This week Class O enjoyed investigating gravity and force. They enjoyed making rockets and hovercrafts to support them in their learning.

Callum:WOW! The rocket moved so fast! I couldn’t believe how fast it went.

Cody:It was quite tricky trying to get the balloon on the hovercraft to make it move but when it did it was so fun.

Cameron:Science was great fun. I made a rocket and a hovercraft from a balloon. I liked seeing what happened to them when the balloon had lots of air and a little bit of air in it.

Liam:I made a rocket from a balloon. It was fun.

We loved Primary 7b’s assembly and it got us thinking about our favourite memories of Balbardie so far…..

Ben – I remember in primary 1 we made paper kites and went outside with them.
Annabelle – In primary 2 we were learning about castles and we made castles. Our classroom looked like a castle when you walked in.
Demi Leigh – In primary 2 I dropped a sharpener in the bin, I went in to the bin to get it and my head went right in!!
Kayleigh – I remember in primary 1 we made lanterns. We took them outside. We made them out of paper and tissue paper.
Logan – In primary 1 me and Ellis made up as friends.
Cameron – I think I was P2, we made some parachutes for our teddies and we went to the stairs and then we let them go!
Isla – In primary 2 my class went to Stirling Castle
Leia – I think it was in p3 Annabelle and I made friends
Aaron – When I was in p1 I was getting a sharpener and tripped over and I almost fell in.
Reece – In primary 1 we were out in the playground. Me and my brother were playing hide and seek. My friends came over and played with me.
Kaitlin – I remember meeting my friend Gemma in primary 1.
Calvin – When I came in to primary 3 I was a little bit nervous about making friends and now I am in p4 and have made lots of friends and I have lots of fun. At playtime and lunchtime I have great fun!
Olivia – In p4, I remember meeting Kaitlin
Grace – I remember meeting Kaitlin in p1

Again, it’s been a busy week in P1c.

In French we have been learning about the weather. We are learning to say what the weather is like outside – Que temps fait-il? Aujourd’hui il fait beau. We also had to include rain, sunshine and clouds as we’ve had typical Scottish weather!

In health and wellbeing we have been learning about the importance of a healthy diet. We have learnt about different food groups and why they are important. We sorted food into these groups and know that there are some foods we should only have occasionally. We sorted all these foods into groups. Mrs Hendry and Mrs Collings were really impressed that we knew so many of the foods!

In outdoor P.E. we were learning about throwing and catching with lots of different types of ball. Some of us are really good at catching!

In Maths we painted butterflies which are symmetrical and we learnt about symmetrical patterns and shapes.

During our buddy time we painted shells and fish for the float for John Newlands Day. They look amazing!

In writing we made flowers with adjectives on them thinking about ourselves. We also made handprint flowers for our display.

In assembly our buddies told us about their time at Balbardie and what they would remember. It was fun to think about what they had done in their 7 years here. We will miss our buddies when they go to high school.

Jess won a special certificate for being Primary 1 Pupil of the week for the playground for showing positive behaviour and kindness to others.

Emma was pupil of the week for her perseverance in maths and always trying her best when things get tricky!

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Our thoughts in P4/3 this week:

Teighan, Jess, Robert – We liked the Primary 7 assembly.

Sophie, Erin, Lauren – We enjoyed doing testing this week.

Alfie and Liam, Oliver, Euan – We loved maths this week, we were learning about adding.

Mia, Connor, Ben, Kay, Sophia – We liked PE, we were playing basketball games.

Ava, Emma, Suvi – We liked the P7 song at their assembly called ‘5 years’.

Megan – I liked Maths when we were doing more than, less than and equal to.

Sam – I enjoyed doing the banana task.

Jason – I liked the game we made about healthy food.

Hope you have a good weekend!

Junior Choir – Sorry it was cancelled on Tuesday – unwell teacher! Normal routine next week.

Senior Choir – We will now meet on both Thursdays and Fridays for rehearsals. Thursday will be from 3.25p.m. – 4.30p.m. and Friday will be from 12.15 – 2.30p.m.
I realise that not all will be able to attend – but if they can, fab! A letter will be issued with the dates – essentially all Thursdays, except the procession week, until our performance on 24th June.

Ramsay – We have almost completed our space posters – looking good!
Louisa – We visited the National Museum of Scotland on Tuesday and we made telescopes. We had fun on our visit.
Ella – in maths, we have continued to learn more about co-ordinates.
Freya – We have made star finders. Isla explained this to Mrs Innes!
Scott – in RME we wrote a diary entry in the character of muslims – we had to think about some of the challenges they might face.
We are continuing to work on our class assembly.

This week we have been very busy practicing for our celebrating success assembly. We hope you enjoyed thinking about sunny days!

We had a very special visitor on Thursday. We met some beautiful owls. As we are being nature detectives this term, it was an ideal opportunity to find out about some birds of prey. This is what we learnt.
Nina – There are different types of owls. Some owls come out at night and some come out during the day and some even come out at dawn and dusk.
Jess – We learned about the food chain of a hawk. It eats snakes, the snake eats frogs and the frog eats grasshoppers.
Grace – Some of the owls were big and some were smaller. We met Edward the European eagle, which is the biggest type of owl in the world!


Evie – The owls were all different colours.

Harris – One was a snowy owl which lives in snowy countries.
Sarah – We met Stealy who is a barn out. She comes from South Africa. She had sandy, dotty coloured feathers on her back which means that she is camouflaged from above, but she has a white tummy so that she can’t be seen from below and she looks like a cloud.

We lay down in the corridor and watched the barn owl fly over us. It was very exciting!

Thank you so much to Archie’s family for bringing them in.

We also welcomed the nursery children for Stay and Learn. We enjoyed having them visit and showing them our classroom.
Celebrating Success – Jess – School values, Grace – High Standard of Work, Maddison – effort and Improvement and Evie – Head Teachers award.
Pupil of the Week – Dionne for working hard on her tricky words

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