This week we redrafted our Remembrance poems and made a  display outside our classroom. They are our way of showing we remember not only the soldiers who gave their lives in the past but also the soldiers who fight for us every single day across the world.

Our week:

Callum: I enjoyed our lesson about evacuation. We got to experience what it would have been like to be a child evacuated during the war. We all had different things happen to us, some of us had better situations while some had relatives who were killed. It was interesting to see the emotions children felt.

Rabeea: I enjoyed doing long multiplication this week. We were using bigger and bigger numbers and learning how to solve different problems. I also had fun in Drama because we managed to run through the whole of the first act.

Sophie M: My highlight of the week was our school football match against Boghall. We all tried our best, worked as a team and showed we were proud to represent Balbardie.

Christopher A: In Drama, we practised scenes 1-6 and everybody did really well. There was lots of great acting and accents and most had learned their lines off by heart.

Rebecca: We researched famous people from WW2 this week. Louise and I researched Franklin Roosevelt and discovered he was the President of the USA during the war and he had to lead his country through some very tough times.

Isla: I enjoyed doing research on Oskar Schindler this week with Jane. We discovered that he was part of the Nazi party and he worked in a concentration camp but he then helped 1200 Jewish people escape, therefore saving their lives.

Fraser: I enjoyed redrafting my Remembrance poem. I had to choose what order to put my verses in and make sure my rhymes all worked properly. I also really enjoyed researching for my WW2 project this week.

Who has impressed?

Declan: The school football team impressed during our win over Boghall because they put in loads of effort.

Tom: I’m impressed with Fraser who played his first ever game of 7-a sides this week and did well.

Rabeea: Sophie impressed by showing great leadership skills by motivating the football team and leading them to victory.

Isla: Well done to Sam for winning pupil of the week.

Eve: Well done to the Flyers for winning table of the week.

Sophie M: Nicky has impressed by working really hard all this week.

Tom: I’ve been impressed with Josh’s behaviour this week.

Mr Berginis: A big well done to Isla, Dean, Rabeea and Sophie L who are our first four pupils onto step 4.