Paired reading

Mr Harte brought the Primary 6/5 class to visit Primary 2b and we paired up to read some books. The older children were very helpful in giving hints for reading and the younger children were very keen to show off their books and their reading skills. Leah (P2b): “I like reading books.” Chloe (P6/5): “When my partner got stuck I broke up the words to make it easier.” Billy: “My

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What a Busy Week!

Although it has been a short week, it has been a VERY busy week! Here are some of the different things that we have been doing in class…    We drew amazing self portraits. What a lovely bunch we are! We created our Class Charter and signed it with our handprints. We also took part in lots of play activities including reading books, making models with the octagons and having

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FUN TIMES WITH THE LITERACY TEAM

Wow!!! what an amazing first few weeks back at school. We have had such an eventful time including a wonderful Coffee Afternoon with all our new Primary 1 adults . It was lovely to see so many people getting to know each other and meeting the P1 staff and Literacy team. Thank you for coming along and please look out for the next informal event. Our amazing Primary 1 stars

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So far in P7B

P7b been working very hard so far. We have been doing maths, English,  Spanish, French and much more. In maths we have done whole numbers, some people were finding it easier and some people, very hard. In Spanish we learned how to count to ten by learning a song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FEyfy5N3Nc Lots of us feel like we don’t get muddled up with nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs anymore because we have done some work

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Ross Collins Visits Balornock

The author Ross Collins visited Primary 2 and Primary 3/2 today. We had a super time listening to Ross’ experiences of reading, writing and drawing. He read his famous ‘There’s A Bear On My Chair’ and showed the boys and girls how to draw a polar bear.  It was also great to see some of our parents at todays session. We would like to thank Ross very much for taking time

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Primary 1 Lending Library

Lending Library Please come and visit our brand new lending Library. A wide range of books and story sacks will be available to borrow. Library begins on Tuesday 8th May at 3pm. Where?  Challenge Room Who?  Children and carers of Primary 1 pupils Looking forward to seeing you there.

Reading Buddies

We had a lovely trip to our school library with our Primary 7 reading buddies! We each read a book from one of the story sacks and we even got to use the puppets and play with the games! Can you guess which books we chose to read?…… “I read The Bad Tempered Ladybird!” said Leia. “I read The Gruffalo’s Child!” said Ridhwan. “I read The Very Hungry Caterpillar…the caterpillar

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Library Visit

Last Thursday P6b enjoyed a visit to the local library. We learned how to use the code cracker to help us find non-fiction books. We also enjoyed hearing the librarians favourite story and she told us about the library’s five finger rule to help us see if a book is too difficult. We then had a chance to look at the books and some of us even chose a book to bring

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