We hope everyone had a great  Christmas holiday and a good new year.  We are looking forward to our last two terms at Balbardie!

This week we looked at four different religions practiced in China.  They include: Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism and the Four noble truths.

Here are some facts we learned:

‘Yin and yang comes from Taoism.  This religion is about balance and harmony.’- Meadow

‘Buddhism started in India.  The story about the first Buddha is similar to the Christmas story.’- David

‘ The first Buddha was a prince.  He was ‘enlightened’ and wanted to end all suffering.’- Viggo

We learned that mandalas are significant pieces of art in Buddhism.  We followed a step-by-step process to create our own. A mandala is a piece of art where people can look into their soul and express themselves.  Each mandala is unique.  Common features of mandalas are floral and geometric designs with lots of colour.  We will complete our mandalas next week and upload a picture for you all to see our fantastic art work.

Have a good weekend,

P7b

Article 28- Right to an Education

Just a quick blog to wish everyone a very merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

The winner of the school fayre Christmas hamper was Amy Lawrence from our class. Well done Amy!

Merry Christmas!

We have had a busy second term in P7.  Here are some of our highlights during this time:

‘I liked doing the manga art.  I really liked drawing the big eyes on our characters.’- Meadow

‘I enjoyed going to the poppy factory.  I enjoyed learning about WW2 and making the poppies.’- David

‘I enjoyed going to the Academy.  I liked the treasure hunt because it was fun finding out facts about what we are going to learn.’ – Emma’

‘I enjoyed making a diorama which was a setting to one of our stories.’- Iona

‘I liked building one tenth of the great wall of China (to scale) with Lego.’- Callum D

‘I liked doing our comic strip writing.’- Aiden

‘I enjoyed writing our Halloween stories.  We had to describe the setting.’- Polina & Zoe

‘I liked rehearsing for Jack and the Beanstalk.’- Meadow

‘I enjoyed writing the imaginative Christmas story where we had to include 1o words chosen by us.’ – Millie

‘I enjoyed the Christmas party.’- Evie & Ryan

‘I enjoyed making products for the Christmas fayre.’- Lucy

‘I enjoyed doing a survey to see what to make for the Christmas fayre.’- David

Good luck to Aiden (aka Pokemon Go Kid) in his new school.  We will miss you!

Have a lovely Christmas and a Happy New Year! 🙂

P7b

We have enjoyed our short week in the lead up to the Christmas holidays and have been thinking lots about what Christmas means for other people.  We were talking about how not everyone celebrates Christmas in the same way and how lucky we are to be spending time with our families this festive season.

I think I am lucky this Christmas because:

Poppy – “I get to spend time with my family”

Griffin – “I get a tasty Christmas dinner that my mummy and daddy cook for me”

Breaghannon – “I get extra cuddles from my family”

Teigan – “I get to try new things, I like Breakfast with Santa the best”

Ellie – “People are kind and buy me presents”

Rory – “My mum and dad let me open presents in the middle of the day and I like doing that”

Emily – “Santa visits me and I spend time with my family”

Marley – “I get to make crafts with my mummy”

Liam – “I might get to see Santa, that would be lucky”

Keegan – “I get to spend time with all of my family”

Rio – “I get to see my dad”

Leila – “I like spending time with family, on Christmas Eve I can see my friends”

Jonah – “I have lots of brothers that love me”

Brandon – “I like spending time with my family and going to the cinema on Christmas Eve”

Cameron – “I spend time with my family”

Millie – “I get to spend time with my family too”

Max – “I have the best teacher at school and I get to have a holiday”

Regan – “I have the best friends at school and the best class”

Leah – “Santa gives me the presents that I really want because I am on the nice list”

We had a chat in circle time about what we hope Santa will bring us for Christmas.  Here is the thing we are hoping for the most:

Teigan – “I would like a train”

Cameron – “A teenage mutant ninja turtle thing that has a slide”

Rio – “A dinocharger would be cool”

Griffin – “I would like an ipad”

Poppy – “I would like Trollz”

Leila – “I hope I get an American girl doll with blonde hair”

Jonah – “I have a big Dumbo, I would like a small Dumbo”

Marley – “My favourite will be Pokemon cards”

Ellie – “I would like Paw Patrol Pups”

Keegan – “I hope Santa brings me Pokemon cards”

Liam – “I would like Dinosaurs”

Emily – “I would like an American doll too.  I want it to have an ice cream van”

Brandon – “The number one thing on my list is a Transformers Fire House Headquarters”

Breaghannon – “I would like Paw Patrol jammies to go to bed in”

Leah – “I would like a Hatchimal”

Millie – “I would like an American girl doll, the ice cream one”

Max – “From Santa I would like an iphone”

Regan – “I have lots of things but I would like a castle that is already built”

Rory – “Presents that I like opening is what I would like”

From Primary 2/1.

(A note from Mrs Mansfield – I would like to thank everyone for your kind Christmas gifts, I am really looking forward to opening them on Christmas day.  I hope that you all have a lovely festive period, full of Christmas cheer, and get the opportunity to ‘recharge your batteries’ before the start of Term 3.  Thank you for your continued support, I look forward to seeing you all again in the New Year!  Merry Christmas!)

9 sleeps until Christmas!

We have been very busy the last two weeks. Last Wednesday we had our first visit to Bathgate Academy. We explored the school and the different departments during a treasure hunt activity. We worked in teams with some sixth year pupils to find the answers to questions about the academy. We all really enjoyed the visit and are now more excited about going to high school.

We were back up at the Academy on Wednesday to practise for the concert. We enjoyed our day even though we had to spend some time outside as the fire alarm went off! Some of us went back at night to perform the Christmas songs to family and friends. They all had a great time and they gave a great performance.

In maths the Pentagons and Hexagons have been learning about different multiplication strategies including partitioning and doubling and halving. The Decahedrons have been learning how to solve multi-step problems including all four operations.

In writing this week we had a challenge to write a Christmas story using 16 specific words. We came up with a list of words as a class. Most were Christmas themed but we also had to try and include platypus and caterpillar!

Last night we had out Christmas party. We enjoyed having the DJ there and spent the night dancing. The buffet was great and we stuffed our face with pizza and sausage rolls! Thanks to everyone for helping to organise the party.

We are all excited for Christmas and are looking forward to the Pantomime next week!

Class Dojo: Lexis

Pupil of the Week: Ellie

Samantha: I enjoyed making a poster advertising my business for a Christmas party. We needed to work out the profit and work with a budget.

Sophie:  I enjoyed writing a play script of the Christmas Story. I liked adding in character directions and stage directions.

Zoe: I enjoyed learning about percentages and fractions to manage costs for my Christmas party business plan.

Ty: I enjoyed play script writing.

Tom: I liked helping out with the power point for the P1 show.

Eva and Abbie: We liked seeing the magician for the Golden Club event.

We have had a very festive week in P1a and it has definitely been the busiest week so far…..

The Golden Club event was really fun.  Ada

We learned 2 new tricky words, by and one.  Alex

I enjoyed the Golden Club event because the magician was funny.  Emily, Holly and Ellis

I enjoy Golden Time.  Amber

I enjoyed the Christmas dinner.  Oliver

I liked the Christmas show.  Jack

I liked learning the y sound and the song. Mac

I enjoyed performing in both the Christmas shows.  Jude and Aaron

I liked the magician when he did funny stuff.  Aileigh

I enjoyed the Golden Club event.  Carley

I enjoyed the Christmas dinner.  Olivia S, Megan, James

I love school.  Shannon

I like doing the work.  Max

I enjoyed the Christmas party and winning best dancer with Megan and Holly.  Justin

Thank you to all the parents for their continued support!

This week in our Christmas Around the World topic we looked at Japan and we learned how to make an origami Xmas tree.  It looked really tricky to do!

We made lovely moving Santa models and the boys from the 2/1 class joined us for this activity, we had lots of fun 🙂

We have been busy practising our mental maths this week and we are getting faster at our maths challenges 🙂

P2A would like to wish all the parents and carers a Merry Christmas and we hope you have a lovely holiday!

Achievements this week

Teigan has reached level 4 in swimming

Kyle has raised £20 in the READATHON 🙂

Lois has raised £10 in the READATHON 🙂

Eva has reached level 5 in swimming

Akasha has reached level 2 in swimming

Pupil of the week :- Sam