On Thursday we enjoyed a brilliant panto in school, Cinderella!
There was singing, dancing and great fun had by all. Mrs Spence and Mr Cunningham even got in on the action!

This week’s highlights
Jamie – I liked doing the maths big start. We were learning to spell the names of shapes.
Ellie – I liked putting my partner in the recovery position in first aid with Mrs Mackenzie.
Ruby – I liked making 3d shapes.
Rory – I really enjoyed making my snowman 3d shape.
Kyle – I really enjoyed making my 4 3d snowmen!
Alfie B – I enjoyed spelling, doing my wordsearch.
Olivia – I really enjoyed making the 3d shapes.
Annie – I enjoyed the writing about us leaving planet x to go back to earth.
Alistair – I liked Maths this week, doing subtraction.
Charlotte – I enjoyed making the 3d snowmen.
Eva – I enjoyed doing my mild, spicy and hot for maths.
Dylan – I enjoyed subtraction work with Mrs Mackenzie.
Jay – I liked doing the singalong.
Orla – I enjoyed everything!
Owen – I enjoyed the 3d shape making
Liam – I enjoyed making my 3d shape.
Brandon – I enjoyed reading ‘Bug Battle’
Lewis – I enjoyed maths this week – all of it!
Holly – I enjoyed making the 3d shapes.
Aaron – I enjoyed the calendar this week.
Alfie L – I enjoyed the singalong.
Shaun – My favourite this week was making the 3d snowmen
Florence – I enjoyed writing the story about going back to planet earth.
Brooke – I enjoyed making the Christmas decorations.
Mrs Collings highlight of the week – discussing Christmas celebrations with P4b and us coming to a decision that the most important thing about Christmas was spending time with our families
‘The greatest gift at Christmas is your family’ – Florence (aged 8)

Bronze Champions
These children were awarded their bronze champion certificates and enjoyed their bronze treat in November.

These children have achieved their bronze champion award since the 17th November. They will enjoy their bronze treat in the new term.
Charlotte, Olivia, Liam, Noami, Max, Alfie B, Aaron, Brandon, Alistair, Jamie, Ellie-Rose, Annie, Orla and Eva.

Table of the week – red with 500 points

This week has flown by – and not long till the holidays either!

This week we learned about Global Warming, it’s effects and also what we can do to prevent further Global Warming. We learned that we can recycle, reuse and reduce our waste. We made posters for different types of recycling.

In literacy, we learned how to identify an adverb in a sentence – this is tricky and we got really good at finding adjectives instead!

In maths, we have been learning about 3D shapes and how to build them. We also learned about their properties.

We had our Christmas party this week as well and it was great fun. We played different games and got a visit from Santa. We got a little reindeer each as a present!

Today was also the last session from the Bathgate Xcite team. We have learned lots about how to eat healthily and keep healthy. We got a certificate and a water bottle.

Have a great weekend.

Class Sun Photos

This week Class Sun have enjoyed being able to use the cold, snowy and icey weather as a context for our winter topic.
Hamish was a fablous Shephard in the Nativity and we all enjoyed lerning about the Christmas Story. We were talking about ‘who’ was in the story – the angel, the baby Jesus, the Three Kings, the Three Wise Men, Mary, Joseph and the donkey.

We have been learning some Christmas songs and have really enjoyed singing them. We would love to sing with you at home.
We have been learning Jingle Bells, Rudolph, Frosty the Snowman, We Wish you a Merry Christmas and When Santa got Stuck up the Chimney.

We all thoroughly enjoyed the Christmas lunch experience this week. We loved wearing our Christmas jumpers too!

We are looking forward to our Christmas Party and the Panto next week.

The winter weather is here and with it come additional pressure on our FMA staff (janitors) to ensure footpaths are cleared and salted prior to the arrival of teaching staff and children.

The FM staff member on the early shift at Balbardie will clear one initial footpath to back and front playgrounds to allow staff and pupils access to the school safely.  The other footpaths will be worked on by the FM staff member as soon as possible during the daylight hours.

FM staff are not equipped to clear playgrounds, staff car parks or access roads, the responsibility for clearing these areas lies with the Roads Department.

This was an exciting week!

We got to go to our Rookie Rockstars performance on Wednesday or Thursday. We had lots of fun singing the songs we learnt for the CD> Some of us have bought the CD’s since they sounded amazing.

In maths, we have been using different strategies for adding and have also started learning about 3D shapes. 3D shapes are so cool because we made our Christmas tree decorations from them. To make a 3D shape, you need the net for it, which is a 2D shape! Our decorations look fantastic on our tree!

In Literacy, we were learning about adverbs. In writing, we wrote a letter to Santa asking him to come and visit all the P3’s at our Christmas Party, which is on 14th December at 1:30-3:00pm. We hope he can make it and isn’t too busy making the toys!

In LAC, we were learning about Global Warming and how it affects the weather. We learnt that we can try to prevent further Global Warming by working together as a team – not just in class or school but across the world. We all have to do our bit! We can do three things.
1. Switch off lights, (use less electricity), when we don’t need them.
2. Use cars less, use public transport more and walk to school if possible.
3. Reduce, reuse and recycle things.
We also looked at the water cycle and did an experiment for a water cycle in a bag.

Have a good weekend!

This was our last week at the swimming for this term and the class had lots of fun with the floats and playing in the pool. On Wednesday, Gabriel had a party with his integration class, while we had a special visitor to our Christmas party and everyone enjoyed the games we played, especially the dancing games. In numeracy we have been working out how to make different values with coins and in language we have been writing up interview questions and creating a booklet with the interview answers.

On Wednesday the Primary 4s partied together! They all put on their party clothes and danced, sang and played games for the afternoon.
Florence – I liked doing the Macarena.
Ellie-Rose – I loved everything, especially the games!
Eva – I liked doing the Macarena.
Orla – I loved doing the Macarena as I didn’t know how to do it before and I picked up on doing it.
Rory – I liked playing musical chairs.
Lewis – I liked playing corners.
Holly – I enjoyed the Macarena
Charlotte – I liked my snack bag!
Brandon –I enjoyed the dancing.
Zara – I enjoyed the party because we did the cha-cha slide and the Macarena!
Katie – I had fun at the party and really like playing musical chairs and pass the parcel.
Nathan – I loved the corners game. I was quite good at it.
Tamsyn – My favourite part was when we got to just dance around.
Article 31 (leisure, play and culture) Every child has the right to relax, play and take part in a wide range of cultural and artistic activities.

Diary Dates

December

 4^th        Whole school Flu Vaccinations

6^th        Christmas Post Box (Please remember to put the child’s name and class on the envelope)

P4  and  Class Moon  Christmas Party at 1.30 pm

7^th        P5A Assembly at 2.30 pm

11^th      P5 Christmas  Party at 1.30 pm

12^th        P1 Nativity, “The Sleepy Shepherd” at 2.30 p.m.

Christmas Lunch P4, P5, P7, ARB* (*change from annual calendar)

13^th      Christmas Lunch for P1, P2, P3, P6

P1 Nativity “The Sleepy Shepherd” at 9.30 a.m.

14^th        P3 Christmas Party at 1.30 pm

Breakfast with Santa

P5b to Tesco for 10 am – 11 am ~ Christmas Carol singing

18^th      P6 Christmas Party at 1.30 p.m.

P5a to Morrisons for 10.30 a.m. – 11.30 a.m. ~ Christmas Carol singing

19^th      P2 and Class Sun Christmas Party at 1.30 p.m.

20^th     P1 Christmas Party at 11 a.m.

P7 Christmas Party at 1.30 p.m

21^st      Panto Cinderella in the afternoon

22^nd     Church Service 9.30a.m.

On behalf of the staff I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year.

Staff resume on Monday 8^th and pupils resume on Tuesday January 2018.