Morning Nursery Shape Walk

May 13, 2016 Miss Rae Leave a comment

This morning the children went a walk to the Froggy pond and were looking for 3d shape on the way. There are some photos of below of the shapes we found.

The children noticed lots of litter on the Waverly path going towards the Froggy pond and we talked about how we could try and stop this. They came up with making signs or putting in bins.

The children managed to observe some tadpoles from the Froggy pond even although the water was so dirty.

Primary 7

Suspicion and suspense in P7a…..

May 13, 2016 Ms Kennedy Leave a comment

In P7a this week, we have been writing in the mystery genre. We talked about features in a mystery genre such as red herrings, suspense, tension, clues and another word for a detective which is is a sleuth. After discussion, we realised that mystery writing is all about making the reader ask questions and then only answering them bit by bit. An animation we all watched together generated a lot of questions, just as a mystery story should! Why don’t you watch it and leave us a comment with the questions it made you ask?

We wanted to share some of our mystery writing with you…

Stewart: “The top of the gang was an eminence grise. He would not listen to the gang, perhaps only on occasion.”

Fraser: “I went to the toilet but I forgot to look at the sign. The toilet was out of order. I was too late. I heard the door click shut and then it locked…”

Robbie: ” Lying on the floor was the innocent body of Ashley, the woman who I normally work with. She had brutal injuries. I heard a thud…”

Amber:”I went looking for him but he had already disappeared…”

Ellis: “No car was in sight. Everything was conventional but a for file in among all the garbage. All it had in it was rent, payment and bills. I took it just in case.”

P7a Blog written this week by Ellis Sherwood.

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P4/5

May 13, 2016 Mr Herman Leave a comment

Today was a very exciting day, as our P4’s went swimming at Excite Pool. It was a lot of fun and we all did very well. We all went in small groups to assess our swimming with different styles of stroke.
In maths we worked on pictographs and bar charts. We made our own bar charts and work on answering some questions about them online. Some of us went outside to collect data for our bar charts.
On Tuesday we had a special guest called Liam Davie, who was a gymnast that compete in the Commonwealth Games. We had an assembly with him and the children who raised money were awarded prizes.
In science we predicted that whoever had the biggest hand would pick the most stones. Our results were all mixed up because some people with big hands got a few stones and others with smaller hands got a lot of stones.
This week we used our notes about castle weapons to make information posters. We also finished up our Coat of Arms.
Lastly we have started our CEM tests, so please wish us luck!

Primary 2

P2 loved meeting Liam Davie!

May 13, 2016 Miss Edmond Leave a comment

On Tuesday, Commonwealth medallist Liam Davie came to Bankton Primary school to host a fundraising event. The children competed in 4 activities: spotty dogs, leg drives, press ups and star jumps.

Harvey: ‘It was really cool to exercise’

Aiyasha: ‘We asked Liam Davie questions like “how do you win a trophy?”

Logan: ‘The exercising was fun. My favourite activity was spotty dogs’.

Jodie: ‘I liked the press ups the best’