Whoops-A-Daisy Angel!

The boys and girls in Primary 1a and Primary 1b are very busy preparing for their Christmas nativity which is called Whoops-A-Daisy Angel! We are super excited about our upcoming performances in December. So far, we have started to learn all of the songs and have also started our costume fittings.  We will continue to PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE over the next few weeks. Keep checking our blog and in school bags for further

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Marvellous Monitors

A huge well done to all p7 monitors and soft starters so far. There has been nothing but gallons of praise from staff and children in p1 and p2. You are doing a great job and should be super proud of yourselves. Everyone at Balornock is! Special thank you to p1b who have enjoyed having Henry and Michael’s help at playtimes and lunchtimes so much, they made these beautiful cards!

Sumdog Parent Workshop

Date for the Diary Tuesday 31st October 2017 2-3pm This session your child will be using Sumdog to enhance their learning experiences in Maths. Sumdog is used in thousands of schools worldwide. As the children play, they answer questions. Sumdog personalises these questions for each pupil, and tracks their progress through the school curriculum. And the best bit? Lots of Sumdog is completely free. We would like to invite you

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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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Sumdog Parent Workshop

This session our pupils will be using Sumdog to enhance their learning experiences in Maths. Sumdog is used in thousands of schools worldwide. As the children play, they answer questions. Sumdog personalises these questions for each pupil, and tracks their progress through the school curriculum. And the best bit? Lots of Sumdog is completely free. We would like to invite you to a Sumdog Parents Information Workshop on the 31st of

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What a week!

What a week for P1b. Refreshed after our long weekend, we worked hard on our number and phonics work. We matched the sounds using our ‘Sound Garden’. We used paint to make the phonics we learned. We played our animal game. We practiced writing our common words. Excellent work, Kayla! And we relaxed our bodies and minds with yoga. Namaste! Looking forward to next week already!!

Balornock Uniform Bank- Multi Jacket Swap Shop

BALORNOCK UNIFORM BANK Multi Jacket Swap Shop Bring in a child’s jacket and swap it for another Tuesday 26th to Friday 29th September 2017 2.30-3.00pm in Balornock Primary or Wednesday 27th September 2017 1.30-4.00pm at the Community Fellowship Northgate Road   Supporting Zero Waste Scotland’s Recycle Week Helping Balornock Primary School maintain their Eco Schools Scotland Green Flag Status  

Balornock Primary Rag Bag Appeal

Balornock Primary Rag Bag Appeal The ‘Rag Bag’ recycling scheme has been developed to provide regular fundraising for schools in Scotland. The scheme increases awareness about textile recycling and by increasing recycling rates we can help the environment by ensuring less material goes to landfill. We will be collecting in school from Tuesday the 26th of September 2017. Please fill the bag provided with any wearable clothing, paired shoes, handbags

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What a fun week!

We all had a great week in P1b learning new numbers and sounds. This week we looked at the sounds ‘Ii’ and ‘Ss’ and the numbers 4 and 5. We had our visiting music specialist Mrs Wiszniewska teaching us new songs. Outside, we made human bar graphs representing what fruit and colours we liked. Balornock Bob helped up with Circle Time. We also had fun making Hand Prints for our Class

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