⚽BEANIE CUP AND FUN DAY⚽ Have fun while helping to raise money on Sunday 7th June, from 11am at Beancross Primary School for our 3rd Annual Beanie Cup and Fun Day. There will be lots going on for all the family and entry to the fayre is completely free. Please come along and support our school.

Kicked off our very first Friendship Friday today! Each week we’ll randomly select someone and share, during circle time, all the things that make them a special friend. Today we celebrated C and the class shared some lovely things about him 💛

⚽️SPONSORED SPORTATHON🏀 The link is now live for all P4-P7 to take part in the sponsored Sportathon. Please use the link below to sign up. For more details please see the email. beancross-primary.classforkids.io/info/146

Today we carried out a an eye colour survey in P5P. We then turned our results into a bar chart! 📊✏️

Well done to this last week’s star writers!! Both these pupils wrote a fantastic persuasive letter to a teacher in the school✏️👏

We loved getting to vote in the P7 Election today! There were so many fantastic parties to choose from 🌟🗳️ Fantastic Work P7👍👏

Loved kicking off our new class talks today! Pupils have started sharing the celebrity who inspires them - from singers to YouTubers to footballers. Such a brilliant mix of passions and role models! 🌟

Today in maths we worked with a partner to solve equations using the four operations! 👍😆

Congratulations to our award winners at today’s assembly! 🌟🤩

Some quick snaps from our (rainy) Easter Extravaganza Walk yesterday! ☔️🐣 Thanks so much to our amazing parent helpers who joined us. Rain didn’t stop the fun!

Last week, we created our own superheroes for a Taught Writing lesson. This week, in art we brought our heroes to life by creating a night scene inspired by the work of Van Gogh 🎨🖌️

We have been learning about essential vs non-essential purchases in our maths money topic 🤑💵 Today we managed a weekly budget by prioritising our essential purchases before our treats!

So incredibly proud of our fantastic cross country team today representing Beancross at Callander Park! 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️ You all showed amazing determination, teamwork and were brilliant ambassadors for the school!

Book day ready this morning! 📸📚

World Book Day📚 As per our annual overview, pupils are welcome to come to school dressed as their favourite book character on Thursday 5 March. Please note that Football strips are not permitted.

We have been learning about the Buddhist celebration Vesak. Today we created posters with lots of interesting facts that we researched about the celebration!

This week our class has been mastering the 9 times table ✏️ Can you guess which song we use to help us remember it? We’ve had so much fun with whole‑class games like Around the World, Buzz, and of course… a Blooket!

Dress down day tomorrow (12th Feb)

We completed our first Languages Week task yesterday by creating our own ‘Language Portraits’🇫🇷🇪🇸 We included things like countries we had visited, languages we want to learn as well as some things that are special to us! 🎨🖌️ #ScotlandLovesLanguages #FalkirkLovesLanguages @drparnellbps.bsky.social

This afternoon we presented timelines on famous Scots of our choice, complete with some fantastic PowerPoints and Canva designs to support our talks!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Inspired by the work of Andy Scott, we created our own ‘Under the Surface’ designs using our imagination. So impressed with the creativity in P5P! 🎨✍️

Some action shots from our PE session this week. We loved our game of dodgeball 🏐 Amazing work P5P!

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Scots Poetry🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 This morning we started learning ‘The Coming o The Wee Malkies’ for our Scots Poetry Competition. We all have a paper copy home with us to practise with as well as a digital copy on Teams and OneNote. We will have a poetry recital in class on Thursday.

This week in P5, we have completed 3 Codemas Challenges using Scratch, MicroBit and Code Lab🎄👩‍💻 We really enjoyed getting to play each others coded festive song guessing game! Fantastic work Primary 5! 🤩⭐️

It was so much fun eating our Christmas lunch with our friends yesterday! ❤️🎄

We had the BEST time at our Christmas Party today!! 🥳🪩

We have been learning about camouflage as part of our Rainforest topic. We each had a go at trying to hide a butterfly around the classroom using by blending it in with its background. Here was a few of the ones we found tricky to find! 🙈🌲🦋

✨🎤Dare to Dream🎤✨ So incredibly proud of P5P for their amazing performances of the school show! It was fantastic to see all of your hard work pay off 🎭🤩

We started our new reading books this week. Today we practised reading them with expression with a friend📚📖

Today we were learning to say different colours in French. We had lots of fun playing Bingo to practise what we learned. Ask us to teach you a colour or two at home! 🇫🇷

Today for Children in Need we are wearing ‘Something that makes us smile.’ We are really looking forward to Beanie’s Got Talent this afternoon! 🤩🤩

This week is Anti-Bullying Week! Today we became Anti-Bullying Agents by completing a series of digital challenges on our iPads.

We have been learning about nets of 3D shapes. Today in maths, we worked with a partner to build 3D shapes of our choice from their nets!

Yesterday, we chose a rainforest animal of our choice to research and create a fact file on. Some of us chose to create posters, whilst others made digital presentations to share with the class! Amazing work P5P 👏

A huge congratulations to P5P this week for achieving Bikeability level 1! 🚲👏

Well done these pupils who have achieved Top Of The Chart this week! Keep up the fantastic work!⭐️

IDL - The Rainforest 🌲 Today we learned about the climate of different rainforests and had a go at being weather reporters to share our findings with the class! 🗞️🚨

We have had a fantastic #EuropeanDayofLanguages in P5P. We listened to stories in Greek and French, created presentations on national animals on Canva and continued learning a language of our own choice on Duolingo!👏 @missmcguckinbps.bsky.social

On Monday we worked together in teams to complete a variety of different STEM related challenges🧑‍🔬 Our favourite was definitely the ‘Saving Sam’ gummy worm challenge!

This morning we used Connectors Books independently for the first time 📚🤩 These books allow us to teach each other key reading skills including predicting, questioning and summarising! Super teamwork everyone 🌟

Homework went out today which can be found in the ‘assignments’ section of Teams. Miss Mitchell gave out a copy of Glow log ins and went over how pupils can log in on any device at home. If there are any problems, pupils can ask for a paper copy📚 I can’t wait to see what you come up with! ✨

We have started a Fitness block in PE! Yesterday we moved round different stations in partners and talked about how exercising effects the body💪🏃

We have been learning about mindfulness and different strategies we can use to keep calm😎 This afternoon we explored the Reflect section on Teams after creating our own mindfulness toolkit🎨