Keeping our community clean & tidy!

This morning Primary 7 took to the streets with their litter picking equipment and worked hard in cleaning up the leftover rubbish lying around.  We were over the moon when one of the council vans stopped and the worker yelled out to tell us how great it was that we were out looking after our local area and gave us a big thumps up for our efforts!! 🙂

P7 ~ Race for Life!

Yesterday morning our class participated in the Race for Life, raising money for Cancer Research at Springburn Park. It was a lovely sunny morning and we were delighted to see our family and friends who came along to support us! Graham: “I didn’t expect to come to the finish line first, and I am happy that my mum was there to see me and that my teacher  was proud of

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Rookie Rockstar CD’s Available To Order Now!!!

Our very own Rookie Rockstar CD is now available to order from our school office. CD’s are priced at £5. For every CD sold to school will receive £1 back to go towards school funds. Each CD contains 5 original Rookie Rockstar songs, sung by the children of Balornock. The CD cover was also designed by one of our pupils.

Health Week Kicks Off In Primary 7!

What a great start we have had to Health week already! In class,  the P7’s have been busy creating Food and Fitness diaries to update each day. We also attended a Child Line workshop in the morning, learning about the ways in which we can get support. Nathan was chosen from our class to help demonstrate, he said, “At first I was nervous about taking part but I really enjoyed

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Health Week – Day 1 In Primary 3

Primary 3 have had a fantastic first day at Health Week. We have been learning how to play table tennis. We had great fun. We also joined up with children across the world to speak out for the 37 million children missing out on school in crisis affected countries by taking part in this years ‘Send My Friend to School’ campaign. You will find more information about this campaign in

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P6 – Health Week – Childline Workshop

Today, at Balornock Primary School, we took part in a Childline Workshop. We discussed all the different reasons for contacting Childline and examined the weight of carrying all of these worries around together on our own. We realised that we can share these worrries with many different people we trust and this will help to ease the load, allowing us to be more content and happy.    

Star Pupil in P7/6

Congratulations to James Bain for being our star pupil for the second time. This time it was for his amazing science knowledge in our Sound and Light topic. A future scientist in the making. P7/6 have also started their new topic on the Victorians. We’re not sure who’s scarier, Queen Victoria or Mrs Smith.