On Friday we presented our last ever assembly on our learning about World War Two.  We all had lots of fun and we hope you did too!  Below you can see some pictures from the day!

In art we looked at propaganda from WW2.  Propaganda is biased information to promote a point of view .  We made our own propagana art. We enjoyed thinking of our own catchy and influential phrases. Here is an example:  if you want them to be free, make them evacuees.

In Heath and Wellbeing we were exploring the term ‘compassion’.  We then made cards for some people who we feel compassionate towards.  For example, someone gave their mum a card stating I will do the dishes for the whole week. We enjoyed doing this task and we hope that if you received a card you liked it!

Class dojo winners : Meadow and David

Table of the week :Team bones

We have been learned the sh sound in phonics. Carly

We learned oo in phonics. Holly

We learned f in phonics. James

We were learning about ankylosaurs. Alex

We were learning th in phonics. Amber

We made a fish in phonics for f. Oliver

We learned that flower starts with f in phonics. Shannon

We looked at a dinosaur timeline – during the first period there were plesiosaurs, during the second there were stegosaurus and during the third there were velociraptor (my favourite dinosaur because it can go really fast!)

We learned the tricky word love. Ellis

We learned how to count dinosaurs to 20 and write the numbers. River

Pupil of the week: Mia McGreevy for writing excellent sentences and including capital letters, finger spaces and full stops!

We had a lovely time this week at the shared start on Wednesday.  Some of our parents were able to come along and we shared songs and games we have been using to help us with our maths.
A few parents have asked about the links for the songs, all of the songs are available on youtube by searching for ‘count in tens’ or ‘counting songs’.

We spoke about how important it is to share our learning with people from home.  This is why we think sharing our learning is important:

Breaghannon – “Because it is nice to share good news that I have been learning”

Liam – “I like to make games at home too”

Max – “They might want to do more learning games at our house”

Poppy – “We can share our learning because the adults can help us learn”

Emily – “We might help the adults to learn too”

Ellie – “Because it is nice to share your learning and so the grown ups know what we have been up to at school”

Teigan – “I like to tell people about what I have done”

Jonah – “Because we can all be happy about what we have learned”

Rio – “It is important so that your mums and dads know what we’ve been doing”

Leah – “Because our mummies and daddies aren’t with us and they might miss us”

Rory – “It is important to tell your mum and dad what you have been doing at school, to show that you have been doing hard work at school”

Keegan – “Because the grown ups want to know what you have been learning at school”

Brandon – “If we do something good at school you might want to tell people in the house about what you have done to make them happy”

Millie – “Because grown ups want to know the important things we have been learning to help at home”

Marley – “Mummy likes to know what busy jobs I’ve done”

Griffin – “Because you can maybe do some extra work at home on your phone or on your ipad”

Leila – “It is good to tell your mum and your dad about your school to keep us safe”

Regan – “Your mum and dad might miss what you’re doing at school because they’re grown ups so they’re not at school”

Cameron – “Because they might want to know what you have done at school”

Highlights of the Week

• Shared Start with our mummies and daddies
• Playing with our friends
• Getting to watch the P2 practise show – Caterpillar Boogie
• Writing stories with the class
• The new games in class – the eggs and connect 4 are the best

P6B have been taking part in a whole school effort to design, create and send Easter cards to our service men and women in Iraq, Brunei, Afghanistan and on HMS Middleton.

Before beginning our cards, we explored and identified common Easter themes, including animals, symbols, colours, objects and stories. We then discussed different ways we could design and create our cards and shared ideas in small groups.

The end results were colourful and creative cards which the children worked hard to complete. Murray was awarded ‘Pupil of the Week’ for his particular, and very creative, effort.

We hope the service men and women enjoy receiving them as much as we did making them!

Week beginning 6.3.17

This week in p7B we were focusing on our World War 2 context for learning especially the home guard. We learned what their purpose was to defend their local area.  Originally they didn’t have proper guns they had wooden replicas until America sent guns over, but unfortunately we had the wrong kind of ammo.

On Monday we took part in a drama work shop where we were spilt into groups and were all assigned tasks.  Our drama was performed in front of the p5s as well as parent/carers.  This taught people how to stay safe on the internet.

On Thursday Emma Davidson and Viggo Savage took part in a rotary quiz to represent Balbardie and they placed 4^th. we are all very proud of them .

Have a nice weekend!

Evie and Meadow

Week beginning 13.3.17

This week in P7b we have been putting lots of effort into our assembly practice and we have been working hard to perfect it. Our assembly will be on the 17^th of March at 9:10 am and we are very excited to show you. We hope you will enjoy it and learn loads, you can also join us for a nice tea and coffee, maybe a biscuit have a chat with your child too!!!

In writing we wrote an assessment piece. It was an imaginative story. The teacher gave us a topic- it had to be war related- we all quite enjoy writing (for the first time J.) We hope the teacher thinks they are impressive and at a good standard for going up to S1.

In topic we are learning about WWII and what it was like (It sounds tragic.) We started learning about Evacuation and The Blitz. We found out that Blitz was German for Blitzkreig which means Lightning War. Children had to take their gas mask, some clothes and some memories from their house.  They got a train out to the country and they lived with strangers if they didn’t have any relatives to go and lived with. Children may have enjoyed it because the cities were obvious places that the Germans would bomb.  During the nights of the Blitz everyone got next to no sleep because of the sirens and they had to run to the Anderson Shelter or their Morrison Shelter. London was attacked for 57 consecutive nights. Anyway that’s enough about the war!

Some winnings in our class!!

Class Dojo: Aidan and James

Table Of The Week: Team Bones

Have a nice week!!

David & Ryrie!!