Another Jam Packed Week in Primary 7a

This week we have been super busy doing all our usual hard work as well as practising our art skills in preparation for the Christmas fayre next week. In maths we have started a new money topic and will be looking at budgets and profit and loss next week! Ahmed thinks it will be  interesting and is looking forward to it. We are still really enjoying reading Coraline and have

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A Busy Week in Balornock!

This week, the boys and girls from Primary 1a have been extremely busy. Here are some of the different activities that we have been doing…… We took our learning outdoors and went on an Autumn Hunt. “We had a checklist of things to find!” said Ellie. “We saw some leaves on the ground and some on the trees!” said Alicia. “I saw some brown leaves!” said Georgia. In music, we

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Home Learning in P1a!

Primary 1a have been thinking about the changing seasons. We have noticed that there are lots of changes in our outdoor environment. “The leaves have been falling off the trees!” said Leon. “Some of the leaves are dying!” said David. “The leaves have been changing colour!” said Madison. Pheobe, Isla, Adam and Ellie did some extra homework this week and brought us in lots of autumn leaves and pine cones

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Balornock is an Eco Friendly School!

The Eco Heroes had their first official meeting this afternoon with Miss McCarte where they discussed lots of important items that will be undertaken this session to ensure Balornock continues to be an Eco friendly school. Here are some of the items that were discussed…. We looked at our whole school Eco Action Plan to find out about the responsibilities of individual classes….let’s make this a team effort!!! Each class should have

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eco posters

  P.2b  have the responsibility this year of helping keep the infant playground litter free. We designed posters to help  promote this.

Eco Heroes!

Primary 1a are Eco Heroes! We are doing all that we can to save energy in order to look after our planet, Earth. We designed posters to remind each class to switch off their computers when they are not in use. “Let them dream and go to sleep. Switch them off!” said Kaydence.    

Things get chilly in p7

Throughout our topic we found out that Climate change could heat up the Earth and cause huge floods. We like to make sure what we’re reading makes sense so we set up an experiment and wrote up our reports to show what we did: Each group created a mini version of somewhere on Earth – Lyla’s group did a tropical island and Chloe’s group did Glasgow. Then we added our

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Primary 7 become the teachers in P1!

Our topic in term 1 has been Climate Change. When we heard about primary 1 making posters to tell other classes about saving energy, we knew we could help out. We put all of our new knowledge to great use by creating exciting talks for the classes so that they could understand why saving energy is so important. Our teacher choose two hard working groups who had put lots of

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Saving Energy is a Bright Idea!

We had a visit from Jack and James (P7b) to talk to us about ways to save energy by switching off the lights when they are not needed. We thought about times when we should switch off the lights to save electricity and these included: “When we are leaving the classroom!” said Kourtney. “When we are going to sleep!” said Aaron. “When we are using the Smart Board!” said Paige.

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