Over the past three weeks both the Primary 7s have been working with a P7 class from St Martha’s Primary School to explore and learn about sectarianism. During our second workshop everyone had to work together to create an A-Z list of words or phrases that come to mind when thinking of sectarianism. The groups realised that
Last week during assembly we were given a fabulous box of new maths resources. We have been using them during every maths lesson to help us understand tricky concepts such as working out fractions and percentages. Here we are using counting beads and counters to calculate the fraction of a quantity. Aidan enjoyed using the resources because it made maths fun, and
On Thursday 11th January, all children from P5 to P7 attended a Lego workshop where they built working models of a conveyor belt. Here is some of the feedback from the children: “I think Lego is fun, it was easy to build and I think it is amazing how Lego can do that and I didn’t know that.” “I enjoyed the Lego workshop even though I don’t really like Lego.”
On Monday afternoon our P7s joined forces with the P7 class from St Martha’s and participated in the first of three workshops on sectarianism. Two visitors called Mark and Scott talked to us about different words relating to sectarianism such as: Prejudice, discrimination, and sectarianism. We had to work together with St Martha’s to discuss and brainstorm all these different meanings, and share examples with the rest of the group. Prejudice
Happy New Year everybody! What a busy first full week back we have had. As a class we came up with our own resolutions and wrote them down for a display. One of Del’s resolution is to be more fit and healthy. Morgan is going to try and eat more fruit and vegetables. Caitlin is going to try to be more
Wow!! What a busy year we have had so far, its safe to say we have worked our socks off and are ready for a lovely holiday! We have had such a fun filled week, full of pantomimes, talent shows and much more. We cannot believe that when we come back to school next term we will be half way through our last ever year at primary school!! There is so much
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.
Since P7a were learning about India this term, a home learning task was set to expand our knowledge. Everyone was given the choice to pick 1 out of the 9 options given. These ranged from cooking an Indian themed meal at home, visiting a local bhangra class, creating a travel brochure on a city in India, creating a fact file on an Indian celebrity and many more! As this home learning task
P7a have been working hard during gymnastics for the past few weeks. We have been looking at the different ways our bodies can move, and how we can get from one space to another. ” I loved the trampoline the most” – Jenna and Ross It looks like we could have some future gymnasts on our hands!! We have had such a busy week again this week and
Last week we had to be really responsible and help out at the tables for the Christmas Fayre. It was a very important job as we were trusted with money, as well as promoting what each table had to offer. In preparation for this we created a mini shop in the class and we had to try and work out the correct change to give everyone. We also had to
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