We are loving our Rookie Rockstars experience in school this week.  A reminder that our performance concerts are at 6.30pm on Wednesday 6^th December for Bruce & Hardy and Thursday 7^th December for Strachan & Macpherson. Tickets costing £5.00 are available from the school office. CDs costing £5.00 will be available to pre-order at the concerts, printed with a winning pupil’s design. Other items of Rookie Rockstars merchandise like wrist bands, t-shirts and badges will be available to buy also.

Children should come to school ready to rock dressed for the concert wearing shades or fancy dress like their favourite rock or pop star. Pupils should report to staff in the upper hall for no later than 6.15pm to check-in. All pupils should be collected by parents/carers at the end of the concert from our gym hall.

We are looking forward to performing!

This week we have been busy with  preparations for the Christmas Fayre this Saturday and thought we’d share a couple of photos of this. We have been creating, measuring and writing linked to our festive activities this week.

Say hello at the P1 stall and have a closer look at what we’ve been creating.

We hope to see you there and please remember to bring some spending money!

You can help raise awareness and funds for Children in Need this week by wearing something spotty or dressing down this Friday 17th November and making a donation. Some Pudsey and Blush ears have already been spotted in school and P3a and Mrs Harrison are very busy rehearsing for their class assembly on Thursday to tell us more.

This is our first house challenge! We are so eggcited! We are not yolking about this.

We would like you to decorate an eggcelent hard boiled egg with an eggy name e.g Eggward Scissorhands, Eggo Batman (Thanks to Mrs spence for those names.) The eggs and their eggy names need to be in school by the 27th of March and we will collect them from your teacher. 1st place will receive 1,000 house points, 2nd will receive 500 and 3rd will receive 250.

Good duck (because ducks lay eggs!) Let the fun begin, we hope you don’t get scrambled about this!

From the House Captain Team-Clara McCallum, Louise Kirk, Scott Aitchison, Polina Derugina, Rebecca Notman, Aaron McNicol and Mrs Spence 🙂 Get cracking!

Here at Balbardie our P4 stage are leading our learning about Red Nose Day, which this year takes place on Friday 24th March. On that day you can wear something red for our Dress Down Day and donate £1.00 to this great cause. The money raised helps to fund projects, in the UK and Africa, that have found effective ways to tackle poverty and injustice.

Order forms have been sent out for you to buy your very own Red Nose. Please complete the order form and return this along with your  £1.00 if you’d like to buy one. Pupils who have ordered so far have enjoyed opening the shiny wrapper to reveal which of the different designs is inside.

Our P4 pupils are awaiting the arrival of their fundraising pack and will update us soon with how we can get involved in supporting Red Nose Day. Check here for more details soon!

Did you know we have our very own app?

This is a new and exciting way of communicating with parents/carers which we are in the early stages of developing. You can download the app for free now by searching in Apple or Google Play stores for Balbardie Primary School. At the moment we have 60 downloads and would love to see this number on the up.

We look forward to using this tool to help us keep in touch about upcoming events, news and to provide another way of  sharing messages with you. Let us know what you think and hAPPy downloading!

We have been learning how to write in Scots. We have been using ‘Room on the Broom’ to help us.  We are working on a series of three lessons.  Here are some Scots words for you to guess their meaning – bizzum, dug, puddock.

There is a castle in our classroom at the role play area. This is for our learning across the curriculum. We are thinking about designing a flag for it. Whoever makes the best one, we’re going to display it on the castle.

Butterfly Sparkle is one of our songs from our P2 show called Caterpillar Boogie. It’s a happy song and the first song in the show. Mrs Innes is keeping us guessing about who the special person is during our drama lessons. Maybe we can tell you next week!

Congratulations to Grace M and Alex for being class winners in the Scots poetry competition.

Orlaith, Grace M & Ryan