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Harvesting in P1

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This week, Primary One have learnt all about harvesting. We had a good at harvesting potatoes, carrots and parsnips from the school vegetable patch.

Harvest is when you dig, chop and pick fruit and veg to be eaten – Kayla

We harvested carrots – Summer

We havested parsnips – Sarah.

We all thought that this was great fun and will be sharing our learning with the children in St Julian’s Primary School!

We also looked at different words we could use for the emotions happy, sad, angry and scared. We read the story of the Owl Babies to help us to come up with different words …

Summer – terrified is a another word for scared

Hannah – Cheerful is another word for happy

In maths, we have been impressing Miss Rodford with our number talks strageties and are getting really good at recognising 10 frame patterns. In sounds, we learnt the ‘o’ sound and have been starting to blend on our mouth part boards.

As it was International Language day on Monday, we learnt alittle bit about France and thier culture. We also enjoyed a super French lesson on Friday. We learnt how to count up to 10, to introduce ourselves and animal names!

Well done Primary 1

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Primary 7

P7 Absolutely Amazing Athletics

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Yesterday primary 7 went to Craigshill Leisure Centre to take part in the annual cluster sports day.108

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In these pictures we are doing the relay races.We were to run up to a cone then run behind our teams,then back to the front and pass the baton.

Katie says “We came second and third in the final races.”

Deacon says “It was amazing and fun!”

Beth K says “It was entertaining.”

In these pictures below we are doing the standing long jump

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We were to stand behind a line and jump as far as we could and try to get as high a score as we could.

Overall, we had a fantastic day.  It was a good opportunity to for teamwork and communication with the people in our class.

Blogged by Euan McCreadie and James Hyland

 

 

Primary 1, Primary 2

Busy Bees in P1/2

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This week in literacy P1/2 have explored the vowel house story and have been practising putting the pictures into the right order.  The vowel sounds are black because they are tunnel sounds and you have to open your mouth really wide like a tunnel to say them properly.  Parents – please have a look in the useful documents section of the blog for details of the story so that you can join in and support your child.

We have also began to use the mouth part boards to begin to sound out some words and to spell them using the mouth parts.  Mrs Lloyd was very impressed!

In maths, we have been enjoying our number talks and are continuing to work on our hand signals and on explaining how we worked out our answers.  We have been looking at ten frames and dot patterns and are continuing to work on finger patterns and counting accurately.

In our topic work we have began to learn about harvest.  We had a look at the market garden in school and saw some of the vegetables that are growing at Bankton including carrots, parsnips and potatoes.  Next week, we are looking forward to working with Miss Campbell to get digging and to harvest some of the vegetables.

Primary 1, Primary 2

P1/2 Go Dotty!

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Today, P1/2 read Ten Black Dots by Donald Crews.  The children then worked independently to choose the number of black dots that they wanted to use in their pictures and then created a masterpiece around their dots.  We were all very impressed and enjoyed looking at all the pieces of work and talking about how many dots had been used.  Let us know what you think – try leaving us a comment!

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Home learning in Numeracy @ Bankton PS

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As discussed on our Parents as learning Partners event I have uploaded our new Parental Support Booklet to the Useful Documents Section of the Blog. This is the first of this year’s series of Parent Support Booklets. Look out over the course of the year for I spend, I save (Financial Education) I solve (Problem Solving Strategies) I count (Number talks) and I love Maths (Growth Mindset).

Working together in partnership we CAN make a difference to our children’s attainment in Numeracy.

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Family Learning Event @ Bankton PS

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imageimageimageimageMrs Sinclair, Support for Learning Teacher, hosted another highly successful Support for Learning Showcase Event today in Bankton.

35 Parents and their children participated in a Family Learning Event to share strategies and resources and how these can be used at home.

Parents were very positive about our family learning programme saying that Mrs. Sinclair had made it easy for them to support their children at home.

A special ‘Well Done!’ to our pupils who acted as ‘expert learners’ explaining resources & strategies to their parents.

Invitations for 1-1 Tutorials will be sent out soon.

Primary 1, Primary 2

Wonderful Workers in P1/2

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Well done to all the children in P1/2 who have been working very hard this week.  In maths, we have been working on patterns and have tried to complete some patterns as well as creating our own.  Take a look!

We have also been trying hard to work out one more and one less, we have explored spot patterns and ten frames and have practised counting carefully to ten.  Mrs Lloyd thinks we are getting really good at this!

We enjoyed our weekly visit to the school library where we choose a book to take home and looked for some of the sounds that we’ve been learning inside our books.  We found loads!  P1/2 go to the library every Thursday so please try to remember to bring your book back on this day so that you can swap it for a new one

Enjoy your weekend boys and girls – more fun learning coming your way next week!