P7 Transition Morning at Stranraer Academy

  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

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STEM at Portpatrick Primary

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

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P1-4 Rainforest fun

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.      

Ukelele with Feis Rois

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

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Chilly Outdoor Maths!

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

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Scots Showcase Assembly

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

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We a’ had a Richt Guid Time!

Yesterday, 25th January, Leswalt Primary held their Annual Burns Lunch and what a great time we all had! Yummy food, good company and great entertainment made for the perfect celebration of Rabbie Burns! Our four P7 pupils chaired, organised and led the afternoon’s events. Arden McIntyre took on the role of chairperson – and a very good job she made of this too! Finlay Scott (P4) started off by saying

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Rugby Coaching P5-7

  On Tuesday the 17th of January we enjoyed playing some rugby. Our coaches were Campbell McGregor (Malcolm’s dad) and Gregor Henry. They taught us about passing, cooperation, focus and tackling. The tackling was really fun and we TRIED not to make the other person go down with a thump! Passing is about good communication and focusing mostly – it is very important for team games. We split up into to team of Girls vs Boys and

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Rotary Lunch for P7 Representatives

On Monday 16th January, Mrs Ferguson took Jack Rickard and Jamie Drennan to the annual Rotary Club Young Person’s Lunch. This was held at the North West Castle Hotel. We were made to feel most welcome and enjoyed a delicious three course meal while enjoying the chat of Rotary Club members and pupils from other schools. The speaker after the lunch was Kate Thomson. She recently retired from the Police

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Hooray for Mr Brawls!

A huge thank you to Mr Brawls who made a set of goals for our keen football players! Having listened to many tales of woe about the shop-bought ones we had which kept breaking, and which he had fixed many times, he decided to sort things out once and for all! He did this in his own time too. We are extremely lucky to have him  and this reminded us

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