This week has been an interesting one with a few special treats thrown in. On Wednesday we went to Bathgate Xcite for our swimming assessment. We had to swim a length of back crawl and a length of front crawl. It was a lovely walk through the park and a nice change to our normal routine.
On Thursday we welcomed some parents and carers to watch our final NYCoS session. We played some of our favourite games and showcased our developing knowledge of rhythm, pulse and beat and we did some singing games. We hope that those of you who were able to come enjoyed it.
In numeracy we have been learning about division with Mrs Mackenzie. It is challenging for some and easier for others!.
We looked at data of who had siblings and organised it to help us answer questions about it.
In our reading rave we made books, read story books, wrote reports and played language games on the ipads. Most of the class are beginning to enjoy reading more. In maths we have been learning to sort data using Venn Diagrams
In science, we are learning about the different parts of plants. We examined the roots of different plants such as beetroot, pansies, hyacinths, tulips and dandelions. Although the roots are all different, they all keep the plant anchored in the soil and take in water and nutrients for the plant to grow.
Table of the week – Orange with 570 points
Learnng partners pf the week – Rory and Eva
P3b
What an exciting week! We had part of Mr. Cunningham’s class join us for the week as he went with the P7’s to Oban. We learned about topic, writing and grammar together and for maths continued with what we were already doing in our class.
This week, we have been very busy learning about the Human Skeleton. Humans have an endoskeleton because it is found in the body. We learned about the names of the different bones, their function, purpose and some facts. We also learned to keep our body strong and healthy, by drinking lots of milk, eating cheese and eating yoghurt because they contain calcium which makes our bones strong. We should also do lots of exercises to keep us fit.
In maths, we have been learning the 3 & 4 times table. In topic maths, we were learning to recognise money and add money. Mr Cunniinghams’ class was learning about telling the time.
In writing, we were writing a story about being shipwrecked. We were trying to use similes and adjectives. to make it more interesting.
Have a great weekend!
P5a
Our blog post didn’t work last week so we’ve got two weeks worth of highlights to share! In literacy, we have been focusing on persuasive writing. Last week Miss Carrera pretended that school was going to be open on Saturdays – we had a lot to say about this! We thought up reasons why school should not be open on Saturdays and we have been working on writing a persuasive essay. In Numeracy, we are continuing to learn about 3D shapes. We looked at lots of different 3D shapes and thought about the properties of each one. We can say how many faces, edges and vertices a 3D shape has. For our Holyrood topic, we have been looking at the different political parties in the Scottish Parliament. In groups, we used iPads to research a different political party. We then shared our findings with the class and talked about which party we thought was the best. The majority of the class thought that the Green Party sounded the best, because we think that the saving the environment is really important. Here are some of our other highlights:
Catriona – I really enjoyed P.E. this week.
Kiara – I really liked the persuasive writing.
Connor & Suvi – We are enjoying drawing mythical beasts and hybrids in Art.
Murray – I enjoyed making the 3D shapes.
Mia – Violin is really good as we are now getting to use our fingers to play.
Amy – I really liked doing problem solving with my learning partner.
Megan – I thought finding out about the different political parties was really interesting.
Enjoy the weekend 🙂
P2b
What a great week it has been in P2b. We have been learning lots of exciting things!
Literacy
We have been writing another story this week all about a magic hat. We have written the beginning and middle so far and can’t wait to finish it next week. We are getting really good at planning too!
We enjoyed learning all about Onomatopoeia and we know that we use this to describe sounds or feelings. For example, we would describe a horse galloping as ‘trip, trop’ or strong winds as ‘whoosh’. We can’t wait to use this in our writing next week!
We are using the literacy box lots now and we are really enjoying it.
Maths and Numeracy
Some of our groups are getting really good at their 2 times tables and enjoy using the cubes to help them find ‘groups of’ numbers. Other groups have been working on their 5 times table and managed to build a house from working out tricky sums.
We have started learning about length in measure and we worked out if objects were bigger or smaller, shorter or longer than our pencil. We also sorted ourselves into a line from the shortest person to the tallest person- have a look…
Learning Across the Curriculum
In our topic of Africa we were learning more about animals. We learned about different parts of their bodies and managed to stick the correct words to the correct body part.
We also learned how to look after animals and we focused this on a pet dog and spoke about what we need before we get a dog and how to look after them once we have them.
Other news
Table of the week – Terrific Tigers
Dojo winner- Ava
Star of the week and playground Star- Marcus
Maksim also won a book for designing a great book mark for World Book Day.
We hope you all have a great weekend!
P2A Highlights
We have had a very busy week this week. We had our first Xcite session and also our first Djembe drum lesson. We all really enjoyed both experiences!
Here are some of our highlights from the week:
Carley: I enjoyed the singing assembly because we sang very good songs.
Max: I liked golden time because Aaron shared his toy with me.
Holly: I enjoyed reading because it was fun.
Ellis: I enjoyed golden time because I got to play with my friends.
Jude: I enjoyed golden time because it was nice to play with Aaron, Max and Jack.
Alex: I enjoyed golden time because I shared my meerkat and Sonic with Aaron and Jude.
Jack: I enjoyed topic because we were learning about Africa.
Aileigh: I enjoyed reading because I like reading with a partner.
Amber: I enjoyed topic because we used an atlas and learned where Africa is on a map.
Ada: I enjoyed Big Writing because I love writing stories especially the middle part, it’s the most interesting part.
James: I enjoyed playing with Jack during golden time.
Megan: I enjoyed reading.
Aaron: I enjoyed reading because I got my new book Hansel and Gretel and it is a beautiful book.
Apologies for the late posting of this blog. We have had some technical difficulties.
Coming to the end of our NYCoS journey……..
This week was our penultimate NYCoS . We have had a block of 12 sessions, teaching us about rhythm, beats, pulse and pitch. We have learnt hand signs for three different pitches and played a lot of fun games to help us learn more.
In rhythm we learnt to clap our names – Olivia
We learnt signs for the songs – mi, so and la – Eva
We learnt loads of songs and clapped the rhythm of the songs using ta and te-te – Rory
We learnt about the beat of the music – Orla
We learnt loads of new songs – about 10 which helped us with our understanding of music – Charlotte
On Thursday 26th, parents and carers are invited to our final session to see what we have been learning about. Please do join us at 11.40 if you are able.
Also a reminder that the children are having their swimming assessment on Wednesday and they will need to bring costumes, towels and £1 for the locker.
Table of the week – yellow with an amazing 1070 points!
Learning partners of the week – Liam and Kaycee
Apologies for the late posting of this blog. Technical difficulties!
We have arrived in Oban
We have all safely arrived in Oban and been very busy already! We have been practicing our team work skills by completing challenges. Just getting unpacked now before tea and off out for our evening activity.
Have a look at the Twitter page for updates each day….@Balbardie_PS
(you don’t need a Twitter account to see the posts)
P3C
This week’s highlights
MTH/NUM
Emily: I liked learning half past
Max: I liked doing division
Marley: I liked doing repeated addition and grouping for division
Brandon: I enjoyed division
LIT/ENG
Sophie M: I liked writing about the future
Archie: I liked writing about how I need to go to the future and save my future self
Grace: I enjoyed when Mrs Smith came to read with us
Isla: I enjoyed writing about a girl trying to get a gem from the future in a garden of flowers
LAC
Jess: I liked PE doing Futsal
Luis: I liked Futsal
Lily: I enjoyed outdoor PE
Nina: I enjoyed learning about the heart
Marbles Champions – Rainbow Table
Star Writer – Jess Ireland
P6A
Our show rehearsals are underway with different children working hard at lunch and after school with Mrs Haddifon. Our ticket design competition and design a programme competition close on Monday with the winner announced on Tuesday. The judges will have a difficult job because there are some amazing designs.
In Maths we have been looking at 2d and 3d shapes and learning all the vocabulary that goes with them. Ask us about vertices and faces and we will help you to understand…….
Our Living & Growing learning starts next week when we will be learning about how our bodies change during puberty.
Please note that the show dates are the 30th and 31st May and we will let you know in good time about tickets.
Have a great week!
Primary 2/1 Blog – Week Beginning 16.4.18
We have had an absolutely amazing week, full of lots of learning adventures!!
Here have been the best bits this week!
Literacy
- Writing a story about a dinosaur that came for tea. We had to think about what kind of dinosaur had arrives because that changed what we would give them to eat. The P2s even explored using ellipsis, character speech and onomatopoeia!
- Active spelling using the slime trays…it was a very messy job but we had lots of fun.
- Sharing a whole class novel during milk and story time. We are reading ‘The Dinosaur Detectives’ which is all about Matt who can see dinosaurs when he touches a fossilised egg.
Maths
- Practising dividing and getting better at understanding the process. We have explored using concrete materials and pictures to divide as well as challenging ourselves to use skip counting to work out how many groups a number divides into.
- We played around the world this week…the spacemen won this time but Mrs Mansfield is trying to get some more aliens in her team next time!
Learning across the Curriculum
- Getting to touch and learn about dinosaur poo. We learned that people have found out about what the dinosaurs ate from looking at their poo (yuck!) We were each given a dinosaur and had to look to see if our dinosaur was a carnivore, a herbivore or an omnivore. It was disgusting but lots of fun!
- Our dinosaur lesson with Mrs Mansfield. We explored moving like dinosaurs and also learned new dinosaur songs in music time. It was lots of fun and we learned a lot.
- In role play we added dinosaur characters. This let us explore different situations with dinosaurs which was fun
- At messy area we made dinosaur headbands. This helped us practice our fine motor and design skills.
- At imagination station there are the bones of dinosaurs and paper booklets. We have got to pick what we are going to use the booklets for. Some of us created a diary as though we were a dinosaur explorer, some of us created stories about what had happened to the dinosaurs and some of us created posters about our favourite dinosaur.
Next week is a wee bit different because Mrs Mansfield is away in Oban with the Primary 7s. We are very lucky that Ms Davidson and Mrs Keene are going to be taking our class, there will be lots more learning adventures and Mrs Mansfield can’t wait to hear about all our new learning!
From
Primary 2/1
P2b
What a busy week we have had! We have lots of learning to share with you…
Emma- I enjoyed maths, art and outdoor p.e.
Ava- I enjoyed drumming because we learned some songs.
Josh- I enjoyed learning more about Africa because I think its cool.
Zara- I enjoyed drumming because we got to play instruments from Africa.
Hamish- I enjoyed doing the 5 times table.
Jacob- I enjoyed writing about our ‘Be Cool in School’ in our review jotter.
Reiss- I enjoyed going to number gym homework club because I practiced my times tables.
Maksim- I enjoyed maths because we learned the 5 times table.
Other news
Dojo winner- Ava
Star of the week- Rose
Playground star- Gracie
Table of the week- Tigers.
Welcome back!
It’s been a busy week back at school after a lovely holiday.
With Mrs Mackenzie, we learned about the Activator family and the Dolittle family. The Dolittle family play video games and watch TV whilst the Activator family go outside, play football, swim, garden and eat healthily.
We have started a ‘Reading Rave’ on a Monday afternoon. We can write stories, choose books to share from home and enjoy reading! We can also use the Ipads for Literacy games. We love it!
We learned how to skip count when dividing.
In Maths, we made a human graph, then a pictogram and then a block graph to show what size feet the children in P4 have. Our class have a bigger range than P4a from size 11 to size 4.5 whilst P4a’s feet are mostly in the middle of the range!
We are looking forward to a busy term and hopefully some better weather!
A reminder that we need Review Jotters back in as soon as possible please.
Learning partners of the week – Annie and Ellie-Rose.
Table of the week – yellow with 440 points!
P5a
We have had a busy first week back at school! In numeracy we have been looking at different types of triangles and their properties, and in groups we made posters for each triangle to go on our Maths Working Wall. In literacy we learned about writing a letter and we wrote a thank you letter. We also began our new topic – Hooray for Holyrood. We are learning about the Scottish Parliament. We looked at what it means if a country is run by a democracy or a dictatorship. We also looked at the Scottish Parliament website to learn about what the government’s powers are. We are looking forward to learning more! Here are some of our highlights:
Ranna – I really enjoyed writing the thank you letter to Miss Carrera.
Suvi – I loved P.E this week because we got to play castle relays.
Mia – I liked learning about the properties of triangles.
Kiara – I liked finding out what our new topic is!
Connor – I liked doing the division work.
P2b
It is our first week back after the Easter holidays and it has been super busy! Here are some of the things we have been learning about…
Caitlin- I have enjoyed learning about our new topic Africa.
Hamish- I enjoyed revising the 2 times table and I am getting super quick at it now.
Emma- I have enjoyed learning about Africa and Golden Time.
Zara- I enjoyed playing the iPads at golden time.
Taylor- I enjoyed learning about Africa and Golden Time.
Evie- I enjoyed learning about what Africa is like and how some areas are poorer than others.
Ava- I enjoyed looking and finding our about Africa by looking at the map of the world.
Lily- I enjoyed exploring different parts of Africa via google earth.
Rose- I enjoyed singing and dancing to help learn my two times table.
Other news
Dojo winner- Caitlin.
Table of the week- Elephants.
Josh had a bake off against his mum and he won by baking a delicious jam sponge with butter icing!
We are looking forward to learning more about Africa next week!
P2A Highlights
We have had a very busy first week back. Here are some of our highlights:
Shannon: I enjoyed circle time.
Alex: I enjoyed Big Writing because we were writing the beginning of a story.
Jude: I enjoyed Big Writing because we were writing about a magic hat.
Megan: I enjoyed reading.
Aaron: I enjoyed Big Writing because I chose a deep dark wood as my setting.
Ellis: I enjoyed learning about how to say things in French.
Jack: I enjoyed learning how to say “What is your name?” in French.
Holly: I enjoyed reading because it’s fun.
Ada: I enjoyed Big Writing because I love writing stories.
Aileigh: I enjoyed Big Writing because it’s fun.
Amber: I enjoyed learning how to say “Good night” and “Hello” in French.
James: I enjoyed saying “Bonjour Madame.”
Carley: I enjoyed learning to say “My name is…” in French.
Max: I liked doing French because Miss McKinnon told us how to say things like “Bonjour Madame” and “Bonjour Monsieur.”
Ethan: I enjoyed Maths.
Have a lovely weekend everyone.
P2A
*Next Friday (20th April) we will begin an Xcite programme running for 3 Fridays from 11am to 12pm. For this, the children will require sports clothing. They can either wear their P.E. kit or they can bring in something else on the day. However, due to the timing, the children will not be able to change back into their school uniform before being collected at 12.10pm. Therefore, if they choose to wear their P.E. kit, please ensure they return it on the following Monday, thank you. Also, for these 3 weeks we will have our golden time on Thursday. *
Please bring review jotters into school as soon as possible if you haven’t already. Thank you.
Primary 2/1 Blog – Week Beginning 9.4.18
We are now at the end of our first week back after Easter, and what a week it has been! We have been really busy learning lots of new and exciting information…we even started our topic about dinosaurs!! Here are some of the things we know, want to know or like about dinosaurs.
Breaghannon – “I liked learning about dinosaurs, I know there were volcanoes when the dinosaurs were alive”
Regan – “I know that dinosaur bones have turned into fossils that we can look at now”
Teigan – “We saw some dinosaur footprints, they were very big”
Daniel – “I learned that lots of dinosaurs were bigger than humans – their hands were bigger”
Leah – “I know that some of the animals we think were dinosaurs are actually ancient reptiles”
Rio – “I learned that dinosaurs ate other dinosaur eggs. We read a story and when the boy touched the dinosaur egg he could see the dinosaur”
Lucy – “I learned that dinosaurs came from eggs and other dinosaurs would try to eat them for food”
Mason – “I like the big dinosaurs, my favourite is a T-Rex”
Aiden – “I liked hearing about volcanoes, we learned about volcanoes a while ago”
Millie – “I’ve learned that some dinosaurs have feathers”
Ellie – “I know that the dinosaurs died from a meteor hitting the earth. All the dinosaurs died”
Rory – “I learned about how many legs dinosaurs walked on. These were called bi-pedal and quaruped”
Cameron – “I am excited to learn about different dinosaur names”
Griffin – “I know that dinosaurs that lived in the sea were alive before the dinosaurs that lived on the earth. I saw it on Netflix”
Brooke – “I know that some dinosaurs are bigger than people”
Sarah – “I think that dinosaurs used to live in hot, hot weather”
Poppy F – “I am excited to learn about how the dinosaurs lived”
Poppy D – “Some dinosaurs left footprints that were bigger than human hands. Some dinosaurs were bigger than others”
Emily – “I thought all dinosaurs lived in the desert but not all dinosaurs did. They lived in places a bit like a rainforest with volcanoes”
Leila – “Dinosaurs are not alive anymore, they lived in the past”
From
Primary 2/1
(A note from Mrs Mansfield – please note that all trip forms and money should be returned to the school as soon as possible – the children are all very excited!)
P3B
Welcome back, Everyone!
This term we have started off with revising our times’ tables and have begun to understand how multiplication links to division. We have also started learning about the different coins we have in our monetary system.
In topic, we have been learning about different habitats and how they affect the types of animals living there.
In French, we are learning to listen to and follow instructions by playing the French version of Simon Says. Our favourite phrase is go to the toilet!
We learned about similes and then made up our own similes to write a poem about our pet or favourite animal.
Enjoy your weekend!
1a’s Week
Bonjour!
We are enjoying saying the days of the week in French. Today is Jeudi.
In maths we are screening our addition sums. This is tricky but we are having a go and counting our red and yellow counters to help us find the total.
For outdoor PE we tried some parachute games but it was extremely blowy!
We watched a video called ‘Amazing Things Can Happen’ about Autism for Wear It Blue Day. We talked about how each of us is different and unique, then we each made a puzzle piece to show a bit about ourselves and how we are all different but part of our class team. Here is our work in progress.
Primary 2/1 – School Trip
Hi,
It has been drawn to my attention that there was a typing mistake on the letter issued from the office about our class trip.
This note is just to clarify that all children in P2/1 will be attending the trip to Botanic Gardens.
Can all permission letters please be returned along with the payment of £8, which covers bus costs and entry to the Botanics.
Please note that a packed lunch will be required on the day.
If you have any concerns, please don’t hesitate to ask.
Thanks,
Mrs Mansfield
P3b
This week has been very busy!
We finished our topic about the Ancient Egyptians and learned about the Egyptian seasons, their calendar and why it was based on the flooding of the River Nile, the hierarchy system and also who Moses was and what happened to him and his people. We learned how the events leading up to Easter Sunday and ‘Passover’ are linked to the events at this time in history. We made our own Palm leaves in remembrance of Palm Sunday.
In maths, we have continued looking at multiplication and are now beginning linking it to division. We learned more about the area of things as well.
This week we also had a special visit from a book author who told us about the book he had written, we had Dress down/dress up day and also our last session with Relax Kids.
Congratulations to Dionne for winning the Cheer Leading Competition!
Here are some pictures:
Enjoy the Easter holidays!
