This is the last blog for the year!
We have had a fun and action-packed week. We started off revising our grammar and writing proper sentences. We consolidated data handling and reading bar graphs, We wrote a story about an elf, did some mosaic maths and different mindful colouring activities. We looked at the world’s climate zones and what climate is. We used a map to identify where we would find these countries and what the weather would be like. We also looked at the Christmas story and sequenced it. We had our class celebration on Thursday morning. We all enjoyed a film with biscuits and juice and the Champions got to make slime! In the afternoon we had great fun watching the Panto; Dick Whittington. Today we enjoyed the service at church and are finishing the day off with some lighthearted fun and golden time!
Check out Twitter for the School Champions Picture for P3b.

Seasons Greetings and a Happy New Year form P3B!

We wrote a story ” The Lost toy” for Creative Writing last week. Our Star writers were:-

Charlotte, Kyle, Orla and Brooke.

Well done all !

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

This week in RME we’ve been thinking about the Christmas story and we made stained glass windows showing a part of the story.

On Monday, the P4s joined together for their class Christmas party. Kyle and Rosie won pass the parcel, Emma won a prize for being a smiley member of the class during all the games. The most groovy dancers were Teigan, Artjom, Jude and Maddison!

In Maths we have been learning about 3d shapes and thinking about their properties. We know that 3d shapes have faces, edges and vertices! We’ve definitely learnt some new words this week – our favourite shapes are tetrahedrons and triangular prisms!

With Mrs Mackenzie we made our ‘home teams’. In our teams, we are completing an upcycling challenge. We are making useful things from things which no longer have a use. So please keep cardboard boxes, lids, plastic bottles etc for our challenge!

We were very proud of Ehan who was awarded our School Values certificate. He is an exemplary pupil who works hard to display our school values of passion, trust, fairness and respect at all times. Well done, Ehan!

Table of the week with an amazing 620 points was

Primary 5b had a very busy week. They took part in Destination Judo and a Handball festival. They wore Christmas jumpers and ate a tasty Christmas lunch.

They used Technology skills on an elf and they even played Silent Ball…

Here are there comments:-

Ellie Rose, Kyle, Aaron, Dylan, Liam, Max, Owen, Aaran, Holly, Leah, Noami-We enjoyed the Handball festival

Lewis- I enjoyed seeing people I knew at the Handball festival

Charlotte- I enjoyed catching up with my friend at the Handball Festival

Jamie, Rory- We enjoyed Mental Maths and Big Maths last week

Olivia, Jay, Ellie- We enjoyed having Mrs Aitken as my new teacher

Alistair, Eva, Brandon, Bryce, Alfie B.-We enjoyed Silent Ball

Florence, Ruby, Annie- We enjoyed Destination Judo

Orla, Shaun- We enjoyed the Christmas lunch and wearing our Christmas jumpers

Kaycee- I enjoyed being the class winner of the Christmas t-shirt design

WELL DONE TO WINTER THE TABLE OF THE WEEK

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY:-

TUESDAY 11TH DECEMBER -PRIMARY 5 CHRISTMAS PARTY AND BREAKFAST WITH SANTA

WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY -PRIMARY 1 NATIVITY

We have been working very hard this week in P4a to complete our assessments. Mrs Mackenzie and Mrs Collings are very proud of the ways in which we have sat quietly whilst completing our tests and also ensuring that we gave our classmates the best environment to do their best also.
On Monday we had a day full of PE. We had gym with Mr Jeffries playing bench ball. We are looking forward to playing against P4b after Christmas and against other schools in a festival later in the school year.

To complete our RME topic on belonging we talked about the ways in which we ensure that we belong to our school, our families and our class. We discussed the ways in which all these communities have rules to help everyone to be a part of the community. We discovered that our families have a lot of different rules which work for each family.

In our science topic, we created our own fossil skeletons. Some of them are very cool!

In Maths we continued looking at 2d shapes and we learnt to draw them after hearing a description of their properties. Some of them are really tricky – especially the quadrilaterals.
Today we enjoyed a fabulous assembly by P6 all about Space. We are really looking forward to learning about space when we are in the Upper School.
Table of the week – with 390 points

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

Another busy week in P3b!

In French, we were learning the different items of clothing and saying what we were wearing.
In Literacy, we have been learning how to write letters. We have been writing to a very special person! We also learned about Proper Nouns – now we have to remember to use capital letters when we are writing them down.

In Maths, we have continued with learning different strategies for adding, learning about compass points and what temperature is.

In Topic, we have been writing our own weather report and practicing it. Next week we will read out our weather reports.

We also had a Judo Taster session with ‘Destination Judo’ and had lots of activities to do. Mrs. Ghafoor did forget the camera, so sadly there are no pictures.

Enjoy your weekend!

As usual it’s been a busy week in P4a.
In writing, we thought about our classmates and how they contribute to the daily life of our class. We wrote letters for every individual in the class to read for our advent calendar. We are looking forward to finding out what is written in the letters.
In number we learnt how to use counting on as a way of taking away. We learnt that it is often easier to count up from a smaller number to a bigger number, getting up to a friendly 10 and then adding on the ones.
In Science, we learnt about how fossils are formed. When a sea creature dies, its body sinks to the sea bed. It is covered in sand and mud which become rock. The fleshy parts of the creature rot away and the skeleton forms a fossil in the rock.
We looked at a huge ammonite fossil from the Jurassic coast which showed us what real fossils look like.

We made our own fossils using dinosaurs and shell imprints in clay which were then cast in plaster. They look pretty cool!

In maths we have been learning about 2d shapes – our new favourite new shapes are rhombus, trapezium and parallelograms!

We also spent some time learning about St Andrew – the patron Saint of Scotland. He is the Patron saint of Greece, Russia, Cyrus, Sicily, Romania, Barbados and Ukraine. He is also the patron saint of fisherman, fishmongers and rope makers.
Table of the week – with 730

Here are some highlights from this week:

Keira, Lily, Grace Marshall, Sophie A, Freya: We all enjoyed learning about mime in drama and loved the activities.

Sophie S, Evie, Sophie, Ava, Marley: We had great fun using the ipads to find information and create fact-files about reduce, reuse and recycle.

Luis, Harris, Fearne, Archie: Our favourite part of the week was P.E. where we were playing benchball.

Eden, Joseph, Dionne: We enjoyed our spelling test this week.

Eilidh: My favourite thing this week was learning about St Andrew and writing about him.

Tiana: I enjoyed Health and Wellbeing with Mrs Mackenzie.

Brandon, Nina, Emily, Grace Mac, Isla, Esther: We couldn’t pick one thing because we enjoyed everything!