Category Archives: Whole School News

P3A

We’ve had another busy week in P3A. Here are some of our highlights:

Aaron: I enjoyed learning about the properties of 2D shapes.

Jack: I enjoyed doing Big Maths Beat That because there were 17 questions. It is good.

Aileigh: I enjoyed Art because we made little people and it was fun.

Ellie: I liked doing Health and Wellbeing because we got to learn about lots of different things. We got to jump around and listen to songs.

Jude: I enjoyed maths because we were learning about 2D shapes and it was fun.

River: I enjoyed Big Writing because Miss McKinnon said I was doing well with it.

Holly: I enjoyed the assembly because my best friend was close to winning a toy.

Ethan: I enjoyed reading because I got a new book.

Olivia: I enjoyed doing Big Maths Beat That because it was fun.

Amber: I enjoyed doing Health and Wellbeing because we got to make brains.

Shannon: I enjoyed Big Maths Beat That because we started with easy questions and now they’re a bit more difficult.

Ada: I enjoyed Big Maths Beat That because I was challenged with 17 questions.

Scott: I enjoyed outdoor P.E.

Ellis: I enjoyed making decorations for the library.

Oliver: I enjoyed Big Maths.

Mac: I enjoyed Big Writing.

Millie: I liked making the decorations for the library.

Carley: I enjoyed making decorations for the library because I got to design the hairstyle.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

P3A

Just another reminder for those who are unaware, our indoor P.E. days are Tuesday and Wednesday and our outdoor P.E. day is Thursday. Please ensure children have their P.E. kits in school if you haven’t already provided one. Thank you.

Highlights of the week in P4a

As we continue through term 1 it is really interesting to see what makes every pupil’s highlight of the week. We are so glad that the children are enjoying the topics we are covering this term!
Alex – I liked science.
Alfie – I enjoyed learning about the control of the ball in hockey.
Alysheeya – I enjoyed learning about forces.
Akasha – I enjoyed Science because we made a catapult to measure how far a car would go.
Archie – I enjoyed PE with the hockey sticks.
Artjom – I liked learning about maths and the more than, less than signs.
Charlotte – I enjoyed Mary Queen of Scots because we made old paper with tea bags.
Daniel – I liked learning about Mary, Queen of Scots because we are learning the story and we were writing a letter to Mary’s mum who was in Scotland whilst Mary was in exile in France.
Ehan – I like controlling the ball in hockey.
Elena – I liked doing work on the calendar.
Emily – I liked outdoor PE best.
Emma – I loved learning about the forces on the cars in science.
Eva – I liked learning the French days of the week.
Grace – I enjoyed learning about Mary Queen of Scots and reading the story.
Hollie – I enjoyed learning big numbers in Maths.
Jude – I like numeracy.
Lexi – I liked outdoor PE. I liked playing hockey.
Lilyrose – I enjoyed Mary Queen of Scots because I really, really like the story.
Lois – I enjoyed Science.
Lucas – I have been enjoying learning how to hold a hockey stick.
Luke – I enjoyed science because we are learning about Forces and we tested how far a toy car would travel if we applied more force.
Maddison – I liked learning across the curriculum because we were doing Mary, Queen of Scots.
Orlaith – I enjoyed learning to pass the ball in hockey.
Rheagan – I enjoyed making my robot with Mrs Stewart.
Rosie –I enjoyed playing games with Mr Jeffries.
Rowan – I liked the facts about Science about how different forces test how far things go. And I’m thinking of being a scientist when I’m older.
Sam – I enjoyed outdoor PE because we were playing hockey.
Sarah – I enjoyed Mary, Queen of Scots when I found out everything.
Teigan – I enjoyed doing Science.

We also voted for our class representative for the pupil council. The 6 pupils who nominated themselves did very well speaking about what was important and how they would represent the class. We are pleased to announce that Luke was voted by his classmates as P4a rep for 2018-19.

Table of the week – yellow with 390 points

ARB Trip

We, in Class Moon, absolutely loved our trip to Blair Drummond Safari Park. We enjoyed watching the sealion show and when we were on the coach going through the park we enjoyed seeing the tigers, meerkats and camels. We all had a fun time on the Dragon Ride and looked round the animal farm where we saw chickens, pigs, donkeys and horses. A super time was had by all!

   

Class Star had a great time seeing the animals and enjoyed making play dough animals when they came back to school.

  

Class Sun enjoyed the Dragon Roller Coaster and the sealion show.

  

P5a

This week in numeracy we have been working on addition and subtraction, with carrying and borrowing. We also did Big Maths Beat That which we really enjoyed – every day we will try to beat our score. In literacy we have been writing imaginative stories using a picture to give us ideas. Some pictures we used were: a haunted house; a treasure chest and an enchanted tree. We played Rounders outside and really enjoyed it – we are getting better and catching the ball to get the other team out. Here are some of our favourite bits from this week:

Ammie-Leigh – I enjoyed mindfulness colouring and the addition and subtraction worksheets.

Jodie –  I enjoyed Big Maths.

Blaire – I liked playing Rounders for outdoor P.E.

Shelbi – I liked Big Maths Beat That.

Tamsyn – I enjoyed writing my speech for Pupil Council and presenting it to the class.

Niamh – I liked singing along to Leon the Chameleon in French.

Maisie – I enjoyed learning about bullying and talking about it with my group.

Donna –I liked art with Mr Bennett.

Erin – I liked P.E with Mr Jeffries when we did team work activities.

Ross – I liked playing Shipwreck in P.E.

Ruby – I liked presenting my speech for Pupil Council

Arran – I liked Big Maths.

 

 

P6A

It has been a very busy week of learning in P6a.

 

Here are some highlights:

Euan- I liked the races in outdoor P.E.

Miles- I enjoyed the maths assessment because it was challenging.

Mia- I loved maths this week because we were learning about BOMDAS.

Hannah- I liked rounding in maths because it was fun.

Teighan- I liked writing our newspaper report about deforestation because I enjoy learning about factual information.

Connor- I liked doing outdoor P.E. because everyone was cheering each other on.

Lucas- I liked doing our newspaper report.

Denholm- I enjoyed P.E. with Mr Jeffries.

Joshua- I liked writing the newspaper report about deforestation.

Islay- I liked enjoyed writing about deforestation.

William- I enjoyed the maths task cards because they were quite challenging.

Lauren- I liked playing ‘Shipwrecked’ with Mr Jeffries in P.E.

Ranna- I enjoyed the Mild, Spicy and Hot worksheets in maths.

 

We also held elections for our Pupil Council member.  Everyone who took part was great and they all did themselves proud.

We all made a vote and our elected Pupil Council member was Sophia- Well Done!

P3B

This week we have further explored our rights and the rights of the children around the world. We tried to see how it would feel if we had to carry water from the tap to just across the classroom. Most of us found it tricky and some of us found it easy. It was tricky because the water weighed a lot. A lot of children have this responsibility every day – sometimes before school or even not being able to go to school as it takes so long. We also looked at what makes a safe school and we could identify lots of ways that Balbardie is safe. We made posters to send to the prime minister to make sure they keep their promise of having safe schools for all children all around the world.

In maths, we have started to look at recognising numbers and how they form a sequence. We have been practicing the number song and looking at numbers before and after a given number. In topic maths, we have started to look at the properties of 2D shapes and their properties.

In science, we were learning about the different properties material have and compared how they felt, looked and moved in comparison to each other. We recorded our results and were able to talk about the different materials.

In literacy, we looked at how to use The Comprehension Box. The cards were interesting and we could choose which one to do first. We also discussed the messages we could write on our Safe Schools poster and chose the one we liked best, to write.

Enjoy your weekend!

P3A

We have had another busy week in P3A. Here are some of our highlights:

Jack: I enjoyed Big Writing because we are writing about Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory.

Emily: I enjoyed getting the head teachers award.

Jude: I enjoyed reading because we did a new thing called reading comprehension.

Ellis: I enjoyed P.E. because I got to play fun games with my friends.

Alex: I enjoyed our reading comprehension because I finished it and I moved up to outstanding.

Aaron: I enjoyed maths because we were learning about properties of 3D shapes.

Ada: I enjoyed doing reading comprehension because it was a challenge for me.

Holly: I enjoyed P.E. because we played

a hula hoop game.

James: I enjoyed learning about growth mindset.

Aileigh: I enjoyed Big Writing because we pretended we were Charlie going into the chocolate factory.

Ellie: I enjoyed P.E. because we got to do it outside and we got some fresh air.

Scott: I enjoyed reading Charlie and the chocolate factory.

Carley: I enjoyed Big Writing because we were writing about Charlie and the chocolate factory and it’s my favourite film.

Max: I enjoyed having new people in our class so I can play with them.

Amber: I enjoyed Big Writing because we got to write about Charlie entering our own made up chocolate factory.

Teigan: I enjoyed doing P.E. outside.

Millie: I enjoyed having outdoor P.E.

*Note to parents: Outdoor P.E. lessons will take place on a Thursday, please ensure all children have an outdoor P.E. kit in school as soon as possible if you haven’t already provided one, thank you. Library sessions will take place on a Monday. *

Have a great weekend everyone.

P3A

A busy week in P4a!

This week we’ve started learning about Mary, Queen of Scots. We found out that she was born in 1542 at Linlithgow Palace, very close to our school! After she was born, her father died but King Henry tried to take the throne by marrying his son to her. We made invitations to the coronation or birth announcements to show what we had learnt.
In numeracy, we were learning to add onto the tens and hundreds. It was a little bit challenging when we did the hundreds.
In PE we were playing heads, shoulders, knees and cones. When Mr Jeffries said cones we had to grab a cone. We started playing hockey with Mrs Collings, learning to hold the stick and dribble a ball.
We investigated some toys to find out if they moved using a push or a pull. We found out that some toys are push and pull!

Mrs Johns is setting up a pupil council to gather the views of the children from across the school, telling her about any problems in the school or suggestions about how to improve things for everyone. We will be choosing our pupil council rep next Friday when the children can explain to the class why they would be a good rep for P4a.
Elena and Grace visited Mr McCabe as 2 class representatives who had demonstrated excellent school values, settling into their new class and working hard at all times.
Sam won a Sunflower competition because hers was the tallest. She started growing it back in the spring. She won a very posh box of chocolates.
At his taekwondo competition, Alfie won a gold medal.
Maddison won an art competition.
Yesterday Sara won a medal in a fishing competition.
Luke and Hollie swam over 20 lengths at swimming!
Luke created his first game on Tinker which is an app for children to developing gaming.
Orlaith moved up to Grade 1 in dancing.
Charlotte is learning to ride her bike without stabilisers.
Eva moved up a level in cheerleading.
Teigan moved up a level in performance academy.

P5a

In literacy this week we have been writing imaginative stories. We created stories with a beginning, middle and end about a princess and a dragon. First we drew pictures of each part of the story and used these to help describe our stories. We have also been continuing to learn about place value and have been working through our booklets and doing mental maths. We also played another game of Splat – this time the boys won! We went outdoors to play rounders and we loved it! We also got to have our first lesson with our new art teacher, Mr Bennett and are looking forward to more. Here are some of our highlights.

Blaire – I enjoyed playing rounders outside.

Jodie – I liked learning about King Alexander and the place value work.

Lily – I liked writing the story about princess and the dragon.

Donna – My favourite thing was writing the imaginative story.

Katie – I enjoyed rounders – I want more practice!

Ellis – I enjoyed P.E. with Mr Jeffries when we got to play Head Shoulder Knees and Cones.

Erin – My favourite game was Splat!

Ross – I enjoyed rounders.

Ammie-Leigh – I enjoyed our art lesson with Mr Bennett.

Have a lovely weekend 🙂

 

7a

This week has been a busy week in 7a. We have written biographies of Mr. Cunningham, learned about place value and rounding and studied the life of our first inspirational person, Nelson Mandela. We also enjoyed the sunshine on Thursday during outdoor PE when we played rugby.

Here are our highlights:

Lucy M: I enjoyed creating our Nelson Mandela posters

Olivia: I liked playing Giants, Wizards and Warlocks

Millie: I enjoyed writing about Nelson Mandela

Breanna: I enjoyed doing a biography about you (Mr C)

Oliver: I liked maths this week

Robbie: I enjoyed playing rugby

Aaron: I liked playing dodge ball

P6A

This week in P6A we did lots and lots of fabulous things.  Here are some of our favourites…

Megan- I enjoyed researching and creating a poster on Rainforest Animals.

Connor- I enjoyed playing the bubble game in P.E.

Catriona- I enjoyed art.

Euan- I liked trying to round to 1000’s in maths.

Mia- I enjoyed working on place value this week.

Kiara- I enjoyed writing about the Rainforest.

James- I enjoyed the assembly.

Ranna- I really enjoyed art this week.

Alfie- I enjoyed writing.

Teighan- I have enjoyed our two weeks with our new teacher.

Hannah- I enjoyed revising colours in French.

Joshua- I enjoyed maths.

Alex- I enjoyed note taking for Rainforest animals.

Lauren- I enjoyed everything!

 

Please note indoor P.E. will take place every Monday and outdoor P.E. every Tuesday.  Please ensure P.E. kits are in school for these times.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Welcome to P6b

It’s been a fun and busy start to the new year in P6b!

Throughout the week we have been looking at the importance of rights and responsibilities and this helped to inform our class charter and classroom jobs. We also looked at the relationship this shares with democracy as we voted for our class novel and discussed the upcoming opportunity for one child to be elected to our student council.

Revising key concepts learnt last year was our main focus in maths, with a particular focus on using the column method for multiplication and the bus stop method for division. Furthermore, in literacy we wrote a passage detailing what we did and enjoyed over the summer holidays.

The children have really been enjoying reading this week; we are ploughing our way through Danny the Champion of the World which we have been using to bolster and extend our already impressive vocabulary.

Lastly, we have begun looking at the rainforest as part of our topic for the first term which has involved investigating where rainforests are and the animals and plants which live within them.

All in all it has been a fantastic week, well done for working so hard and making me proud, P6b! 🙂

P2A

Welcome back from p2A! We hope you had a fantastic summer! We have had a very busy first week back-We have been busy setting out and making our class charter and focussing on what makes a great p2 pupil and what makes a super P2 teacher. We made very colourful helping hands and characters to display on our wall.

In number work we have been practising our mental maths counting up to 100 and our number bonds up to 10 and 20 and will be continuing with this next week with our Speedy Mental Maths challenges as part of our number station.

We had fun in Circle time with our new Circle Time games and we shared key facts about what we did in our summer holidays.

Next week we will have PE with Mr Jeffries, please note indoor gym kit for each Tuesday please 🙂 Outdoor PE day  will be a Thursday this term (weather permitting) Many thanks for returning gym kits.

Homelearning will be sent home each Wednesday, please return the following Monday, many thanks for your support with this.

 

P3B

Welcome back!

P3B have settled in well and have been working hard.

We have been learning about our rights. We have been looking at The Convention on the Rights of the Child. In Article 7 we learned about our right to a name. In Article 28 we learned about our right to an education and understand why we have rules and need to follow them We are using this with our class dojo. As part of our learning, we will be asking our government to ensure all children around the world have access to safe schools. Article 24 has lots of rules within it. We looked at our right to nutritious food, a clean environment, quality healthcare, and access to clean water. We made water filters to see how they cleaned dirty water into clean water and learned how to make it safe for drinking.
In maths we have been building our mental agility by learning and practicing our number bonds.

Enjoy your weekend.

Welcome Back P5a

We have had a lovely week back at school and are looking forward to the year ahead. We enjoyed getting to know our new teacher during Circle Time where we spoke about highlights from our summer holidays. We then wrote about things we saw and did during the summer. We also learned about sudoku and played Countdown numbers. Here are some of our other highlights this week:

Katie – I enjoyed the name art activity because I got to show my personality.

Brooke – I really liked playing Splat against the boys and doing the art activity.

Tamsyn – I liked learning how to do Sudoku.

Callum – Hop Rock Paper Scissors in P.E was really fun!

Arran – I enjoyed the parachute game in P.E.

Ross – I really liked Sudoku games.

Ammie – Leigh – I enjoyed mindfulness colouring and Countdown numbers.

Have a lovely weekend 🙂

 

P4b

P4b

Wow! What a fantastic first week in Primary 4b!

Here are our highlights:

Liam, Lacey, Dionne,Ava, Keira, Fearne and Brandon enjoyed starting P4 and meeting their new teacher.

Tiana, Kayden, Freya, Sophie S, Grace Marshall, Jess and Lily enjoyed writing about the summer holidays.

Joseph, Scott and Evie loved doing the wordsearch with all our names on it.

Luis and Grace Mackinnon enjoyed number talks.

Archie really liked playing the maths game.

Eilidh and Isla enjoyed writing their targets and drawing the picture of themselves.

Sophie M loved getting her happy face award.

Esther enjoyed art with Mrs Rodger.

Eden loved cosmic kids.

Emily, Max, Nina, Keegan and Sophie A couldn’t decide on one thing as they enjoyed everything this week!

 

 

P3A

We have enjoyed our first week in P3A and have been working very hard!

Here are some of our highlights from the week:

Jude: I enjoyed doing maths because we learned about 3D shapes.

Aaron: I enjoyed doing our Big Writing because it was so fun.

Ellis: I enjoyed going to Mr McCabe’s office to show him my writing.

Leila: I enjoyed learning about the names of 3D shapes because it was fun.

Alex: I enjoyed Big Writing because we were writing about what we did in the summer holidays. We also made sunglasses.

James: I enjoyed moving into our new class.

Jack: I enjoyed learning about a growth mindset because the activities were really fun. My favourite activity was drawing the turtle.

Ellie: I liked doing P.E.

Amber: I enjoyed writing about what we did in the summer holidays because I liked it when I went to Holland.

Max: I enjoyed it when we learned about growth mindset and fixed mindset. I have been trying to have a growth mindset.

Mia: I enjoyed Big Writing because it was fun.

Emily: I enjoyed the first day in Primary 3 because I liked it when Miss McKinnon was our teacher in Primary 2.

Millie: I liked doing P.E. with Miss McKinnon because I liked playing the hula hoop game.

Ethan: I enjoyed mental maths and maths because it was lots of fun.

Carley: I enjoyed drawing my face because Miss McKinnon helped me stick the sunglasses on.

Aileigh: I enjoyed drawing my face and my sunglasses and putting the sunglasses on my face.

Scott: I liked doing P.E. with Miss McKinnon.

Holly: I enjoyed colouring my peg and tray labels.

Olivia: I enjoyed learning about growth mindset and fixed mindset because it was fun.

Oliver: I liked maths because it’s fun.

Ada: I enjoyed mental maths and maths because I learned about things I didn’t know.

Regan: I enjoyed P.E.

Please note our indoor P.E. lessons with Mr Jeffries will begin on Tuesday 28th August and will take place every Tuesday and Wednesday. If you haven’t already brought your indoor P.E. kit into school, please do so by Tuesday, thank you.

Have A lovely weekend everyone.

P3A

Welcome to P6A!

We have had a fantastic first week in P6 and we are ready to learn new, exciting things!

Some things we have enjoyed this week are…

Alex- I enjoyed revising lots of maths.

James- I enjoyed doing the maths assessment.

Ranna- I enjoyed making origami penguins.

Kiara- I enjoyed the reading comprehension about the Rainforest.

Skye- I enjoyed designing my leaf for our class charter display.

Mia- I really like our new topic, The Rainforest.

Hannah- I enjoyed writing about my summer.

Megan- I really enjoyed the reading comprehension.

Connor- I enjoyed doing the maths the assessment.

Euan- I am enjoying the new class novel- ‘Waiting for Anya’.

We are really looking forward to next week already!

7a

This week’s highlights in 7A

LIT

Grace: I liked writing a biography about Sam because I learned more about him

Sophie: I liked enjoyed finding out stuff about Freya

Isla: I liked learning about Lucy and I discovered her fears

 

MTH/NUM

Demi: We have learned place value

Aaron: We have looked at values up to a million

Rachael: We played a game on Kahoot! With different people

 

LAC

Olivia: We played with our buddies

Millie: We did pictures of ourselves

Breanna: We discussed our rights and wants