There have been changes in school this week. Class 3 have changed their class name to Class O.
It’s taking some getting used to! (Miss Robertson)
I didn’t really like it in the beginning but now I like it. (Geordie)
What a short week! This week in school there have been four days. This means some of our days have changed.
On Monday: I really enjoyed having Miss McDonald in helping me with my work. (Geordie)
I was shocked arriving at school on Monday morning, the car park was really weird. We have a new turning zone for our taxi’s, it’s so much better! (Callum)
On Tuesday: I liked Miss Robertson being the P.E teacher (Geordie)
On Wednesday: There was a Valentines Disco at night. I really enjoyed dancing and seeing all the Valentines gifts that the boys and girls had brought. (Mrs O’neill)
I loved the Valentines Disco!!! (Callum)
On Thursday: We had Josh’s birthday party because his birthday is over the holidays. I liked playing Just Dance on the Wii. (Geordie)
We had Golden Time, this was very good the Toys from Home room was very busy. It is always popular! (Josh)
Everyone is looking forward to the holiday weekend. Happy Holidays!
A special letter for p2bg
This week we received a special letter. The letter was from a knight called Nicholas who wants to help us to learn about castles. Nicholas is going to set us challenges to complete and has promised us that if we complete the challenges we will be rewarded with a banquet.
Our first challenge was to learn about the job of a knight and to make a coat of arms to reflect our family. We learned that in medieval times boys would start their training to become a knight aged 7 or 8. This job was called a page. A page had lots of things to learn including how to carve meat and serve food, how to hunt with birds of prey, how to use a sword, how to play chess, how to read and write, how to dance and how to ride a horse. They also had to learn good manners. We are going to be rewarded with extra dojo points when we use good manners in class.
We made our own family coat of arms which showed things we enjoy, things we are good at or things we would like to achieve in our lives. Some of us also included our family names on the coat of arms.
We think we have successfully completed our first challenge and look forward to seeing what Nicholas wants us to do next. 🙂
Primary 3/2 are digging !
This week we have been digging for Roman artefacts like archaeologists….
We found lots of pieces of pretend pottery that made up a Roman pot.
We had to use a little brush to push the sand away so that we could uncover all the bits.
We even stuck the pieces down and dated the find.
If we had been real archaeologists we might even have used a sieve and a magnifying glass to examine all the finds !
Hope you have a super holiday weekend !
Pieces of eight!
We all worked hard at home to make these 3d parrots for our classroom. We are so impressed with all of the hard work and creativity.
P6s
The children in P6 have been busy this week rehearsing for the Olivia show. We have worked hard each afternoon to learn our words, songs and dances and it is really starting to come along well. Some of us were busy taking pictures during rehearsals and have created comic strips with these to showcase our learning.
During class time we have been focussing on persuasive language and used what we learned to create posters to encourage people to come along and see our show in March. Mrs Jamieson has been working hard with a small group of us to set up a fundraising event which will take place during school on 4th March (more details will follow).
Also this week we have been creating our final pieces for the Art Exhibition on Thursday 26th February. We have chosen a movie theme for our pictures to link in with our ‘Lights, Camera’ Action’ topic and can’t wait to show them all off on the day!
We are really enjoying our new topic. During the last couple of weeks we have been working in small groups to create a storyboard then script for the movies we have made up together. In the next few weeks we will begin creating scenery and props and then finally begin recording our movies using iMovie.
We hope that everyone enjoys the long weekend and is feeling refreshed coming back to school next week as we have lots planned for our big show!
Class B make their own Information Leaflets
Class B know lots about The Vikings. We have been using lots of different sources to help us learn, and have written some notes about Viking Longships. Since we know lots about The Vikings we decided to use our notes to create information leaflets. We were great at turning our notes into sentences.
‘We’re making leaflets because we’re going to give them to P4G to help them learn about the Vikings.’ Cameron
‘So that P4G knows about The Vikings’. Dylan
‘The East Links Family Park is my favourite leaflet because it has a picture of soft play’. Liam
We enjoyed watching a BBC Bitesize clip which gave us tips for creating leaflets. We also enjoyed looking at information leaflets in class and were about to spot some interesting features.
‘It is decorated. It is decorated with pictures and writing. Some of the writing is different. Some are medium, some are big and even some are small.’ Cameron
‘Inside leaflets we can find pictures and writing to give us information.’ Cody
Next week we will finish our leaflet and deliver them to P4G. We hope the boys and girls enjoy reading our leaflets and learn more about Viking Longships.
P2m
P2m have been really busy preparing for The Art Exhibition to be held in our new extension on the 26th February 3.30-6pm. We have been busy creating wonderful Caribbean Sunsets using the technique of Pointillism. We think they look fantastic! 🙂 Please come along if you can to view and/or purchase our artwork.
In maths this week we have been busy learning about adding coins up to £1 and learning digital and analogue clock times. We have been using out ‘Time’ games of ‘Race the clock’ and ‘Stop the clock’ to challenge us with getting a best time and score. We have also been trying to improve our mental maths scores with ‘Big maths…beat that’ challenges. We are getting faster at adding our numbers together!
We have been learning about the Pet Shop in our topic work and Miss McDougall is very impressed with the homelearning task of making a pet shop animal this week.
Achievements this week:-)
Jaime-lee has moved up a swimming level
Charlotte is on a new level in her gymnastics
Rose has moved up a level in swimming lessons
Maisey has gained a new tab in her Judo/Karate school
Isaac has gained 2 stripes in Tae Kwon Do
Well done to everyone who has managed to get onto step 4 this week!
WB 2.2.15 P4m
Another busy week in P4m!
Colin: “In maths I enjoyed learning how to do multiplication by showing items in an array”.
Mark: “I liked playing pairs in maths to practice the 5 times table”.
Darja: “I enjoyed doing viking art this week”.
Lauryn: “I enjoyed writing the end of my ‘Nessie Adventure’ story in writing”.
Jamie: “I liked writing words out 3 times in spelling because it helps me to practice them”.
Emma: “I liked Learning the Dashing white sergeant in Scottish Dancing”.
Robyn: “I enjoyed using netbooks to learn the 6 times table”.
Class 3 ‘At the Movies Assembly’ Review!
Caitlin: I really enjoyed Class 1’s show about Frozen. Their snowman dance was funny. They tried very hard. I liked their costumes. I had to thank everyone for listening to our assembly. I wasn’t nervous and said my line well. It was good seeing my mum and gran there. I hope everyone enjoyed the assembly.
Josh: I enjoyed being part of the assembly. My dad came to watch me. I had a hot dog as a movie snack. It was delicious! CAry used the invisibility cloak to eat sweeties from the cupboard…it was funny!
Geordie: It was great that my p7 class and my mum and dad came to see the assembly. I liked how everyone laughed at my evil Harry laugh. Mrs Laing was surprised when she saw I turned her fruit into chocolates.
Callum: I was so excited that my mum came to see me. I really enjoyed the assembly and making our movie. Everyone in Classes 1, 2 and 3 were amazing. I enjoyed sitting with Geordie and his mum, dad and my mum for the movie snacks.
p2bg news
This week in p2bg we worked hard creating our art work for the art exhibition. Our work has a Scottish theme and you’ll be able to view and buy at at the exhibition at the end of the month.
In Maths we’ve been working hard to practise our addition and lots of pupils have improved their big maths scores this week.
We are learning more songs for our p2 show, some of us even have solo singing parts.
For our review jotters this week we thought about what we have enjoyed most in school, here are some of our responses:
Amy – ‘I liked the new role play area in class.’
Teighan – ‘I enjoyed doing class talks, RME and Big Maths’.
Murray- ‘I liked using the ipads in Maths’.
Lucas- ‘I enjoyed RME, Maths and reading this week’.
P4g
Another busy week!
This week we focussed on our freeze frames. Mrs Ghafoor took pictures of our freeze frames and we then turned them into comics by adding in scenes and speech bubbles. They look really good.
In maths we have been practising ‘Jazz Hands’ to learn our times tables – they do work! We also played different games on the netbooks to help us with learning our times tables.
In Cool in School we have been learning about last chance warnings and how to use them effectively. We have also been learning about a cool stance – this shows how we should stand when we respond.
We were also learning about ‘Kosher’ and ‘Treifah’ foods. These are foods that Jews will and won’t eat. They have lots of different rules about what and when they can eat the foods. We impressed Mrs Ghafoor by creating a menu for a Jewish friend. We made sure that all food was ‘Kosher’ by following the rules. Did you know that Jews won’t eat a cheeseburger?! That’s because it has cheese and dairy in the same meal which is not allowed.
Enjoy your weekend.
P3e
We have all became Ancient Egyptian scribes this week. We have been learning about hieroglyphics which are the symbols Egyptians used to write. We designed our own cartouches and wrote our names on them in hieroglyphics. We decorated our pyramids in class using the symbols. It has also been an arty week as we have been busy creating our masterpieces for the art exhibition. We have been learning about using colour and shape to create a repeating pattern. We are looking forward to sharing our final design with the rest of the school.
In writing we have started our story about a pyramid adventure. We were learning how to use speech as a way to open a story. This is quite a difficult thing to do but we all tried really hard. The openings of our stories sound really interesting and Miss Elliot is looking forward to finding out what will happen inside the pyramids!
See you next week!
P6H
We have really enjoyed creating our Art work this week, and can guarantee you will be amazed! So please remember to pop along to our exhibition at the opening of our new gym hall!
Our rehearsals for Olivia are going well and we are now able to sing and say our lines without our scripts. We have been measured for costumes, and are nearly finished designing some of the scenery. We have seen bits of Annie, My Fair Lady and Oliver and this has helped us put together the history of our characters and create biographies for them. Look out for our posters around the school and do come and see our show!
P1l ‘Day for Change’
P1l took part in ‘A Day for Change’ today.
We listened to a story about a girl called Cherlyn, who lives in Rawis, a small town in the Philippines. Cherlyn and her family had to leave their home and go to a shelter because there a typhoon, a very serious storm.
We discussed what we would take with us, if we had to leave to go to a safe place (evacuation centre). Here are a few answers:
“A first aid kit” (Zara).
“Water, a teddy bear to cuddle in to and a phone” (Rory).
“My teddy called Flopsy” (Owen).
We had some super suggestions, well done to P1.
We then drew pictures of the things we would take to the safe place.
UNICEF helped during this emergency by providing safe, clean drinking water, food and medicine. UNICEF helped children find their parents and vaccinated children against disease. UNICEF has helped more than 925,000 people like Cherlyn in the Philippines. They work hard to help children keep safe from danger in an emergency.
Burns Supper
Apologies for the delay in the photos. Last week we had a great time at our Burns supper. We enjoyed listening to the choir and Adam singing, the piper, Burns’ poems, Scottish dancing and of course Haggis Neeps and Tatties.
This week our highlights include learning to play basketball in PE, starting Slap Stick comedy sketches in drama and planning our art project for the gallery. We also had a visit from Mrs McKinnon from Bathgate Academy who explained a little more about the three Houses and who the children can speak to if they have any problems.
PS. There was a little delay in homework this week because of photocopying issues. The class copied down their homework and now the printer is working they have been issued their maths!
It’s a pirate’s life for me!
We have been very busy this week adding lots of things into our floorbook on Treasure Island. We have also been asking questions and writing them in the book so we can think about what we want to learn next. It is exciting that we get to choose what we want to learn!
On Monday we made hard tack biscuits! These were made by pirates on their travels and were easy to make as there were only 4 main ingredients. These were:
1. Flour
2. Milk
3. Butter
4. Sea salt
Eva – I ate mine. It was good!
Donna – I thought it was great.
Archie – I ate some of it, but my dad wanted to eat the rest.
Hannah – I ate mine and it was soft.
Tamsyn – I didn’t like mine, but I put jam on it and it tasted nice.
Aaron – It was fantastic!
Maisie – I liked it because I put jam on it.
Dylan – I didn’t like it so I put it in the bin.
Shaun – I thought it was fantastic and I took a big bite of it!
There were lots of opinions on the hard tack biscuits, but I think we all agreed that eating the same things every single day on a pirate ship would not be very nice. We talked about foods we really disliked and how that would be to eat those foods every single day.
Yesterday we were learning about all the different jobs you could have on a pirate ship. Some of these were:
-Master Gunner
-Captain
-Chef
-Cabin boy
-Boatswain
-Carpenter & surgeon
-Rigger
-Master Sailor
We looked at what all these jobs entailed and then we got into groups of 3 and we had to perform actions in front of the rest of the class. The class then had to guess what job we were performing just by looking at our actions and what we were saying. This was really fun and everyone did a fantastic job in this role play task.
We have also started learning about coordinates and this will help us to create our own treasure maps! We have made one in class and here are some pictures of us pointing to coordinates and telling the class what they are:
Next week we want to learn more about pirate language and what they drank on the ship! We are excited to learn more 🙂
Have a lovely weekend!
-Miss Wilson & P1w
Our week in p7b
Today is UNICEF Day for Change 2015:
Finlay: “UNICEF stands for the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund and they help children who’ve been affected by war or natural disasters.”
Kendal: “We learned about Typhoon Haiyan which hit the country of the Phillipines which is near China.”
Ellie: “A typhoon is caused by really strong winds and this can also cause a giant wave.”
Callum: “It destroyed houses and it took the roofs off of buildings and blew people off their feet. The winds reached 195mph!”
William: “To help, UNICEF have built homes and shelters and have helped them get clean water and food.”
Olivia: “They have also spoken to children who have been affected and gave them a chance to talk about things like losing their family.”
Kyra: “Also they sent over medicines and doctors and nurses to help treat the ill people.”
This week we had some buddy time with our P1 buddies:
Jay: “We helped our buddies create pirate masks and we also made hooks from tin foil.”
Finlay: “My buddy enjoyed it because he enjoys colouring in and he coloured it in his own unique style.”
Adam: “My buddy thought it was fun and I enjoyed it too because I saw the smile on his face.”
Harry: “My buddy and I and Josh enjoyed the task and Josh really enjoyed making the tin foil hook while Bryce enjoyed colouring in the mask.”
Who has impressed?
Kendal: “Class 1, 2 and 3 impressed me by performing their assembly in front of a big audience. I thought it was really good and they got up and spoke their parts confidently.”
Callum: “Declan has impressed me because he is always nice to everybody and makes them smile.”
Finlay: “Declan impressed me by beating his best ever score on Big Maths. Well done to everybody else who beat their score too.”
Adam: “Mr Berginis has impressed me because of the way he taught us about perspective in art this week.”
Jay: “I’m impressed by my table this week and we did much better this week and won (half) Table of the Week.”
Finlay: “My table has impressed me by winning table of the week.”
Mr Berginis: “I was impressed this week by how well everyone worked with their p1 buddy and also by how well everyone sat at assembly.”
Primary 3/2 have enjoyed lots this week !
What a busy week in Primary 3/2….Here are some of the things we have enjoyed…..
Sam and Alfie- We have enjoyed learning the two times table.
Emma- I have enjoyed making the mosaic picture for the Art Gallery. I did a fish and called it “Fish on the grass !”
Oliver-I have enjoyed everything especially learning more about the Romans.
Megan- I enjoyed making my mosaic. I did two fish and called the picture “Bubbles.”
Sophia-I enjoyed doing the ninja pup mosaic for the gallery.
Connor- I enjoyed building the fort for the Roman army on the computer
Aaron- I made my mosaic design of a dog. I called it Growly ! I enjoyed doing this.
Jason-I made my mosaic design of a dog. It took me quite a while ! I called it Tommy the dog. I liked doing this activity.
Charlie D. I have enjoyed learning about the Romans especially the Roman soldier and all his armour.
Ben- In Maths we have been learning about numbers to 1000. I have enjoyed this work.
Erin- In my new Maths group we have been learning the 5 times table. I enjoyed this.
Demi leigh- I enjoyed making my mosaic with Mr Cunningham.
Suvi- I enjoyed making my mosaic. I did a fish. I called it “The goldfish ! ”
Mia-I have liked making my mosaic this week. I made a fish,called “The magical fish !”
Lauren, Ilsa and Sophie-In the Romans we enjoyed the songs “Just like a Roman” and “The road building song”
Robert-I am enjoying the Road building song. It is a good song.
The Vikings Are Coming!
As you know, Class 2 are learning about The Vikings. We learned that The Vikings came to Orkney in Northern Scotland. We’ve been looking at photographs of the Orkney coastline to get an idea of what The Vikings would have seen on their approach to Orkney.
We looked at pictures and were able to spot some interesting features such as…
‘the smooth shiny sea’ Liam
‘the sharp grass’ Aiden
At Art we have been learning to create texture. We painted beautiful pictures of the Orkney shore line and named our work ‘The Vikings Are Coming!’ Our challenge was to use a range of objects to create texture in our paintings. We spoke about how the land features would feel if we were to touch them, and tried to create texture using printing techniques.
‘Texture makes your pictures smooth. You can make it smooth by using materials such as Lego, paint and even a rolling pin’. Cody
‘I tried to create rocks using a wood chip this made a rough texture. I used my finger and Lego bricks to create the sharp grassy texture’. Aiden
‘I used rough material, the texture brush and the sponge roller to paint the jaggy rocks’. Cameron
We are looking forward to sharing our art work at the Balbardie Art Exhibition.
Something I have learned this week……
We have had a busy week. We have been practising for our assembly we have been doing lots of art and music.
Here are some of the things we have learned….
I have learned how to do aboriginal dot painting and learned to do reading strategies at the right time. (Lucy)
I have learned how to add and subract decimals. (Lexis, Gemma B, Roan and Ella)
I have learned about Islam and Muslim peoples’ lives. (Ellie)
I have learned how to divide by 2, 3, 4 and 5. (Geo and Kiera B)
I have learned about the Islamic holy book the Qu’ran (Scott)
I have learned to play a new rhythm which is really cool! (Isla)
I have learned how to do aboriginal dot painting. (Louisa and Freya)
I have learned that aboriginal art is really effective. (Cameron B)
I have learned how to divide by 4. (Declan)
I have learned that Muslims are never allowed to draw a picture of Allah. (Kiera B)
I have learned how to divide by 4 in a different way. (Gemma M)
I have learned some of the aboriginal symbols. (Jane)
I have learned all the moves in my gymnastics grade routines. (Annie and Olivia)
I have learned how to do a perspective drawings of a Victorian street. (Olivia)
I have learned to play Merrily We Roll Along on our violins. (Lucy, Isla and Scott)
I have learned Scottish dancing in PE. (Kiera B)
I think you will agree that we have learned a wide variety of things!
And finally Happy Birthday to Lexis! 10 today. Have a fab day!
