At the start of the year P7 partnered up with a P7 class from St Martha’s to complete a series of workshops around sectarianism in Glasgow. Since then we have completed lots of work on the history of sectarianism, and thoroughly enjoyed reading Divided City by Theresa Breslin, which is a story about two boys who support opposite football teams in Glasgow. This week we met up with St Martha’s
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
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
Congratulations to Darcey from P5 and Kyla from P3 who correctly guessed the Christmas Bears names. We hope you enjoy your teddy bears and selection boxes.Thank you to everyone who participated in the Guess the Bears Name competition. We raised almost £100 for Miss Davidson and the Malawi Leaders of Learning (MLOL).
Miss Davidson is going to Malawi! During the October Break Miss Davidson was informed that she was successful in gaining a place on the Malawi Leaders of Learning 2018 cohort. As part of the Programme she will attend a variety of training sessions and in September 2018 will be visiting Malawi for approximately 3 and a half weeks. This is a fantastic opportunity that will benefit the children and teachers of Malawi and
Over the last few weeks Primary 3 have been leaning about The Green Cross Code and how to keep themselves safe when out and about. They have taken part in presentations, workshops and various lessons, helping to support their understanding of how to keep safe and the importance of using the Green Cross Code. Our lessons have also helped to support our Class Charter as Primary 3 picked Article 19
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
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
Although it has been a short week, it has been a VERY busy week! Here are some of the different things that we have been doing in class… We drew amazing self portraits. What a lovely bunch we are! We created our Class Charter and signed it with our handprints. We also took part in lots of play activities including reading books, making models with the octagons and having
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
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