Our best bits:

Isla – Gym and Orangutan Jungle School.

Sofia – Column addition because it’s easier and wearing yellow.

Lois – Gym and when Mr Jeffries came in for a bit.

Ethan – When I went out with Mrs MacFarlane and Futsal.

Ruby – Doing maths and showing my pictures.

Jack C – Mr Jeffries in our class and the maths.

Thomas – Column addition and futsal.

Mikolaj – Futsal and when Mr Jeffries came.

Kai – Futsal and when Mr Jeffries came.

Jack B –Futsal and when Mr Jeffries came.

Hannah – When Mr Jeffries came because the girl caught a dust gremlin and wearing yellow.

Anna – My favourite was when we watched a movie with Mr Jeffries and wearing yellow.

Hollie – Finished watching Orangutan Jungle School.

Sophie – My favourite part was when I went with Mrs MacFarlane and when I did my show.

Daisy – When we finished watching Orangutans and wearing yellow.

Oliver – Orangutan Jungle School and Futsal

Ben – My favourite thing was playing games in hub and today is the last day of Hub so we’re going to celebrate.

P2B have focused this week on learning about endangered animals, in particular African endangered animals including the causes of population decrease. The children have enjoyed designing posters to campaign to save some of these animals.

We have also began following the lives of the Whiskers family; a mob of meerkats with very hectic lives.

We thoroughly enjoyed watching the P1 assembly today also.

Here are our best bits:

Isla – Primary 1 assembly and Meerkat Manor

Hollie – Meerkat Manor and RME

Ethan – Wild Kratts and Primary 1 assembly

Jack B – Wild Kratts and P1 assembly

Mikolaj – House pictures and assembly

Anna – Being Little Star and Primary 1 assembly

Ruby – Meerkat Manor and P1 assembly

Thomas – Primary 1’s assembly and Wild Kratts

Hannah – When Ben got his picture on the Star Board and the Primary 1’s assembly

Jack C – Meerkat Manor and Wild Kratts

Kai – The house pictures and Primary 1’s assembly

Sofia – Meerkat Manor and endangered animals posters

Sophie (Big Star) – Meerkat Manor and when I made my poster with the animals

Lois – Meerkat Manor and the big posters

Murray – Assembly

Daisy – Primary 1’s assembly and Meerkat Manor

Ben – When my work was on the Star Board and when Sophie made my mask.

This week Primary 2B has been busy preparing window decorations for our Rainbow Girls who are walking in Saturday’s Procession. The students made each girl a sign displaying their names in rolled up tissue paper – these are now on the front windows of the school.

We have also been learning about the very important topic of endangered animals and now know a variety of vulnerable, endangered and extinct animals and why these animals’ population is decreasing.

The children also loved PE this week where they have been trying out some rugby with Mr Jeffries.

Enjoy the Gala Day everyone!

Here are our best bits:

Sofia – Endangered animals and making Rainbow Girls signs

Anna – I’ve liked rugby

Ben – Assembly

Jack C – Assembly, I liked the songs.

Ethan – PE and the assembly

Jack B – Assembly and PE

Kai – PE and assembly

Hope – Rainbow Girls

Ruby – Assembly

Sophie – Rainbow Girls

Isla – PE and assembly

Daisy – Rainbow Girls!

Murray – Assem bly

Lois – Being Little Star

Oliver – When we learned about cheetahs

Mikolaj – Assembly and PE

Hollie – Colouring endangered animals

Hannah – When we watched Wild Krattz

Thomas – Learning a bout rhinos, fact files and making signs for the Rainbow Girls

Miss Cowan

Our favourite bits of this week:

Hollie – Baby Hippo Fiona and being Big Star

Sofia – The assembly and being Little Star

Hannah – Baby Fiona’s birthday party and Anna’s certificate

Daisy – Baby Fiona’s birthday

Murray – Assembly

Ethan – The assembly and the moon pictures

Sophie – Baby Hippo Fiona’s birthday and when I was doing my moon picture outside

Oliver – Baby Fiona’s Birthday

Anna – I’ve got two favourites which are getting my certificate and being little star.

Thomas – The assembly and watching Baby Fiona’s Birthday

Jack C – Baby Fiona’s Birthday

Hope – Maths outside and colouring pictures

Kai – The assembly and doing the pictures outside

Mikolaj – Futsal and the assembly

Jack B – Assembly

Lois – Baby Fiona’s birthday and her hippo shaped birthday cake

Isla – Baby Fiona and her cake

Ben – I liked Baby Fiona and I liked when Anna got her certificate

Primary 2’s assembly practise is going well and the children are enjoying their rehearsal times as you can see from our “best bits”. We are looking forward to the performance on May 10th.

We have been working hard on learning more about Africa this week and the class designed beautiful Ndebele tribal huts which are displayed on the classroom wall.

We have also been following the progress of a baby hippo named Fiona who lives in Cincinnati Zoo, the children were very excited to see Fiona starting to walk and learning to swim.

Here are our best bits of this week:

Hope – Fiona and being Big Star

Kai – Fiona

Daisy – Fiona and our assembly practise

Hollie – Fiona and assembly practise

Jack B – Assembly practise

Ethan – Fiona and assembly practise

Oliver – Fiona

Mikolaj – Fiona and assembly

Thomas – Fiona and our Ndebele Houses and designs

Murray – Fiona

Jack C – Fiona and assembly practise

Sofia – Assembly practise, Ndebele huts, Africa tribal art and Fiona the hippo and being Little Star.

Hannah – I liked Fiona the hippo because she was so small and cute and in episode 3 she actually swam and I liked it.

Anna – My favourite is when we did the Ndebele house and African colouring.

Sophie – I liked when Fiona swims and being Little Star.

Ruby – I liked Fiona and being Little Star and our assembly practise.

Ben – My favourite thing is when I got all my green stickers and when we watched Fiona and she was learning to walk.

Lois – Fiona

This week P2 began practising for their ‘Africa’ assembly; lines have been sent home to be practised. Songs include: Down In The Jungle, Tuwe Tuwe and Waka Waka. The children seem to be enjoying the assembly already!

Also as part of the new Africa topic, P2B made beautiful sunset safari silhouettes, which resulted in some messy hands and faces but lovely artwork for the wall.

In numeracy we have began a probability unit which the students are quickly picking up. We will continue to work on this next week.

Here are our best bits from the first week back:

Oliver – Practising for the assembly, I say a line.

Jack B – Getting to do the sunsets.

Ethan – Sunsets

Hollie – Assembly. I’m a flamingo with Georgia.

Hannah – Practising the assembly, I’m an archaeologist.

Thomas – Doing the last song for the assembly, the fast one.

Jack C – Assembly practise and the sunset

Daisy – Practising the assembly

Anna – Doing our pictures and the assembly.

Lois – Practising our assembly

Ruby – The sunsets

Mikolaj – The practise and the sunsets

Kai – The assembly

Sophie – Assembly because I get to speak and the chalk pictures.

Sofia – Practising the assembly and the sunset safaris.

Ben – Doing the dances from Africa. I’m a musician.

Hope – Mine is doing the pictures for art and assembly.

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Primary 2 have been doing a great job learning about mirror-image symmetry this week working with patterns. The class are also enjoying learning the songs for the upcoming Easter service.

This week’s Big Star was Anna, well done Anna, keep up the hard work.

Our Best Bits:

Sofia – Singing practice, I like all the songs.

Sophie – My one was when we did colour by adding.

Lois – Colouring competition

Hope – Singing practice and I like every song

Daisy – Colouring competition because I was a winner and singing practice

Jack C – Singing practice and symmetry

Anna – My favourite bit was doing Easter colouring in and watching the start of Hop

Isla – Being Little Star and colouring competition

Mikolaj – Designing shields

Ruby – I liked singing practice, my favourite song is the end one (If I were a butterfly) and the colouring competition because I was a winner.

Jack B – Mine was when I won an Easter egg from the competition

Oliver – When we did singing practice

Murray – Watching Hop and singing

Ethan – Singing practice and winning and Easter egg

Kai – When we made our own shields and Hop

Thomas – I think designing our own shields and the singing, I liked the last song.

Hannah – Being with all my friends in assembly

Hollie – Getting a certificate and doing pattern symmetry

Miss Cowan

Primary 2 loved watching P3’s assembly today on the Egyptians.

This week we continued out new imaginative writing genre; mysteries. The children produced some great mystery stories.

We have began calculating area in maths which the class are finding both enjoyable and challenging.

Our best bits:

Ben – Watching my brother’s assembly.

Oliver – Assembly

Kai – Assembly and when I got 2 stickers for finishing my word searches fast.

Jack B – Mine was when Ethan and me got stuck on work and we helped each other.

Hannah – Playing with Daisy

Murray – Getting a letter for my Mum and Dad

Isla – When Murray got a note home

Daisy – I liked playing with Hannah, assembly, mystery stories and area.

Ruby – Assembly and the wordsearch.

Sophie – Mine is assembly

Hollie – Assembly and playing with James

Sofia – The Egyptians when they were dancing and the funny bit and mystery stories and area.

Jack C – The Primary 3 Egyptians and playing outside.

Thomas – Writing mystery stories and assembly

Anna – Doing mystery stories and watching the assembly

Miss Cowan

P2B had a great week and as you can see, the trip to Stirling Castle was a big hit!

Kai – When we went to the castle. My favourite was when we went inside the castle.

Murray – The castle. My favourite was the kitchen.

Anna – Going to Stirling Castle and learning about all the different rooms.

Hannah – My favourite has been Stirling Castle when we got to go in the Queen’s bedroom because someone was telling us about it.

Hollie – Castle, I liked the classroom when people were trying on costumes.

Daisy – The castle, the kitchen.

Hope – The castle, the kitchen and when we tried on costumes.

Ethan – I liked the school part where we got to choose armour to put on. And the kitchen.

Ruby – The kitchen in the castle and when we dressed up.

Jack B – The castle when we got to see the canons.

Oliver – Going to the castle, when we saw canons and the kitchen.

Mikolaj – Castle, the kitchen and being little star.

Jack C – Having my red nose badge and red nose.

Isla – The castle and going in the kitchen and seeing canons and I got to dress up as a princess.

Thomas – Dressing up at the castle and today being Red Nose Day and seeing Mikolaj on the stage.

Sofia – The castle, I liked the classroom when I got to try something on and the canons and the King and Queen’s bedroom.

Lois – Going on the bus to the castle.

Ben – I liked meeting new people and playing with toys.

Miss Cowan

A short but busy week of learning for P2B. We enjoyed a fantastic, fun visit from an outdoor learning company who helped the children to build dens.

We enjoyed watching P4’s assembly today about Comic Relief.

We also began creating characters to use in a story we are writing next week. The children were using more creative synonyms for words such as “nice”.

Our best bits:

Ben – Watching P4 assembly. Watching the science video of launching stuff. Den building.

Jack B – When Murray showed his castle and building a den

Ruby – Show and tell

Sophie – when I watched P4 and show and tell castles and den building

Lois – Assembly

Daisy – Show and tell and assembly. Den building.

Isla – The castles and science

Mikolaj – Castles and science and den building

Sofia – Show and tell and the P4s assembly, I liked the song and building a den

Murray – Science

Oliver – P4 assembly and science

Thomas – Making my castle and making hero character for our story and science and making a den

Anna – Assembly and heroes and den building

Hannah – Being with all my friends and den building

Kai – Making heroes and P4 assembly

Hollie – Show and tell and science

Miss Cowan

REMINDER: Castle models due Wednesday 20th February

Our best bits of this week:

Hannah – My favourite part is being big star.

Anna – Little star

Kai – Music because we had to think about the composer.

Sophie – my favourite bit was making a Nian mask.

Thomas – making Nian masks

Lois – Making a Nian mask

Mikolaj – making a nian mask

Jack B – making Nian masks

Ethan – Science and making Nian masks

Daisy – Nian masks because it was colourful

Hope – Nian masks

Ruby – Nian masks

Murray – Nian masks

Isla – Being little star and science and music and maths.

Jack C – Science

Hollie – Nian masks

Sofia – Science because we learned about electricity and Nian masks

Another busy week of learning in P2B. The class are enjoying our Castles topic and learning a lot. I hope the castle building is coming along nicely.

I was especially impressed this week during our writing / problem solving lesson where student’s had to write the ending to “Hassle at the Castle” a story in which the drawbridge of a castle was damaged in a storm. Children were to think of how to get the King and Queen safely across the moat. Some great ideas were shared and I was proud of the work written.

This week’s Big Star was Murray. Great job Murray, keep working hard.

Here are out best bits of this week:

Hope – Knights, designing my own armour.

Lois – Painting castles

Ethan – Art and science

Isla – Art and castles story.

Jack B – Art and science.

Sofia – Art because we drew castles and it looks like you can walk into it.

Hannah – I liked the science because there were some seagulls who kept trying to steal the lunch.

Sophie – Designing our own armour, my one is on the wall and painting our own castles that it looks like you can walk through.

Daisy – When I got my story ending on the wall.

Anna – When we done the knights and the castles so it looks like we can walk through it.

Kai – When we done the knights and designed our own.

Oliver – Science reading the Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch story.

Murray – Designing our own knights.

Jack C – Being little star.

Hollie – I liked when Lois brought her castle in.

Mikolaj – Being little star.

 Miss Cowan

This week Primary 2B have been learning about the cultural festival of Chinese New Year. The class seem very interested in this topic and are enjoying making colourful, new decorations whilst learning.

In addition the children have been learning about solids, liquids and gas in science.

Balbardie have redesigned our house shields and all houses met together yesterday for each winning shield to be unveiled.

In maths we began work on fractions and have been examining halves, quarters and thirds.

This week’s Big Star was Anna – well done Anna keep up the great effort.

A certificate was given to Murray at assembly for showing the school values.

Hannah was the winner of the P2 poetry competition and has been performing her poem “Nessie the Loch Ness Monster” outside of school at various events. Well done Hannah, I hope you enjoy the book you were given today at assembly.

Here are our favourite bits of this week:

Isla: Science

Murray: Science

Jack C: Making dragons

Jack B: Chinese New Year, I liked when we were writing the numbers in Chinese and making dragons.

Ruby: Making dragons

Hope: Dragons

Mikolaj: Doing Chinese New Year

Ethan: Doing Chinese New Year and science

Oliver: Science

Kai: Science

Hannah: Getting my book at assembly.

Lois: Making dragons

Anna: My favourite thing would probably be making shields

Ben: When Hannah got the book

Sophie: Making dragons and writing Chinese numbers

Hollie: Chinese New Year

Thomas: Making the dragons and my birthday too and Chinese New Year

Daisy: Everything in Chinese New Year

Miss Cowan

This week has had a very Scottish influence what-with today being Burns Day. P2b learned about Robert Burns and Burns Day. The children enjoyed learning some Scottish dancing and Scottish songs such as “Cannie shove yer Grannie off the bus” and “The Jeely Piece Song”.

We enjoyed watching a brilliant assembly from P5 today which also had a Scottish theme.

P2B designed house shields this week for our school-wide house shields competition.

Here are our favourite bits:

Isla – Yesterday when we did the sentences because I got a certificate from Mrs Laidlaw.

Thomas – Watching assembly and making the shields.

Sofia – Shields and seeing the highland dancing

Jack B – Shields

Ethan – Shields and Jack’s sister’s assembly

Kai – Shields

Oliver – Watching the highland dancers.

Jack C – Watching highland dancing.

Lois – Watching highland dancing

Hannah – Going to do my poetry

Anna – My favourite would probably have to be the shields because they’ll get to decide who’s been the winner

Sophie – My favourite thing was our shields and watching highland dancing

Hope – My brother’s assembly

Murray – Shields

Hollie – Shields

Daisy – Shields and watching the highland dancing

Miss Cowan

This week primary 2b have continued learning their times tables with this week’s focus being the 3x table. We had some help from the Three Times Alien.

We had a special visit today from Badger the Mystical Mutt who even performed some of his magic.

I am very proud of how well the children did when reciting their Scottish poems, it was clear everyone had worked hard learning their lines.

P2B have also worked hard to create a lovely French colours display making colourful paint palettes and rainbows.

Hollie – Three times alien. Paper plates. And getting a certificate for doing good work.

Ruby – Being big star

Sofia – Saying my poem.

Daisy – I liked making paper plates and rainbows for French. Little star.

Jack C – Badger Visit

Isla – Three Times Alien because I drew it very well.

Ethan – Three Times Alien

Kai – Three Times Alien

Jack B – Three Times Alien

Mikolaj – Three Times Alien

Murray – Three Times Alien

Oliver – Three Times Alien

Hannah – I’ve liked everything. Getting a certificate.

Sophie – Three Times Alien

Anna – Three Times Alien and the paint palettes.

Thomas – Badger and getting my poem certificate and doing the rainbow and the alien.

Hope – The plates and the rainbows. And the dog coming. Being little star.

Lois – French and aliens.

Miss Cowan

This week in Primary 2 we have stared our new topic of castles. We have been learning about the different features found in castles.

We have also revised the 2,5 and 10 times table.

The class enjoyed the stories we have read this week during milk and story time. We have read Winnie the Witch and Hugless Douglas.

Here are the children’s favourite parts of the week:

Kai – When we did science

Hannah – Reading Hugless Douglas

Mikolaj – Clocks

Oliver – Science when we watched videos about water and snowflakes

Sofia – Science when we learned about the water

Jack C –Science watching the water and the ice

Sophie – Hugless Douglas

Jack B – I liked when we did science because we got to watch clips of water and snowflakes and all different shapes of snowflakes

Lois – Hugless Douglas when he found a hug from his mum

Ben – When Jack came

Hollie – Castles about the drawbridge.

Anna – Learning about castles, learning about the parts around the castle.

Isla – Learning about castles, there’s water around the castle so the enemies can’t get in. The moat.

Hope – When Jack came.

Thomas – Doing castles, I like the moat, it’s a lake that you can’t get passed and the only way to get over is lower the drawbridge.

Ruby – Hugless Douglas because he got a hug from his mum.

Daisy – Hugless Douglas because he keeps trying to get a hug and science because I liked learning about water.

Ethan – When Jack came. Castles because they have a moat.

Miss Cowan

REMINDERS:

TUESDAY 18TH P2 CHRISTMAS PARTY.

THURSDAY 20TH CHRISTMAS PANTO.

Here are our best bits:

Lois – Learning about the brain.

Daisy – The nativity I liked singing all my songs. And being little star.

Ethan – Assembly because Jack got a certificate.

Hope – Nativity I liked all the parents coming and being little star.

Sofia – Being big star. And Miss Cowan painting Santa coming down the chimney for the door.

Holly – When my Mum and Dad came and saw the nativity.

Hannah – Donkey for Sale because I liked when we sang High on the Hill because we had to point and sing “Go to Bethlehem”.

Sophie – Donkey for Sale and Ernie fishing.

Isla – Being little star.

Jack – When I got a certificate at assembly.

Murray – Singing

Kai – When Jack got his certificate.

Anna – Watching all of the boys and girls who got their certificates and tried hard to do the four Balbardie values.

Mikolaj – Making the elves.

Thomas – Making elves. Mine was called Kipper.

Oliver – Making the elves. Mine was called Buddy, I used red, black and yellow and peach.

Miss Cowan

REMINDER: PLEASE REMEMBER CHRISTMAS JUMPERS ON 11^TH, 12^TH AND 13^TH FOR THE NATIVITY DRESS REHEARSAL AND FINAL SHOWS

This week has been a very special week for Primary 2B. Not only did we have a fantastic time at the Destination Judo session, we have also been working very hard on our nativity songs to be ready for next week. The most special event of the week however occurred on Thursday morning with the arrival of Ernie, the naughtiest elf in the North Pole. He has been sent from Santa Claus to learn from our wonderful class how to be better behaved because at night time he gets up to all sorts of mischief!

This week also saw the introduction of 3D shapes and multiplication through sets in numeracy. The children have taken to this quickly and are doing well. Next week we will begin solving multiplication problems through using the array method.

Here are our best bits; it was suggested by Oliver that Ernie be included too. Daisy also suggested including Ernie on our sticker chart. Two very thoughtful suggestions.

Ben – When Ernie came from the North Pole and when he made a flying fox from the blinds.

Isla – Practicing Donkey for Sale

Jack – Judo

Ruby – Judo

Hannah – When Ernie came.

Sophie (Big Star) – When Ernie made a zip-line.

Kai – Judo

Murray – Judo

Ethan – The Elf

Mikolaj – Judo

Oliver – When Ernie came.

Hope – When Ernie came and made a zip-line.

Anna – Judo.

Daisy – Ernie. I like how he made a zip-line.

Sofia – The P6 assembly.

Lois – The elf. He made a zip-line.

Hollie – When Ernie came and he made a zip-line.

Ernie – Riding in Santa’s sleigh to be dropped off in P2B!

Miss Cowan

P2B had a busy week preparing for the Christmas enterprise, decorating our door for Book Week Scotland and continuing to learn our nativity songs.

This week’s Big Star was Jack – well done Jack.

Here are our favourite bits of this week:

Sophie – Doing the cookies

Daisy – Christmas enterprise, my favourite part was the cookies.

Sofia – Christmas cookies, I did a Santa and a tree.

Isla – Cookies, I did the Christmas tree and the angel.

Hope – Christmas enterprise, I did a Santa and a tree.

Murray – Christmas enterprise.

Jack – Christmas enterprise.

Kai – Winning the poster competition.

Oliver – The cookies.

Mikolaj – Cookies

Hannah – Cookies, I used every colour.

Thomas – Winning the calendar.

Hollie – Making the cookies and the cups for the snowman soup.

Lois – Making cookies and drawing on the cups.

Anna – My favourite was drawing the poster was Ruby and we got to use lots of different colours.

Ruby – Cookies, I did Santa and an angel.

P2B looked brilliant today all dressed up for Children in Need! A great way to end another good week.

This week saw the start of our Christmas enterprise which the class thoroughly enjoyed getting stuck into.

Lack of rain on Thursday meant a fun game of football with Mrs Laidlaw during outdoor gym.

This week and next we are continuing our money unit in maths and beginning to look at giving change.

Ben – My favourite thing was dressing up as Pickachu. He’s my favourite.

Thomas – The enterprise.

Hollie – Snowman soup.

Oliver – Dressing up for Pudsey. I got a certificate.

Murray – Dressing up for Pudsey.

Mikolaj – Playing football yesterday and chaos tig.

Hannah – Being Big Star

Kai – Dressing up for Pudsey because me and Oliver are twins.

Isla – Money because I’m getting better and better at it.

Anna – My favourite thing was being Little Star on Tuesday.

Hope – Playing football and dressing up for children in need.

Sofia – Pushing myself doing coins.

Daisy – Christmas enterprise on Wednesday.

Jack – Playing football.

Ethan – My favourite thing was dressing up for Pudsey.

Ruby – Dress down for Pudsey.

Lois – Being Little Star.

Miss Cowan