The boys and girls returned to school on Thursday after their midterm break. Although it was only a two day week, we were very busy growing our brains in school! We have been continuing to learn about subtraction and have been using pictures to represent our sums in order to calculate the answers. “We can use our fingers to work out the answers!” said Alicia. “9-9=0 and 2-1=1” said Leon. “Take away means
P1b were straight back to the hard work after the February holiday. We started off with some ‘Have-a-go’ writing. We then continued our Active Spelling by revising some of the words we have learned. After out literacy work we revised our subtraction. 7 take away 5 = Using our penguins on ice for subtraction. After all that hard work we relaxed with some yoga. It was a great day
“My teacher helps with spelling and helps us solve the word if we get it wrong.”- Millie “We looked at everyone’s birthdays on a calendar.”- Finlay “Lynn from Place 2 Be gave us jigsaw pieces to colour in. Mine is blue. The things that make me me is my Xbox, Spongebob, a world because I love the world and 6 apples.” Arron M “I put monsters on my jigsaw because
It has been yet another jam packed week of learning at Balornock! Here are some photographs that capture some of the highlights of our busy week…. We read a story called ‘Jenny and the Bear’ which taught us a little bit about the dangers of second hand smoke. The bear in the story wasn’t feeling very well and we learned that this was because Jenny’s mum and dad were smoking in the
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
“I learned lots about clocks.”- Maiya “I learned how to spell ‘because’ in my spelling test.”- Yodahe & Leah “I know what achievement means- it means you have challenged yourself.”- Millie “I have got better at times tables by using the wee peg boards.”- Daniel
We have been very busy learning lots of new things this week in Primary 1a. Have a look at some of our highlights… Mrs Harris and Mrs Woolfries joined us in class for our Hear, Say, Play and Write lesson. We had to think of a name for our witch and then have a go at writing it! Here are a list of some of the fantastic names that we
We were learning about different types of questions. We read some passages from the novel The Twits. We answered literal, inferential and evaluative questions about Mr Tiwt and his spikey beard. We then worked in groups to try to come up with our own questions, to do this we had to understand the difference between each type of question to be able to create ones on our own. “We all
The Balornock Eco Committee had a fantastic meeting last week to continue our discussions on how we minimise food waste, ably facilitated by Tom Armstrong. The group discussed ways of monitoring the school’s food waste. Among the suggestions were pre-ordering the food the day before so as the pupils know what is coming up; and measuring the amount of actual food waste to see if we can reduce that amount
On Friday Primary 3 showcased their learning by hosting a fantastic Scottish Assembly! The children explained elements of the Wars of Independence, Scottish Culture, Traditions, Cities, Rivers and the lives of people from the past and present. All of the children thoroughly enjoyed singing various Scottish songs such as I’m a Skyscraper Wean, Touch the Sky, This Land, Auld Lang Syne and Caledonia. They took part in Ceilidh dancing
