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
This week Primary 6 have been writing some fantastic stories based on a short animation film. We were focusing on including a variety of punctuation, connectives, sentence openers and interesting vocabulary in our stories. We have been working with money this week during our maths lessons and were converting pence to pounds and pounds to pence. We have also been adding and subtracting different amounts of money and finding different ways
Your child’s online safety education this term This term your child’s class will be studying a unit of work based on Play Like Share, an animated series about online safety produced by Thinkuknow. Thinkuknow is an award-winning education programme from the National Crime Agency’s child protection command, CEOP. It aims to keep children safe from abuse, both online and off. Thinkuknow education resources are age-appropriate, non-scaremongering, and give children the
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 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
At Balornock Primary we want to ensure that all of our pupils are safe. As part of our Health and Wellbeing Curriculum we explore ways in which children can keep themselves safe online. As a school community we also want to ensure our parents and carers understand more about how to keep their children safe online. Please click on the red links below to access factsheets created by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Command (CEOP)
After applying for the position of House and Vice Captain along with attending a brilliant interview, the following candidates have been selected as our new Captains for the session 2017-18. CONGRATULATIONS!! We look forward to seeing how they drive their House forward to success this year! Kelvin Captain: Ellie Buchanan (P7b) Vice: Manasseh Soloman (P6/5) Tay Captain: Leona Rooney (P7b) Vice: Emily Wilson (P6) Forth Captain: Chloe Hope (P7b) Vice: Ella Queen (P6)
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