Jamie – I have learned how to play djembe drums in music
Aaron T – I learned it can be -25 degrees in the polar express
Max – I enjoyed learning about the polar express
Liam – I learned about the polar express
Alfie B – I learned how to sensibly deal with a situation
Ellie-Rose – I learned about the polar express
Brooke – I have learned about area this week
Olivia – I have learned more about area
Charlotte – I have learned more about area
Aaran M – I have learned about the polar express
Jay – I have learned about pitch in music
Orla – I have learned that in the polar academy they had to go in a canoe and get tipped under water to untie knots
Lewis – I have learned more about perimeter
Kyle – I learned it can get to -25 degrees in Greenland
Florence – I learned that the snow is very deep in Greenland
Annie – I learned about endangered animals
Rory – I learned about endangered animals
Holly – I liked learning about the polar academy
Ruby – I learned that there are only around 700 mountain gorillas left
Eva – I learned more about area
Owen – I have learned that in Greenland the snow is about as high as a roof
Alistair – I liked learning about the polar academy
Kaycee – I enjoyed learning about the polar academy
Ellie – I enjoyed learning about area
Brandon – I learned about the polar academy
Leah – I enjoyed the polar academy visiting
Shaun – I enjoyed learning about perimeter and prehistoric life
Bryce – I enjoyed learning more about area
Alfie L – I learned more about area
Dylan – I enjoyed learning more about pitch in music
Jackie – I enjoyed learning about endangered species
P3A
Here are some of our highlights from the week:
Alex: I enjoyed Big Writing because we were writing instructions.
Olivia: I enjoyed Big Writing because we were writing instructions and it’s very fun.
Aaron: I enjoyed Big Writing because we were writing instructions about making candles.
James: I enjoyed making candles because they smell good.
Holly and Millie: I enjoyed making the candles because it was fun and I like the smell.
River: I enjoyed Big Writing because we were writing instructions and I managed to finish mine.
Jack: I enjoyed decorating the classroom door for Book Week Scotland because the theme for the door is ‘There is no dragon in this story’.
Jude: I enjoyed decorating the classroom door because it was lots of fun making the sign with Ellis.
Amber: I enjoyed decorating the door because I got to make part of the sun and the dragon is putting the sun back.
Scott B: I enjoyed making the candles because it was lots of fun.
Aileigh: I enjoyed making the candles because I got to go in the staffroom to pour the wax and it was so fun.
Ellie: I enjoyed making the candles because they have nice smells.
Oliver and Megan: I enjoyed making the candles because they smell nice.
Carley: I enjoyed Big Writing because we were writing a set of instructions and my title was ‘How to make a Christmas candle’.
Emily: I enjoyed doing VCOP activities with my talk partner Ellie.
Mia: I enjoyed Big Writing because we were writing instructions for making a candle.
Ellis: I enjoyed doing our classroom door because I got to do a sign with Jude.
Breaghannon: I enjoyed making our candles because they smelled very good.
Max: I was sad that I was off because I didn’t get to do fun things but since Jack is my friend he did some things for me.
Have a lovely weekend everyone and enjoy the Christmas Fayre!
P3A
P3A Christmas Enterprise
Our Christmas Enterprise products are now available to buy for £3.50, please bring this into school by the end of the week if you would like to purchase your candle before the Christmas Fayre on Saturday.
Thank you
P3A
A very special delivery to P1a
This week we received a very special delivery from the North Pole.
Santa had heard about our enterprise project. He has a little word with the Elves and Mrs Claus. They sent us reindeer oats and a special secret ingredient, candy canes and magic keys. We have been very busy making these into Reindeer Dust, Candy Cane Mice and Magic Keys to sell on our stall on Saturday.
We are going to be looking at cost, mark up and profit next so we can decide on what we are going to spend our profit on.
We look forward to seeing you at our stall!
Happy Book Week Scotland from P3A
P2A’s week
P2 have had a busy week of learning! We have been continuing to use our class shop and using our knowledge of giving change in our maths work. Next week we will be making money games to help us practise.
We have been busy decorating our gingerbread biscuits for Santa and we think they look great. You can begin to buy them now if you wish or wait till the Christmas Fayre on the 24th-A great bargain at £1. Next week we are excited to be making our Snowman Soup cups which you can also buy for £1.
Also next week is book week and we are looking forward to reading some great stories, decorating our class door and taking part in fun activities.
We hope to see you at the Fayre on the 24th of November 10-12.
Reduce, reuse, recycle!
With Mrs Mackenzie we learnt why Echo had come to earth. We discovered that Planet X is covered in rubbish and the water is polluted. We made a pamphlet about the 3 rs – REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE! We are becoming planet protectors trying to protect our planet so that it doesn’t become as polluted as Planet X. Things we can do at home and in school include; washing and recycling cans and tins, plastic bottles and yoghurt pots and making sure that we use paper carefully. We can use sandwich wraps and plastic pots instead of plastic bags and cling film in our lunchboxes. We can use washable water bottles rather than single use ones. We can turn off lights when we leave rooms and we must remember to turn off the smartboard when we leave the classroom. When we grow out of clothes, we can pass them on to someone new or give them to the charity shop.
In anti-bullying week we wore odd socks to school on Monday and Echo had some odd sock combinations too!
We also read a story about it being good to be different, called Odd Dog Out. You can listen to it here.
In Health and Wellbeing, we have been learning some first aid so that we can help people if we are the first people at an accident. We learnt about burns, choking, asthma attacks, bleeding wounds and broken bones.
In Science we looked at rocks and what is under the ground. We started thinking about what rocks can be used for and why certain rocks are used for certain things.
We were very proud of Eva who won the P4 float competition and Luke who was awarded the certificate for displaying school values.
We are looking forward to the Christmas fair and have been working on our stalls and our finances, trying to make sure we make as much money as possible whilst ensuring that all our customers have fun!
We are also looking forward to Book Week Scotland next week and having the opportunity to share our favourite stories and books on Thursday.
Table of the week – 
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P2B
P2B looked brilliant today all dressed up for Children in Need! A great way to end another good week.
This week saw the start of our Christmas enterprise which the class thoroughly enjoyed getting stuck into.
Lack of rain on Thursday meant a fun game of football with Mrs Laidlaw during outdoor gym.
This week and next we are continuing our money unit in maths and beginning to look at giving change.
Ben – My favourite thing was dressing up as Pickachu. He’s my favourite.
Thomas – The enterprise.
Hollie – Snowman soup.
Oliver – Dressing up for Pudsey. I got a certificate.
Murray – Dressing up for Pudsey.
Mikolaj – Playing football yesterday and chaos tig.
Hannah – Being Big Star
Kai – Dressing up for Pudsey because me and Oliver are twins.
Isla – Money because I’m getting better and better at it.
Anna – My favourite thing was being Little Star on Tuesday.
Hope – Playing football and dressing up for children in need.
Sofia – Pushing myself doing coins.
Daisy – Christmas enterprise on Wednesday.
Jack – Playing football.
Ethan – My favourite thing was dressing up for Pudsey.
Ruby – Dress down for Pudsey.
Lois – Being Little Star.
Miss Cowan
P5a
This week we have been thinking and planning for the Christmas Fayre. We discussed advertising and made colourful posters to attract customers. We have also been learning about instructional writing and we wrote instructions for how to make our reindeer hot chocolate jars. In maths we have been learning about perimeter and area – we can even work out the area of a triangle! We also got to listen to some amazing bassoon music from the Genovia Quartet and we talked about the magic of music. We also had another session of handball and are really developing our skills.
Well done to Ross Gibson who was awarded a certificate at our assembly for always showing our school values.
Here are some of our best bits:
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Ammie-Leigh: I enjoyed finding out our new story that we are reading in class – we chose Awful Auntie by David Walliams.
Shelbi: I enjoyed playing Around the Class.
Zara: I loved making our painting sunsets for art.
Farrah: I enjoyed maths this week.
Blaire: I liked singing the happy song and thinking about what makes us happy.
Murray: I liked writing instructions for our enterprise.
Luke: I liked Handball.
Rory: Handball was fun this week.
Mia: I really liked music.
Jodie: I enjoyed doing the Mystery maths activity with my learning partner.
Katie: I enjoyed writing instructions.
Enjoy the weekend!
P3A
Here are some of our highlights from the week:
Jude: I enjoyed assembly because my friend Aaron got a certificate.
Jack: I enjoyed maths because we were learning how to understand the number sequence to 1000.
Alex: I enjoyed Big Writing because we were writing about how to make a good friendship. I am almost finished mine, I just need to learn how to spell ‘carefully’.
Ellis: I enjoyed milk and story today because we got to read the book ‘My Funny Family’.
Shannon: I enjoyed the assembly.
Megan: I enjoyed reading.
Leila: I enjoyed Big Writing because I wrote funny things in my writing.
Carley: I enjoyed Big Writing because we got to write a friendship recipe and my title was ‘Friends Forever’.
Ada: I enjoyed Big Writing because we got to write about friendship. It was really funny because we were pretending we were making a cake.
Ethan: I enjoyed mental maths and maths because it was fun.
Millie: I enjoyed reading because I got a new book.
Aaron: I enjoyed learning how to understand the number sequence to 1000 and I think I am very good at it.
Max: I enjoyed dress down day because I got to dress up as Pudsey. When I go home I am going to watch the Pudsey show.
James: I enjoyed Big Maths Beat That because it’s fun.
River: I enjoyed Big Maths Beat That because I like singing along to the song.
Scott B: I enjoyed maths and mental maths because I got to learn lots of brand new stuff.
Mac: I enjoyed dressing up as an avenger on Pudsey day.
Breaghannon and Scott R: I enjoyed outdoor P.E. because we got to play rounders.
Have a lovely weekend everyone.
P3A
P5B – Something I’m grateful for this week…
Dylan – I am thankful for handball this week because it is fun
Noami – I am thankful for Music this week because it was good
Brandon – I am thankful for Music because I liked what they were playing
Aaron T – I am thankful for handball this week because I am learning a new game
Alfie B – I am thankful for handball because it is enjoyable
Rory – I am thankful for doing the bath salts this week because they had nice Christmas smells
Kaycee – I am thankful for learning music because I liked the tuba
Jay – I am grateful for doing Maths because it was lots of fun
Olivia – I am thankful for Music because I really liked the games we played
Jamie – I am grateful for handball because I liked playing the games
Alfie L – I am thankful for handball because the boys were allowed to shoot this week
Kyle – I am grateful that I got to go to ‘Seasons for Growth’ and miss out some work
Max – I am grateful for PE this week with Mr Jeffries
Alistair – I am grateful for my mum getting new hamsters for me
Orla – I am grateful for my piano teacher because otherwise I wouldn’t be able to go to my piano exam
Ellie-Rose – I am grateful for Music because it was good
Liam – I am grateful for Music lessons because I liked them
Leah – I am grateful for handball because everyone was allowed to shoot
Ellie – I am grateful for Music because I like learning about different instruments
Holly – I am grateful that I have an amazing teacher
Ruby – I was grateful for the Music with Florence and Annie
Eva – I am thankful to my friend for letting me borrow her 2018 Beano book
Bryce – I am grateful for PE this week with Mr Jeffries because it was fun
Jackie – I am grateful for the school raising money for charity
Charlotte – I am grateful because I have a very kind, nice and amazing teacher
Owen – I am grateful towards my teacher because she gave me the Celebration Award
Shaun – I am grateful for the school raising money for charity
Aaran – I am grateful for my sister going to her party, so I have time to myself
P6A
Primary 6 have had another wonderful week full of exciting learning, here are some of our highlights…
Ranna- I really enjoyed writing the diary entry as Neil Armstrong.
Connor- I really enjoyed learning how to find the area of a shape using the formula A=LxB.
Catriona- I really enjoyed P.E. this week.
Megan- I enjoyed playing castles in P.E.
Mia- I really enjoyed learning about staying safe online and discussing bullying and how we can stop it.
Suvi- I really enjoyed acting out Neil Armstrong’s life on the moon.
Hannah- I really enjoyed writing my diary entry as Neil Armstrong.
Alex- I enjoyed completing my assessment for length in Maths.
Jess- I enjoyed writing my diary entry as Neil Armstrong.
We are really looking forward to our drama workshop next week based on ‘Charlie and the Chocolate factory’.
Have a nice weekend!
P6b
This week has been an absolute blast in P6b!
In our maths, this week, we continued our work on perimeter, which also included identifying and naming advanced 2d shapes. We enjoyed using different strategies to add together the different lengths of shapes before uncovering the perimeter, finding the column addition method most appropriate to adding lengths containing decimal points. We ended the week by looking at measurement, using rulers correctly to measure straight lines and, then, to draw out shapes using a ruler before uncovering the perimeter of said shape.
In our writing we continued with our information texts on the Solar System with a big focus on handwriting skills and technique. We also looked at using commas correctly by working on our use of subordinate and embedded clauses. Many of the texts are now ready for display and will be put out imminently for all to see and marvel at.
In reading we finished our most recent class novel and elected our new class story, The Christmasaurus. We have continued our class reading of our novels by reading in class in our groups and also by sharing our thoughts on our books with an adult. We ended the week by reading a comprehension text and, then, working in groups to help answer specific questions on said text. We started by working as a whole class before working in groups and, then, independently.
We finished the week, on Friday, by reviewing why we remember people who sacrificed their lives for our country. We observed the two minutes silence and discussed the importance of war memory, so as to learn from the horrors and, indeed, the mistakes of the past.
Next week we will be continuing our work on measurement before looking again at perimeter by measuring the sides of shapes and, then, calculating the perimeter. We will, additionally, move into our next text in our writing by looking at a diary entry from the perspective of astronaut, Neil Armstrong, this will also be used to assist us with our year group assembly in December.
Remember that on Monday we are wearing odd socks in order to raise awareness of anti-bullying.
Thanks for a super week, P6b!
P3B
In literacy, we were learning how to use commas in a list of things. We found that you could use maths to work out how many commas you need to use! If you have 5 things in a list, you need 3 commas and an ‘and’. If you have 3 things, you need 1 comma and an ‘and’. If you have 4 items in a list you need 2 commas and an ‘and’. Can you work out the maths behind this?!
This week we wrote an acrostic poem and tried to use adjectives to make it more interesting.
In maths, we are continuing to build our mental maths recall, learning strategies for adding and playing games to help us with learning about grid references and co-ordinates.
In French this week we were learning about the names of the clothes we wear. We linked this to our topic and designed and dressed people based on the different seasons. We now have to label the clothes for our giant people.
In topic, we looked at different types of weather and took notes about them. We learned how the weather affects what we do, wear, how we travel and even our mood!
REMEMBER TO WEAR ODD SOCKS ON MONDAY TO RAISE AWARENESS OF ANTI-BULLYING WEEK.
P3A – Xcite and Odd Socks Day
Unfortunately, there has been a change to the Xcite Programme and we will no longer be attending for the next 3 weeks. Therefore, golden time will take place on Friday as normal.
Also, don’t forget to wear odd socks on Monday for Anti-Bullying Week! 🙂
Here are some of our highlights from the week:
Shannon: I enjoyed making our buildings into a community.
Mia: I enjoyed reading because I got a chapter book.
Alex: I enjoyed Big Writing because we were writing about Bonfire Night.
Carley: I enjoyed maths because we were learning about Venn diagrams.
Ethan: I enjoyed mental maths and maths because it was fun.
Ada: I enjoyed learning about onomatopoeia because I’ve never learned about it before.
Jack: I enjoyed maths because we were learning to sort shapes and numbers into Venn diagrams.
Mac: I enjoyed golden time because I got to play with my friends.
Ellis: I enjoyed golden time because I got to play with my friends Ada, Amber and River.
Holly: I enjoyed golden time because I got to play with my friend Carley.
James: I enjoyed golden time because I got to play with my friend Mac.
Scott B: I enjoyed designing the float for the procession.
Jude: I enjoyed the assembly because we were talking about poppies and it was interesting.
Aaron: I enjoyed golden time because I got to play with my friends Alex and Ethan.
Max: I enjoyed the assembly because Mrs Johns told us that we wear poppies because poppies grow where soldiers used to fight.
River: I enjoyed assembly because Mrs Johns told us that we wear poppies to remember people that died in World War 1 and 2.
Millie: I enjoyed maths because we got to sort shapes into a Carroll diagram.
Amber: I enjoyed maths because we got to sort things with four legs and animals into a Venn diagram.
Breaghannon: I enjoyed golden time because I got to play with my friends Teigan and Shannon.
Scott R: I enjoyed golden time because I got to play with my friend Oliver.
Have a lovely weekend everyone.
P3A
Chocolate rocks!
Another busy week in P4a with blog contributions from each of our tables.
Red table – In writing with Mrs Mackenzie, we wrote comic strips of Echo arriving on earth and why he came. We discovered that his planet was beautiful and then became horrible because of the rubbish that was left on it.
Orange table – In numeracy we are working on partitioning which is when we make a sum easier by separating the numbers into their hundreds, tens and ones. You then add the hundreds together, the tens together and the ones together. Then you add all the different bits together.
Yellow table – We have started learning about rocks and soils in Science. We looked at different ‘rocks’ which were actually chocolate. We drew them and described them.
Green table-In RME we started learning about the food that Jewish people eat which is called Kosher. Kosher means ‘permitted’ and some foods are forbidden for Jewish people. These include; pork, lobster, shark, birds of prey and shrimp. They are also not allowed to eat dairy and meat at the same time.
Blue table – In Maths with Mrs Collings, we started learning about Chance. The likelihood of something happening can be; impossible, unlikely, even chance, likely and certain. The chance of Daniel going skiing today is unlikely. The chance of Akasha dressing up as Pikachu is even chance. The chance of Ehan playing golf in the dark is impossible. In health and wellbeing we have been learning how to keep ourselves safe with medicines.
Learning partners of the week –Elena and Artjom
Table of the week – 
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And lastly, don’t forget your odd socks on Monday for antibullying week!
P5a
Our highlights this week:
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Murray: I enjoyed literacy boxes.
Samuel: I liked P.E.
Ross: P.E was really fun.
Kai: I liked using the Going for Gold booklets to help me learn the times tables.
Callum: I liked learning about Big Deal Little Deal with Mrs Aitken.
Evan: Handball was really good this week.
Lily: I enjoyed learning about perimeter.
Lucas He: I liked drawing shapes and working out the perimeter.
Zara: I liked drawing poppies in art
Katie: I liked French this week.
Blaire: I enjoyed handball.
Donna: Learning about pulse and rhythm was really fun with Danielle and Lloyd.
Jodie: I liked the around the class multiplication game.
Farrah: Around the class was really fun.
Shelbi: I liked Handball.
Maisie: Music was so much fun!
**Remember to wear odd socks for Anti-Bullying week on Monday.**
P2B
REMINDER: On Monday 12th November, children can wear odd socks for anti-bullying because it’s ok to be different. No money is required for this.
This week Primary 2b have continued learning about the war hero dog, Sergeant Stubby which they are thoroughly enjoying and looking forward to continuing.
We have also focused on counting coins and will be moving onto working out different coin combinations to make given totals.
This week’s Big Star was Hollie who has enjoyed receiving this award.
This morning was Balbardie Primary’s Remembrance assembly and 2 minute silence which P2B understood the purpose of in-line with our WWI topic. I was proud to see how respectful the class were throughout these times.
Best Bits
Ben – Being chosen for Little Star by Hollie.
Mikolaj – Yesterday we played football.
Jack – Doing the maths questions.
Ethan – Sergeant Stubby
Isla – Sergeant Stubby because he’s cute.
Kai- Remembrance Assembly
Oliver – Maths questions
Thomas – Hearing more about Sergeant Stubby
Murray – Maths
Hannah – I like learning about Sergeant Stubby.
Hollie – Sergeant Stubby and being Big Star.
Daisy – Sergeant Stubby because he is brave.
Sofia – Sergeant Stubby
Anna – Learning about Sergeant Stubby because he’s friendly and he’s very nice to the people who are on his team and he is very kind to everybody.
Hope – Learning about Stubby running into the war to save the soldiers.
Ruby – Being Little Star
Lois – Being Little Star
Miss Cowan
(P5B) A question I have from this week…
Kaycee – How can I get better at perimeter?
Rory – Why were boys not allowed to score in handball?
Shaun – How can I improve my handwriting?
Kyle – Why is perimeter so hard?
Jamie – How can I improve my Maths?
Max – Why were boys not allowed to shoot in handball?
Orla – How can I get better at writing stories?
Liam – How can I get better at writing scary stories?
Owen – How can I get better at handwriting?
Olivia – How can I get better at measurements?
Alistair – How can I get better at goal-keeping in handball?
Alfie B – How can I get better at handwriting?
Ellie-Rose – How can I get better at Maths?
Aaran M – How can I get better at perimeter?
Ruby – How can I get better at handball?
Leah – Why were boys not allowed to shoot in handball?
Jay – Why were boys not allowed to shoot in handball?
Jackie – Can people stop being mean to one another and just make up?
Holly – Can people be nicer in the playground and not hurt each other?
Florence – How can I get better at perimeter?
Eva – How can I get better at Maths?
Ellie – How can I get better at Maths?
Dylan – Can people stop being mean to each other?
Charlotte – Can people try and make better choices at lunch time?
Brooke – How can I get better at writing scary stories?
Brandon – Why were boys not allowed to shoot during handball?
Bryce – How can I get better at Maths?
Alfie L – Why were boys not allowed to shoot during handball?
*P5b are learning to take turns during team games! 🙂
P6A
This week we have been learning loads of new things we would like to share some things with you.
MATHS/NUMERACY
Lauren-I enjoyed learning about perimeter.
Suvi-I enjoyed using rulers to measure cm and mm.
Islay-I enjoyed doing the challenge sheet.
Lucas-I enjoyed using rulers to measure cm and mm.
LITERACY
Skye-I enjoyed doing spelling this week.
Euan-I enjoyed writing about space this week.
Sophia- I enjoyed going to the library to read.
TOPIC
Murray-I enjoyed practicing our assembly songs.
Liam-I really love learning about Space.
Teighan-I think that Space is really interesting.
P.E.
Joshua- I really loved playing castles against the opposition.
Ranna- I enjoyed outdoor P.E. this week.
Mia- I liked jogging around the playground this week in outdoor P.E. for our warm up.
Other
Denholm- I thought that the Remembrance assembly was really interesting.
Catriona- I can’t wait until Golden Time!
Written by Mia, Murray and Skye 🙂
