Learning for Sustainability Week at Balornock will begin on Monday 30th April. This will be an all encompassing themed week for our pupils addressing learning within Eco Schools, RRS and HWB. Pupils will be undertaking various activities including nature walks, yoga, designing a school mascot, etc. This is sure to be an exciting week for everyone with lots of fantastic learning experiences for our pupils. Remember to follow us on Glow
You may have noticed that some ‘new’ bins have recently appeared in our lunch hall?…. The Eco Heroes have decided to take steps towards helping minimise the amount of food being wasted in our school by encouraging everyone at Balornock to put on their Eco thinking caps when clearing up after they have eaten! We now have three separate bins in our lunch hall and would encourage everyone to use accordingly.
What a fantastic morning at Balornock Primary. Hopskotch Theatre Company visited us to perform their Christmas Pantomime The Wizard of Oz. We all thoroughly enjoyed us and we are now all very much in the festive spirit.
All the boys and girls in Primary four were entered in to an exciting competition called Urban Games. The children were given lots of opportunity to try out new sports like street dance and parkour! Part of the fun involved showing great team spirit and sportsmanship. Primary four are delighted to say that we won first place in the Urban Games competition and got to take a TROPHY back to our
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
What fun we had today in the ICT suite. The boys were all on task logging on, searching on GOOGLE and completing literacy games. They worked well in partners and reached new levels. Very proud of our Young Literacy Team today ……. Now to practise at home!! Mrs Woolfries
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
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
This week Primary 4/3 have been very busy! First, we ended our Them Bones topic with an exciting experiment to test what liquids do to our teeth! We used tea, cola, coffee, water and boiled eggs! We found out that cola, tea and coffee stain our teeth. “The liquids were hot so we had to be careful”. – David “The water made the egg shiny”. – Lucy Then on Wednesday we visited
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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