We had some visitors pop into school today to meet the pupils of Leswalt Primary. Rev Clare Burl and Steve Flowers brought along some people who are over visiting from the Czech Republic who have \u2018twinned\u2019 with Leswalt Church. The boys and girls entertained the visitors with some beautiful singing which the audience clapped along to, and Gregor and Phoebe recited their Scots poems in an attempt to teach them some traditional Scots language \u2013 although I\u2019m pretty sure they couldn\u2019t understand much, so we took some time to explain what all the Scots words meant, such as ‘sterving’, ‘I’m gey wee’ and \u2018gae us the boak’!!<\/p>\n
In an attempt to find out more about them, the pupils then asked the visitors some questions about their life and schools in the Czech Republic. Mr Flowers introduced all the visitors to us and told us their names in Czech \u2013 we had to guess what this could translate into in English. One of the visitors (who is a teacher!) then taught us some word in Czech such as please, thank-you, hello, goodbye and (randomly!) ice-cream.<\/p>\n
The visitors stayed for another 15 minutes to have a look around and ask questions, with some pupils acting as tour guides. \u00a0Everyone commented on how well the children performed and how wonderful their behaviour was \u2013 what a credit to our school they all are!<\/p>\n\n\t\t