We had a visit from high school teacher Mrs James who showed us how secondary school uses metalinguistics. We made some spelling focussed artwork to help us with the meaning of our tricky words as well as the spelling… Leona even created a whole new brand of cream for sore joints! Her word was ACHE. Zak got us all a present, which we are happy to RECEIVE. Then on Thursday we
Our after school Cooking Club kicked off this week and wow we have some very talented chefs in Balornock! Our club will run for the next three weeks. Each week the boys and girls will make a starter, main and desert and on the final week, they will invite a special guest along to serve and enjoy the meal they have prepared. This week we were making our tasty starter
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
The playground buddy training is continuing to run really well. This week the P7’s were learning how to deal with problems in the playground. In their teams, they were given different scenarios and had to come up with solutions on how they would sort them out in the playground.
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)
Huge thank you and well done to all our P7 entries for our House Display Competition. Pupils were asked to select one of our four House rivers to design for our House display. All entries were completed to a very high standard, below are the four winning designs which you will find displayed in our main corridor. River Kelvin: Ellie Buchanan (P7b) River Tay: Del Neilson (P7a) River Forth:
This term some of our P7 pupils will begin their training to become Playground Buddies for our younger pupils. This initiative builds strong relationships between our P1 and P7 pupils. The younger children feel more secure, cared for and confident while our P7 student’s contribution helps them to feel valued and respected in our school community. This is also a fantastic opportunity for our P7 pupils to develop their levels
