This week, Primary have been learning a new skills in maths …. Subtraction. We have been using cubes to help us to take away!  In sounds, we have been learning the ng and w sounds! We have also been working on our blending skills by playing bingo and using the racing car tracks to blend the sounds together.

For our topic work we looked at what toys were made of. We felt and sorted different toys and discovered they were made of wood, plastic, metal, foam and fabric!

It was great to see some many parents at the Bool Bug Bag give away day for Scottish book week! We enjoyed sharing our favourite stories from the bag with our parents. We completed lots of different activities based on the stories!

Miss Rodford hopes you all have fun reading the Book Bug Bag stories at home.

Please feel free to leave us a comment about your favourite books and dont foregt to vote for your favourite story on the Scottish Book Trust website! My favourite is  ‘Shark in the Park’!

Well done Primary One

For book week, P2 have been reading ‘Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam’ and ‘Marshall Armstrong is new to our school’.

• Daniel G: ‘Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam are robbers who get a new job and open a café’.
• Caleb: ‘I learnt that you have to always do your best and don’t ever steal or sneak into someone else’s house’.
• Nathan C: ‘I think the Marshall Armstrong book is very good. I learnt that Marshall Armstrong’s friends have been not nice to him at the start. Then they are nice at the end and had a party that they enjoyed together’.
• Lauren: ‘My favourite activity from book week was making a new job for Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam’.
• Fraser: ‘My favourite activity was when we designed our own cake for Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam’s cake shop’

We loved having the P2 adults in class to tell them all about our book week activities. We are so excited to bring our book bags home today to show our adults our brand new books and activities to do at home.

Also this week we have been learning about cold lands for our topic. Cole, Femme and Savannah loved drawing penguins following each step carefully. Kian and Robbie enjoyed sticking the animals from around the world in the correct climate on a world map.

In art, Kalan learnt how to make positive and negative shapes.

This week our number talks master was Robbie who did a super job of asking P2 to make double strategies.

Congratulations to:

Our dojo champion – Olivia

Next week’s superhero – Nathan S

P5 had a very sad goodbye today to an important member of the Bankton family! Mrs Horne is leaving us for a whole new adventure.

P5 has some special things to say:

“She was always very kind” Jack

“I will miss you and hope to see you again!” Louise

“She was a very funny teacher and in P2 all the lessons were very fun!” Isabel

Thankyou for all your hard work Mrs Horne we will miss you lots!

Love from P5 and Miss Lovett xxx