Leswalt Primary School

Tobacco advertising

As part of their health and wellbeing learning and teaching, Primary 5-7 have been focussing on “Tobacco” this term. They have been discussing the legalities surrounding the advertising of tobacco and laws in the sale of tobacco products.

To help them with their work, they popped across the road to Leswalt Stores. Gillian was more than happy to explain to the class the laws which are in place. The children also saw for themselves how products are not allowed to be on display and the signage which is in place.

Many thanks must go to Gillian Murdoch, not only for her useful information and knowledge on the subject, but also for the sweeties which she gave the class as they left!

Golf festival

Primary 5 recently had a lovely time along at Creachmore as part of a golf festival aimed at all Primary 5 pupils.

The sun was shining, as they all learned more about the game and how to improve their golf swing.

P5-7 Speed distance and time

The senior class recently went outside to do their maths. They were learning all about speed, distance and time. And, to help them with their learning they all went outside and had to run over a specified distance to help them calculate their speed.

The photos show some of p5-7 racing across the playground.

Geology workshop

Primary 5-7 had a recent visitor to class who helped develop their Science topic of resources of the Earth, through bringing in a great selection of different rocks for them to examine.

The children learnt a lot about the properties of different rocks, and where they are found. The afternoon concluded when they got to witness a volcano erupting in their classroom!

Teddy Bear Maths

P2-4 had a busy maths session today! They brought their teddies to school to do some measuring!

Here’s what they had to say about it…

We needed to work in pairs and use a measuring tape.

We measured in centimetres (cm)

We tried using a metre stick and a ruler but they just weren’t flexible enough!

We worked out which end of the measuring tape to start at and which side to use – some of the measuring tapes used inches on one side.

We filled all of our teddy measurements in on our data files.

It was good fun!

Millie and Luke measuring Bouncy the Teddy!

Logan had a tricky job measuring Big Ted’s arm.

Erin and Charlotte measured Dylan’s tummy.

Visit from Munro Madnezz Bhoys

We had the pleasure of a visit from Gerald from the Munro Madnezz Bhoys Challenge this morning.

He told us all about the 282 Munros in Scotland (there used to be 283 but one shrunk (!) and is no longer counted as a Munro!). They are named after Sir Hugh Munro who discovered and categorised them all – though he didn’t climb them all.

Gerald has climbed many of these and told us of his love for doing this. He has raised lots of money for Macmillan Cancer charity through his climbs.

He showed us all some of the equipment that he uses and explained how to keep safe when climbing. It is something which he adores doing.

Laura and Alison from Active Schools were with Gerald. They have set primary school pupils the challenge of doing sports activities to equal the time it would take to climb a Munro. Who is keen to take up this challenge?

Recording sheets are available in school. How many Munros do you think you could ‘climb’? Come on, give it a go!

Kerr and Finlay modelling the snood – a very useful piece of clothing for climbing a Munro!

Carefully (!) Gerald shows Robin the pick he would use to help his climb.

Triathlon Fun!

On Monday 7th September, P5-7 joined lots of other pupils from local schools to participate in an event run by Triathlon Scotland. The children had lots of fun swimming, cycling and running. It was a great taster session to get a feel of what a triathlon involves – but on a mini scale! Well done to everyone involved – the pupils had a great time!

Outside Maths!

Today P2-4 had great fun measuring outside. They worked in small groups and recorded their results on their clipboard.

Each group worked out how many giant steps, fairy steps and how long a people chain they needed to measure from one part of the playground to the other. But everybody was ending up with different answers!

There had to be a solution… Then we came up with the answer – a metre stick! This was a standard size and so our measurements were the same.

We also had a go at using a trundle wheel too. We really enjoyed measuring using metres.