This week in P6 we have been practising our assembly again and nearly ready to blast off into space!

On Thursday afternoon the children that had been the Musical Theatre and Dance  electives put on a show for P6 and P7 at the Regal Theatre.

“It was awesome” Luke

“It was really cool and fun and I liked watching all my friends” Rabeea

“It was really fun and nerve wracking, but we really developed our skills and I would do it again.” Christopher Allan

Some of the class have been looking after the nursery children that will join us in Balbardie after the summer!  The children were very excited about coming to P1!  Some were quite shy, some were quite loud and noisy!

We are really looking forward to the gala day tomorrow and wish Balbardie Primary School float  ‘good luck’!!!

P6m

This week we have created a short video blog. Leave a comment if you like it and we might make another vlog next Friday.

Profile Week has been a little bit different for us in P7 this week as we have been focusing on writing very important profiles of ourselves which will be passed up to our high school. These profiles will help our new teachers get to know us and how we prefer to learn. It will also give them an insight into our achievements and awards and what we feel are our next steps.

It has been very interesting reflecting on ourselves and our time at Balbardie and we’ve had to be very honest about everything. Here are some examples of the comments in our profiles…

Eve: “I think I’m a good team member but sometimes it depends who is in my group with me.”

Amber: “I prefer learning by interacting in activities because I sometimes get bored and forget what we are learning when we just talk about it.”

Rhona: “When I work in a team I try to help and I’d like to improve my skills even more so I can give my team-mates better ideas.”

Murray: “I prefer learning by seeing things because it helps it stick in my mind. I also work well in a group because when you work together you have more chance of getting the task done.”

Aisha: “I sometimes find mental maths hard and I prefer to see the sum. I know most of my times tables though.”

John: “I’m proud of getting into the school football team and my time at Balbardie has been fun and a laugh.”

Abbie Ma.: “Sometimes I work best on my own but other times with a partner or group. It depends what I am doing. I’m a little chatty at times but most of the time I focus on the task.”

Sian: “My time at Balbardie has been great and when I’ve needed help the teachers have always been there for me.”

Dylan: “I prefer learning by doing things and hearing things but sometimes I get distracted. I never give up trying to get better though.”

We have been studying trees in art.  We began by looking at the trees in the playground, focussing on the textures and patterns on bark, branches and leaves and then drew a picture of a tree from observation, using charcoal.

Next, we imagined a tree was part human with a face, arms and hands by drawing these around a photo our own heads.  We looked closely at the lines of branches on trees and how they grow from each other, becoming thinner and thinner.  Using our pencil in different ways to vary the line of the branches; thick and thin. 

We are proud of our display, which you can see below.

On Tuesday morning P1b went a walk to the local police station.  PC Arnott walked us through Bathgate town centre.  Ben saw his mummy and Leia saw her dad!  PC Arnott asked us to look out for all the police cameras.  We spotted eight!  When we arrived at the police station, we had a chance to look at a police van and go inside one!  We had fun pretending we were locked up in the back.  Rachael thought the day was ‘awesome!’

As we have been learning about ‘Being Cool in School’, some of us have tried to use these skills in and around school to successfully resolve issues.

In maths we are learning about measurement as this ties in with finding out the length of our limbs and our lung capacity. We have measured and marked our bottles for our experiment to find out our lung capacity so next week we will complete the experiments.

In writing we are still working on comics and having great fun in the process.

Bowling has been great fun. we have improved so much in just two sessions! Some of us can get very close to the ‘jack’ although Mrs Ghafoor could not get anywhere near the ‘jack’!

Enjoy your weekend!

This week we thought about all the things we learned through Cool in School, which helps us with our friendships.  Some of the children comments included …

“You know how people are feeling by looking at their face and their body language.” Skye

“Respect other children.” Robyn

“Own up to your mistakes.” Jennie

“If you hit someone you should say sorry.” Callum

“If you take something that doesn’t belong to you, give it back.” Gary

“Care for your friends.” Lucy

Over the next few weeks we are going to look further into building good friendships with others. 

We also learned about Eco Houses and all the things that help we can do in our homes to help care for our environment.  The children designed their Eco houses on paper and we hope we can make some of these from junk materials (recycled ones of course). 

Of course this all tied in nicely with our Grounds awareness day and the raising of the Green Flag today.  What an exciting day!  The children loved the stalls, the story and the picnic – even the cold didn’t put us off.

Well done P2pg.

This week we had visit to the library! The librarian read us a Horrid Henry short story and some of us were able to choose a book that we will read for our class presentation.

This week was our last sports elective week. 🙁

Here are some of our thoughts on the sports elective.

I really enjoyed the Badminton and I won a badminton racquet – Fraser

We had a fun day and went on the big floats and kept capsizing them! Taylor

The swimming elective was really fun and one day we had to swim 25 lengths! I forgot my swimming costume one day so had to buy a new one (on my birthday)! Rabeea

Musical threatre was really inspiring and the amount of progress we’ve made in such a short time is amazing! Everybody has got lovely singing voices and are amazing dancers.  Christopher A

We have had lots of fun practising for our class assembly!  We hope you are going to be able to come and watch us perform on Friday 14th June.

Finally, we were all really proud of our school when the 4th Green Flag was raised at Grounds Awareness Day!

We LOVED Ground Awareness Day! Here are some of our highlights:

Kai – I had fun buying toys at the stalls.

Grace – I enjoyed eating my ice cream, it was yummy!

Daniel – The best part was buying toys.

Alfie – I liked looking at the flower stall. I bought one and I am going to look after at home.

Finn – I like everything! I liked buying cars, eating ice cream, seeing my gran to buy a plant and the story at the teddy bears picnic!

Emily – I liked having teddy bear crisps at the teddy bears picnic.

Sophie B – I loved reading ‘Going on a Bear Hunt’ at the teddy bears picnic.

Have a lovely weekend!

P1g

Hello Everyone

Thank you to everyone who commented on our blog last week, it was great to hear about the things people are enjoying. 

This week we are going to have a blog home learning challenge.  Below is a short sentence and your challenge is to extend it by adding a chunk on at the end. Use your skills from class, thinking about VCOP. You might use on a connective or add on a chunk using ‘who, when, where, before, after’, etc. So the sentence start is:

           The boy closed the curtains. 

An example of adding something might be:  The boy closed the curtains before the fireworks started. Or you could improve it further by saying: The scared boy closed the curtains before the noisy fireworks started.

Please remember to keep it to one comment post per person but you could try out a couple of sentences in your post.

Other News

Another great bowling session this week.  We had our class photographer Lily there but unfortunately she chopped off most peoples heads so bowling photos still to follow.  Our 6 class i-pads were in action this week with people recording themselves reading aloud to help work on fluency and expression.  People had lots of fun listening to themselves and we have some very expressive class members.

Bye for now and happy blogging.

P4l

This week has been very interesting! The hexagons have been learning about dividing and linking it to fractions and times tables! It’s brilliant how maths all links! Our spelling has included the pattern ee and ea.

We have been discussing the most important event of the year in Bathgate: John Newland’s Day/ Bathgate Procession. We talked about who John Newland was, why we have characters like Walter and Marjory and why Bathgate does not have a Gala Day. We have been drawing the characters and writing the story of John Newland. Our aim is to explain this to everyone so they know!

This week P5a have gone sports mad! In addition to our normal P.E. lessons we took part in the Sky Community Challenge…and won! Everyone got a medal for taking part and we all enjoyed participating in lots of different sporting activities.

Melissa’s highlight was meeting Chris Cook, a swimmer who won GOLD in the Commonwealth Games.

Laura’s highlight was playing hockey.

Jason’s highlight was playing rugby and he is looking forward to the rugby festival (Monday 10th of June).

Kieran S enjoyed playing basketball.

Here is a picture of a few of our boys taking part in the dancing workshop.

In maths this week every group got 100% correct answers when playing Education City games. We are all very proud of our scores and think that maths is FUN!

We learned more about the trial of William Wallace. We made comic strips of his trial and discovered a new app for the iPad. Here is an example of a comic strip made with this new app.

We are all hoping for sunshine this weekend 8)