STEM Week

This week Primary 4/3 have been very busy celebrating Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths. On Wednesday we were very lucky to have a visit from two Zoologists. They explained to us how they learn about the behaviours and care of different animals, even bringing a few along! We met two corn snakes who were brother and sister, and they even let us hold them! We had a fantastic time and

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P6/5’s science week

We have be enjoying science week.  We did an experiment with cola and milk.  We also learned about a scientist who studied chimpanzees. In addition we had visitors to our class.  Mrs  Stuart’s sister told us about how diseases can spread and how scientist have stopped some diseases from spreading.  Sean came into tell us about ships and their engines.  

UPDATE: School closed Wed 28th & Thu 1st

The snow isn't letting up so we'll be closed tomorrow too everyone (Wed & Thurs). Don't forget it's #WorldBookDay2018 tomorrow so cozy up with a book!https://t.co/VnHJZWvMpW — Balornock Primary School (@BalornockPS) February 28, 2018 All our schools & nurseries will be CLOSED tomorrow Thursday 1 March due to Red Weather alert in place from 3pm today. We will continue to post updates on our social media channels & website. pic.twitter.com/3d9j9pTI7Y

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Wednesday 28th February- School closed

A decision has been taken to close ALL our schools and nurseries today Wednesday 28 February due to weather conditions. We will monitor forecasts and issue updates as and when through the day. — Glasgow City Council (@GlasgowCC) February 28, 2018

Ardentinny’s ‘Best Bits’

Here are a selection of some of the wonderful and exciting things P7 got up to during their week away. The children worked very hard creating a VLOG (which stands for Video Blog) over the course of their stay. We hope to share this with everyone very soon!

Money management

Primary four have been working so hard during maths to help develop their skills of money management. They are all able to use open number lines to add and subtract money totals and can work out tricky problem solving questions! The class have shown great enthusiasm using concrete materials to help them answer questions and can now use coins in ‘real life scenarios.’ Why not have a go at asking

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Phew! What a week.

We have had a busy week rehearsing our lines and songs for our assembly which was a HUGE success. We had fun performing and received a lot of positive feedback from other classes which made us very happy. Mrs MacNeill even asked us if we could share our songs so other classes can learn them. ” The show was so exciting because we got to show what we had been

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Reduce, Re-use, Recycle!

What a short week we have had this week, but we have been super busy!   We have been painting brand new recycle bins to place around the school for other children to use. We encourage people to recycle plastic water bottles, however we ask there is no water put in the bin to make it easier to recycle!   “Decorating the bins was easy because we got to use

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Balornock Inventors in Primary 4/3

As part of our Scotland topic we were learning about famous Scottish inventors. We explored the inventions of Alexander Graham Bell who created the telephone. For homework, we decided to make inventions which would help make our lives in school easier. We chose to say, make, do or write.     We all came up with lots of amazing inventions and shared them with the whole school through a display

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