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Month: April 2017

Spring at Balgreen

It’s that lovely time of year again! The beautiful tree in our garden has started to blossom. All of the classes at school have been looking very carefully at it and doing all sorts of work. There’s some fabulous art work, writing and science going on. Primary 1 have been reading The Frog Prince so […]

Loose Part Pirate Fun!

At Balgreen, our Loose Parts have been a great success. Primary 2 have been learning all about Pirates and as a great rounding off to the theme, they worked together with P5 to build the most amazing pirate ships. See if you can spot some flags, planks, and portholes, just few of the pirate ship […]

Fair Trade Lesson by SJNCC

There was a range of events taking place across Sir Jonathan North Community College during Fairtrade fortnight, including the selling of Fairtrade snacks on the stall, making homemade goodies with Fairtrade ingredients to sell at lunch time, attending a Roots and Shoots Award Ceremony, running Fairtrade Assemblies, hosting Eco Events and delivering lessons on Fairtrade. […]

FS2 nature garden

We are a small school with limited outdoor space so we have been encouraging our FS2 children to think about ways of bringing nature to our school.  They decided that creating a small nature garden in their own outdoor space in pots and planters.  The children have been responsible for planting the seeds, watering the garden […]