On Wednesday, P5-7 headed over to Leswalt Parish Church where they were met by Rev. Claire and two Elders, Geoff and Jean. We have been looking at worship and artefacts within religion and our focus at the moment is Communion. To help this ‘come to life’, we enlisted the help of Rev Claire and what a great afternoon we had! We were taken through a ‘mini Communion’ and Rev Claire
On Friday the 3rd Jack, Jamie, Emily and Arden went to Rephad Primary school to take part in the Rotary Quiz. There were 28 questions and 7 rounds and they got 20 right. The rounds included: geography, mathematics, children literature, general knowledge, science and history. They came joint third! Well done Team Leswalt!
This afternoon Primary 1-4 enjoyed a visit to school from Zoolab. This visit was to tie in with the current topic of “the Rainforest”. Zoolab brought with them a variety of animals that could live in the rainforest climate. The children got the chance to handle many of these animals – including a snake which ate 5 mice for tea the previous evening ( and the children were encouraged to
On Friday the 24th of February P7 went to the North West Castle accompanied by Karen Anderson. We were there with Kirkcolm Primary and Port William Primary. It was so exhilarating to find out more about curling. We started off learning how to throw the stone, then how to brush the stone, and after that, how to curl the stones. We were taught by John Agnew – he was a good coach and taught us lots. We had
Take a look at these short reports written by our P7s about their Transition experience last Friday. Sounds like they can’t wait to go! P.7 at the Academy On Friday the 17th the p7s went to the academy. My mum took us and we were the first school there. There we had some activities: basketball, science and team building. Basketball: This was amazing. We worked on shooting and passing and
Today all of Leswalt Primary travelled to their partnership school at Portpatrick. While there the pupils were undertaking a variety of activities relating to STEM – Science, technology, engineering and maths. Pupils undertook their Big Maths challenge first before being divided up into groups to undertake challenges such as making a marble run, fruit kebab fractions, fruit smoothie maths and building a bridge out of spaghetti! Leswalt and Portpatrick pupils
Primary 1-4 have been learning all about life in the Rainforest this term. AS part of their work they have been tasting different foods, originating from the Rainforest, sorting foods, and making some creative artwork. Have a look at some of the things they have been doing with Mrs Mc Knight so far.
Ukulele We have started learning the ukulele with Eilidh and Jessica from Feis Rois. They are teaching us how to play it and its really fun! We know three chords already and quite a lot of songs! We have to listen very carefully to their instructions. We will have more lessons every Monday for the rest of this term, so hopefully we’ll be able to show off our ukulele talents to everyone
P5-7 have started some work on investigating polygons and headed outside to work this morning in the Winter sunshine. Working in teams, using sticks and following task cards; the pupils explored different 2D shapes together and put their knowledge of angles to good use too. We will use this information to find out more in class and will hopefully get back outside again soon to do some more fun maths
Thank you very much to family and friends for coming along to our Scots Showcase Assembly on Friday 27th January. This was a chance for the winners of our recent Scots competition to perform their poems and show-off their winning artwork and handwriting. The judging had been done by Rev. and Mrs Cairns on Tuesday – and what a hard job they had! P1-4 entertained us all with their singing
