P1-4 have been learning lots about farming in their local area and how farmers use different types of land for different farming purposes. The morning began with a trip to Kirkcolm shore to look around the landscape and test the soil. The fields were nice and green and were in great condition for sheep and cows to graze. Afterwards, the class went to Stranraer Museum to explore farming techniques and machinery from
In glorious sunshine the children of Leswalt Primary enjoyed a picnic lunch outside. They brought along some of their furry friends for a “teddy bears picnic” and enjoyed a fabulous selection of party food out doors. Have a look at the fun they had in the sun!
Today saw the final week of wider achievement activities taking place. The sun shone as the children fished, painted, sewed……and even made Christmas decorations!! Many thanks to Mrs Cochran, Mrs Mc Intyre, Mrs Brown , Katie Wright and Stewart Mc Culloch who have helped support wider achievement groups for the last few weeks.
Primary 6 recently had their health and wellbeing learning and teaching enhanced by joining in the “Operation Safety” event which is organised by the emergency services, every year. Have a look at the photographs and see if you can guess what they were learning about.
Since the start of May our new entrants for August have been enjoying weekly visits to Leswalt Primary. We are looking forward to welcoming 5 new starts to Primary one next year, from 3 different Nurseries. During their weekly transition visits to Leswalt Primary they have all been getting to know each other, and the school, better.
As part of their learning and teaching on the topic of transport, P5-7 paid a visit to the Stena Line port at Cairnryan. This was arranged with the assistance of Mrs Mc Intyre, a parent who works there. By all accounts it was a fantastic visit . The staff at Stena couldn’t have been nicer. The children got to be in the control room in the terminal and behind the customer services
Yesterday, Leswalt School travelled to their local beach of Larbrax to take part in a beach clean as part of their Eco-Schools development in caring for their community and local surroundings. Pupils were prepared with their wellies, gloves, black bags and litter pickers. A huge amount of litter was bagged up and some very random items were found including a car bumper, odd shoes, tyres and many more weird and
As part of their ‘Food and Farming’ Topic in Social Studies and Health and Wellbeing, P1-4 visited Tesco for their ‘Farm to Fork’ workshop. Pupils were taken a tour around Tesco to explore where food comes from and even got to taste some of the lovely items on offer! The children took part in an activity to use food labels and packaging to discover where food came from. They were
The fundraising group of Leswalt Primary recently organised a fete, which incorporated Cream teas, on Sunday 24th May. At the event there was delicious home baking, face painting, nail art, a hairdresser, bottle stall, barbeque and much, much more. The event was on for 2 hours and managed to raise over £800 in that time – a fantastic amount , Apologies for the lack of photographs – they were
This week the “Randomiser” was used to allow pupils to select what activities they tried. Mrs Mc Knight and her group made beautiful buttonholes and corsages. As Chloe was heading off to a wedding at night they kindly made her a lovely pink corsage to go with her pretty pink dress : ) Have a look at the photographs of the fun that was had!
