Rhia and Sophie: I enjoyed the basketball festival-  we  learned how to play and it was fun

Harvey and Samantha: I enjoyed writing about red squirrels

Eva: I liked learning more about time- I can now tell 5 minute intervals on a clock

Tom: I enjoyed the assembly about Egyptians

Lennox: I enjoyed learning 5 minute intervals in time. I found it quite tricky but I worked hard and got there in the end.

Holly: The basketball festival helped me to discover that I really like basketball!

Naomi: I enjoyed comparing Wales and Scotland in reading comprehension this week.

Primary 6 pupils have been using their research, reading and note taking skills to find out information about red squirrels in Scotland. We have been learning to record and organise our information in writing and by using Microsoft Powerpoint and Word. Working in pairs, we have found out that red squirrels are native to Scotland but that unfortunately their numbers are declining due to the rise of grey squirrels and a disease that they carry.

Firstly, we planned our reports by using categories to gather information. Next, we wrote our reports by hand and presented them in an organised fashion using subheadings. Afterwards, we typed them up using Microsoft Word. Finally, we self and peer assessed our writing against our targets.

We have enjoyed writing our reports and are pleased that we have worked hard to meet our writing targets. We have learned lots of information about the red squirrel and are looking forward to some themed art work next week. Watch this space!

Pupil of the Week this week was Lauryn who not only met her writing targets, but produced a plan, written and typed report to a very high standard. Well Done for all your hard work, Lauryn!

P6B have been taking part in a whole school effort to design, create and send Easter cards to our service men and women in Iraq, Brunei, Afghanistan and on HMS Middleton.

Before beginning our cards, we explored and identified common Easter themes, including animals, symbols, colours, objects and stories. We then discussed different ways we could design and create our cards and shared ideas in small groups.

The end results were colourful and creative cards which the children worked hard to complete. Murray was awarded ‘Pupil of the Week’ for his particular, and very creative, effort.

We hope the service men and women enjoy receiving them as much as we did making them!

I am aware that positive friendships and relationships can promote health and the health and wellbeing of others. HWB 2-44b

In P6B, we have been exploring cyber bullying. We researched and considered some key questions –

1. What is cyber bullying and how is it defined?

1. What are the effects of cyber bullying?

3. What can be done about cyber bullying and who can help?
4. How do we keep ourselves safe online?

We worked in pairs to record our information and use it to create a leaflet about cyber bullying. We had to think about presentation, organisation and the quality and variety of information that we were sharing. We found this to be a very useful activity and many of us were able to relate and share our own experiences of cyber bullying.

Jack: The best thing to do is not to reply to a cyber bully and to block them from speaking to you.

Luca: Only accept friend requests from people that you know, otherwise ignore them.

Jamie: Never give out your password to anyone. People can pretend to be you.

Kamron: I found it very shocking how many people are affected by cyber bullying.

Casey: Cyber bullying is nasty and not acceptable. You need to do something about it.

Hopefully, we will now know what to do about cyber bullying and how to keep ourselves and others safe online.

Our learning tweets about Living and Growing and maths:

Our learning tweets about writing:

Pupil of the week: Ty

Special person: Abbie

Have a look at our learning tweets from this week! It was World Book Day on Thursday and we enjoying taking part in ‘Balbardie Stops to Read’ and designing a new front cover for our favourite books. We also enjoyed welcoming and getting to know our new pupil Naomi.

Special person last week: Rhia

Special person this week: Sam

Our tweets about writing:

“I enjoyed learning about wind farms this week”- Zoe

Our tweets about maths:

“I started learning how to do long multiplication”-Rowan

“I learned by 9 and 11 times tables”-Rhia

Our tweets about music:

“I enjoyed learning Scottish songs in music” Abbie and Cole

Our tweets about LAC:

“I learned more about Scotland”-Jack

“I enjoyed the assembly today”-Tom

“I learned how to apply my art and maths skills at the same time”-Eva

We have had a short week but we have been learning a lot. We have been revising our tables and practising our spelling. We have also been busy in art- drawing Scottish landscapes.

Special person: Scott

Pins from our learning in writing this week:

Tweets about our learning in multiplying in maths, character study in writing and Scottish Politics in LAC:

Snaps of our favourite piece of work:

Pupil of the week: Holly

Special person: Kate

Special person: Alanna

Pupil of the week: Rhia

Samantha: I enjoyed making a poster advertising my business for a Christmas party. We needed to work out the profit and work with a budget.

Sophie:  I enjoyed writing a play script of the Christmas Story. I liked adding in character directions and stage directions.

Zoe: I enjoyed learning about percentages and fractions to manage costs for my Christmas party business plan.

Ty: I enjoyed play script writing.

Tom: I liked helping out with the power point for the P1 show.

Eva and Abbie: We liked seeing the magician for the Golden Club event.

Our learning this week:

Tobin i have learnt how to write a news report on the Caribbean island

kamron i have got my first saxophone lesson

harry i have learnt not to be scared of the camera when filming our news report

Mark i enjoyed learning about the Caribbean

Emma i enjoyed learning keys in clarinet

Aidan i learned to work with new people

Skye i learned to draw beauty and the beast when designing the school float.

Archie I enjoyed watching the balbardie factor ellis boyle and annie and olivia won well done to them !!!!!

Dasha -i engoyed pe. We got our reward for following instructions.

We have had such a great time putting together our show. We feel we have learned so much from doing rehearsals and finally being able to perform in front of our family and friends.  This week we have also been learning new skills in Numeracy and Literacy.

Rowan: I enjoyed performing in the show and creating maths games to demonstrate our knowledge of addition.

Jack: I really enjoyed maths. We were adding four digit numbers.

Lucie: I enjoyed maths this week. I feel I am getting better at subtraction.

Tom: I enjoyed spelling this week. We were working at different stations. I enjoyed the scrabble station.

Harvey: I also enjoyed spelling this week. I liked creating my words with play-dough.

Special person: Lucy M