{"id":1242,"date":"2014-01-29T10:10:41","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T10:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2014-01-29T10:10:41","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T10:10:41","slug":"leswalt-and-portpatrick-come-together-for-chinese-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/2014\/01\/29\/leswalt-and-portpatrick-come-together-for-chinese-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Leswalt and Portpatrick come together for Chinese New Year."},"content":{"rendered":"
Leswalt and Portpatrick Primary schools have recently been involved in Partnership schools implementation, which is currently being phased in across Dumfries and Galloway.\u00a0 Practically, this means that both schools now have Mrs Sheila Baillie as Headteacher.
\nAs part of this new partnership arrangement, learning, sporting and social events are being planned to bring pupils and staff of both schools together.\u00a0 At the weekend, pupils from Portpatrick Primary joined up with Leswalt pupils to play in a football tournament.\u00a0 Neither school has enough pupils available to enter independently, so it was of benefit to both schools that the pupils could combine as \u201cLeswalt\/Portpatrick United\u201d and\u00a0 allow them to participate.<\/p>\n

Primary 1-4 pupils at both Leswalt and Portpatrick Primary School have been learning all about Chinese New Year, as part of their RME, with Miss Nicola Baillie, Principal teacher.\u00a0 As part of their learning, the pupils wrote letters to the Hong Kong City Restaurant to ask if they could visit to find out more about how they celebrate the special occasion.\u00a0 The letters were a great success and both schools were invited to the restaurant together.\u00a0 Pupils were served a selection of tasty Chinese snacks which were enjoyed by all – it was not long before the plates were empty!\u00a0 The children were then told about the Chinese calendar and the importance of the colour red in Chinese culture.\u00a0 They were also shown a variety of traditional Chinese decorations and artwork as well as learning some simple Chinese phrases.\u00a0 The restaurant very kindly donated some resources for the classes to use in their role play area at school, where they will be running their own Chinese Restaurant to develop literacy and numeracy skills in a fun, motivating context.\u00a0 All the staff and pupils would like to say many thanks to all the Hong Kong City staff for providing the children with a fantastic afternoon.
\nBoth Leswalt and Portpatrick schools are now looking forward to future joint projects, and developing their partnership in a variety of different contexts.<\/p><\/address>\n