There have been lots of exciting things going on today for Easter. We had a good morning at church hearing all about the Easter story and singing our songs.  Sasha, Emma B, Emma T and Katie did a great job with the strings group. We are all very impressed by their talents.

Well done to Katie who won the school Easter colouring competition today.

We also had lots of fun today at Golden Time making Easter bonnets. They were very creative and we had lots of great ideas. Aaron and Shaun won with their Easter bunny bonnet.

We hope everyone has a lovely holiday and we are looking forward to another exciting term ahead!

We took part in Autism Awareness Day this week and learned lots of interesting things:

Lewis : I learned that children with Autism prefer to have quiet classes and not have overly-colourful wall displays.

Adam: Children with Autism have smaller classrooms and can work in wee booths instead of at a group table.

Ava: The colour for Autism is blue and the symbol is a piece of a jigsaw.

We have also been learning about Easter around the world and enjoyed making our biscuits in Spanish.

We would like to wish everyone a Happy Easter and hope you all enjoy a well-deserved break.

HAPPY EASTER FROM 6H!!

Today is Autism Awareness Day and all the children in Balbardie Primary School wore blue to celebrate this day. It was very funny going to the Church Service this morning wearing all blue! We have really enjoyed our last day of school before the Easter holidays and are all excited for the time off!!

We watched a video made by the ARB children and staff and really enjoyed being taken on a tour of the classrooms and learning more about what Autism is. We also really loved the task where we had to see what was the same as our classroom and what was different.

We noticed some of the things that were the same were:
-We have a visual timetable of our day too
-We also have a sticker chart
-We have our own trays
-We have a weather chart

We noticed some of the things that were different were:
-We don’t have our own individual timetables
-We don’t have a monthly calendar with all the events on it
-We don’t have very quiet classrooms!

We all really enjoyed learning more about Autism and we all feel like we know more about the children who have it. We worked with an elbow partner to think a little about what makes us unique and special like children who have Autism. Some of the things that make us unique are:
-I play with my friends and they make me feel special (Kaycee)
-I like playing my zombie games on Xbox (Lewis)
-I have lots of friends (Erin)

We are all unique and different and that’s what makes each one of us special 🙂

Have a lovely Easter break and we hope you don’t eat too many Easter eggs!
-Miss Wilson & P1w

We have had a busy week, and it’s only Tuesday!  We’ve been working very hard at solving maths problems, by finding missing numbers in addition number facts. We’ve used counters, bears, number lines and our fingers to help us find the missing number.

Teighan: ‘It was hard but I managed because I used a number line.’

Alex: ‘I got better because I practised and I liked writing down my answers.’

In English we learned about using interesting words to make our sentences ambitious.  We also used story cubes to help us come up with interesting stories:  we drew our stories and shared these with our elbow partners.

Euan: ‘It was Christmas and it was a really good day because everyone got a scrumptious dinner with each other.’

Gemma: ‘I’m going to have an excellent Easter because I’m going to find lots of blue and green chocolate eggs.’

I am very proud of how well our P2s are learning – what a brilliant class!

Have a very happy Easter boys and girls!

Article 28-Right to an Education

We have had another busy week. Here are some of the new things we learned…

This week in class we listened to the story of Moses. We were interested to learn that the story is set in Egypt. We head that for his safety, baby Moses was left in a basket next to the River Nile in Egypt and he was found by the pharaoh’s daughter! We used what we learned to create a story map explaining the key events in the story.

Last week we wrote a newspaper report about the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb. This week we redrafted our work by rewriting our stories, adding more detail and fixing some of our mistakes. We are really proud of our work and can’t wait to put it in our profile jotter.

At Milk and story time we listened to the story Voices in the Park by Anthony Browne. We carefully examined the illustrations. We then discussed how each character was very different and that the illustrator used various colours to reflect their personality and mood. We then chose one of the characters from the book and deigned a new front cover based on that character’s point of view. We were able to explain why we used certain colours/images. Some of us used bright colours and the sun to show that Smudge was happy whereas others had dark clouds, storms and dead plants to show that Smudge’s Dad was miserable. Miss Bollen was very impressed with our work.

Today we had a party for Miss Moran’s last day. We danced and played some games- it was great! Thank you to Miss Moran for all of her hard work and helping us learn!

Miss Bollen and P3b

Article 28-Right to an Education

This week we have learned lots about Florence Nightingale and how she has made conditions in hospitals much better for us in the present day. We used the BBC Victorians website to find out some information then we took the quiz and we answered all the questions correctly and got a gold award certificate! We wrote a story about a night on the ward with Florence.

In maths we have been multiplying by100 and 1000 and after the lesson last week about multiplying by 10 and 20 we picked this up quite quickly! We continue to work on two and three step problem solving and are becoming much better at identifying which of the four operations we need to apply to solve the problem.

We began our class talks this week. We have had some wonderful presentations. It has been super to see just how talented we all are. We have to listen when someone is presenting and record whether they are well prepared, giving eye contact, what has impressed us and anything we think could be improved upon.

Using the drums some of us accompanied P4m with a song in their assembly. Once again the talent in P5d is shining through!!!

I would just like to thank all of you at home who helped your kids with their presentations …..I know sometimes it can feel like the homework is for you not them!!! I really do appreciate your support!

This time next week…..

We have had such a great week that we couldn’t pinpoint just one thing to talk about! We decided that it would be nice to tell everyone our highlights of our week. Some of these are:
-Making bunny rabbit hats with our buddies and doing Art (Jodie)
-Making the Easter bunny with its tail sticking out (Katie)
-Watching Primary 2’s ‘Honey’ rehearsal
-Seeing the ‘Honey’ show and learning new sounds in Phonics (Eva)
-Going to The Hub (Shaun)
-Watching Primary 4m’s Assembly and learning more about The Vikings (Lewis)
-Going to Phonics and learning the sound “sh” (Arran)
-Learning initial sounds in Phonics “tr”, “sc”, “gr” and “pr” (Max)

Our class did fantastic this month and got lots of certificates! Here are a list of the children who got a certificate and what they got it for:
Primary 1 MVP – Donna Forsyth
Drama Pupil of the month – Katie McFarlane
Following our class charter and keeping others safe in the playground (RRS) – Max Taylor
Article 33 – THE RIGHT TO BE SAFE

Note from the teacher: Primary 1 Learners Journey Jotters (pink) are going home today and once you have filled out the achievements at home page (at the back) and the Highlights of the term page (blue) and sign this, please return by 1st May. Thank you!

We’ve had a very busy week in p7b.

At Christmas time we sent off gifts and cards to members of the army and navy. We received some letters back and on Wednesday we had a visit from John Patterson who serves in the Navy.

Kai: “It was fun because he told us all about his work. For example he told us that he was an engineer and he fixes engines on ships.”

Taylor: “He told us about some of the things which happened on the ship such as when one of his friends fell off the boat. They had to go to alert stations and save him.”

Lauren U: “He showed us his medals and he got one for the Queen’s Jubilee and healso got one from serving in Iraq.”

We learned about rainforest technology:

Isla: “Technology is the solution to a problem. A lot of people think it has to involve electronics but it doesn’t.”

Adam: “An example is a blowpipe. They use it to help them get animals for their feast. They use them because they are quieter than guns and they won’t scare off the animals. One of the tribes we looked at was using four metre long blowpipes.”

Antonia: “Another example is the way one of the tribes uses the trees to build treehouses. They use branches to make the floor and the walls and a special type of leaf to make the roof. They used an iron wood tree as it is the strongest.”

Ellie: “I found out that the higher they build the treehouse, the better because it helped them stop other tribes attacking them. They also built them high to avoid the floods in the wet season.”

Isla: “We learned that they can’t get drinking water from the river so they find a plant called a bromeliad which they can use for drinking water and for washing.”

Lauren U: “I learned that they use a special type of rope to climb trees to get honey for their families. They also use smoking leaves to try and pacify the bees.”

Lauren C: “When they go fishing they use Barbosa powder to make the fish confused. They swim round in circles and the hunters can easily spear them. The powder comes from the Barbosa plant and gets mashed up.”

Callum: “When children are trying to catch tarantulas, they use a long stick to poke the hole and make it come out then a thicker stick to hold down the body while they grab the legs. They then wrap it in a leaf so they can carry it and they cook it over the fire. When it makes a whistling noise it is ready. They add seasoning like chilli to make it taste a bit better.”

This week we have also been learning about deforestation:

Jack: “Deforestation is when people are cutting down or burning down trees in the rainforest and this releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Every day an area the size of New York City is being destroyed.”

Chloe: “The people are cutting down trees to get paper, soya to feed animals, palm oil for products like chocolate and also so people can goldmine.”

Harry: “People are against deforestation because it is killing a lot of animals. They are also killing innocent people who live there like the Yanomami and Tairona. It is also destroying the Ozone layer with all the carbon being released. We will also lose the medicines which are in the rainforest.” 

Antonia: “My opinion on deforestation is that I don’t really care if it happens or not because I’m not living in the rainforest. In the future I might be against it once all the trees have gone.”

Lauren U: “I’m against deforestation because it destroys the homes of animals and makes them extinct and some of them haven’t even been found yet.”

Lauren C: “I’m against deforestation because if you cut down trees it lets out all the carbon and if there are no trees left then we could all die.”