This week in writing we were writing our own Castle Adventure stories. The success criteria for our writing was to continue a story using the same characters and setting. Here are a couple of our stories:

Suddenly the magic key began to glow. The magic took the children to a castle. Biff was a knight. She kept bad people out of the castle. A dragon came to the castle. Biff was scared of the dragon. The queen was angry that the dragon came into the castle.

By Darja

Suddenly the magic key began to glow. The magic took the children to a castle. It took them to the king’s bedroom. The king sent them to the witches’ dungeon where they were making a potion to melt the bars on the window so they could escape. Biff and Chip sneaked out of the window and ran away. The king shouted for them to come back. The magic key began to glow and took them back home.

By Katya

We are looking forward to sharing everything we have learned about castles with our parents next week at shared start.

With the current weather situation, the school will be fully open tomorrow. Any change to this will be communicated by Groupcall.

Last week Miss Henderson launched our talent show for this session, Balbardie’s Got Stars in their Eyes.  She explained that Stars in their Eyes was a programme on the television before most of us were born.  She showed us a clip of Aston from JLS on it playing Michael Jackson.  He was very young!  We are now getting prepared to take part in class auditions next Monday afternoon when we will choose 3 acts to go through to Boot Camp.  The House Captains and Head Boy/Girl are going to be the judges at Boot Camp and at the final.  We are very excited about who we are going to impersonate and it doesn’t just have to be a signing act like the TV show.  Boot Camp will take place on Monday 15th April in the afternoon and the final on Wednesday 24th April at 9.30 for P3/4/6 and 11.00 for P1/2/5/7.  After the final we will vote for our favourite.  The winner will be announced at the final for parents at 7.00 on the same day.  We will let you know details for tickets nearer the time.

We have begun presenting our Class Talks on Victorian Inventions. We are working hard to meet the four success criteria: be prepared, eye contact, involve your audience and speak clearly.

We enjoyed using Lauren’s Victorian camera for our Comic Relief photo shoot.

We are also creating our own inventions to pitch to the Dragons’ Den next week.

We hope to persuade them to invest £500 in our invention.

We have seen two fantastic performances this week. We loved the songs and dances performed during the P6 production of Alice. P4a impressed us with their assembly about Mary, Queen of Scots. We loved the beheading scene! Well done P4a and P6!

From the Blog Post Box:

Next week I will try hard……

… to maintain my Step 5 position.        William

…when I am working on subtraction with exchanging.        Ellie

…on my presentation.       Nathan                 

…on my spelling.     Finlay

We love having free play throughout the week! It is so much fun! Lots of us work together to make and invent things. Here is a few things that we did this week during free play:

– I built a huge transformer out of sticklebricks (Charlie)

– I pretended to be an author and wrote my own book! (Ava C)

–  I loved the role play area and dressed up as Jack Sparrow the pirate (David)

– Using my own ideas, I built what I think the galaday float should look like using lego (Grace)

– I had fun using lego to build a fairytale castle (Erin)

Have a lovely weekend!

P1g

On Wednesday we were using our feet, hands and cubes to measure objects and areas in our classroom. We also used our class height chart to find out who is the tallest in the class. Rory is the tallest boy, he is 130cm. Cole is very close behind at 129cm and Megan is the tallest girl at 128cm.

We have also been learning about how to become a knight. We learned that young boys would start their training at around age 7. It took 14 years of training to become a knight. We thought was a very long time to have to train. We enjoyed looking at the different kinds of weapons used in battles.

Pupil of the week this week was Michelle for always working hard and for her excellent behaviour . Well done Michelle!

This morning we performed out very special assembly to our family and friends. Here is what we had to say about the perfoamnce:

“It was awesome!” Noah Y

“I liked it when Archie and Skye did their dance,” Aidan

“It made me cry because it was so nice!” Megan

“It was good fun!” Kate

“I liked having my dad there,” Katie

“I liked dancing, it was fun!” Rory

We did an absolutely super job of singing, dancing, speaking and acting and Mrs Gallagher is very proud of everyone.

This week’s pupil of the week certificate went to the whole class for being able to transfer note taking skills we had learned in our reading lessons.

Next week we are looking forward to our trip to Craigmillar castle on Wednesday, we hope the rain stays away!

We have been very busy making and finding out about Egyptians. This week we painted our pyramids and we have been investigating how old the pyramids are.

In writing, we wrote about an Ancient Egyptian coming to school. We were inspired by Jeremy Strong’s story There’s a Pharaoh in our Bath! Some of us were really inventive!

We have been reading and practising putting text into the correct order. If you keep on reading and thinking, you can easily put the text into the correct order.

This week the Hexagons were continuing directions and coordinates.

Louisa and Lexis worked together with Mrs Noble to use their cooking skills to make cakes this week.

Mrs White prepared a fantastic Egyptian feast for us. We tasted figs, dates, pomegranates, bread, cous cous and sultanas.   It was so much fun!”I ate everything and loved it all!” William.

“I enjoyed the bread the most” Louisa.

Thank you to all the visitors who came to see us and our classroom last Friday morning. We loved having you all in our class. Here is what some of us thought:

– Sophie B – I had fun making pirate masks

– Sophie G andAva W – We enjoyed writing a pirate story with our mums help

– Robbie – My little sister and I had fun digging for treasure in the sand pit!

– Grace – I liked showing my mum around our classroom and showing her my work.

– Ava C – I liked  when my brother and I visited each others classrooms!

Lasty, we would be very greatful if you could collect junk for our technology lesson on Wednesday e.g. plastic bottles, cereal boxes, yoghurt tubs etc. However for healthy and safety reasons, please no egg or meat containers or toilet/kitchen roll tubes.

Have a lovely weekend!

P1g

At the beginning of the week, P1b carefully followed instructions to make pirate hats!   Kayleigh enjoyed drawing a jolly roger to place onto her hat.  Using our experience, we were then able to write instructions on how to make a pirate hat. 

We also learned about the four points on a compass.  We worked with a partner to find North, South, East and West in the playground and then played the fun game of port and starboard!

Ava mentioned that she enjoyed learning about Red Nose Day during this week’s assembly.   We learned that raising money for Red Nose Day can help less fortunate children gain their rights, such as the right to nutritious food, clean water and safe environment to live in.  We will take part in Red Nose Day on the 15^th March by dressing down or wearing Red clothing.

This week we have been learning how to solve problems in Numeracy. We found it really tricky at first but are gaining confidence in our problem solving abilities. We have learned to work logically, to make a picture and to make a table to help us to solve problems. Mrs Gallagher was really impressed when some children started to make up some Castles themed problems of their own and we are going to have a chance to do more of this next week.

We have also been learning how to draw portraits to make a royal portrait gallery in our classroom. It’s going to be in an unusual place in our classroom, pop in next week and see if you can find our portraits.

We are very excited about our special show next week, look out for some pictures of us in our costumes coming up on next week’s blog post. 🙂