This afternoon we welcomed families into school to showcase our Scots Learning. 🤩 This month, pupils have been super busy writing out their poem in the very best handwriting and creating some super creative artwork to represent their poem and today we got to show it all off and announce the winners. The audience were treated to Scots’ songs, wonderfully expressive recitations and a display of fantastic artwork and handwriting.
Tables set, Saltire hanging, bagpipes piping! It was time for Leswalt’s annual Burns Supper! The whole school sat down to enjoy some haggis neeps and tatties and celebrate the work of Burns and celebrate Scotland! 🍽 Murray, our super P7, was a very able and organised chairperson who welcomed everybody to the Supper and ensured the proceedings ran smoothly. Ben, read the Selkirk Grace before P1 Leo and P7
In preparation for the Bake Off, the cooking club attempted some baking this afternoon and in the Spirit of Burns, we made some Jammy Jacks (because Robert Burns loved Jammy Jacks Of course!). We took the traditional flapjack recipe and added some strawberry jam in middle for an extra sweet taste!🍓 Pupils followed the recipe, step by step, using the scales to weigh out their wet and dry ingredients and
Today we sent away Murray and Ben to represent the school at the yearly Rotary Lunch along with Lyle and Arran from Kirkcolm, accompanied by Mrs Kyle! This is a fantastic opportunity for the pupils to engage with the members of The Rotary Club who consistently do so much for the schools and community of The Rhins. Today they listened to a talk from Bob Bruce about his 30 years serving
This afternoon the P4-7 kicked off cooking club by making a simple recipe; tortilla wrap pizzas with Miss Douglas and Mrs Kyle. They followed the recipe, step by step, and added their favourite toppings; Ham, pepperoni, pineapple, chicken and pepper. There was great debate whether pineapple belongs on a pizza!🍍 👩🍳👨🍳😋 After getting cleaned up, we started thinking about the Week 4’s GREAT LESWALT BAKE OFF! We worked in
This morning we welcomed Millie Craig from ‘AirBus’ into our P4-7 classroom for a fun morning of STEM learning. Millie is an aeronautical engineer who has recently graduated from the University of Glasgow and now lives and works in London. We were fascinated listening to Millie tell us about her super interesting job, as an engineer, who works on satellites – how impressive!! 🛰️ Millie brought with her some Lego
Today Primary 4-7 welcomed back one of their favourite visitors Kathryn Purchase from History Alive. Kathryn delivered a super informative presentation on World War 2; the rise of the Nazi Party, the Battle of Britain, life on the home front, conscription rationing, evacuees and VE Day, she really updated us life between 1939 and 1945! 😊 Kathryn is so knowledgeable and interesting to listen to, she kept us on
This afternoon all the boys and girls headed along to Leswalt Church for our annual Christmas Service with Reverent Marlene. She shared with us about the story of Christmas and the importance of celebrating love with friends and family. The 6 volunteers told a story about the beginning of Christmas celebrations through sweeties! Galaxy Chocolate representing the Galaxy God created🌌 Sour Haribos representing Adam and Eve’s sin🍬 Love hearts representing
At school, one of our favourite Christmassy activities is making cards. This year, the boys and girls have been working hard to make Christmas cards for our lovely Leswalt community.🎁 Our fantastic P6 and 7’s elves along with Mrs Kyle went a wee walk through the village this morning delivering cards as a little thank you for all the kindness and generosity we receive from our wee village year-round! 💌❤️
Christmas show ✅ Time to let loose and PARTY!🎉 Our House Captains Rachael and Colin have been working hard with Mrs Adams to plan a very special Christmas Party for everybody and they did exactly that. 😍 This afternoon all the boys and girls got their glad rags on and partied the afternoon away.🕺 We played musical statues and Christmas corners before stopping for some juice, crisps, top-hats and chocolate crispy
