Halloween Discos

The House Captains and Vice Captains did a fantastic job organising and running discos for Primary 4&5 and Primary 6&7 to celebrate Halloween last month.

There was a fantastic tuck shop, dookin' for apples, some awesome tunes from the DJ and some super scary costumes! (Even the teachers managed to dress up for the night, although we are not sure whether their new looks were an improvement or not! Hehe!)

Miss Livia and Mrs Russell...?!

Check out all our photos of the night on Glow - you'll find them in the All Bearsden Pupils group!

Termly Update - Term 2

Primary 7 have had a very successful first term.  They have been enjoying the World War II topic and lots have taken part in events within and outwith school. 

This next term Primary 7 will be continuing work on World War II, focusing more on the Holocaust as well as the events which led to the end of the war.  Both classes will be going to the Theatre Royal in November to see a production of the novel Carrie's War which they have enjoyed reading in class.  Everyone is looking forward to the trip to Scotland Street School and the People's Palace as well.

In other news, lots of work will be going into our Christmas Concert this term, with Primary 7 focusing on songs from the Naughties!  The classes have rewritten some popular songs from The Charts and given them a Christmassy feel!

A super term lies a head for Primary 7 so be sure to check back on our blog for updates on our adventures!

What A Great Week!

UPDATE!! This week in Primary 7 we have had a great time! We did lots of exciting work as part of our World War II topic and on Friday we had an active day to help raise money for our school playground. Have a read at our thoughts…

“This week in P7 Room 19 we did great things - especially on Friday! In the morning we all got to come to school dressed down, everyone had been asked to bring in their Wii games and first of all we played Super Mario Bros Wii and then after that we played Guitar hero until lunch. After lunch we went to gym and did a special obstacle course where there were two teams, the white team won.”

By Kera and Dharia

“It's been a great Friday this week. I loved playing on the Nintendo Wii and the Nintendo DS we should do it every week! (I still like doing our topic on World War 2 though.)”

By Euan

Guitar Hero CHAMPIONS!

“This (Friday) is the best day we have had at school.”

By Sarah and Katie

“I also really liked doing the Black Out freeze frames this week. I have had a good week!”

By Usaama

“At gym on Wednesday we had great fun playing bench ball.”

By Jamie

“Friday was a good day - we had a fun active day to raise money for the school playground. In class we were allowed on the Wii and to play on our DS then we had a fun batch of activities in the gym.”

By Paul and Tom

“This week we wrote a poem about Blitz Blasters which had to have onomatopoeias in them. We found out that to spell onomatopoeia easily it goes to the tune of Old Mcdonald Had A Farm! Friday was our active day and we had the BEST DAY EVER!!”

By Harleen and Olivia

“We made great Blitz artwork and wore fabulous outfits on Friday as part of our active day to raise money for the playground!”

By Cara and Heather

Our London Blitz artwork on our classroom window!

How To Survive The Blackout!

We can survive The Blackout!

Primary 7 Room 19 are now experts at surviving a World War II style blackout... from hanging curtains, avoiding 10 shilling fines and counting to 15, to painting white lines on lamp posts, clothing and even cows, their freeze frames tell it all!!

How to put up blackout curtains without getting arrested!

How to avoid attack from those pesky German bombers!

How to avoid walking into lamp posts and injuring pedestrians! 

How to count to 15, avoid the cows and use those headlamp covers!

SLF Lego Rocked!!

We had the best time at the Scottish Learning Festival on Wednesday!  SLF Lego in the morning was brilliant and then we had a great time exploring all of the other stalls in the afternoon with Mrs Russell and Mrs Park.

BPS SLF Lego Team with a very cool robot!

Our morning was split into two sessions; Lego Challenge and either Stop Frame Animation or Green Screen Filming. 

The Lego Challenge was excellent - we got to make ducks, a giant, a spinning top and football goals and fans.  We used the WeDo Lego software to programme our models so that they reacted in a way that was specific to our design criteria.  It was so much fun!!


The Stop Frame Animation challenge let us create a model based on a giant creepy spider and then we continued to reposition and photograph it until our short film sequences were complete - our creepy spidery models liked to eat EVERYTHING!!

The Green Screen filming using iMovie was a favourite with everyone who tried it out.  We got to film ourselves as robots and then make us appear in different images on screen.  We then altered our voices to make ourselves sound even more roboty and we added musical effects.  The finished films are hilarious!!

Overall it was such an amazing day and we are now all very excited about sharing our knowledge of how the WeDo Lego software works with our friends in school.

Mrs Russell has made a little film of our day which we showed to our friends back in class on Thursday.   They were all really impressed!
To watch our film, click play...

We are really proud of our achievements and Mrs Russell said we were a credit to our school.

BPS SLF Lego Team!

Girls' Netball Festival

Well done to all of the Primary 7 girls who took part in the Active Schools Netball Festival at The Allander Leisure Centre on Wednesday after school.  We had enough girls for almost 3 teams and everyone had a great time... even Mrs Templeton and Mrs Russell were desperate to get involved to brush up on their skills for the pupil vs staff netball game in June!! We are looking forward to more netball tournaments being hosted by the local schools in the near future... stay tuned!