As part of maths week, we have thought about how technology helps us in Maths. We were learning about how people have told the time in the past and how we do it nowadays. In the olden times, people used sundials to tell the time. We made our own sundials and we took them out to watch where the shadows fell on the dial. It was quite tricky for some of us to line up our dial with the correct time. The other problem we thought about was how people might have told the time if it was cloudy.
In modern times we can use phones, timers, laptops, tablets, cuckoo clocks, ipods, the sky, watches, the news, analogue and digital clocks, alarm clocks, the speaking clock. We even asked Siri what the time was!
We have also thought about and acted out some of our school values of respect, fairness, trust and passion. The hardest one to think about was passion but we all know that passion is a strong emotion and we know that when we are passionate about something we can show it, so it might be that we love everyone’s individuality, we love Maths or science, artclub, drama, breakfast club, drawing, multisports and we can show our passion about all of these by doing them enthusiastically and sharing our passion about them with others.
Table of the week – the table of the week competition was REALLY close this week with the Friday tables test influencing the winning table massively with just 20 points between first and third. However the winning table this week was………
ORANGE with 390 points!
We were really proud of Artjom for winning out mathemagician award this week and of Elena who was awarded P4as very first certificate for demonstrating school values.
Maths Week in P4B
This week we have had fun doing lots of exciting maths activities. We have played games inside the classroom as well as taking our learning outside to the playground to do a maths trail. Well done to Sophie S who won a certificate for her excellent effort in all maths and numeracy lessons all week.
In literacy we enjoyed trying out some new activities to help with our spelling and we also finished our imaginative stories.
Well done also to Emily who was the first P4B winner of the certificate for demonstrating school values.
Have a lovely long weekend.
Class Sun
Class sun have been working hard on their numbers up to one hundred, looking at place value, counting in steps, using the 2 times table or working on more and less.
In Language we have been looking at grammar and punctuation. Through out topic work we have been investigating lines for our art 
and learning about the life cycle of plants and how a plant works. 
We hope you all have a good long weekend.
P5a
We really enjoyed all of our Maths Week activities! We learned about codes and the Enigma machine, and we created our own codes for friends. We used concrete materials for addition and subtraction sums and we played lots of Countdown Numbers games. In literacy we are continuing to use our imaginations to write creative stories and this week we focused on using adjectives in our work. Here are some of our highlights:
Zara – I enjoyed learning about the Enigma machine and breaking codes.
Rory – I really enjoyed all of the codebreakers this week.
Donna – I enjoyed all of maths week!
Brooke – I loved Big Maths Beat That!
Blaire – I really enjoyed writing the animal stories.
Erin – I liked starting to make shields in art.
Niamh – I liked using the dienes materials for maths.
Luke, Callum, Cameron, Samuel, Ellis – We loved P.E this week!
Ammie-Leigh – I enjoyed the assembly and getting to see the floats.
Maisie – I liked learning about Moses for RME.
Enjoy the long weekend everyone!
P2B
P2B have had a very busy week! It was Maths Week throughout Scotland this week and so the class completed a variety of fun activities and had a visit from Money Sense.
This week’s Big Star was Oliver!
Thank you to all the parents who came to Meet the Teacher, it was lovely to get a chance to meet you all.
Kai and Daisy also recieved certificates at assembly this week. Kai was awarded his for excellent work during Maths Week. Daisy was awarded her certificate for fulfilling the school value of “Believe” by challenging herself when given a choice of different work. Well done to both of you!
Here are the children’s top bits from this week:
Kai – Making our hand-print crabs, I liked it because we got to paint our hands.
Hope – Making jellyfish. We painted a paper bowl and put strips of tissue paper under the bowl.
Sophie – I liked making turtles with our hands because we got to paint onto our hands and it tickled.
Lois – Doing dot-to-dot to practice the order the numbers come in.
Murray – I liked dot-to-dot today because I got to practice the numbers.
Hannah – My favourite part was doing dot-to-dot. I did a bunny one.
Isla – I liked pushing the toy cars down the ramp.
Oliver – Maths. I liked doing rainbows adding up to 10.
Ethan – I liked being the little star yesterday.
Jack – When we were doing the fish. We coloured in paper plates with 10 on them and coloured little fish with numbers adding up to 10.
Thomas – Being little star today.
Hollie – Making necklaces. I made mine for my Mum and my Dad. I used orange, yellow, purple, red, blue and green.
Daisy – My favourite part of the week was doing our necklaces.
Anna – My favourite part was necklaces. I used red, yellow and orange.
Ben – The handprints when we painted on our hands because it was tickly and I got to make a turtle and when we were doing our work it was quiet. And I liked it when we got goody bags with the pens and the wallets. That’s me done.
Miss Cowan
P6A
Well it has been a wonderful week in P6A with lots of exciting learning. We celebrated Maths Week by carrying out extra special acitivities.
We continued with our topic of The Rainforest and used this to help us write our newspaper reports.
Here are some of our highlights…
Amy & Hannah – We enjoyed writing my newspaper report about the Tribes of the Rainforest.
Euan and Lauren- We enjoyed Castles in P.E.
Catriona and Islay- We found the Childsmile visit really interesting as they showed us how much sugar was in certain foods and how these affect our teeth.
Mia- I really enjoyed learning fractions this week.
Connor and Sophia- I enjoyed the money sense workshop because we got to become party planners and organise a party. This helped us learn about budgeting and working as part of a team.
Maths Week in P5b
Kyle, Max & Noami – I enjoyed the countdown challenges
Annie, Liam, Ruby, Alistair, Shaun, Ellie, Rory, Ellie-Rose, Aaran & Holly – I liked the code breakers
Kaycee – I enjoyed the Big Start Maths activities
Eva – I enjoyed writing the post-it notes about what we like about Maths
Jamie – I liked the maths challenge to make a boat float
Orla – I liked doing code breakers with my learning partner
Charlotte – I enjoyed doing code breakers with Aaran
Owen, Alfie B, Florence – I enjoyed the boat float challenge
Leah – I had fun doing code breakers
P2A
This week we had Maths Week and we had fun doing all of our activities. Wwew made 2D shape monsters, 3D shape towers and were really fortunate to have Marc from MoneySense working with us on a money workshop.
Grace-I liked counting up to 200
Willow-I liked making our 2D shape monsters
Bailey-Counting up to 20 was fun
William-Making 3D shapes was great fun
Ethan-Practising my numbers up to 100 challenged me
Robyn-Adding was fun this week
Georgia-Playing the bubble game in PE was great fun
Brooke-I enjoyed writing about a sea monster
Mason-Making my monster was great
Aidan-Shape monster making was my favourite
Logan-I was proud to get my maths excellence certificate
Michaela-I like having different teachers
Tommy-Shape making was fun to do with my friends
Devyn-Golden Time is my favourite activity
Daniel-PE this week was fun, I love the bubble game
Lucy-I really liked PE this week and playing hedgehog tig
Well done to Willow and Logan for getting their certificates this week-Miss McDougall is proud of her whole class.
Have a lovely September holiday 🙂
Primary 1b Blog – Week Beginning 10.9.18
In Primary 1b we have been marvellous maths magicians as we enjoyed Maths Week Scotland.
We are learning about numbers and shapes and have had lots of fun opportunities to enhance our learning. Here are our maths highlights:
Abbie – “I liked when we went on our shape hunt because I got to search for shapes around the school”
Kyle – “I liked when we made shapes with our bodies as a PE warm up game with Mrs Mansfield”
Jack – “The best bit was counting out the sweets to put on my biscuit”
Sarah – “I really liked when we made biscuits, they tasted yummy”
Emily – “My favourite part was tasting the biscuits that we made”
Jacob – “I liked counting the spoons to make the biscuits”
Damon – “I liked cutting the biscuits into shapes”
Isaac – “I like when we took pictures of shapes on the ipads”
Lylah – “I like mummy putting my picture (on twitter) so all the boys and girls could see”
Freyja – “I liked cutting the shapes when we made biscuits”
Cody – “Making biscuits was amazing because I was starving”
Danniella – “I liked doing the number jobs in the baskets”
Liam – “Making the shapes out of biscuits. I didn’t know that maths was baking”
Reese – “I learned about shapes when I made biscuits. I could count the sides”
Rosie – “Making the biscuits was great. I had to use my numbers”
Becca – “I liked listening to Mr Men and painting for our wall”
Niamh – “I liked singing the shape song”
Kashem – “I liked it when we used maths to make biscuits”
Ivy – “I liked doing the biscuits because it helped my counting”
Poppy – “Making the shape biscuits was good fun. I liked learning what shapes they were”
Mason – “I liked playing the fish game in maths (shape sorting). It was tricky”
A huge well done to our maths champion Lylah who got a special certificate at assembly today.
Freyja also got a certificate this week from Mrs Johns for showing school values. In Balbardie our school values are Respect, Fairness, Trust and Passion. A huge well done to Freyja for showing these.
From
Primary 1b
(A note from Mrs Mansfield – thank you to all who were able to make our Meet the Teacher event last night. I am really looking forward to working together to support your children – they are all superstars!)
Ready Steady Cook in P1a
We have gotten maths week off to a flying start! We have measuring and learning about our shapes!
Biscuit Recipe (shape) – maths week p
We will keep you posted!
P4b
Primary 4b
Week beginning 3.9.18
This week we have been learning about Mary Queen of Scots and her early life. We made birth announcements to show our learning.
In maths we continued our learning on shape with Mrs Rodger. We participated in number talks with Mrs Knowles where we explored lots of different strategies and learned from each other. As the weeks progress we aim to become a lot more confident at sharing our strategies with the class.
In art we were working on shading and we created some wonderful pieces of work.
Don’t forget we are having a “meet the teacher” session on Thursday.
P6b
P6b have had a wonderful week continuing our rainforest and place value learning.
In our literacy we finished off our information texts and they look absolutely amazing! Please feel free to observe our display outside the P6 classrooms on Thursday (meet the teacher) showcasing our amazing learning!
Later in the week we began looking at a newspaper article highlighting the impending climate chaos being caused by deforestation. We are presently planning our own newspaper articles in preparation for writing one next week.
In maths we finished our work on place value and essential calculations. We looked at some challenging 2-digit by 2-digit calculations as well as beginning our next topic; fractions. The children were absolutely enthralled to see the different connections fractions can make. We were able to recognise equivalence between thirds, sixths, ninths and twelfths as well as halves, quarters, sixths, tenths and twelfths.
Throughout the week we have also had a big focus on French. This week we have been recapping some words we learnt previously: days of the week, months of the year and colours.
Last, but by no means least, a huge well done to everyone in class who put themselves forward to the elected position of Student Councillor. This caused huge, but most importantly respectful, excitement in P6b. Every child who put themselves forward prepared a speech and had to take a question from the floor. I was extremely proud of how supportive we all were to each other during what can be a nerve-wrecking experience. Nevertheless, a secret ballet followed our presentations and it gives me great pleasure to announce Ben Templeton as our Student Councillor for 2018/19. Well done!
Congratulations on another super week, P6b!
PS – Meet the teacher is on Thursday night, please come upstairs to the P6 classrooms.
P3B
We have had a great week.
In literacy, we have been learning how to make a sentence. we played some games and made silly sentences – that was ok as long as they made sense. We have started using different strategies to learn our spelling, including playing boggle and being a teacher!
In maths, we have been working on identifying numbers more, less or between, and counting up and down in tens and hundreds. We have continued with identifying 2D shapes.
In topic, we discussed problems in our community and will be looking at how to tackle littering. We also looked at why rules are important and how there are common rules at all places like schools, clubs and hospitals.
Have a great weekend.
P3A
We’ve had another busy week in P3A. Here are some of our highlights:
Aaron: I enjoyed learning about the properties of 2D shapes.
Jack: I enjoyed doing Big Maths Beat That because there were 17 questions. It is good.
Aileigh: I enjoyed Art because we made little people and it was fun.
Ellie: I liked doing Health and Wellbeing because we got to learn about lots of different things. We got to jump around and listen to songs.
Jude: I enjoyed maths because we were learning about 2D shapes and it was fun.
River: I enjoyed Big Writing because Miss McKinnon said I was doing well with it.
Holly: I enjoyed the assembly because my best friend was close to winning a toy.
Ethan: I enjoyed reading because I got a new book.
Olivia: I enjoyed doing Big Maths Beat That because it was fun.
Amber: I enjoyed doing Health and Wellbeing because we got to make brains.
Shannon: I enjoyed Big Maths Beat That because we started with easy questions and now they’re a bit more difficult.
Ada: I enjoyed Big Maths Beat That because I was challenged with 17 questions.
Scott: I enjoyed outdoor P.E.
Ellis: I enjoyed making decorations for the library.
Oliver: I enjoyed Big Maths.
Mac: I enjoyed Big Writing.
Millie: I liked making the decorations for the library.
Carley: I enjoyed making decorations for the library because I got to design the hairstyle.
Have a lovely weekend everyone.
P3A
Just another reminder for those who are unaware, our indoor P.E. days are Tuesday and Wednesday and our outdoor P.E. day is Thursday. Please ensure children have their P.E. kits in school if you haven’t already provided one. Thank you.
P2B
This week in P2B we have been learning to work-out the missing number in a sum, have learned the sounds ‘ew’ and ‘ow’ in spelling and and have been learning about different animal families.
This week’s big star was Isla and we also had a birthday girl too. Hannah and Anna were chosen to show their great work to the deputy heads this week – well done girls, keep it up!
Another good week for P2B, see you all on Monday.
Here are the children’s favourite parts of this week.:
Jack – when we were doing the sums on the whiteboards.
Kai – Writing yesterday about our favourite toys, mine is Stretch Armstrong.
Daisy – Learning about all the different animals. We learned about fish, birds and mammals.
Lois – My favourite part of the week was all playing together in the playground.
Hope – Doing the under the sea. Learning about the animals.
Oliver – I liked maths, I liked doing the missing number in the sums.
Anna – My birthday!! I was six. I liked going to the head to show my work too. I showed my doll head story.
Ethan – I liked doing the missing number squares. It was difficult a wee bit difficult but I kept going.
Isla – My favourite bit was doing under the sea.
Sophie – My favourite bit was circle time and maths too.
Sofia – I liked the missing number in maths.
Murray – I liked the missing numbers.
Hannah – Going to the head teacher to show my good work.
Mikolaj – My spelling
Hollie – Writing about my LOL doll.
Thomas – Gym doing hula hoop games.
From Miss Cowan
Highlights of the week in P4a
As we continue through term 1 it is really interesting to see what makes every pupil’s highlight of the week. We are so glad that the children are enjoying the topics we are covering this term!
Alex – I liked science.
Alfie – I enjoyed learning about the control of the ball in hockey.
Alysheeya – I enjoyed learning about forces.
Akasha – I enjoyed Science because we made a catapult to measure how far a car would go.
Archie – I enjoyed PE with the hockey sticks.
Artjom – I liked learning about maths and the more than, less than signs.
Charlotte – I enjoyed Mary Queen of Scots because we made old paper with tea bags.
Daniel – I liked learning about Mary, Queen of Scots because we are learning the story and we were writing a letter to Mary’s mum who was in Scotland whilst Mary was in exile in France.
Ehan – I like controlling the ball in hockey.
Elena – I liked doing work on the calendar.
Emily – I liked outdoor PE best.
Emma – I loved learning about the forces on the cars in science.
Eva – I liked learning the French days of the week.
Grace – I enjoyed learning about Mary Queen of Scots and reading the story.
Hollie – I enjoyed learning big numbers in Maths.
Jude – I like numeracy.
Lexi – I liked outdoor PE. I liked playing hockey.
Lilyrose – I enjoyed Mary Queen of Scots because I really, really like the story.
Lois – I enjoyed Science.
Lucas – I have been enjoying learning how to hold a hockey stick.
Luke – I enjoyed science because we are learning about Forces and we tested how far a toy car would travel if we applied more force.
Maddison – I liked learning across the curriculum because we were doing Mary, Queen of Scots.
Orlaith – I enjoyed learning to pass the ball in hockey.
Rheagan – I enjoyed making my robot with Mrs Stewart.
Rosie –I enjoyed playing games with Mr Jeffries.
Rowan – I liked the facts about Science about how different forces test how far things go. And I’m thinking of being a scientist when I’m older.
Sam – I enjoyed outdoor PE because we were playing hockey.
Sarah – I enjoyed Mary, Queen of Scots when I found out everything.
Teigan – I enjoyed doing Science.
We also voted for our class representative for the pupil council. The 6 pupils who nominated themselves did very well speaking about what was important and how they would represent the class. We are pleased to announce that Luke was voted by his classmates as P4a rep for 2018-19.
Table of the week – yellow with 390 points
ARB Trip
We, in Class Moon, absolutely loved our trip to Blair Drummond Safari Park. We enjoyed watching the sealion show and when we were on the coach going through the park we enjoyed seeing the tigers, meerkats and camels. We all had a fun time on the Dragon Ride and looked round the animal farm where we saw chickens, pigs, donkeys and horses. A super time was had by all!
Class Star had a great time seeing the animals and enjoyed making play dough animals when they came back to school.
Class Sun enjoyed the Dragon Roller Coaster and the sealion show.
P5b
Highlights of our week…
Eva – I enjoyed learning with Mrs Aitken
Kyle – I enjoyed playing outside at break
Brooke – I enjoyed Maths
Rory – I enjoyed doing the Hot challenge in Maths
Noami – I enjoyed writing a story
Leah – I enjoyed learning with Mrs Aitken
Alfie – I liked doing rounders with Mrs Aitken
Ellie-Rose – I liked doing Maths and the Spicy challenge
Jackie – I enjoyed learning about King Alexander III
Kaycee – I enjoyed highlighting facts about King Alexander III
Orla – I enjoyed playing rounders
Alistair – I enjoyed the Hot challenge in Maths and playing rounders with Mrs Aitken. I also liked doing home learning.
Holly – I enjoyed playing the French game where you had to match with a partner
Jamie – I liked writing my own story
Owen – I enjoyed Kyle coming round to my house and I enjoyed rounders with Mrs Aitken
Max – I enjoyed rounders with Mrs Aitken
Dylan – I liked writing
Aaran – I enjoyed writing my own story
Jay – I enjoyed playing my xbox at home and I enjoyed rounders
Charlotte – I enjoyed sitting with my new learning partner
Florence – I enjoyed learning about Moses
Ellie – I enjoyed doing imaginative writing
Olivia – I enjoyed RME because we got to watch a short film about Moses
Liam – I enjoyed playing rounders
Ruby – I enjoyed writing
Annie – I enjoyed writing
Alfie L – I liked playing rounders
Bryce – I liked PE games
P5a
This week in numeracy we have been working on addition and subtraction, with carrying and borrowing. We also did Big Maths Beat That which we really enjoyed – every day we will try to beat our score. In literacy we have been writing imaginative stories using a picture to give us ideas. Some pictures we used were: a haunted house; a treasure chest and an enchanted tree. We played Rounders outside and really enjoyed it – we are getting better and catching the ball to get the other team out. Here are some of our favourite bits from this week:
Ammie-Leigh – I enjoyed mindfulness colouring and the addition and subtraction worksheets.
Jodie – I enjoyed Big Maths.
Blaire – I liked playing Rounders for outdoor P.E.
Shelbi – I liked Big Maths Beat That.
Tamsyn – I enjoyed writing my speech for Pupil Council and presenting it to the class.
Niamh – I liked singing along to Leon the Chameleon in French.
Maisie – I enjoyed learning about bullying and talking about it with my group.
Donna –I liked art with Mr Bennett.
Erin – I liked P.E with Mr Jeffries when we did team work activities.
Ross – I liked playing Shipwreck in P.E.
Ruby – I liked presenting my speech for Pupil Council
Arran – I liked Big Maths.
P2A
We have been busy learning our br, cr sounds this week and have been enjoying all of our spelling activities.
Here are our highlights from our week…
Kieran-I have really enjoyed getting a Headteacher and Depute sticker for my hard work
Grace-I enjoyed reading this week
Willow-I liked my adding up
Tommy-I loved getting to outstanding and playing with Aidan
Bailey-I practised my adding this week
Georgia-I loved getting my stickers this week
Mason-I loved my takeaway sums
William-I enjoyed my writing
Brooke-I liked PE games this week
Ethan-Playing with my friends was a highlight
Lucy-I liked writing about an underwater adventure
Devyn-I made new friends this week
Amelia-I like reading in the Cosy Corner
Daniel-Playing the Bubble game was good fun
Michaela-I liked being helpful in class
Robyn-I liked my homework and playing this week
Aidan-I liked playing maths games with Tommy
Money week is next week, have fun playing with the activities 🙂
