On Wednesday, the p4s started the Balbardie Party Season! The party was exciting because we had fun games to play. We played Christmas limbo, best girl dancer, best boy dancer, musical statues and pass the parcel.
It was really fun and in the end we had a dance competition – Skye Morris & Sophia Anderson were the 2 winners of the dance off.

Table of the week p4b……. blue with 410 points
Table of the week p4a….. Pugs
Pupil of the week p4a Lauren Park
Pupil off the week p4b – Jaime-Lee for making good use of her feed-forward information to produces a fantastic piece of imaginative writing.

Thank you to our guest editors – Sophia, Suvi and Callum.

From Mrs Collings and Mrs Little – we hope you all have a lovely weekend and look forward to seeing all the children bright and cheerful next week!

Article 31 (leisure, play and culture)
Every child has the right to relax, play and
take part in a wide range of cultural and
artistic activities.

We have just finished a very informative 8 week block with Robyn and Theresa.  We learned about the importance of a balance between what we eat and how much we exercise.

We learned about the different food groups – why they are important, how often we should eat them and how much we should eat of each of one.  We are real experts now!

Our new favorite game is castles!  Miss Holwill liked watching us playing Pacman.

A huge thank you!

We have been busy all week rehearsing for our assembly which by now we hope you all enjoyed! Here are our favourite bits:

Millie – My best bit was when Daniel Dillon took his bow.

Isla – I liked everyones costumes.

Grace – I liked saying my part.

Daniel – When I said my lines.

Robbie – Seeing my parents

Lucy – I liked Robbies costume.

Baillie – Getting to say my part

Brodie – Every bit!

Freya – Rachael singing.

Emma – All singing together

Eva – Saying my part.

Next week is a very busy week with our Christmas Party on Monday, our Christmas lunch on Tuesday, Breakfast with Santa on Thursday and our Golden Club event on Friday!

We started our new topic ‘Christmas around the world’ and we learned about the different customs people in Mexico follow at Christmas.  We learned that Poinsietta’s are a Mexican Christmas flower and we had a lot of fun making our handprint poinsietta paintings.

We have been busy practising our French words and we now know how to say pen (stylo), pencil (crayon), rubber (gomme), ruler (regle) and scissors (des ciseaux).

In drama this week we have been busy practising the songs for the Church Service on Wednesday 21st, we hope to see you there 🙂

Achievements this week

Well done to Hollie and Luke who raised £12.50 each 🙂

Well done Akasha who raised £42 🙂

Pupil of the week-Maddison

Kyle has attained his red stripe in Tae Kwon Do

Daniel has attained his white stripe in Tae Kwon Do

Archie has been practising his swimming skills and can now do a handstand under water

Emily has been practising her gymnastics

Rosie has been practising her swimming skills

Isla is trying to learn how to swim with her arm bands

Hi,

Another fabulous week in Primary 2/1 full of exciting new challenges.  We have been talking a lot about having a growth mindset and have been thinking of sayings to help us send good messages to our brains.  These messages help us to challenge ourselves.  Here are some of the ways we have challenged ourselves this week:

Max – “I challenged myself by doing counting activities and practising every day”

Millie – “The way I challenged myself this week was stations and at home.  I tried to make a tricky word game and learn new tricky words”

Cameron – “I was getting better at numbers, I set challenges for myself”

Griffin – “I was challenging myself to learn new adding strategies like doubling”

Rory – “I challenged myself in phonics.  I read the word on the board then I turned around and tried to write it, it will make me better”

Brandon – “Phonics was tricky this week but I tried my best.  I wrote sentences with a phonic word and a tricky word”

Leila – “In maths we have been doing challenges, I like to challenge myself”

Liam – “I made new friends this week, it was hard at the start”

Emily – “When I’m doing maths I like to do dominoes and when I do the dominoes I count the number and try to find the number pot.  I challenge myself by covering and counting on”

Poppy – “I tried the red challenge for the first time in maths.  We had number fans and we were doing sums and adding by counting on, it was easier than I thought”

Leah – “I did adding sums with the dice, I did good”

Rio – “I was flashing my numbers.  I didn’t count them, that was good”

Keegan – “I flashed numbers to 5.  Next time I will try numbers to 10”

Regan – “I am getting faster at flashing numbers too”

Marley – “I did the red challenge and flipped numbers so the big number was in my head.  It was tricky but good”

Ellie – “I got better at adding by adding new numbers”

Teigan – “I have tried my best with talking to other teachers”

Breaghannon – “I learned new numbers this week.  I am clever”

Jonah – “I tried to think of words with ‘oa’ and ‘oo’.  ‘oo’ is tricky!”

Something to remember!

The P1 Christmas Show takes place on Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning.   We are still waiting for a few costumes to come in before our dress rehearsal on Monday – please can these be brought in on Monday please.  We don’t have extra costumes to provide.   Thank you.