We have had a good couple of weeks in p7B.

Last week we had a lady come on Tuesday and Thursday to tell us about tobacco and the dangers of it. On Thursday she brought a friend in and her name was Smokey Sue. She was a doll and showed us how smoking affects your lungs and body.  One cigarette turned her lungs yellow and it looked disgusting!

Yesterday we watched the schools senior choir perform their interpretation of the Jungle Book.

“It was really exciting to watch (because we got out of class and didn’t have to do work!”~RyrieJ

During the week we were working on our lunar theme parks. This taught us about budget and profit and loss.  The class really enjoyed designing our own theme park.  We had a budget of £500,000 pounds to spend on our parks.  This was to buy things including major rides, minor rides, cafes, shops, path ways & toilets. We then had to work out our outgoing and incoming costs to work out our total profit.  We really enjoyed this task!

We also learned about the reasons why animals are endangered and wrote persuasive letters to the government to build more conservation areas.  We then designed our own conservation parks.   We had to consider each animals’’ needs including their habitat, diet and size.  We designed our parks to scale and calculated the area and perimeter of each animal’s enclosure.

We are looking forward to our last week at Balbardie next week!

Jamie and Ryrie

This week….

We learned ‘sh’ for shush in phonics.  Oliver

In phonics I learned ‘st’ as in stop.  Holly

We learned ‘mp’ as in stomp in phonics.  Alex

We played the mummy game after phonics.  James

We learned ‘ch’ as in chilli in phonics.  Shannon

I learned ‘st’ as in stomp in phonics. Jack

At PE we played with the parachute.  Carley

We learned about healthy eating.  Ellis

I watched the Jungle Book and really enjoyed it.  Justin

We did are last review in our Review Jotters.  Max

We played a ball game on the parachute.  Megan

We were counting up to 100.  Emily

We learned healthy eating.  Ada

We learned about symmetry.  Amber

I saw Jungle Book at after school club. Aaron

Eating food for healthy eating. We had strawberries and carrots and we peeled potatoes.  Olivia S

I learned the sound ‘i’ in phonics.  Aileigh

Pupil of the week:  Alex for working really hard all year and producing a very high standard of work!

This week in maths we have been learning about using our number lines, improving our mental maths skills and practising our division sums. We had fun beating the Smartboard in our addition and subtraction challenges.

We have been learning about different African foods and we have had fun sharing our class talks on our African animal.  Miss McDougall was really impressed with all the learning.

We had fun on Thursday morning watching the P7 show of ‘Jungle Book’ and we loved seeing our carers as animals.

We have been busy learning about dodgeball with Mr Jeffries for P3 and we have been learning to take turns and share space in the gym hall.

Achievements this week

Pupil of the week-Hollie

Elena and Akasha have been practising their scooter tricks

Lexi has learned how to play ‘Star wars’ on her guitar

Daniel has got his black stripe in Tae Kwon Do

Reminder: Church Service is on Friday 30th of June

Brooklyn: I have enjoyed maths this week because I have learned to add 3 digit numbers using a new strategy.

Rhia: I liked art this week. I painted a chameleon in camouflage.

Lennox: I enjoyed being successful in the interview for hardy house captain.

Samantha: I enjoyed researching for our personal projects. I was able to use the internet to research one of my favourite bands.

Naomi: I liked watching The Jungle book. I enjoyed the dances the best.

Ty: I enjoyed p3/2 assembly today.

The Primary 3/2 assembly inspired us to think about all the things we have learned this year in P2/1.  We talked about how different we are as learners now and are all proud that we have a growth mindset towards learning.  Here are some of the things we have learned:

Marley – “This year I learned how to learn through play, I like all the jobs”

Regan – “In school I learned how to know my numbers and how to write”

Griffin – “At school I’ve been learning about how to tell the time”

Ellie – “I learned how to write a story.  You need to remember finger spaces, full stops, capital letters and connectives”

Brandon – “I learned how to use adding, take away and group bubble strategies”

Teigan – “I learned not to be scared of masks in role play, they are just pretend”

Breaghannon – “I learned how to do different jumps”

Millie – “I have been learning about keeping our body healthy.  We need to drink lots of water”

Poppy – “I’ve learned how to challenge myself”

Leah – “I have learned tricky sums.  I challenged myself to add numbers after 100 to make big numbers”

Keegan – “I learned about how to play safely in the playground”

Leila – “I have learned how to play nicely and take turns”

Emily – “I have learned some French games.  I know how to say the weather, numbers and colours”

Jonah – “I learned how to add and take away in my head, sometimes I need help”

Cameron – “I’ve learned that having a growth mindset is important”

Rio – “I learned how to do a roly poly with Mr Jeffries”

Liam – “I learned how to do painting”

Jayden – “I have learned how to make new friends.  I need to be kind”

Rory – “I’ve learned about the school rules and to behave”

One week to go before our summer holiday and we are super excited about all the fun learning we still have to do!  We are really excited about going to the Golden Club Event too!!

From

Primary 2/1

This week we have been learning about speech marks in Language. We are learning the rules about using speech in our stories. It’s quite tricky but we are getting there!
In PE we are learning to bowl in cricket. Keeping that bowling arm straight is quite hard. Guy, Isaac, Ela, Charlotte, Maisey, Katie and Aryan all managed to hit the stumps. No mean feat!
We are planning a class talent show with Mrs Mackenzie. We are looking forward to demonstrating our talents to our panel of judges.
In Golden time this week our stem challenge was to build a tower of cups without touching them with our hands. It was a real challenge but one that the groups all took on with great enthusiasm!

Please don’t forget to find the blog post to nominate Balbardie for the £5000 of book vouchers. We’d love such a boost to our finances for our new library!

Pupil of the week – Guy Lumsden for participating enthusiastically in our home team challenge to design a healthy town.

Table of the week – 930

We had a visit this week from our very own David Dimblebob ( bearing a canny resemblance to Mr Cunningham!) who presented Question Time from Balbardie.  We had a number of party leaders presenting their policies who were given a grilling by the audience and David.  We then had a vote and The Health Party were duly elected.

We also joined in The Body Coach’s Primary School Workout and sweated our way through a 30 minute workout session through his Facebook live.  Fresh from our exercises we then enjoyed fruit smoothies.

We help out the Credit Union every Thursday and we received goodies as a thank you.  Of course after our Academy Maths assessment a wee chocolate brownie bite went down a treat!

In art this week we have been painting fantastic African midnight sunset paintings using tone and shading and we wrote super stories about going on safari.

In maths work, we have been busy practising our addition and subtraction sums and we found this really tricky!

In P.E we learned how to play rugby and we have been practising our strategies of tag and team work.

Achievements this week

Well done to all the sack race, sprint and lap race winners who gained their certificates 🙂

Daniel gained his red stripe in Tae Kwon Do

Emily has been practising her swimming