It has a very busy week in Balbardie Primary School!

On Tuesday, we were very lucky to go to the pantomime – it was ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame”.
Our favourite parts were:
-“I liked it when they were fighting” Lily
-“I liked Esmerelda’s red dress” Teigan
-“I liked it when they were getting married” Kyle
-“I liked when they were fighting” Rowan
-“I liked the old people in the pantomime” Brandon

On Thursday it was the Golden Club! We were, again, very lucky to have a magician visit our school and do some fantastic magic tricks!
Our favourite parts were:
-“When the man made the spotty dog” Eva
-“I liked it when he got his thumb stuck in the balloon” Elena
-“I liked when the balloon popped” Tiana
-“I liked when the toy gun made a funny noise” Akasha
-“I liked when he took the milk and newspaper and poured it on the girl’s head” Isla

We are very excited for the holiday and will remember to keep safe and have lots of fun!
-Miss Wilson and Primary 1a

We have had a great term 2 in P7. We particularly enjoyed our context for learning World War two. Here are some of our highlights:

‘Learning about rationing’- Ava
‘Writing an evacuee letter’- Robbie
‘Watching videos and learning about the blitz.’- Teigan
‘Vertical groupings with P7a to make presentations about the war.’ Aaron
Making story books for our buddies.’ – Dave
‘Creating online profiles on didbook.’- Travis
‘Multiplication and division.’- Robbie
‘Playing dodgeball in P.E.’- Shaun
‘Practising for the P7 show.’- Teigan

Have a great holiday,
Miss Bollen and P7b

Pupil of the week- Leon
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This week we all have been very excited as have had a new pupil join in our class. We have enjoyed getting to know Derri this week and we hope she has enjoyed her first week in P7a.

We have been learning about the Blitz and the effect this had on people’s lives. Everyone was issued with a gas mask and some people had an Anderson shelter in their garden where they could go to be protected from falling pieces of glass and rubble. Many children were evacuated from London during the Blitz and went to live in the countryside. Many children did not know who they were going to live with and often had to work on farms before and after school. We imagined we had been evacuated and sent away from our families. We wrote a letter to our parents telling them about our journey to the countryside, the family we had to live with and life at our new homes.

In maths this week we have been learning how to plot co-ordinates on a graph with four co-ordinates. We found this quite difficult at first but will keep pracitising. The pentagons, hexagons and octagons have been developing their knowledge of multiplication. The pentagons can multiply up to four digit numbers using mental strategies and a standard written method. The Hexagons and Octagons have been learning to multiply a 2 digit number. We will keep developing out mental multiplication strategies.

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Awards:

Class Dojo: Joe and Scott

Pupil of the Week: Ava Brown

As part of our Learning Across The Curriculum we started to experiment with ‘strange’ chemicals to make new potions! This activity gave us lots of ideas to help us plan and write our own magical potions.

Some of our instrument players were involved in the school assembly. They were performing Jingle Bells, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and Greek Wedding.

We have also been looking at the Nativity story where we made storyboards that identified the key points.

We designed our own mythical creatures and created 3D models of them using clay. They will dry over the weekend and we can paint them next week.

In P.E. we have been doing Gymnastics and have focused on different skills each week.

We have had a really busy week and enjoyed our Christmas lunch and disco!

Primary 6A

This week for our context for learning, we have been learning about the blitz and evacuees. The blitz is when Germany bombed all the main cites in Britain. It was called the blitz because ‘blitz’ means light in German and the bombs caused a lot of light.

In writing we pretended we were evacuees and had just got sent away to a new family. We had to make up a countryside address to write a letter to family about what we have been doing and about our new house and school etc. We all wrote really good stories.

This week a lot of us have made it in the golden club which is really exciting because the event is next Thursday!

Wrote by Cat A
Class dojo winner- Leon
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This week was very busy in P4b:

we enjoyed watching and the polar express and writing about it -Lucy R, Brodie , Grace ,Karys

we enjoyed dancing with our friends at the Christmas  disco -Oliva, Finn, Ava,Lucy M, Isla, Robbie,Freya

we enjoyed learning about balance in p.e.-  Sophie Baillie

I enjoyed play time with my friends in P4b- Cameron

P4b enjoyed our yummy Christmas lunch on Wednesday. We also enjoyed Judo this week- it was lots of fun! We have been working in groups and learning to work as a team to create power points. We were given a subject within our Mary Queen of Scots project to research and make a power point on. Next week we are going to present them to the class.

WRITTEN BY GRACE AND SOPHIE