Primary four have had a busy few weeks and we are so excited to finally update you on all of our activities. We were lucky enough to get a visit from two employees of Santander bank. They helped us to understand ways to manage our money and helped primary four understand the importance of money management! Primary four had a great morning.
The Eco Heroes had a great meeting this afternoon to discuss the on-going plans for the school! There were lots of great ideas from the team including having ‘Litter Ninjas’ in the upper school playground to ensure that no litter is left after play time and lunch time. We are also going to get the Eco Display in the main entrance decorated very soon! Watch this space for some excellent
We have been learning about questioning strategies during our comprehension time in class. Primary four are questioning experts and they understand that literal questions are questions that are in the text, on the lines! Some examples of literal questions that primary four know are “can you explain what happened in chapter one?” and “who is the main character?” Primary four have worked hard to make board games that we can use
Starting this week primary 4 and primary 4/3 will be coming together to help each other read every week! We are all very excited about helping each other to become super duper confident readers! “Primary four had a fun time reading with Primary 4/3.” Jamie “We helped each other with some difficult words.” Adam “Everyone was good at reading the books.” Leo It’s good to partner up and read with
This term primary 4 are learning about British history and inventors. As part of this we will be learning about Fireworks and the reason we celebrate Bonfire night. We wanted to learn more about fireworks and we discovered that fireworks travel up to a distance of 100m when fired in to the sky! To help us picture just how far that is we worked in groups and used a trundle
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
Primary four have been working very hard to make our classroom look bright and colourful this term. “We read a book called “Fish out of water.”- Kyle “This book was about a fish who had many different talents, including being able to breathe out of water.”- Jamie/Tyler “We learnt that not everyone needs to be the same and that we are all different.” _Chen Min SO “We painted these fish
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
Primary four have a special job this year, as part of our eco class responsibility we are in charge of improving our gardening area in the playground! Today we visited Tron St Mary’s Church to look at their garden to gather some ideas of how to improve our playground. We enjoyed visiting the church as we got to learn about different plants and some of us even tasted peas from the garden! Here are
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
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