Congratulations to Forth!

Huge congratulations to our Term 3 house winners – FORTH! All the boys and girls were absolutely over the moon to find out they had won for the second term in a row!! To celebrate, they had a fun-packed afternoon at an Easter Disco! During this, they danced, played games, had snacks and even had the chance to get the face painted! As you can see from the photos below

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Marie Curie

Last term our school held a fundraising event to raise money for the Marie Curie Charity. The whole school took part in a Daffodil Tea, performing songs and poems to our parents, carers and local community members.  They sat back and watched our performances whilst enjoying a range of delicious cakes with a tea or coffee. This event was a real success! Afterwards, some of our senior pupils had the opportunity

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New Eco Mascot

All of the boys and girls in Balornock Primary worked hard to create upcylced mascots as part of eco week last week. Take a look at some of our superb models. Well done everyone!     Each class then voted on which mascot they wanted to go onto the final, where the eco council will decide which upcylced model is Balornock’s new eco mascot.  Here are the models that are in the

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Literacy Week @ Balornock Primary

We have had an amazing Literacy Week at Balornock Primary. The boys and girls have taken part in a variety of Literacy based activities including library visits, author readings, paired reading and storytelling. The children have also carried out a number of literacy based writing activities in class including authors plans, story retells and book reviews. Lots of these activities were shared and celebrated at our Literacy Week assembly led

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Earth Hour 2017 Photography Competition

This year Glasgow City Council launched a photography competition for Earth Hour 2017. Boys and girls across the city were asked to take photographs of what they would like to change in their local environment that would make their community more eco friendly. Primary 5 would like to reduce traffic in our local area, create more green space, educate our local community about the importance of keeping our environment clean

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Literacy Week In Primary 3/2

Our Learning Reflection This week Primary 3/2 have had a super week doing lots of literacy related activities. Holly – We got to dress us as a character from our favourite book. Our teachers dressed up too. I dressed up as Wonder Woman. Miss Davidson dressed up as the Witch from Room on the Broom. Ella-Rose – We swapped teachers and they read us their favourite story. Miss McCarte read

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Rookie Rockstars Update

The Rookie Rockstars are back and have been working with the boys and girls preparing them for our concerts next week.   Our concerts last year were a huge success. We have no doubt that this years will be even better. It is the expectation that all pupils attend and perform in the concert. If your child(ren) are unable to attend please contact the school to notify us. Concert times

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Rookie Rockstars Concert

Are you ready to rock? We are! The Rookie Rockstars will be working hard with our children next week in preparation for our Rookie Rockstar Concert performances. Tickets for both shows are now on sale at the school office.  Tickets are priced at £5 each and will be sold on a first come first serve basis. Ticket order forms were sent out with pupils today.   Performance times will be

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Star Writers

  The boys and girls in Primary 1a have been doing lots of writing this week. We have all been Star Writers by remembering to include a CAPITAL letter, finger spaces and a full stop in every sentence that we write. We have also been trying really hard to use the lines to make sure we do our letters the correct shape and size. Look at how clever we all are…..