As I’m now teaching only on a Tuesday and Thursday, Mrs Mansfield will lead the Junior Choir and I will continue with the Senior Choir.
We met yesterday for our first get together. Thank you to all who attended! We have revisited songs that have been done with previous choirs – and had fun along the way!

The Junior Choir will begin after the September holiday.

Friday mornings bring a lovely buzz to the school as children look forward to celebrating their good work and positive behaviour through Golden Time.  Last session, we consulted with staff and pupils and have made a few changes to make this experience more valuable and purposeful for our pupils.

Each class has their own pictorial display that is visible for the pupils.  Pupils all start on an agreed amount of time on a Monday and then earn their minutes every day, which accumulate to 30 minutes on a Friday.  If a child does not earn their minutes and therefore does not receive their full 30 minutes on a Friday, class teachers will discuss this with the child and encourage them to remember our steps to positive behaviour in school.

Each pupil gets the chance to sign up to an activity for them to enjoy on the Friday. The day of choice selection might differ from class to class, to best meet the needs of the pupils in the class.  There is a variety of choices for Golden Time, and these could include toys from home, baking, construction toys, iPad games, role-play etc.  Staff are very creative with the choices and also consult their class on what they might enjoy.  Our hope is to increase the resources available for Golden Time to enrich this valuable experience for our pupils.

Cameron – I enjoyed playing with the new equipment in the playground. I played basket ball with Cailtin and I was the first person to score in one of the nets. I also played wrestling with Liam it was brilliant fun. I met my new intergration teacher and my new seat is at the front of the class.

Jayden – I enjoyed sitting on the chair outside telling stories. I like to play with the lego and build tall houses. I did a drawing of an aeroplane inside there was me Elianah, Caitlin, Cameron and DanTDM.

Cody – I enjoyed napping in the chair outside, I also liked to play the jigsaw puzzles.  I completed the frog jigsaw but still need to do the snake puzzle. I enjoyed looking at the new book paper. I met my new integration teacher when I went to the gathering and I also met my friends Reece and Aiden.

We have had great fun in our first week back.
We have been learning about our rights and responsibilities and how these affect us and how all children around the world have the same rights as us but don’t always have access to theses rights. Like the right to education, good, nutritious food and clean water.
We have also looked at how to clean water as an experiment in class. Although the water was cleaner, it was still not safe to drink. Perhaps we could wash the car with it?!
In maths we are learning how to improve our maths facts by using the Big Maths Beat it tests.
We are looking forward to learning lots more in the coming year!

We have had a great week back in Primary 7. We have already a great example to the rest of the school as primary 7. We have taken on our new roles as class carers and Primary 1 buddies. We have enjoyed helping our new buddies at break time and are looking forward to working with them next week.

This week we took part in a team work challenge. Our challenge was to build the Eiffel Tower from spaghetti, sellotape and blu tac. We had limited resources so we had to work together to find out the best way to build the tower. We have  been revising our 3D shapes and describing shapes by their properties. In writing we reflected on our summer holidays and wrote a personal recount of our time off.

We have also been beginning to think about our future aspirations and how we need to persevere and work hard to get there. Miss Elliot gave us a really irritating piece of paper and we had to work out how it had been created. During this activity we realised that everyone can find things challenging and if you keep trying you will be able to accomplish your goals. Everyone has different strengths and we can all help each other. We discussed growth mindsets and how a positive atttiude can be the key to our success.

See you next week!

Class Dojo Winner: Lucy

We had a lovely first week back!

Lewis – I enjoyed the table challenge. We were learning about Space and working collaboratively. We designed our points poster and decorated our basket. We did a story on our basket.
Archie – I really enjoyed the Olympic athlete. We were learning the Olympics and we had to choose an athlete that was in the Olympic and then we found out information and then created a poster.
Fiona – I enjoyed making the birthday candles for our display. I also got through to the choir! 
Murray – I enjoyed making hamma beads at golden time. It was really fun. You need to earn your golden time each week. At the end of the week if you were successful you get all of it. The table of the week gets to choose first. We could choose baking, hamma beads, own, art, lego, wii and the iPads.
Casey – I liked golden time because we made empire biscuits.
Jack – I really at the end of the day when we played Splat because I was the ‘Splat Master’. Splat is a game when you go in a circle and a person in the middle. The person in the middle says someone’s name and the two people on the right and left have to shoot each other. The person who says splat first wins. Steven won our game and Katya was runner up.

Skye – I enjoyed drama this week with Mrs Innes. We first sang a song, then we had to make a dance with ribbons and then we talked about what was going to happen throughout the year. We talked about Golden Tickets and Drama Awards.
Harry – Mrs Innes reminded us on how to sing the Balbardie anthem properly.

We have had a great first week back at school and we are looking forward to learning many different things this year.
Maisey – I am looking forward to learning more about my tables.
Emily – I am looking forward to art.
Jason – I am looking forward to doing new things in P.E.
Luke – I am looking forward to developing my art skills.
Charlotte – I am looking forward to reading harder books and improving my writing.
Aryan – I am looking forward to doing maths, especially hard maths. I am also looking forward to learning new skills in gym.
Dani – I am looking forward to all the activities, especially art!
Hope – I am looking forward to learning more about times tables.
Jaime-Lee – I am looking forward to learning more about change with money. I am also looking forward to art.
Callum – I am looking forward to learning more about division.
Emma – I am looking forward to doing gym.
Hayley – I am looking forward to writing.
Guy – I am looking forward to doing hard questions in Maths.
Ben – I am looking forward to learning how we get energy into our bodies.
Lucy – I am looking forward to writing.
Katie – I am looking forward to doing division.
Jacob – I am looking forward to doing more turbo tables.
Elliot – I am looking forward to doing writing with Mrs Mackenzie.
Jack – I am looking forward to school trips.
Nathan – I am looking forward to doing art.
Mrs Mackenzie and Mrs Collings are really looking forward to a fun-filled year with the class!
Article 28 – The Right to an Education
Table of the week – Blue and Green

What a great start!

We have had a great start to our first term in P4. We have been getting to know each other and learning about how to be an excellent P4 pupil.

These are some pictures of us working on our new review jotters. See how happy we are !!!!

Alex – It’s the greatest week of school I have ever had!

Murray – I really enjoyed doing my review jotter.

Lauren – I have really enjoyed my week in P4a.

Suvi – I really like the new Head Teacher.

Ranna – I really enjoyed this week and I love my new teacher.

Have a great weekend everyone!!

We are all so excited to be back. It has been a short week but we have been busy learning about our new class routines, sharing information about ourselves and learning about our new friends. We have been learning about rhyming words and the symbols for “greater than” and “less than”
P.E. days this term will be:
Wed – indoor
Thur – outdoor most weeks but indoor sometimes

Dates
Meet the teacher Wednesday 7.9.16 6:00
Our first Shared Start will be on Tuesday 4.10.16, 8:55-9:25
Assembly will be in the Summer Term -Friday 2.6.17 9:20