This is our last day at Balbardie Primary.  We will miss everyone and each other.

Yesterday we had our Oscar ceremony where parents/carers were invited along to celebrate our primary years.  We each received a medal and a scroll. Some of us received trophies and other awards.  We watched a video of us growing up and sang the P7 song.  We had a great afternoon,  Thank you to all of the classes for our lovely video message.

Here are some of our favourite memories from primary school:

‘When I won the performing arts award at the Oscars.’- Ross

‘When me and Lisa got in the lift when I had my broken leg.’- Abby

‘At the sleepover when me and Emma were throwing and kicking M&M’s- ‘Sasha

‘When my welly fell off and went in the water at Lowport.’-Teigan

‘When Ross poked me in P1 over playdough.’- Travis

‘When I nearly dropped the shield on stage.’- Leon

‘When I tied my teacher to the chair with a scarf in P2. When I sliiped and fell in the gorge in Oban- Robbie

‘When I was pooed on by a seagull outside.’ Eva

‘At Oban when we played canoe tig.’- Becky

‘In Oban when Miss Elliot almost fell in the gorge.’- Erin

We are looking forward to high school!

Have a great summer break,

P7b

Class O had fun at our Golden Club Event

Jayden – My favorite thing was going down the slide. I liked to bounce in the dark bouncy castle, there was music playing. I got a orange frozen juice it was tasty.

Liam – I liked going down the slide it was good fun. I had a fab ice lolly it was fabulous!! I liked to dance in the dark bouncy castle with Miss Robertson and Mrs O’Neill.

Cameron – It was awesome!! I had a great time in the bouncy castle it was fun to be there with my friends. I also had a rocket lolly it was delicious=D.

Today was the Golden Club Event. In the hall, we had an inflatable slide, a bouncy castle, soak the prefects and a lolly stall. It was great fun to play with our friends and enjoy the disco!
Evie – I liked soak the housecaptains!
Alex – I enjoyed the terror slide.
Elise – I enjoyed the bouncy castle and the bouncy slide because it was awesome.
Sarah – I enjoyed EVERYTHING!
Liam – I liked the bouncy disco dome
Dionne – I liked soaking the buddies.
Maddison – I liked the bouncy castle and the slide. I liked going down the slide by myself.
Daniel – I enjoyed the ice lolly. I had orange.
Harris – I loved everything!
Emma – I liked the bouncy castle, the bouncy castle, throwing sponges and the ice cream!
Ava – I enjoyed everything especially the slide because Elise and I went down holding hands!
Jess – I enjoyed everything.
Grace – I enjoyed everything too!
Isla – I liked the bouncy castle and the slide best!
Ryan – I liked the ice lollies.
Alysheeya – I enjoyed the ice lolly. I got a strawberry.
Esther – I enjoyed my ice lolly and I enjoyed the disco dome because I did it with Mrs Hendry and I liked it!
Skye – I liked the disco house.
Marley – I liked going on the bouncy slide with Mrs Collings.
Keira – I liked the bouncy castle and I also liked the bouncy slide and I also liked the ice pop because it was orange.
Nina – I enjoyed everything.
Article 28 – the right to an education

Dojo Winners – Dionne, Evie and Ava

The Junior Choir completed this term’s work with our Showcase on Tuesday. Many thanks to all those who supported this. DVD orders need to be with Mrs Innes by Tuesday 28th in order to have the DVD before school finishes on Wednesday. There will be no Junior Choir on Tuesday 28th June.

The Senior Choir will showcase their work this afternoon. I’m sure that everyone will be impressed with the standard of the cast’s performances.

We have been completing our Potted Sports courses for younger classes. Primary 2B had theirs on Wednesday – it went really well! The group that had responsibility for Primary 3/2 completed the task with Primary 3 instead – this was due to staff cover arrangements. This also went really well.
Yesterday, Mrs Innes forgot that the PE hall was being used as a Polling Station and sent us to collect our equipment… ‘OH NO!’ we hear you say…. Did we go for the equipment, or did we realise through our work on the Referendum that we should not go in, as the Polling Station was not part of our school yesterday?
Five out of eight pupils knew NOT to go in… well done to them, they had obviously learned a lot about the EU Referendum. However, three did go in. What happened next?…
Mrs Innes visibly paled and then quickly turned red. We had visions of being handcuffed, taken to the cells or worse! At lunch time Mrs Innes and the threesome again visited the Polling Station to apologise. Apologies accepted, we got on with the day. Yahoo!
One group completed the Potted Sports course outside yesterday afternoon. It was with primary 4/3 and went very well indeed.
Yesterday afternoon we were given the news about the House Captain Team. In our class, Scott Aitchison will be next year’s Head Boy; Louise Kirk will be House Captain of Strachan and Clara McCallum will be House Captain of Hardy – congratulations to them!
Congratulations also to Polina Derugina as Head Girl, Aaron McNicol as House Captain of McPherson and Rebecca Notman as House Captain of Bruce – Well done to all of them too!
Those of us involved in the Senior Choir Showcase are looking forward to performing this afternoon. We have worked extremely hard on our singing, dancing and acting.

Class G have had a fantastic final week together and are very sad to leave each other but excited to be moving onto our new class.  We have enjoyed out and about this week!  We had an ARB group out and about to the cinema.  When Class G was asked to comment on the blog all pupils wanted to talk about was this trip.  We went to see Angry Birds and it was fantastic.  Pupils in class G found this a very funny film! We also made our own angry birds art work in class.  This was a very successful out and about experience.

This week we focused on animals for our blog posts.

Derri:

This week my blog is about dolphins

1. A group of dolphins is called a school of dolphins.

2. A new born dolphin is called a  calf.

3. Dolphins feed on fish that are in the sea.

4. Dolphins can survive for 25 to 50 years.

5. Dolphins can be from 1.7 to 3.9 metres in length.

Freya:

This week is going to be about tigers 

1 Female tigers are 1 foot less in length than a male.

2 Male tigers weigh 100 lbs less than females.

3 Tiger’s babies are called cubs .

4.Tigers have stripes to camouflage.

5. A type of tiger is a liger . 😮 😎

Paige:

This  weeks blog is about  Sharks.

1.Tiger  Sharks, Blue Sharks, Great White and Leopard Sharks sometimes attack people. 

2.Most sharks live in warm water. 

3.Sharks  eat mostly fish but some  eat turtles  and seals.

4.Sharks can live for up to 35years.

5. Baby sharks are called pups and only go in deep water  when they get bigger.

We are back from our week at Bathgate Academy. We had a fantastic time. We enjoyed all our new subjects especially science and we made lots of new friends. We are now a lot more confident about going to high school after the Summer. Josh and Abigale are visiting their high schools this week and Mairi has really enjoyed her visits to her new school. We can’t believe we are all going to be leaving Balbardie soon!

We have had a very busy week. We have been learning how to deal with emergency situations. We found out about the symptoms of heart attacks and strokes and what we can do to help get the person help as quick as possible. We used dummies to practise giving chest compressions to the tune of Staying Alive to help people who may have had a heart attack. On Monday we are going to visit the Risk Factory so hopefully we will be able to cope under the pressure of simulated “real-life” situations.

On Thursday we were set a design challenge. We had to design clothes for a certain celebrity. During this task we had to work as a team to design a logo for our brand, create an outfit using different materials using the correct measurements and create a description of the outfit in English and French. The outfits we created were fantastic and we gave an excellent catwalk performance.