P5a

Literacy:
For literacy this week we have been focusing on creative writing. We looked at different ways to open a story: dialogue, action and description. We sorted different examples into the categories and worked with our learning partner to continue the story. We then got to choose a character, setting and dilemma to help write a creative story.

We have also been working through Literacy boxes to answer literal and inferential questions.

Numeracy

This week we have been looking at probability and chance. We worked out the probability of rolling different numbers on dice; picking letters from the alphabet; playing rock-paper-scissors and picking coloured marbles. We have also started looking at function machines and will be moving on to learn about expressions and equations.

Here are some other highlights:

Megan – I really enjoyed team dodge-ball in P.E.

Suvi – I loved getting extra P.E this week because we have been the quickest class to get changed!

Kiara – I liked creative writing this week.

Joshua – I liked dodge-ball.

Amy – I enjoyed the Big Start we did for creative writing.

Teighan – I liked putting my friends into my story.

Alex – I liked learning about different ways to open a story.

Miles – I enjoyed the maths box activities.

Ranna – I liked drama this week.

Hannah –  I liked Capture the flag in P.E

Jason – I liked being sassy in drama!!

Have a lovely weekend.

P6A

We have been remembering our amazing show and highlighting all our favourite moments.  We are all very proud of ourselves and Mrs H nearly burst with pride!  Back in class we have been revising different maths strategies and challenging ourselves with some P7 work.  We continued with our newspaper articles in writing and learned all about nuclear energy.  We are looking forward to our trip on tuesday to Torness Power Station.

Have a great weekend.

P2b

Hi everyone!

We couldn’t upload our picture from our assembly last week so we have posted it above for you to see 🙂

Here are some of the things we have enjoyed most this week in school…

Jacob – I enjoyed reading and writing.

Taylor- I enjoyed golden time.

Gracie- I enjoyed reading my new book.

Zara- I enjoyed reading and maths.

Kyle- I enjoyed writing my diary entry because I was a little bit cheeky about writing about going down the wire.

Caitlin- I enjoyed writing a diary entry and enjoyed writing about what I had for my breakfast.

Lewis- I enjoyed learning french from the French teacher and he told us all about how he is from France and travels to Spain in a car!

We hope you have a great weekend!

Fun at Dynamic Earth!

We have had an action-packed week in primary 4a! On Tuesday, we went to Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh. We learned lots of interesting facts.
Jodie: We learned that when a crocodile catches its prey it swings it about to break it into pieces and then it can be eaten!
Shelbi: By 2060 the temperatures in all the climate zones will be higher because of global warming. Niamh: This will affect the polar climate most because the ice is going to melt and the animals do not have time to adapt which means they might die.
Ammie-Leigh. We learned about evolution and how human beings developed.
Kai: We learned that if you are bitten by a green mamba you only have half an hour to get treatment before you die.

P2A

Here are some of our highlights from the week:

Holly: I enjoyed French because Mr Perard came to our class and taught us some new French.

Alex: I enjoyed writing my information text because I am still working on it and I have written a very good sentence.

Carley: I enjoyed French because Mr Perard was very nice.

Megan: I enjoyed reading.

James: I enjoyed maths.

Shannon: I enjoyed it when Mr Perard was here because he was very kind.

Mac and Oliver: I enjoyed mental maths.

Aileigh: I enjoyed it when Mr Perard came because he taught us new French words.

Amber: I enjoyed it when Mr Perard came and he taught us how to say ‘Listen’ in French.

Ellis: I enjoyed milk and story because it was very fun listening to a story.

Ethan: I enjoyed mental maths and maths.

Mia: I enjoyed reading because I got my new book.

Emily: I enjoyed getting my new reading book.

Scott: I enjoyed mental maths because it was fun.

Max: I enjoyed it when Mr Perard came because he said that the United Kingdom has a tunnel that trains go through to get to France.

River: I enjoyed it when Mr Perard came in because he was very nice.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

P2A

Primary 2/1 Blog – Week Beginning 4.6.18

This has been a lovely short week with even more great learning opportunities!  We have really enjoyed working with Mrs Aitken and Miss Cox while Mrs Mansfield was working with the new P1s and are excited about finding out who our next teacher is within the next few weeks!

Here are the highlights of the week:

Griffin – “I liked extra PE this week because we got to play a game that we really liked, Pirates of the Caribbean.  If you get caught you need to go to the ship, I had to try and get the treasure”

Cameron – “I liked making the shapes in maths.  We were learning about fractions and I now know how to make a circle into eighths”

Regan – “I also liked the fraction shapes because I managed to complete the challenge”

Daniel – “I enjoyed doing the 1000 step challenge this week where we got to use pedometers to track how many steps we had done”

Rory – “I liked having extra PE.  I liked the pirate game too”

Tommy – “The best bit was when we were doing maths with Mrs Mansfield.  We had to think about what numbers went at the top and bottom of a fraction.  It was quite hard but I liked it because I like a challenge”

Aiden – “I liked PE because we played a game that we liked to play. It was the frog and toad game”

Teigan – “I liked PE because I liked playing all of the games”

Sarah – “I liked doing maths because I liked cutting shapes in half”

Breaghannon – “I liked learning about fractions of shapes.  I liked the quiz that we all did at the end”

Rio – “I liked the outside learning when we did the Big Play session.  I liked the parachute the best”

Ellie – “I enjoyed doing French with Mr Perard because we got to learn new words in French.  We learned about colours and even learned a song”

Leila – “I liked it when we did the French colouring to learn the different colours and numbers.  This will help me to have a conversation with a French person about colours”

Emily – “I liked doing the step challenge outside because it keeps me fit and helps me concentrate in school”

Leah – “I liked creating my own story from the story basket.  We could use the things in any way that we wanted to create an imaginative story.  We all got to create our characters in a different way”

Poppy D – “I liked playing outdoor games with the different classes.  I enjoyed the parachute, saucer game and playing shark attack”

Lucy – “I really liked using the parachute the best and the shark attack game.  It was the best time ever”

Poppy F – “I liked making the story from the story box.  It was fun and I got to write about the dinosaurs”

Millie – “I liked learning French with Mr Perard.  He read a French book to us and then he told us what it meant.  It was the story of the Hungry Caterpillar”

Mason – “I liked looking at the grasshoppers under the microscope and playing with the bee in role play”

From

Primary 2/1

(A note from Mrs Mansfield – please note that all parent night slips have now been issued.  If you have any problems with the time allocated please let me know!)

P3C

This week’s highlights.

NUM/MTH

Emily & Jess: I liked doing money and fractions

Eden: I liked counting money

Brandon: I liked counting money up to the total amount

Marley: I love doing money and doing fractions and counting how much money there is to get to £2

Archie: I liked counting in pounds and pence

Max: I liked doing money and finding out much there was

 

ENG/LIT

Sophie A & Sophie S: I liked making our videos about the pizza posters

Lily: I liked doing our advert especially me being a highland cow

Emily: I liked my advert

Grace: I enjoyed making my advert my friends

Isla: I enjoyed doing the advert when I was allowed to throw pizza all over

Brandon: I liked doing our advert

Marley: I liked holding up the flag for pizza which said BPS

Max & Kayden: I liked watching all the adverts

 

LAC

Marley, Lily, Emily & Max: I liked practising our assembly

Grace: I enjoyed walking on stage like an old granny with Isla

Isla: I liked being an old granny with Grace

Sophie S: I enjoyed learning my words off by heart

Sophie A: I liked doing the Egyptian part

 

Marbles Champions – Rainbows

Star Writers – Luis, Archie, Sophie A and Isla

 

 

Fun and games

This week we enjoyed sports day out at Balbardie Park. We were really proud of the sportsmanship showed by so many of the children as they cheered their friends on in the races. We were pleased that Rory and Kaycee were overall winners and that Rory and Charlotte contributed to the house relay winning for Strachan.
Winners in P4b included: Rory 1st place for Sprint, Long distance and the sack race. Brandon and Jamie came second and third in the Sprint. Liam came 2nd in the sack race. Annie came third in the sack race and first in the egg and spoon. Eva came first in the sprint. Kaycee won the long distance and came first in the sack race. Holly came third in the sprint race.
On Thursday we finished f our block of writing on instructions by writing some game instructions for the Primary 1s to learn some new playground games. We had great fun out in the playground with them seeing if our instructions worked!
I liked teaching the P1s games – Brandon.
We finished off learning about length and have started thinking about capacity! We were very surprised that the Haribo tub held more than the 2l bottle. We all thought it would have a smaller capacity!
Table of the week – blue table with 660.
Learning partners of the week – Eva and Annie
Pictures to follow.

P2A

Here are some of our highlights from the week:

Amber: I enjoyed listening to Mrs Aitken talking about the procession.

Mac: I enjoyed writing our review because it was about Sports Day.

Max: I enjoyed it when we did Sports Day because I was first and I was happy.

Jack: I enjoyed Big Writing because we are writing about African animals.

Shannon: I enjoyed P2B’s assembly because it was about African animals.

Emily: I enjoyed Sports Day.

Jude: I enjoyed writing our non-fiction books because I was writing about my favourite animal, the lion.

Ellis: I enjoyed doing my reading comprehension.

Aaron: I enjoyed writing my non-fiction book because I was writing about my favourite animal, the meerkat.

Aileigh: I enjoyed play time because I got to play with all of my lovely friends.

Carley: I enjoyed Sports Day because my friend Jude won the race.

Ethan: I enjoyed reading because I got to read with my friend.

James: I enjoyed P2B’s assembly because it was fun.

Enjoy the procession everyone! Take lots of photos for Miss McKinnon! 🙂

 

P3C

This weeks highlights:

MTH/NUM

Marley: I liked doing fractions

Eden: I liked doing fractions because I showed a growth mindset

Isla: FRACTIONS, I like fractions… I LOVE fractions

ENG/LIT

Emily: I liked doing my poster

Grace: I enjoyed drawing a pizza with a baby (for our advert)

Sophie S: I liked designing our poster

LAC

EVERYONE: We loved sports day

Archie: I liked going to the P6 show

Jess: I liked watching the P6 show. I thought it was interesting

Lily: I liked practising for our assembly

 

Marbles Champions: Watermelons

Star Writer: Emily Watt

P2b

What a week we have had in P2b! Here are some of the things we enjoyed…

Maksim- I enjoyed sports day because it was really fun!

Josh- I enjoyed the assembly because I enjoyed singing the songs!

Evie- I enjoyed winning two medals for winning the races at sports day!

Gracie- I enjoyed running the races because I got to run with Mrs Palmer!

Max- I enjoyed writing about a cheetah’s diet.

Matthias- I enjoyed maths because we got to learn about capacity and pour water into different things to see how many cup fulls it took to fill up!

Noah- I enjoyed sports day because Ty cheered me on the last race!

Kaiden- I enjoyed reading because I like the story about ‘City Cat’.

Reiss- I enjoyed maths because we filled up pans, a box and a jug to see how many cups full it took.

Marcus- I enjoyed writing our review jotters all about sports day.

 

Table of the week-Terrific Tigers

Dojo winners- Noah and Lily

 

We really enjoyed performing our assembly for everyone! Have a lovely long weekend and we will see you all on Tuesday!

Primary 2/1 Blog – Week Beginning 28.5.18

This week has been very busy and we have been practising being responsible citizens by teaching the new primary 1s all about life at Balbardie.  This made us think about how much we have learned this year and how well we have challenged ourselves with our learning.  Here are the ways we have grown as learners:

Rory – “At nursery I did whatever I wanted but didn’t do learning.  At school I do lots of learning at play stations”

Cameron – “I got better at challenging myself in maths.  I’m not scared to get an answer wrong anymore”

Regan – “I don’t think about how difficult things are anymore, I think about how they can challenge me”

Rio – “I am better at organising what I want to learn and I like playing to help me learn”

Griffin – “I got better at telling the time.  I did it by practising outside of school”

Daniel – “I know that I need to practise things to get better at them, it is how I learn”

Tommy – “I learn best when I write out the problems.  When you do it you get better and better if you keep trying”

Teigan – “I know how important it is to challenge myself”

Poppy F – “I know I can get better at things.  I am better at finger spaces”

Leah – “I don’t get upset anymore.  The things I found tricky are now easier”

Brooke – “I challenge myself to get better at things”

Ellie – “I have got better at reading and writing by thinking about things before I do them.  I know to do this now”

Lucy – “Things are different between nursery and school.  I am getting better at concentrating for longer”

Sarah – “I like it when learning is fun.  It helped me count my numbers”

Aiden – “Difficult challenges help me to get better and better”

Breaghannon – “I know to challenge myself”

Mason – “I like it when I talk to the teachers for help”

Leila – “I have got better at challenging myself.  As well as that I make learning fun, I like active spelling”

Emily – “I am learning the importance of concentrating on your writing rather than getting distracted”

Poppy D – “I am getting better at how I think about new learning.  I do trickier sums because I know it helps me and then I practise at home”

Millie – “I learn best when it is a little bit noisy.  When it is totally quiet it just feels weird”

From

Primary 2/1

(A note from Mrs Mansfield – please remember that it is dress down day tomorrow, Friday 1st of June.)

Busy Week in P3b

This week has been very busy. We are working hard at division and trying to use our knowledge of times tables to check/work out our answers. In topic maths, we have continued looking at patterns and its link with geometry.

In topic, we have been learning about harvesting, farms and farm animals. We have also been learning about where things grow and have been learning about the different types of machines that help with harvesting fruits and vegetables.

Tuesday was our shared start and we had lots of activities to do based on Health and Wellbeing. We were revisiting, revising or learning about internet safety, keeping safe around medicines and healthy eating. Thank you to all the parents who were able to come and watch our learning and help us with our tasks. Here are some pictures if you missed coming.

P2A

We really enjoyed our trip to the national museum yesterday. Thank you again to Ellis’ mum for being able to join us at such short notice! Here are some of our highlights from the week:

Jack: I enjoyed going to the museum because I got to see lizards and snakes.

Jude: I enjoyed it when we touched the animal skins at the museum.

Shannon: I enjoyed the museum because it was fun.

Emily: I enjoyed going on the bus to the museum.

Alex: I enjoyed Big Writing because I was writing about a lion. They are fierce.

Aaron: I enjoyed it on the bus because I liked looking out of the window and talking to my friend Alex.

Mia: I enjoyed going to the museum.

Max: I enjoyed going to the museum because I got to touch the nose of a saw fish, it had spikes on it.

Megan: I enjoyed the trip.

James: I enjoyed Callum being here.

Carley: I enjoyed going to the museum because my partner was my best friend Mia. I liked it when we went under the tree because we played a game.

River: I enjoyed going to the museum.

Ellis: I enjoyed seeing the giraffe and elephant.

Scott: I enjoyed seeing the fossils.

Aileigh: I enjoyed the trip because it was fun.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

P2A

A busy week again in P4b!

Our highlights of a busy week –

Charlotte – I enjoyed having a picnic at break today
Jamie – I enjoyed making my paper fish in language.
Brandon – I enjoyed peace and quiet during the reading rave.
Lewis – I liked making the origami dogs
Aaron – I enjoyed bring outside for lunch.
Rory – I enjoyed measuring in maths
Owen – I enjoyed my drumming lessons.
Alfie L – I liked playing on the iPad
Kaycee – I enjoyed making a book with Eva during the Reading Rave
Alfie B – I enjoyed making the paper fish.
Max – I enjoyed eating outside
Eva – I am enjoying making animal arks with Florence, Annie and Ruby.
Bryce- I learned how to make a paper fish.
Ellie- I enjoyed doing PE with Mr Jeffries – we played extreme tunnel tig!
Alistair – I liked playing football before school.
Holly – I enjoyed playing outside with Ellie and Charlotte.
Orla – I enjoyed art this week.
Dylan – I liked learning how to make a paper fish.
Ruby – I enjoyed the reading rave.
Jay – I enjoyed learning the greater than and less than signs.
Jackie – I enjoyed eating outside.
Florence – I liked making the books with my friends.
Ellie-Rose – I enjoyed French with Monsieur Perrard.
Shaun – I enjoyed art this week as I managed to finish my Kraken.
Noami – I enjoyed reading in the reading rave.
Kyle – I enjoyed talking about flowers on Science.
Annie – I enjoyed writing our animal ark books.
Olivia – I enjoyed art because I’ve almost finished the water with the watercolours.
Brooke – I enjoyed doing the water colours for my Kraken.
Learning Partners of the week – Charlotte and Rory
Table of the week – yellow 710 points

You are most welcome to come to our sports day on Wednesday at 1.15 pm at Balbardie Park. Children should ensure that they come in their outdoor PE kit and bring a water bottle and sunscreen if the weather is looking good!

P4A

In maths this week we have been learning about fractions and we were also lucky to have a mental maths session with Mrs Collings.

In learning across the curriculum we created an animal from either a tropical, arid or polar climate and then in writing we wrote an ode to our animal.  We produced some fantastic pieces of work!

We drew pictures to display in our windows with the Toy Story theme.  Can you see them from the playground?

Our new Head Teacher Mrs Johns came into our class to say hello.  We were all excited to meet her.

Have a great weekend in the sunshine!

P3C

This week’s highlights.

NUM/MTH

Marley & Emily: I liked doing fractions and telling the time with both hands

Sophie M: I liked doing fractions

Eden: I liked fractions

Isla: I liked doing fractions

Jess, Kayden & Sophie S: I liked telling the time

LIT/ENG

Isla: I liked doing the pizza poster. I liked putting a tartan skirt on my pizza

Lily: I liked spelling this week

Nina: I liked doing our pizza poster even though it took a few attempts to get it right

Sophie S: I liked making up slogans

Sophie A: I liked drawing my raining pizza

Sophie M: I liked doing the pizza poster and spelling

Emily: I liked putting a kilt on my Kelpie

LAC

Archie: I liked scoring the most goals at futsal

Marley: I liked being the best goalie at futsal and making pizza

Grace: I enjoyed making pizza

Sophie A: I enjoyed making pizza and trying new things

Emily: I liked trying new foods and making pizza

Lily: I liked the bake sale today

Eden: I enjoyed art

Sophie S: I enjoyed making a pizza

Sophie M: I liked the bake sale

Kayden: I liked making pizza

Isla: I liked the bake sale today

Jess: I liked watching PE

Max: I liked the bake sale

 

Star Writer – Sophie A

Marbles Champions – Watermelon Table

 

Remeber sports day next Wednesday 9.15 @ Balbardie Park

P2b’s Exciting Week!

Everyone in P2b has had a very busy week.  We had our school trip to the National Museum of Scotland.  Here are some of things we enjoyed the most…

Hamish- I enjoyed designing my own African outfit.

Josh- I enjoyed going on our school trip to the museum.

Evie- I enjoyed exploring different parts of animals in the workshop at the museum.

Noah- I enjoyed exploring the space area in the museum because we got to watch a movie about space!

Maksim- I enjoyed going to the space area at the museum as I got to see how things work in space.

Rose- I enjoyed writing about our trip in our review jotters.

Lily- I enjoyed looking at all the animals in the museum.

Caitlin- I enjoyed golden time.

Matthias- I enjoyed racing against cheetahs, elephants and hippos on a bike at the museum.

 

Here are some pictures from our trip…..

In maths we continued with division, we are getting really good at this!

In writing we also wrote more in our information books about animals.  We wrote about their habitat which is where they live.

We also presented our animal projects which have turned out amazing! Everyone did a great job!

Pupil of the week- Matthias

Table of the week- Clever Crocodiles

Dojo winner- Hamish

 

Next week we have our sports day on Wednesday 30th at 10.30am at Balbardie Park.  We also have our assembly on Thursday 31st at 2.30pm, we hope to see you there!

Have a great weekend!

Primary 2/1 Blog – Week beginning 21.5.18

We have had another eventful week in P2/1 with lots of great learning opportunities.  With dinosaurs we focused on creating leaflets about dinosaur extinction theories and have been preparing for our class talk which takes place next Monday (28th).

Also, we have been creating a Toy Story display for our class window in preparation for the Procession next Saturday.  Please have a look as you walk past the front of the school.

On Wednesday we had our final shared start for the session focusing on Health and Wellbeing.  We tasted fruits as a healthy snack, made worry monsters to help us cope with our worries, explored our emotions and ways to help us when we feel a certain way and we also did some yoga to keep our bodies and minds healthy.

Here have been our favourite learning activities this week:

Rio – “I enjoyed painting Woody because I got to use lots of paint”

Rory – “I liked having shared start when I got to make my fruit kebab.  I might make them at home”

Regan – “I liked making my fruit kebab.  I found out that I really like pomegranate…I kept going back for more!”

Griffin – “I liked shared start because my mum can’t come when it was a Tuesday but she could come because it was a Wednesday”

Tommy – “Making the kebabs was the best bit because we got to eat them at the end and I was quite hungry”

Leah – “I liked making the worry monsters because it’s very creative and I like being arty”

Breaghannon – “I liked yoga because I like learning the moves”

Cameron – “The best bit was the worry monster because I liked writing my worries.  It helped me tell someone what my worry was”

Daniel – “I liked making Woody for the window because I liked using lots of different colours”

Poppy F – “I liked painting the rainbow because I really like painting and I haven’t done it in a wee while”

Lucy – “I enjoyed our shared start.  It was fun because I really liked making my fruit kebab”

Ellie – “I liked making my worry monster because I enjoyed decorating it”

Millie – “I enjoyed making the star.  I liked it because I got to decorate my star with tissue paper and it was funny when it kept getting stuck on my fingers”

Emily – “I liked putting the stars in the window because I liked colouring it in, sticking the tissue around the outside and then we all got to go outside to have a look at our display”

Sarah – “Making a rainbow for the window was the best bit”

Teigan – “I liked trying the fruits because I got to eat them up”

Mason – “One day I ate all my lunch and got a sticker.  I liked the yoghurt the best  but I made a big mess”

Leila – “I liked when we made our worry monsters.  I got to write all my worries down and it helped me feel better”

Poppy D – “I liked when we were painting the rainbow for our display because we used lots of different, pretty colours.  When they dried they looked really nice”

Brooke – “I liked the fruit kebabs because the fruit Mrs Mansfield bought was lovely”

From Primary 2/1

(A note from Mrs Mansfield – Just a reminder that the dinosaur talks take place on Monday, please help your child to prepare for this.  In addition, we have Sports Day on Wednesday between break and lunch.  Please ensure your child comes to school appropriately dressed for this, with extra water and, if you are able, feel free to join us at Balbardie Park to cheer the class on!)

P2b

We have been celebrating the great learning of P2b this week by taking part in the Celebrating Success assembly.  We enjoyed performing to you all and are so proud of our achievements this year!

 

Maths and Numeracy

This week in maths we started learning about division.  We understand that dividing is sharing things between groups.  We managed to divide objects and numbers in equal groups and it was great fun! We started learning how to divide by sorting it into ‘groups of’ too.  We revisited length and learned that 100cm=1m, 10mm=1cm.  We had fun working in pairs measuring different things such as hair length, arm length and lots more!

 

Literacy

In writing we have been learning about the features of an information book and have started writing our own about African animals.

In reading we are getting better at using the Literacy box and are enjoying self-assessing our work.

 

Learning across the Curriculum

We have started practicing for our assembly and we are so excited about it!  We love the songs and can’t wait to share it with you all in a couple of weeks.

We had our second session with Xcite where we sorted foods into the correct section of the food plate.  We also played banana tig which was great fun.

 

Other news

Dojo winner- Ava

Table of the week- Marvellous Monkeys.

Our class trip is on Thursday 24th May to the National Museum.  Please ensure that all children have a packed lunch and dress in comfortable clothing.  Bus will leave at 9.15am and return by 3pm.

Class assembly- 31st May @ 2.30pm

 

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