We have learned this week just how lucky we are to be living just now and not during the Victorian times.  Children then did not have rights and were often put out to work instead of going to school.  Thankfully Queen Victoria’s Government passed some legislation (these are rules) to support children and stop them being sent down mines, and working as chimney sweeps.

In maths we have been learning about division and have been using thinking boards to help us come up with different strategies.

Liam – awesome because it helped us understand the times tables and division.

Sam – thumbs up because it helped me learn different strategies.

Ava – they helped me work out tricky maths problems.

We enjoyed our Big Balbardie Blether this morning which was all about our playground. We came up with lots of ways to make our playground better and are excited about this!

PATPALS is on Wednesday morning for any of you who can make it – don’t forget to return your opinion wheels!

This week we have been learning about the Vikings. Here are some things we have been finding out-

Mia – there are five Viking gods

Suvi – Odin is the chief god and the most important

Megan – Loki is the god of mischief

Kiara – Freya is the god of beauty and war

Lauren – Thor is the god of thunder and he is the most popular god

Jason – Frey is the god of fertility

Alex – Vikings travel in a longboat

Suvi – Vikings came from Scandinavian countries

Megan – they invaded parts of the UK

Mia – the countries they came from were Sweden, Norway and Denmark

In maths this week we have been doing algebra! We have been learning to identify the missing number in a sum. Some of us have been working with function machines and although it was tricky at first we soon got the hang of it.

In HWB this week with Mrs McKenzie we were learning about being cool in school. We learned about the different responses we can have to situations. Here are some examples –

Denholm – an aggressive response is when if someone kicks you then you kick them back instead of going and getting a playground supervisor

James – a weak response is when you let people hit you and you do nothing about it

Alfie – a cool response is when someone hits you and you ask them to stop and say that if they do that again you will tell an adult

In P.E. this week we played the bubble game. It helps us to learn about spatial awareness.

 Have a good weekend!

LAC

This week we began exploring Viking life. We took notes as we watched a video about Viking longships. We were amazed at the number of facts we were able to jot down! We then used our notes to create a labelled diagram of a longship, trying to include as much information as we could. We also began to prepare for our Viking assembly; we were learning songs and discussing parts, props and costumes. We hope you’ll enjoy watching us on 3^rd February.

Numeracy

This week we have been focusing on multiplication and using arrays to help develop our understanding. We are becoming very good at creating multiplication stories to match our arrays.

We also investigated what happened when you multiply a number by 10, 100 and 1000.

Health and Wellbeing

We began our Being Cool in School focus and explored, through drama, how to deal with tricky situations that may arise in school. We discovered that there are three types of response we can choose to use:

Aggressive

Weak and

Cool

Our drama sketches showed the negative consequences of using an aggressive or weak response. We’ve all decided that we’ll work hard to use cool responses when dealing with difficult situations.

From the Blog Post Box

This week I learned…

…that 120 Vikings could fit in a Viking longship.                  Nathan

…to have a cool response when something goes wrong, not an aggressive or weak response.  

Jaime-Lee

…how to make an array.               Jason

…joined up writing and I find it quite tricky!          Jacob

…how to do hard cheerleading stunts.                     Lucy

Pupil(s) of the Week: Ela and Rayen – for making such a positive start in their new school. We’re delighted to welcome you both to Balbardie.

Happy New Year from P2A!

We hope you had a lovely Christmas holiday 🙂 We have been busy thinking about what we could have as New Year Resolutions and we had a lot of great ideas… ‘Getting up earlier for school’, ‘trying to save up more pennies for holidays’,’ getting more sleep’…to name but a few 🙂

We have been busy writing our thank you to Santa letters and we had some lovely things to say, we haope Santa has a nice rest!

We have been busy improving our mental maths this week and adding and subtracting our numbers.

Achievements this week:

Kyle for MVP in P.E

Emily has been practising her coordination skills

Elena has learned to swim underwater

Archie has been practising his swimming skills

Rosie has been practising her gymnastics