This week in P6….

P6 had great fun at their St Andrews Day Ceilidh on Monday night. Many thanks to all those who attended.

“We got revenge on our parents for making us tidy our room and making us eat shepherds pie by making them join in ceilidh dances!!”  Alex P6

“It was fun singing on the stage.”  Kalanah P6

“My Mum almost threw me into the crowd when we were dancing!” Euan P6

We started writing a Christmas book for children in the nursery. Watch our blog next week for an update on this.

We learnt all about the Learning Pit with Mrs Hocknull on Friday. It helps us learn and gives us strategies when we don’t know what to do.

Shopping for Santa!

The nursery went for a walk to The Centre to buy a present for Santa.  We saw lots of different decorations and stopped at the big Christmas tree to have our photo taken.

We were so proud of all of the children as lots of people stopped us to comment on how well behaved they were.

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St Andrew’s Day Ceilidh Event

What a busy week for P6! Monday evening saw us present our annual ceilidh event. The children presented their learning about who St Andrew was, how he became a saint and what we can be proud about Scotland for. We sang ‘Caeledonia’, ‘Half the World Away’ and a firm favourite ‘500 miles’. Witnesses did see Mrs Stewart reach for he hankies but this is still to be confirmed!

After our presentation we showcased our highland dancing – then invited our parents and carers to join in. It was really good fun and we received lots of positive feedback from everyone!

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Competition Winners!

Congratulations to our anti-bullying / kindness week competition winners! Everyone worked hard to create high quality posters to celebrate our positive attitudes towards kindness. Mrs Stewart had a VERY difficult job but decide she did…

Well done to Beth Kinroy P6, Amy McMillan P6, Eilidh Gray P7a & Emese Gupcsi P7a!

Your posters will soon be on their way to the printers to become banners which will hang proudly @ Bankton.

 

 

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P4 and the Learning Pit

P4 have been very busy learning all about the Learning Pit. The Learning Pit is a process that you go through when you are learning. We made our own mini pits and discussed how we were feeling on the way down to the bottom of ‘the pit’ then strategies we could use to help us learn and climb out of ‘the pit’.

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We will be using these strategies every day in class when we are stuck with our learning.

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“The Learning Pit is when you can struggle when you are learning and it makes you feel bad. The Pit helps you learn more and gives you ways to keep going.”  Josh P4

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The Learning Pit helps you use strategies to help you get out of the Pit. I feel happy at the top.”   Brooke P4