It has been a very busy couple of weeks for the Literacy Challenge! Please read all our exciting news. Hear, Say, Play, Write Hear, Say, Play, Write began for the Primary 1 and 2 children. They had a fantastic time listening to the story Room on the Broom written by Julia Donaldson read by Mrs Woolfries. All the classes enjoyed joining in with the story and listening out for the
Yesterday, our class bear Bloom celebrated turning age 6…Happy Birthday Bloom! Bloom asked us for some help; “He asked us if we could help him design some cupcakes for his birthday party!” said Leon. We all agreed that we would be more than happy to do that for him. However, Bloom gave us some very special instructions to follow; We had to make the design symmetrical. “That means they have to be
The boys and girls in Primary 1a LOVE to read. This week, we were delivered our very own newspapers and we used the opportunity to search for environmental print, common words, phonetic words and even attempt some ‘Have a Go’ reading. Look at how much fun we had…
On Thursday 11th January, all children from P5 to P7 attended a Lego workshop where they built working models of a conveyor belt. Here is some of the feedback from the children: “I think Lego is fun, it was easy to build and I think it is amazing how Lego can do that and I didn’t know that.” “I enjoyed the Lego workshop even though I don’t really like Lego.”
It has been another busy week in Balornock. The boys and girls in Primary 1a have been learning lots of new and exciting things! Here is a sneaky peek at our week…. “I liked adding the counters!” said Adam. “I liked making my own tartan!” said Madison. “I liked when Mrs Woolfries came in and read Room on the Broom!” said Georgia.
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
Primary 1b got lots of new maths resources this week that we practiced on. Two-sided counters Our penguins on ice Numicons and bead strings! We introduced our ‘Chilli Challenge’ this week. “It’s so much fun” said Logan D. “We love it!” said Vincent. We also had a visit from Mrs Woolfries and Mrs Harris to read us a story – Room on the Broom!! And Miral, Georgia and Siying wow’d
Happy New Year everybody! What a busy first full week back we have had. As a class we came up with our own resolutions and wrote them down for a display. One of Del’s resolution is to be more fit and healthy. Morgan is going to try and eat more fruit and vegetables. Caitlin is going to try to be more
This week, the boys and girls took part in an Eco competition. We had to design stickers for ‘Clean Up Scotland’ to help them say thank you to all the volunteers who are helping to keep Scotland beautiful. The winning design will be made into stickers which will be included in the ‘Clean Up’ kits that are used. Thank you to all the classes that took part this week and good luck to everyone!
Primary 3 would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year! May 2018 be the best year yet! Since returning to school after the holidays, Primary 3 have been working very hard and learning lots of new things about Scotland. They have been learning about people, places, rivers, traditions and dancing. They have used their mapping skills to located Scotland’s 7 cities and 10 longest rivers. Primary 3
