Hello Everyone
Please remember to bring in any books you no longer read for our book swap on World Book Day, 7th March. It would be great to have lots of books for people to choose from.
Mrs Leamy and P4l
Category Archives: Whole School News
Internet Safety Week in Class 3
This week we have been learning about internet safety and how to stay safe when using other types of technology too.
We set up a cyber cafe in the sensory room and played the games on the Thinkuknow website. You can try these games at home. Simply follow this link.
www.thinkuknow.co.uk/8_10/cybercafe/
Here are some tips to remember when using technology:
Geordie – Don’t give out personal information online.
Jason – If you get an upsetting or threatening text, don’t delete it. Save it and show an adult.
Aidan – If you get a chain or hoax message, show a responsible person. These can contain false information.
We are going to learn more about staying safe when using technology next week.
P2pg News
This week we really got started on our castle topic. We looked at the different castles thoughout the medieval times starting with wooden Motte and Bailey castles and then moving on to the stone castles that we know today. We learned about the murder holes, drawbridges, moats, and the portcullis. We are now looking at the inside of the castle and what we will be changing our classroom into. The children are really looking forward to this next week.
We also really enjoyed having our parents in to class this morning helping us to make our Coats of Arms. We’re going to have these displayed in our Grand Hall (class) with all our other regalia and banners that we will be making! We’ve already decided to call our castle King Arthur’s Castle of Balbardie and our tables are now called different clan names.
Well done P2pg for another good week!
This week in p2lg
This week we have started our castles topic. We have learned about some of the parts of a castle inside and out and we have started to turn our classroom into a castle.
Zoe “A portcullis is a jaggy door at the entrance of a castle.”
Cole “The soldiers shoot bows and arrows through the arrow slits in the walls.”
Harvey “The tallest building is called the keep.”
We are looking forward to our parents joining us to make some coats of arms this morning.
We Need Your Books!!
Thursday 7th March is World Book Day and P4l are going to run a ‘Book Swap’. We really need your help to bring in any books you no longer read so someone can enjoy them and you can take a new book home. Please have a look through your books at home and if you have any to spare please, please bring them in and hand them in to P4l. On World Book Day you will have a chance to look at all the books and choose one to take yourself.
Thank you
P4l
Primary 2/1’s Magic Key!
This week Primary 2/1 received an interesting postcard which took them on a treasure hunt…
“Miss Henderson brought a card and it was a mystery. We had to follow the clues and it said where do you measure? I said there was a giraffe and that’s where I found the second card.” -Rowan
“We went to Mrs White’s office and there we found the next clue!” – Tom
“Then we went up to Miss Henderson’s office and we found the other clue and it had a note in it and the special key.” -Mya
“The key is a magic key” -Abbie
“I loved the tresure hunt.” – Kelsey
“It was really good fun!” – Charlie
“It was fun!” – Holly
We don’t know who sent the key or what it will open. Some of the girls and boys think the key might have come from a king, a giant, a dragon or even an alien! It’s a mystery. We know that the next clue will arrive next Monday. Sam worked out that’s “5 more sleeps.” We can’t wait!
Pancake making in p2
This week we made pancakes with Mrs Jamieson. It was lots of fun and we enjoyed eating them as a snack. We also had a pancake tossing competition. It was very funny.
Liam “We had to put eggs, milk, flour, sugar and salt in a bowl and mixed them together.”
Noah Y “It was fun trying to toss the pancake.”
Aaliyah “I liked it when Noah flipped the pancake and it landed on his head.”
Megan “I had syrup on mine, they were delicious.”
***Pupil of the week*** Noah Y is pupil of the week for always working hard and behaving well. Well done!
We are looking forward to our parents visiting next Friday morning for the open morning.
Class 2 loves Numeracy!
Yes, it is a fact; we are making progress in numeracy! It is not always easy. Sometimes as Caitlin says ‘It is tricky’ but we insist and then happy voices are heard: ‘I did it on my own’, ‘I can do it’, ‘I got it’ and finally ‘I love maths’!
So counting in twos, fives and tens, vertical addition and subtraction even with regrouping are some of our accomplishments! And of course differentiated teaching helps us to reach our full potentials in our personal pace.
Favourite moment of the week was swimming for Cary, I-pad work for Jack!
And we cannot forget Miss Cameron’s visit with her sweet newborn baby. Everybody liked holding him and Aiden then came with the idea of drawing baby angry birds!
More news from us next week!
This week in p2lg
This week we have learned about Chinese New Year. We watched a video showing a dragon dance and learned about the historical story of the animal race which started the 12 years in the Chinese zodiac. This year is the year of the snake. Most of our class were born in the year of the dog but Caitlin was born in the year of the pig.
We started to think about our new topic of castles. We shared what we already know about castles and thought about what we would like to learn. We also gave Mrs Gallagher some ideas about what we would like to have to play with in the classroom. She liked some of our ideas very much, especially creating a throne for our classroom.
*** Pupil of the week *** Lennox is pupil of the week this week for trying hard with his listening skills. He also impressed Mrs Gallagher with some lovely handwriting.
P3lm Egyptians
P3lm have started learning about Egyptians. Everyone is really enjoying thinking about the differences between our own lives and those in Ancient Egypt. We have even made our own mummies! Mrs Mitchell is very proud of P3lm espcially in writing lessons as each member of the class has worked so hard to think about life in Ancient Egypt and really used their imaginations to write a story entitled “My day in Ancient Egypt”. These stories were so good that 9 people were awarded Star Writers. Punctuation, adjectives and wow words were used by everyone! Well done P3lm. Keep it up!
Snowy week in P6m
After maths this morning, we went outside to explore the snow in our playground. There was lots and lots! We made snowmen and giant snow boulders. Have a look at our photos.
Two weeks’ news!
Two weeks’ news!
Last week our classmate Liam went to Class 3 and we miss him. A new pupil, Callum, joined our class and everybody welcomed him with excitement!
Another change: in our daily programme we have increased our working with adult time. Mrs Zaloni says we are making a remarkable progress!
Egyptians are still the topic we are focused on. So many things to learn and so many ways to do it! We have watched videos about the pyramids and the famous pharaoh Tutankhamen.We have also experienced an interactive, on line mummification process, listened to ancient Egyptian music and watched ancient Egyptian dance. We also wrote our names in hieroglyphics! What an interesting writing system!
And of course who can forget our art and sensory experiences! Building our own pyramids was just the beginning! Now we are working on our teamwork skills, working in groups and bringing again in life step by step ancient Egypt with River Nile, Sahara desert and many more things to come! Thanks Mrs Henderson for the nice creative ideas!
P2/1’s Super Science!
This week P2/1 have been undertaking different science experiments. On Tuesday we had a compeition to place ice-cubes around the room and to see which group’s ice-cube melted first. Rowan and Abbie won!
On Wednesday morning during ‘Shared Start’ we made permafrost to demonstrate that the ground in the Arctic is always frozen.
We also found out how to keep water hot (by insulating the vessel it is held in) and why our hands go bright red in cold weather.
Yesterday afternoon we learned about the changing states of materials and we made little snowmen out of clay!
What a busy week!
xx
Weekly update from P1b
This week we learned more about life on an Island since Katie Morag books are based on life on the Isle of Coll. Ava enjoyed painting wildlife from the Isle of Coll which includes animals such as dolphins, corncrake birds, sharks, rams and whales.
We also discussed transport used on the Isle of Coll and compared the differences between transport on an island and in Bathgate. We then used a variety of media such as junk, plasticine, drawing materials and lego to make transport found on the Isle of Coll.
During Health and wellbeing we discussed friendship and qualities we look for in a friend. We then made a friendship certificate and bracelet for a friend in our class. We were delighted with the results.
In science we learned about man-made and natural materials. Isla correctly stated that natural materials are found around us. We worked with a partner to sort natural and man-made images.
Have a lovely weekend,
P1b
A special visitor to p2
This week we had a very special visit from the author Matthew Fitt. He read us the story of The 3 Billy Goats Gruff which he had translated into Scots language. We also learned the names of some animals in Scots and sang ‘Heid, Shooders, Naps and Taes”. It was lots of fun.
Cameron “I learned the words for head, shoulders, knees and toes in Scots.”
Noah Y ” I learned een is the Scots word for eyes”..
Lauren “I learned a selkie is a seal.”
We have also been learning more our senses. We learned about the different taste buds on our tongue and did some tasting of some different solutions of water. We also did some smell testing and talked about smells we like and smells we don’t like.
In reading we have been learning how to take notes from a non-fiction text. Mrs Gallagher and Mrs Waddell were really impressed at our first attempt at note taking.
*** Pupil of the week *** Katya was pupil of the week for learning the dance routine for our special show in March. Well Done Katya!
Scottish week in P1b
To celebrate Robert Burns, we have been learning more about Scotland. We explored tartan patterns and even made our very own kilts! We were also given the opportunity to taste a variety of Scottish foods such as haggis, neeps and tatties, shortbread, tablet, oat cakes, dumpling, Scotch broth and potato scones. We then worked in groups to sort Scottish food from other food around the world.
On Wednesday P1b went a trip to the local library. We had great fun listening to a selection of stories and dancing to music. Aidan particularly enjoyed listening to the story ‘The Day Louis got Eaten’ and Ben liked ‘Solomon the Crocodile’. Grace loved the animal puppets to help tell the story. Many children are keen to visit the library again!
P2/1 Make Igloos!
On Monday P2/1 made igloos with marshmallows and suger cubes. Inuit people used to live in igloos long ago. An igloo is a circular house made of blocks of ice. We watched a video of an inuit boy building an igloo. On Thursday afternoon we made houses that Inuit people would live in today. These houses would be made of wood with chimneys to let the smoke out from the fire.
Another Busy Week in P5ms!
This week we began learning about the lives of Victorian children. We discovered that the lives of rich children were very different from that of poor children. Did you know that it wasn’t just boys who were chimney sweeps? Girls climbed up too!
Miss Clark taught us about an exciting type of music from the Caribbean. We tried out a number of percussion instruments. We can’t wait until next week when we will perform a song accompanied by our very own Caribbean music.
Congratulations to all the girls who reached the final of the Burns Competition, particularly our overall winner, Amy Coakley.
Who’s raving about reading this week?
This week Antonia explored our school blog. She shared what she had read with us. What a lot of exciting things go on at Balbardie!
Thanks, Antonia.
From the Blog Post Box:
A target I am setting myself is…..
….to remember to bring my reading book. Olivia
…not to talk when the teacher is talking! Callum
…to get even better at my reading. Geordie
…to run 5 km. Finlay
Our Class Assembly
p2lg presented this week’s class assembly. We told the story of The Gruffalo in Scots. Everyone who had a speaking part worked really hard to learn the words off by heart. We also sang Ye Cannae Shove Yer Grannie Aff a Bus and Three Craws Sat Upon a Wa’. We loved having our parents, family and friends there to see us and we liked it when they joined in with our singing. Mrs Gallagher was really proud of us all.
Here is what we had to say about the assembly:
Cole “My favourite part was going to the library with my mum and dad at the end.”
Katie “I liked being a craw.”
Sophie “My favourite part was being The Gruffalo.”
Harvey “I liked the singing.”
Archie “I loved being the owl.”
P1b News
As part of our Katie Morag topic, we began to create our very own storm paintings. We used our knowledge of cold colours to paint the sky and sea and now have to add lightening and sinking boats! Isla liked this activity very much.
Rachael enjoyed number work this week where she was learning all about the story of 4! Grace was able to give an example of a sum which gives the answer 4 by stating that 2+2=4!
P1b also learned that origami is the art of Pper folding. The children listened well to instructions in order to create an origami dog.
Have a lovely weekend,
P1b
