Eva – I liked learning about Mary Queen of Scots because she is really interesting.
Artjom – I liked having learning partners.
Lilyrose – My favourite thing this term is maths.
Hollie – I like futsal because I like sport.
Rowan – I liked using magnets and I liked futsal.
Ehan – I have enjoyed telling the time because it develops your skills.
Charlotte – I loved maths and science because they’re so much fun
Archie – I have loved having learning partners cause I get to work with so many people.
Lexi – I loved science.
Emily – I loved futsal.
Kyle – I enjoyed Maths because I love it.
Sara – I have enjoyed Mary, Queen of Scots because it’s interesting.
Lois – I enjoyed futsal because it’s fun and you get tired!
Orality – I have enjoyed Mary, Queen of Scots because I liked earning about her life. I also enjoyed hockey.
Jack – I enjoyed futsal this term.
Grace – I have enjoyed Mary, Queen of Scots because it was interesting.
Maddison – My highlight of the term is Mary, Queen of Scots.
Luke – I have enjoyed maths challenges, writing letters and stories, reading books, PE and running about.
Akasha – I enjoyed Movie ‘Night’.
Alex – I enjoyed maths because I love it!
Elena – I enjoyed Mary, Queen of Scots because it is really fun (but not at the end for Mary!)
Lucas – I’ve enjoyed maths.
Rosie – My favourite things in P4a is learning partners.
Daniel – I enjoyed maths because I love it.
It’s been a really busy and fun term in P4a and we are all looking forward to a good break.
The table of the week this week is

With 540 points!

What a brilliant term it has been in P6b!

This week we finished our blog reports and they are absolutely fantastic! The children have worked extremely hard on these in a group setting and have had great fun expanding and sharing their tribal peoples knowledge.

In maths we have finished our work on percentages. The children have really done me proud with the effort and commitment they have been putting into their mathematics learning. Ask your children to convert a percentage into a fraction or decimal and be amazed!

Our reading books for next term have been collected and I have read the blurbs to the children, a taster for what to expect in the next term.

Specifically, this week, we have been delivering our presentations on rainforest animals to an audience, it’s great to see the commitment so many have put into these great works. Anyone delivering a presentation has also been asked to take and answer questions, everyone has completed this to a great degree.

In our expressive arts, P6b were the lucky recipients of a Firefly Arts session, a collection of really fun drama lesson which even the class teacher took part in and enjoyed.

Tomorrow, we will be celebrating our achievements for this term. We have ALL worked so hard and made each other proud, both personally and academically.

Well done on a great term, P6b, have a well-earned and deserved week off!

Beneath are our blog reports on the rainforest’s tribal people…tribal blog #3 tribal blog 1 tribal blog 5 trible blog 4 trible blog two

This has been a quick and exciting week!

In literacy, we have looked at other ways in which sentences can end. We can identify which sentences just use a full stop, which ones are a question and which ones need an exclamation mark. We have also been learning to write letters. This was quite tricky as we had lots of things to think about. We had to think about why we were writing, what we wanted to know and say, the layout of the letter and how to write in paragraphs.

In maths, we have been extending our knowledge of place value by ordering numbers and counting in tens and hundreds. We also looked at lines of symmetry. We used what we learned about this to create symmetrical butterflies in art.

In topic, we learned about the different types of houses that people live in and where we would find them in our Town. We have begun planning our own towns.

This week we also had a chance to participate in Drama which was provided by Firefly Arts. We had lots of fun playing a game called ‘Pressure’, making shapes with letter sounds and singing.

On Monday, we are looking forward to our trip around Bathgate. Please remember to wear something warm, waterproof and comfy shoes which are good for walking in.

(Parents who said they could accompany us on our trip on Monday, can you please come to reception for 1:20pm? Thank you!)

Have a great weekend!

P3b can also be found on the Balbardie Twitter account – lots of pictures there!

This week has been very changeable with lots of different weather. In French we were discussing the seasons and we have talked about the different weather we are experiencing!

We listened to a song about the seasons and we decorated trees to show the seasons.

In Maths, we started learning how to tell the time in analogue using minutes past and minutes to. It would be great if you could ask your children the time from an analogue clock using 5 minute intervals.

In science we found out how magnets could work through certain materials. We even discovered that they worked through our hands!
On Monday, we started a block of Futsal. Futsal is an indoor football game, using a smaller weighted ball so that we have more control. A throw-in in futsal is actually a kick in. We learnt to dribble.
On Tuesday we had Firefly arts in to work with us on drama. We did a song called Peel, peel, peel the bananas and we played some games with them. It taught us about teamwork and cooperation.

The learning partners of the week were Sarah and Sara.
Table of the week –
with 500 points!

We are pleased to announce our Balbardie champions for this term are:
Alfie, Alysheeya, Artjom, Daniel, Ehan, Elena, Emma, Hollie, Jude, Luke, Orlaith, Sam, Sara, Teigan.
We hope all the children enjoy celebrating our champions with them before we break up for the holiday!

We have had another fun-filled week in P4b.  In maths we have been continuing our work on shape with Mrs Rodger.

In numeracy we have been thinking of different strategies for subtraction and sharing our ideas with one another.

We wrote some coded letters this week like the ones Mary Queen of Scots might have written when she was a prisoner.  Some of us used some really clever codes!

We enjoyed our first futsal lesson on Monday and are really looking forward to having these lessons every week.

Have a lovely weekend.

Another busy week of learning in P2B.

This week’s Big Star was Anna, well done Anna, keep up the good work.

Here are our best bits of this week:

Sophie – A Bug’s Life

Mikolaj – Talking about sharing

Jack – The Little Red Hen

Ethan – 101 Dalmations when they tried saving the puppies

Kai – Maths

Oliver – The Little Red Hen

Thomas –  101 Dalmations when the puppies got saved and drove away in the van

Murray – A Bug’s Life, guess what would happened

Hannah – Doing the races in gym

Hollie – The Little Red Hen stick them in the right order

Daisy – A Bug’s Life finding out what was going to happen next

Sofia –  A bug’s life we were guessing what happened next. I liked when the bugs won.

Anna – 101 Dalmations, my favourite part was when all the puppies got saved.

Hope – Writing about our superheros

Ruby – 101 Dalmations when they got saved

Lois – 101 Dalmations

Ben – Getting marshmallows as a reward and 101 Dalmations.

From Miss Cowan

It’s been another fun and busy week of great learning in 6b.

In maths we’ve been continuing our work on decimals, in particular rounding decimal numbers to the nearest whole number or tenth; it was fun and challenging but number lines were effective in helping us with our learning. Later in the week we also looked at decimal calculations, chiefly addition and subtraction, many of these were linked to our learning on money.

In writing and topic we’ve been learning and researching information about the tribal peoples of the rainforest, it was interesting to note the very different and unique ways of living these people have. We completed fact files on three different tribes from three different rainforests and will be using this information to help us with the creation of our next written task; blog writing. At the end of the week we looked at a blog the teacher had written and we colour coded the text to highlight all of the important elements contained within it.

We’ve been continuing reading our own novels this week in class, either reading independently on our tables or with the teacher. Furthermore, we’ve been continuing on our journey with Roald Dahl’s ‘Danny, the Champion of the World’ which we should finish early next week. Democracy will be in action thereafter to choose our next class novel.

In our French language learning we’ve been continuing to look at: colours, numbers (1-50), days of the week and months of the year.

Next week we will be finishing our work on decimals in maths and beginning our new topic of percentages. In literacy we will be beginning to plan our blog articles.

Have a lovely weekend!

Each table took responsibility for writing a paragraph about one part of the week that we, as a class, had enjoyed and agreed should be included in our blog.

In science, we learned how to make a compass move in water with a magnet and it works! Coins are magnetic but only the ones which have iron in them.

In language, We learnt about alliteration because we were writing headlines for our newspaper article. Some examples we came up with are Awesome Alex, Amazing Alfie, Graceful Grace, Rough Rowan and Outstanding Orlaith!

We made hats for the European Day of languages on Wednesday. We look at the flags of all the countries of Europe and chose flags to draw onto a piece of paper which we stuck on a headband. We also learnt the French names for some of the things we use in the classroom.

We learnt how to write in columns and paragraphs as we were writing newspaper reports. The most popular title was ‘Death of Darnley’

Lots and lots of children passed their tables test this week so the fuzzies were once again bouncing into tubs on Friday! The table of the week is the table with a magnificent 650 points……