On Friday 11th of December the whole school went a trip to see the pantomime “Jack and the Beanstalk” at Ayr Gaeity theatre. Having left Leswalt in the morning, they enjoyed a delicious lunch at the Stage Door Café in Ayr, before a wee wander round the shops and the performance. At half time, ice creams were provided and Phoebe was lucky enough to find a golden ticket – which
Mrs Smith recently took Primary 1 a walk round Aldouran Wetlands. AS part of their STAR awards in wider achievement the children are expected to be able to say where the Wetlands are. So, one crisp December morning Mrs Smith and her happy little gang of p1 pupils went a walk to see for themselves. Have a look at the happy wee faces!
What great fun Primary 1-4 have had with their 6 week block of African drumming in school led by Paul. Traditional chants, beats and dances from Ghana formed the basis of the sessions. To round the block of work off, they told the story of some animals in Africa and showed off their chanting and dancing skills – Luke, Cameron, Charlotte and Aidan played the acting roles of the tortoise,
Stewart Fisher from Dunskey golf club has just finished a 4 week slot of Tri golf as an after school club. Every Thursday, younger pupils stayed after school to pick up some top golfing tips from the professional. They worked hard on their swing and got some target practise in, in our gym hall. Rory McIlroy – watch out! Our little golfers are shouting “Fore!”
P1-4 have been cooking up a storm at Leswalt Primary raising money for Children in Need. This terms topic is Citizenship and the class were given responsibility for planning, organising and running this year’s fundraising activities. Iona from P4 explained that their first task was to brainstorm different ideas of how they could raise as much money as possible. “We then had to vote for our favourite ones and the
P1-4 are having a great time every Tuesday with some rhythmic drumming input. Ably led by Paul, who uses story-telling to inspire the drumming, the children are learning about animal fables as well as getting creative with their drumming. Everyone is really enjoying this – including the teachers!
Leswalt Primary held their own minutes silence at 11am on Wednesday 11th November at the war memorial at the village. Jamie and Kathryn read aloud their pieces of writing which they had completed in class about Remembrance Day. Mrs Ferguson read through the inscription on the monument and laid the poppies made by pupils from P1-4. Some pupils chose to leave their poppies at the memorial as a sign of
Both classes has a visit from the SSPCA on Friday. Tracey came along and spoke to the younger class about her role in helping care for animals in Scotland, before moving to P5-7 and have a workshop session on Scotland’s wildlife. All the children enjoyed this visit and had plenty of questions for our visitor.
The children of Leswalt Primary had a fun Hallowe’en party in school. This was organised by Primary 7 pupils as part of their STAR awards programme. Everyone looked really fantastic and spooky – have a look at our photographs!
Primary 1-4 have been learning all about their local community this term. As part of their learning, Richard Arkless MP was invited in to explain more about his role in helping the local community develop. He was asked lots of very thoughtful questions by the pupils including; “What is the best/worst part about your job?” “What would you really like to see changes in Stranraer?” “Do you ever argue with
