The James Young Cluster Schools have made a successful bid for funding for a polliNATION project to plant wildflower meadows to attract pollinators such as bees and butterflies.
Children from all four schools met in Williamston Primary for a celebration photograph. We are all looking forward to saving our bees.
Many thanks to Ben Mason and Emma Colligan for representing Bankton.
P.7 were commended today for their exemplary behaviour at Benmore by Mrs Gardyne, Headteacher of Ormiston Primary School in East Lothian. Staff and pupils of Ormistom Primary were at Benmore at the same time as pupils and staff at Bankton. They said that our staff were friendly and made their stay at Benmore a happy team working experience. Our pupils were commended as polite, respectful and kind to others.
The following boys were given a special mention by Ormiston staff as ‘ campers of the week’:
Glenn Love, Kyle Bailey, Billy Drummond, Robbie Colvin and Ben Mason.
Well Done boys – you are officially Bankton ‘ambassadors’!
P4 were set a homework challenge as part of their Literature Circle for Reading to create some kind of illustration to present to their group and to explain how it linked to their group novel.
Pupils could choose from a cartoon, character map, storyboard, 3D model, colour/mood chart….or something else of their choice! Their task was to be creative!
Look at the fab results….
Well done P4!
The Primary Sevens have had a very productive week continuing their WW2 project.
We have made Anderson Shelters – Well Done Cassie, Emma and Liam who had the winning model.
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It was a hard decision for Mrs Stewart and Mrs Murdoch as all of the models were excellent!! Look out for them on display in school.
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We have also been learning about Morse code, and have been trying very hard to decipher messages by listening to the beeps and dashes, which has proven to be very difficult! .-/… -.–/—/..- -.-./.-/-. …/./.
We have been looking at the different types of aircraft used in WW2 and investigated the markings on the planes. Did you know that the Spitfire can fly at 584 km/h!!! Amazing!
We even found some time for some war time baking!
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As well as all of this the P7 have been a great help to Mrs Stewart, Alex and the Nursery to P3 classes with all of the help they have offered them! So much so, we won the goblet of good manners this week!! Great job!!!
We finished the week with a film quiz! Won by Steven, Katie and Stephanie – with full marks no less!!! And a bit of well deserved R&R with a film and pop corn!!
In Language this week P4 have been learning how an author uses statements, questions and exclamation marks to create interest when reading. We used our knowledge of this to write our own Growth Mindset statements. The challenge was to include at least one statement, one question and one exclamation mark. Here are some of them below….
Mistakes are good! I can always learn more. Learning is good. I can’t do this….YET! I keep trying. Did you know this means I have a Growth Mindset?
By Jack and Coben
A Growth Mindset is when you never give up. Do you have a Growth Mindset? I can’t do it YET!
By Zoe and Alfie
Do you give up easily? Why do you give up? Never give up! Always add a YET!
By Carlos and Josh
P4 and P4/5 have been learning about Electricity this week. We have been making circuits and testing different materials to see if they are insulators or conductors. We learnt that materials that conduct electricity lit the light bulb.
This Monday to Friday, seven girls from P6 are raising money for Cancer Research. They will be painting nails, creating a range of hairstyles and selling temporary tattoos! All money raised will help people with Breast Cancer. Watch this space for more information….
Josh won a medal for saving lots of goals at his friend’s football party. Well done Josh!
This week we have been doing lots of work on rhyming and have been finding rhyming words in books we are reading as well as trying to make some of our own rhyming words.
So put down your book and take a look!!!
This week we have had lots of fun practicing handball. We have played lots of different little games to improve our skills, and we even had a few secondary school students in to help us. We also had fun starting a weaving project for our castle topic. Liam found this very hard, while Aiden did quite well at it! Carla found it quite easy and she is excited to do more. We had fun picking out information for our posters, although some of us found this to be very time consuming. The posters are looking great. Fractions have been coming along very well in maths with a few children even calling it ‘easy’. Lastly Chloe McFarlane was our star of the week for being very helpful to others, well done Chloe!
