Nurturing Independent, Aspirational Learners. Supported by Strong Partnerships with Home and the Community
In the wake of Bill Dale's visit to school and his generous donation of litter pickers, one family took up the challenge of helping to clean up their village. Thanks to them, the school grounds are even cleaner. Thanks Guys. Looking after the environment certainly begins close to home.
Thursday 9th May was the day of the R2 fashion show! A huge thank you to Stevie and Georgie from the campsite for the most amazing setting and to all the parents for supporting the children on the catwalk. The children had planned and made their T-shirts and written a short commentary to accompany…
This afternoon the school football squad played "out of their skin", winning their group and remaining unbeaten all the way to the final. Despite a valiant effort we lost 0 - 1 to a very strong side from Michael school. Well done everyone, particularly the squad, but also to the parental cheer lead…
Today we enjoyed our time at Ballamoar Campsite learning about summer plants and producing summer planters for the campers to enjoy throughout the season. Stevie had constructed the fantastic planters and Georgie helped us learn about all the herbs and flowers we planted. It won’t be long until we…
As an exciting finish to our topic, today we held a Castle Exhibition. We invited all our families who have helped us make them over the past few weeks, and shared our learning with one another. As we enjoyed one another’s creations, we wrote down our favourite aspect onto a review sheet to share.…
The parents of the children in reception and key stage one had one evening to create an impressive tower from a box of sugar cubes. The children were asked to think about who they would work with? They also had to consider if they were making a tower they have seen or a design they had created them…
Thank you to everyone that helps to make Ballaugh School such a wonderful place to learn. External Validation 2019 Ballaugh Primary School Validation Report Ballaugh Primary School recently received an external validation of its self review process, which involved confirming the judgments the schoo…
As part of Autism Awareness Week we have been speaking to the children about "differences" and reinforcing the message that we are all different, we are all unique and that we need to accept, tolerate and embrace such differences.This has also given us the opportunity to reinforce our values (compa…
Today, Tuesday 5th March, we were visited by Suzanne, Nicky and Buddy, the speech bubble mascot for the NSPCC. The message that they shared in two assemblies (age appropriate for Class R2 followed by KS 2) was "Speak Out. Stay Safe" and that we all have a right to feel safe. They shared lots of use…