Rehearsals are in full flow!

Rehearsals for our school show ‘Olivia’ are in full flow! Today it was great to see everything beginning to come together. Well done to all the characters with speaking parts who are furiously trying to learn their lines. We’ll keep you updated on how we’re doing over the next couple of weeks.

One thing’s for sure… keep the evenings of Tuesday 31st March and Wednesday 1st April free – you won’t want to miss it!!!
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What a busy week!!!

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P2 have been busy doing lots of learning this week. We have been working hard on our handwriting!!

We also started to talk about our new technology project which is to build a vehicle.

We have been busy sorting different types of transport in different ways …

“We ordered ours into transport that could fly, go on land and that go on the water” said Lucy’s group

P2 also get the chance to be the STAR OF THE WEEK and they get to go to see Mrs Ferguson and receive a special certificate !!!!

 

 

 

 

Phonics Phones

The children have had great fun today using our new phonics phones.  They really loved hearing  their voices as they sounded out words and everyone agreed that they helped them with their reading!

The children gave them a fantastic 5 out of 5!

A great success!!!

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P1 Fun in the Structured Play Area

This week P1 have been busy extending their learning of our Fairyland topic.  In the structured play area this week, the children were drawing detailed pictures of a fairytale of their choice – Jack and the Beanstalk was a firm favourite!  The  children enjoyed using their imagination when playing with the castles in the small world area and they really impressed Mrs Lloyd with their writing at the literacy table where they worked hard to write a speech bubble for the Gingerbread Man, sounding out their words really carefully.  At the maths table, Miss Campbell played dominoes with the boys and girls and was impressed by how well the children were able to match symmetrical butterflies.  Finally, in the role-play area the children were challenged to act out a favourite fairytale to see if Mrs Lloyd could guess it.  During this time the wolf could be seen trying to blow down the little pigs house, Goldilocks was caught eating the bears porridge, Cinderella lost her glass slipper and the evil queen was asking the mirror who was the fairest of them all!

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Childline Visit

P6, P6/7 and P7 received a special visit from Buddy. He came along (with his human helpers) to talk to the children about different types of abuse and where children can go for help if they need it. After a short assembly each class participated in a short workshop where the children had the opportunity to discuss different dilemmas and offer advice on where the fictional children should go for help.

Why not test us and ask us the Childline telephone number? What do you think Buddy actually is?

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Can you guess what I am?

Primary 6 Turned Back Time!

As part of our Victorian topic, P6 were very lucky to receive a visit from Maureen from Library Services with her very special boxes! We had to wear special gloves. We were able to see children’s toys, shaving razors, an iron, clothing and even a car horn – we all had good fun honking it!

Some of us were even able to wear an apron and sailor outfit which have kindly been made by a women’s group in Linlithgow.

Why not test our knowledge and ask us why we needed to wear special gloves to handle the objects? I wonder how many object we can describe to you?

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Football Latest

Brrrrr! Playing football on a bitterly cold February evening takes a great deal of grit and determination. Bankton PS played Williamston PS earlier tonight. The final score was Williamston 5 Bankton 3. Bankton had lots of opportunities to score and shooting will definitely be a focus at next practice!

Well done to all players and many thanks to the brave, loyal parents who braved the Siberian temperatures. Mrs Murdoch is only just beginning to defrost and get the feeling back in her toes!

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Fabulous Artists

Over the last couple of weeks we have been looking at the story of ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’ in P1a.  This week the children drew out the bears from the story.  Some people decided to draw Daddy Bear using a big piece of paper, some people drew Mummy Bear using a medium sized piece of paper and some people drew baby bear using a small sized piece of paper.  The quality of the art work is outstanding and the pictures look even better now that they are coloured in and have some porridge oats added to them!  We did make a bit of a mess while producing this work but it was definitely worth it for the finished effect.  More pictures to follow when the Goldilocks display is finished………

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