School Activity Blog
from August 2025 to July 2026
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18.11.25 Snow Much Fun Today!
It was great to see everyone enjoy the first snowfall of this school session!
7.11.25 Remembrance Day 2025
We are pleased to reveal our newest Poppy display in time for Remembrance Day 2025. Beautiful red poppies cascade down our school building, making for a striking display. Huge thanks to Mrs Johnstone for organising this, and her sister for providing the knitted poppies, and Mr Iain for providing the netting! Teamwork made this display - and we love it!
27.10.25 JRSO Competition Winners
Our JRSOs were impressed with all the poster competition entries they received. It was a very tough decision...but they eventually decided on the following winning poster designs:
From P1-3: Ava came in 2nd place and Poppy came in 1st place!
From P4-7: Annick came in 2nd place and Eirica came in 1st place!
Well done to everyone who entered and a special well done to these winners!
Look out for these winning designs around our school community!
Remember to stay safe around roads...and remember to 'Look Up' to stay safe!
Adults and children alike.
27.10.25 Creativity
At our assembly today, we were learning about Meta-skills. There are 12 Meta-skills for us to explore, and this afternoon we learned more about Creativity! Creativity is also one of our school values, so this was a special one for us. We think we encourage Creativity across the school in many different ways...
Our P4-7 class enjoyed sharing some of their October holiday news through developing Play Projects this morning.
Have a look at some of their fantastic creations!
We have created a digital book to share our Mod Art Competition entries through Book Creator.
If you click on the sound icon on each page, you can hear a description of each piece of artwork from our pupils. You can also hear them share the Gaelic name of each piece of art!
We are delighted that our artwork is currently on display in the National Galleries of Scotland in Edinburgh - what an awesome achievement!
Hope you enjoy!
27.10.25 Art work at the National Galleries of Scotland
We are absolutely delighted to share that our pupils' art work is currently on display at the National Galleries of Scotland in Edinburgh! Wow - What an honour!
Following our recent Live Online Art Sessions with the National Galleries, we learned about 'Your Art World 2025'. We submitted our Mod Art Competition entries and now they are proudly on a digital display in the National Galleries of Scotland. What a special achievement - well done everyone!
10.10.25 Visit to Loch Ness Centre
Our P2-6 pupils were delighted to have won this visit to The Loch Ness Centre as a prize for their short story that they entered into The Quest competition last summer.
We enjoyed the interactive exhibition tour and had fun getting our photos taken with the green screen technology.
Here are just some of the photos that were taken...
What a great way to end the term.
Happy Holidays everyone!
4.10.25 - P1-3 IDL
Primary 1-3 have been focusing on Mini Beasts for their IDL topic. We have been learning about and investigating Mini Beast habitats! We took our knowledge and created our own Mini Beast houses that we are very proud of!
3.10.25 ~ Cyanotype Workshop
Here are some photos from our amazing Cyanotype workshop today with Angela. Safe to say this was one of those 'Best Day Ever!' school days! Science, technology, engineering, art and maths were involved in our fascinating workshop. What a creative bunch we have here at Balnain, well done everyone! We LOVE your designs!
29.09.25 - Cooking Club!
Our P4-7 pupils were delighted to have Cooking Club today so that they could make Apple Crumble too. Mrs McCloskey supported the children to read and follow the recipe, measure the ingredients and make their own apple crumble to take home. We were impressed with their food technology skills!
Pupils gave this recipe a great review!
We're glad to hear that you enjoyed it so much.
Well done everyone!
25.09.25 - Cooking Club!
P1-3 pupils put on their aprons this afternoon and were excited to make Apple Crumble in our first Cooking Club session of the year. We used apples from our own apple tree in the school grounds. Mrs McCloskey helped the children to follow the recipe and develop their food technology skills: measuring the ingredients, chopping the apples, gently cooking the apples and rubbing the butter with the flour and sugar. Good job everyone! We hope that you enjoy eating these at home.
17.9.25 Andy Goldsworthy Outdoor Art
12.9.25 - Duckling Visit
We had two very special visitors in school today...Seonaidh's family have recently hatched two ducklings and brought them into school. We were delighted to meet Salt and Pepper and learn more about how to look after young ducklings.
8.9.25 - Eco Leaders
As we are hoping to gain our Eco Schools Award this year, we need Eco Leaders to help us. We were very impressed with all of the applications for these roles and were pleased to appoint Eirica, Ella, William, Ava and Jackson to support us. Well done everyone!
8.9.25 - Digital Leaders
Applications were open for new Digital Leaders to help us develop our digital skills across the school. We were very impressed with the quality of applications for these roles and we were delighted to appoint Angus, Ben and Connie as our new Digital Leaders, along with our Junior Digital Leaders Poppy and Sorley.
8.9.25 - JRSOs
Applications were open for new Junior Road Safety Officers to help us develop our awareness of road safety across the school.
We were delighted to appoint Alexa, Lola and Joseph as our new JRSOs.
Well done!
3.9.25 - Visit from Storyteller 'Creeping Toad'
Everyone enjoyed our day of creativity today with 'Creeping Toad'. Gordon captivated us with his stories and inspired us to create our own! Pupils were busy making their own finger puppets and pop up landscapes to retell their own stories. We were also outside getting inspiration from nature to enrich our stories and artwork.
2.9.25 - P1 Numeracy
Our P1 pupils have been settling in well, and working hard on their numeracy. We had a look at forming numbers with playdough and using pom poms to help us count and develop our fine motor skills!
1.9.25 - The Balnain Sorting Hat came out today to sort our new P1 pupils into their House Groups! We love this hat, which was beautifully made by a very talented former parent. It was made from a recycled school jumper and if you look carefully, you can see each of our House Group animals on it. Each House Group now has a new Squirrel, Red Deer and Badger.
25.8.25 - At our Assembly today, we focused on what it means to show Respect for ourselves, each other, our school and our environment.
We also shared this digital book, 'Let's Explore our Rights' to help our new pupils learn more about the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).
Article 42 states that all children and adults should know about the Convention.
Please have a look and learn more about Children's Rights.
19/8/25 - Assembly
At assembly today we reminded everyone of our school values here at Balnain Primary.
We also read this lovely book about Kindness.
19/8/25 - We have started school! Our new P1 pupils got a great welcome from everyone this morning!
19.08.25
Welcome back to a new school year!
We are delighted to welcome
all our new pupils to
Team Balnain!
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