Category Archives: Whole School News

P3A

Here are some of our highlights from the week:

Jack: I enjoyed Science because I was planting cress. I also enjoyed Big Writing because we are writing procedures.

Carley: I enjoyed drawing our self-portraits in our review jotters because mine is called the land of me.

Jude: I enjoyed Science because I planted peas.

Aaron: I enjoyed Science because I was planting peas and it was really fun.

Holly: I enjoyed Science because I was planting cress. I enjoyed writing in our review jotters because I was drawing my self-portrait.

Ellis: I enjoyed Science because we were learning about planting.

River: I enjoyed Science because I was planting cress and it was really fun.

Shannon: I enjoyed Science because we planted some plants.

Ellie: I enjoyed Science because I planted cress.

Alex: I enjoyed Science because we got to plant some lovely vegetables.

Scott B: I enjoyed maths. I also enjoyed Science because I got to plant cress.

Millie: I enjoyed Science because I was planting cress and it was very fun.

James: I liked it when we did Big Writing.

TJ: I enjoyed guided reading.

Scott R: I enjoyed it when we were planting peas.

Amber: I enjoyed Science.

Max: I enjoyed maths because I am getting better at it.

Have a great weekend everyone!

P3A

P5a

Another busy week! Here are our highlights!

Ammie-Leigh: I liked learning about our carbon footprints.

Katie: I enjoyed art with Mr Bennett when we made the flowers out of plastic bottles.

Alexander: I have enjoyed the singing for the show.

Ross: I enjoyed doing P.E. with Mr Jeffries.

Gabriel: I have enjoyed learning about 3D shapes.

Murray: I enjoyed learning about climate change.

Ellis: I enjoyed doing the maths boxes.

Donna: I enjoyed making the plastic flowers in art.

Arran: I liked learning about healthy eating.

Brooke: I liked creating a friends of the planet display.

Blaire: I enjoyed P.E.

Jodie: I enjoyed watching Our Planet.

Erin: I enjoyed writing the story about Treasure.

Tamsyn: I enjoyed the times table test.

Maisie: I liked art with Mr Bennett.

P6A

It’s been another busy week in P6A, here are some of our highlights…

Jess- I enjoyed outdoor P.E. because we got to play rounders.

Joshua- I enjoyed outdoor P.E. because I was playing rounders and it was fun.

Amy- I enjoyed handwriting because we got to practise first then complete it ourselves.

Ranna- I thoroughly enjoyed going to the netball tournament because we got to eat sweets.

Euan- I enjoyed going to the library because we received a little goody bag with pencils etc.

Connor- I enjoyed doing the skull because it was fun.

Skye- I enjoyed indoor P.E. because it was fun.

William- I enjoyed the farm because I got all mucky 🙂

Kiara- I enjoyed completing my buddy profile because I’m excited to meet my buddy!

Alex- I enjoyed the comprehension group with Ms Wood.

 

Reminder- Sports Day is on Monday 27th May 🙂

 

Have a lovely weekend!

P3A

Here are some of our highlights from the week:

Mac: I enjoyed reading about minibeasts.

Mia: I enjoyed reading because I got a new book called ‘Transylvania United’.

Ellis: I enjoyed the assembly.

TJ: I enjoyed assembly.

Shannon: I enjoyed assembly because it was fun.

Millie: I enjoyed playtime because my friends and I were playing a game. I was Mia’s pet giraffe, Leila was her little sister and everyone else was Mia’s friend.

Scott B: I enjoyed maths.

Aaron: I enjoyed reading because I finished two chapters in one day.

Jack: I enjoyed maths because it’s fun and challenging.

Jude: I enjoyed the assembly because my friend Holly got a certificate.

Leila: I enjoyed the assembly because my brother’s friend got a certificate.

Amber: I enjoyed ERIC time because I’m reading a book that’s really good.

Teigan: I enjoyed the assembly.

Carley: I enjoyed play time because Leila, Teigan, Megan, Breaghannon and I were doing a dance.

Max: I enjoyed assembly because it was really interesting.

River: I enjoyed guided reading.

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

P3A

Primary 5b’s week

What a busy week we have had. Here are our comments:

Holly- I enjoyed playing tennis with Ruby

Lewis- I enjoyed coming back to school

Shaun- Tennis is great fun. I was partner’s with Aaran

Max-I enjoyed being outside on Wednesday when we read in the garden. it was so hot!

Rory- I enjoyed Science with Mrs Rodger. We were building electrical circuits

Brandon- I liked tennis yesterday

Liam-I liked tennis with Alfie yesterday.Mrs Aitken noticed we were good at passing to each other.

Florence- I enjoyed building electrical circuits in Science

Alfie- I liked being outside on Wednesday because we sat in the garden reading our library books

Eva- I was playing tennis with Annie.We were good partners

Annie,Alistair,Ruby- We enjoyed playing monster ball at PE with Mr Jeffries

Orla,Olivia- We enjoyed Port and Starboard after tennis yesterday

Jay- I liked playing tennis, my partner was Jamie

Jamie- I liked tennis with Jay. Mrs Aitken noticed we were a good team

Bryce- Dylan and I were good tennis players. Mrs Aitken noticed we played long shots

Dylan- My partner in tennis was Bryce. We played well. We were a good team

Kaycee- In the garden was fun we were reading our library books but a spider climbed on my leg

Charlotte-Tennis with Kaycee was fun.We worked well together

Kyle- I enjoyed going to the farm but I got soaked

Jackie-It wasn’t my best week

Ellie- I enjoyed tennis with Ellie Rose

Aaron- Outdoor PE was fun this week

Alfie- Outdoor PE was great.I played well with my partner

Ellie Rose- Playing tennis was great again. I am getting better at passing to my partner

Owen-I liked Science with Mrs Rodger.It was electrical circuits

Aaran- Tennis with Shaun was fun. We played well together

STAR WRITERS

Liam, Orla, Aaron and Florence-well done !

Please remember to return slips for Robin Hood and The Legacy Dance group

Reminder:

The Procession is in two weeks on Saturday 1st June -please walk with us if you can 🙂

 

 

P6A

We have had a sunny week filled with lots of learning.  Here are some of our highlights…

Ranna- I thoroughly enjoyed art this week because I liked working with tissue paper.

William- I really liked going to The Farm this week because we had a water fight.

Joshua- I really enjoyed outdoor P.E. because it was fun!

Connor- I enjoyed doing Harry Potter maths.

Skye- I enjoyed Spanish because we were learning the days of the week.

Miles- I really enjoyed indoor P.E. this week because it was fun.

Lauren- I enjoyed learning about compass points in maths because I like maths.

Islay- I enjoyed maths because it was interesting.

Lucas- I enjoyed indoor P.E. because I bet everyone in handball.

Suvi- I enjoyed rehearsing my lines for the school show.

Alex- I enjoyed running the cross country because the girl’s team won!

Campbell- I enjoyed helping out at the lunch hall when the Primary 7’s were away.

 

Well done to everyone who participated in the Cross Country event this week!

P5A

Our favourite bits this week:

Gabriel – The BBC live lesson about pollution was my favourite bit.

Katie – I enjoyed environment art.

Zara – I like making the flowers out of plastic bottles.

Farrah – I enjoyed creating a persuasive poster about the ocean.

Callum – I enjoyed playing tennis for outdoor P.E.

Samuel – I enjoyed the Blue Planet lesson.

Donna – I enjoyed environmental art with Mr Bennett.

Erin – I enjoyed making a butterfly out of plastic bottles.

Blaire – I enjoyed tennis (it was funny when Zara hit the ball into the skip!)

Ellis – I enjoyed the fractions assessment!

Murray – I enjoyed the art work we created.

Maisie – I have enjoyed cleaning up our playground.

Tamsyn – I enjoyed the fractions assessment.

Niamh – I liked the Blue Planet lessons.

Jodie – I enjoyed playing tennis.

Brooke – I enjoyed doing maths outside.

Ammie-Leigh – I enjoyed tennis.

P2B

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

P3A

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

Amber: I enjoyed topic because it was about farming and I like learning about farming.

Ada: I enjoyed topic because we were learning about the farm and I learned a lot of new things.

Breaghannon: I enjoyed the assembly because it was really funny.

Ellis: I enjoyed the assembly because it was about Africa.

Ellie: I enjoyed the assembly because I really liked the dancing at the end.

Alex: I enjoyed maths because we were learning subtraction facts to 20.

Millie: I enjoyed the assembly because I learned a lot of new things.

Carley: I enjoyed the P2’s assembly because their last song was my favourite song and I was dancing to it.

Mac: I enjoyed assembly because there were lots of animals.

River: I enjoyed the assembly. I thought Willow did a very good job with her line.

Jude: I enjoyed learning about our new topic because I learned a new fact. The fact was that milk is heated to clean it.

TJ: I enjoyed assembly.

Holly: I enjoyed the assembly because the last song was my favourite and I was singing and dancing.

Shannon: I enjoyed the assembly because it had my favourite song in it.

Scott B: I enjoyed assembly because I learned a new fact.

Aileigh: I enjoyed the assembly because my cousin was dressed up as a monkey.

Aaron: I enjoyed topic because we were learning about farming.

Megan: I enjoyed assembly.

Leila: I enjoyed P2’s assembly because my best friend that lives next door to me was dressed as an alligator.

James: I liked it when we played ‘Around the world’.

Have a fantastic weekend everyone.

P3A

P5A

Literacy – We have been learning about similes. We used these to create poems about the ocean to link with our topic, Friends of the Planet.

Numeracy – We are finishing off our fractions work, and this week we started learning about 2D shapes and parallel lines. We have also worked on our mental maths skills.

LAC – We are learning about the plastic problem in our oceans. We looked at different pictures from WWF and discussed how the plastic problem made us feel and what questions we had about it. We also worked with our learning partner to create an invention that would help keep our playgrounds free of litter. We came up with lots of amazing ideas!

Here are our favourite parts:

Donna – I enjoyed the invention challenge.

Erin – I liked creating my invention with Mia.

Ellis – I enjoyed P.E.

Evan – P.E. was fun.

Katie – The invention task was really good.

Murray – P.E. was good.

Blaire – I enjoyed the invention task.

Ammie-Leigh – I liked finishing fractions and moving on to 2D shapes.

Gabriel – I enjoyed castles in P.E.

Ross – Castles was fun.

Samuel – I liked creating an invention with Gabriel.

Brooke – My favourite bit was designing our invention for cleaning our playground.

Maisie – I really liked learning about similes and making the poem.

Alexander – Castles was fun.

P6A

We had an amazing time this week, here are some of our highlights.

Robert: I enjoyed show practice this week because I am doing props.

Alfie: I liked support for learning.

Murray: I liked my maths assessment.

Sophia:I liked square and triangular numbers in maths.

Denholm: I really enjoyed P.E this week because it was really fun!

Teighan: I really enjoyed Spanish with Mrs Lawson.

Catriona: I enjoyed cross  country.

Ranna: I thoroughly enjoyed practicing for the show with Mr Erskine

Suvi: I liked doing our assessment.

Euan: I enjoyed outdoor P.E. because it was wet and very rainy!

Connor: I enjoyed outdoor P.E. because it was raining.

Mia: I liked hanging out with the nursery kids because it was fun!

Have a great weekend from P6A!

P4B

We have had a busy but short week in P4B.  Here are our best bits:

Sophie M and Lacey enjoyed doing the spelling test.

We went for a swimming assessment at Xcite.  Freya, Archie, Brandon, Luis, Eilidh, Tiana, Sophie A, Ava, Lily, Keira, Esther, Fearne, Joseph, Max and Evie all think this was the best part of the week!

Liam: I liked maths.

Grace Marshall and Marley both agreed that the wonderful assembly by P2 and P2/1 was the highlight of their week.

Dionne enjoyed playing maths bingo because she was really close to winning.

Grace Mackinnon just loves being in school and can’t pick a favourite part!

Have a lovely weekend.

Multisports and more!

This week we learnt a new strategy to combine remainders and the bus stop strategy. This helps us work out division with remainders left over.  This is really helpful for us to work out our calculations.

In writing, we wrote our own magic box poems, using Kit Wright’s poem as a framework.

https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/clips/zkpmhyc

We were able to let our imaginations run wild! We are making a book of them to show our P5 teacher. Mrs Collings was very impressed with how we could make things interesting and exciting. In our poetry we also focused on creating modern similes. Mrs Collings’ favourite was busy as a teacher!

On Tuesday we went to Bathgate xcite for a fabulous day of sports run by Sky. We had a great time playing against other local schools and experiencing loads of new sports. We hope you saw our tweets about the day on the Balbardie Twitter feed. It was a fabulous day!

In French we are learning the numbers to 50, using our favourite French singer – Alain de Lait – and his reggae worms. Check them out here…..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlYqz2unHKc

We are very proud of Artjom who competed in a Scottish Gymnastics competition at the weekend in vault and floor. Are the Olympics in 2028 beckoning……??

Table of the week – with 510 points

Primary 5b took part in The Multi Sports Festival

Tuesday was an exciting day for Primary 5b. They were going straight away to the sports Centre to take part in a multi sports festival with Primary 5a, Primary 4a and Primary 4b.

Everyone was dressed sporty and had their packed lunch as the festival did not finish till 2.30pm.

There were 6 different activities ranging from Basketball skills to Dance.

Every group had a leader from SKY and a staff member from Balbardie.

It was a noisy hall that Primary 5b and the other classes joined at 9.30am. The excitement was definitely building.

The team names were- Blues Baboons, Red Cheetahs and Black Panthers.

they had to have a little chant aswell-that was funny !

It was a super day…

Comments ranged from ok, fine, excellent, awesome, magic, amazing, fun, tiring, good, the best and even brilliant…

The best part of the day was one of  the Primary 4 teams won the biggest cup for their TEAM SPIRIT.

They were so excited to win it. Everyone gave them a loud cheer and applause.

HAPPY LONG WEEKEND EVERYONE !

Good luck, Brooke in your new school.We’ll miss you.

See you all Wednesday 🙂

P3A

Here are some of our highlights from the week:

Shannon: I enjoyed assembly because we were talking about the Bathgate castle.

Ellis: I enjoyed guided reading.

Ada: I enjoyed assembly because one of my friends Devon was dressed up.

Holly: I’m enjoying my birthday because everyone’s saying happy birthday and I got a new bracelet with an H on it.

Alex: I enjoyed maths because it was fun.

Ellie and TJ: I enjoyed assembly because we were learning about the Bathgate castle.

Scott B: I enjoyed maths.

Jude: I enjoyed doing Science because we were learning more about materials.

Amber: I enjoyed Science.

Jack: I enjoyed maths because I got all my work done.

Aaron: I enjoyed Science because it was very interesting.

Carley: I enjoyed going to the assembly about our procession because I learned a bit more about the castle in Bathgate.

Have a lovely holiday everyone!

P3A

P5A

We had a great week and were very lucky to get to go to the Sky Sports Festival in Bathgate! We had a fantastic time and got the opportunity to play lots of different sports. Here are some of our other highlights this week:

Erin – I really enjoyed the Sports Festival.

Blaire – I enjoyed Art with Mr Bennett.

Ammie-Leigh: I enjoyed the reading comprehension about the Amazon River.

Gabriel: My favourite was Dodgeball at the Sports Festival.

Murray: I liked the football at the Sports Festival.

Ruby: I enjoyed fractions work.

Ellis: Mental maths was really good this week.

Evan: Football at sports festival was my favourite.

Niamh: I enjoyed the fractions work this week.

Donna: P.E was fun as we got to play castles.

Mia: I liked all of the fractions work.

Zara: I enjoyed designing my float poster.

Jodie: I enjoyed playing football at the sports festival.

Katie: I liked everything except fractions!

Ross: I enjoyed mental maths.

Luke: Football at the sports festival was my favourite bit.

Brooke: I really enjoyed the football at the sports festival.

Tamsyn: I really liked fractions this week because I like doing times table work.

Have a great long weekend!

 

P6A

A short but busy week in P6A, here are some of our highlights…

Denholm- I liked Spanish this week because we learned how to count to 20.

Hannah- I liked drawing the posters for the float.

Kiara- I enjoyed rehearsing my lines for the school show.

Connor- I enjoyed playing rounders in outdoor P.E.

Skye- I enjoyed practicing for the show.

Dhivya- I enjoyed the practice for the show  and I’m going to miss everyone because I’m leaving today.

Joshua- I enjoyed rounders.

Ranna- I thoroughly enjoyed Maths this week because it was really challenging.

Mia- I enjoyed Maths and spelling this week because it was fun.

Suvi- I enjoyed handball with Mr Jeffries this week.

We hope you all have a lovely bank holiday weekend!

 

Good luck to Dhivya on her move to India with her family 🙂

 

P2B

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

Wonderful weather!

We came back to school with wonderful weather and we have enjoyed being outside for PE and science this week.

With Mrs Mackenzie, we have been finishing our cool in school work, making cool cards so that we can recognise when someone has made the right choices about their behaviour.

In Numeracy, we learnt the ‘bus stop’ strategy for dividing bigger numbers when we have run out of fingers and toes! It is quite tricky but we are all getting the hang of it.

In Writing we wrote poems to celebrate ‘Earth Day’ which is on the 22nd April every year. We started learning about how poets and authors use similes to describe things comparing them to other objects. We wrote our own similes and then started describing a tree using similes too.

In PE we have started learning some basic cricket skills. We practised catching and throwing and bowling at a target.

In Science, we started learning about what plants need and found areas in the playground where plants are growing well and where they are struggling to grow. We took photos and will be thinking more about their conditions and why they grow the way they do.

Rowan read us the first chapter of her new book – A Hidden Cove, a witch’s tale. We are all looking forward to chapter 2!

Sarah has learnt to ride her bike without stabilisers.

Archie got a clear round in horseriding and won a rosette.

Kyle won a gold medal at Taekwando.

Elena and Teigan are looking forward to their next dance show.

Teigan was awarded a medal at ballet.

Artjom is competing in a gymnastics competition on Sunday. Good luck!

Table of the week – with 470

P2B

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.