of that series already – they are about a Welsh dragon. He is about to start the third and final book of the series after the book festival.
He also talked about his experiences of choosing a book in the library. He likes scary books but they were right at the back in a dark area where spiders lived everywhere and if you got near them then they’d BITE! He was great at telling stories and he made us jump by reading an extract of his latest book ‘Scaredy Cat’ . Everybody laughed when he tried to scare us but we tried to scare him back! It was really funny. I bought his book and he signed it for me too. I really enjoyed the session with Shoo Rayner.
Reporters – Finlay and Ethan
P5-7 went to see Shoo Rayner on Wednesday the 28th of September. The whole school went to the Book Festival but p1-4 went to see Tracey Corderoy who wrote the Shifty McGiftey stories. Shoo Rayner has written over two hundred books. He has written and illustrated picture books and books for older children too. Today was mostly about his new book Scaredy Cats. He told us that his inspiration for writing and illustrating came from the picture book Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak.
Shoo Rayner went to Art College when he was younger. He was mentored by Colin McNaughton who is a well-known illustrator. He puts roughly 1000-3000 words into his picture books and around 20,000 words into his Welsh Dragon series – he has written two of these already and is about to start writing the third and final one after he has finished at the Book Festival.
I really enjoyed listening to Shoo Rayner and thought he was really funny. Most of the children there bought his new book Scaredy Cats and I think it’s going to be an amazing book to read.
The children of P1-4 have been learning more about school long ago with the help of some visitors and a loan box from the museum.
Mrs Buchanan, Mrs Nina Agnew and Mrs Claire Kennedy came in to all tell the boys and girls how life at Leswalt Primary school has changed. The whole school learned a lot from the question and answer session; like how the toilets used to be outside and children had to bring vegetables to school for their soup at lunchtime! Old log books and registers from the school long ago were also looked at – along with a big box of fascinating photographs from the past.
The class also tried writing like they did in the past – using chalk boards and ink wells (with varying degrees of success!)
Have a look at the photographs to see how they all got on!
