Congratulations to our new House Captains and Vice Captains. We are sure that you will rise to the challenges of your new posts and make Bankton proud.
Jupiter
Captain: Abby Clinkscales
Vice Captain: Anna MacDonald
Mars
Captain: Samantha Tait
Vice Captain: Bethany Shaw
Neptune
Captain: Jamie Skeldon
Vice Captain: Mia Ballantyne
Pluto
Captain: Emma Turner
Vice Captain: Sophie Maley
On Wednesday 22nd August, Primary 7 embarked on their first adventure of the year- a visit to the Edinburgh International Book Festival. After a short bus journey from Livingston to Edinburgh, the excitement was mounting as we waited outside the tent to go in to hear from the author Sally Grindley all about her International Rescue Books.
After getting some tips about how to build characters and create a novel, we learned lots of interesting facts about endangered animals- some of which feature in Sally’s books.
Once our hour was over, we rushed over to buy some of her books then off we went to get them signed- the free key rings and bags were greatly enjoyed too!! After that it was back to school.
Each class is now using one of her books as a focus for finding out more about a specific endangered species. We’ve got loads of ideas for things to find out and will be putting on an exhibition for our parents and P4 pupils where we will show off all of the things we have learned. We can’t wait!!
A big Bankton welcome to all the P.1s and their families. Our first week at school has been a happy one with everyone settling well into new routines. We have drawn ourselves in our school uniforms and hope you enjoy our very first pictures. Don’t we look smart!
Primary 2 have been working hard this week. We have been revising addition to 10, showing our teachers how good our writing is, designing an ‘All About Me’ shield which shows some of our rights and finding out about our new classrooms!! As well as all of this we have had P.E. (which we will have every Tuesday and Wednesday), German, Music, Assembly and we took part in the voting for the new House Captains and Vice Captains.
Next week we are looking forward to starting our new topic!!
