Super work in Primary One!

November 25, 2016 Miss Rodford Leave a comment

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

Primary 2

Book week in P2

November 25, 2016 Miss Edmond 2 Comments

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.

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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.

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

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

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Congratulations to:

Our dojo champion – Olivia

Next week’s superhero – Nathan S

Primary 7

What in earth????

November 25, 2016 Ms Kennedy Leave a comment

Last week p7 in science were investigating the structure of the earth.

We researched the different layers of the earth’s structure.

We found out there are 4 different layers. The inner core is the hottest part of the earth, outer core still extremely hot. Mantle, the thickness of the mantle is 2900km thick and the crust is the thinnest layer. It is the layer we live on and is between 50-60 km thick.

We decided to make plasticine models of the structure of the earth. We even tried to match up the continents on the crust!

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Inside the models they were different colours representing each layer, inner core,outer core, mantle, crust. We cut the models in half to see the inside of the earth.

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This is what it looked like after.

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We made labels from our research that gave information about each layer.

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If you want to learn about each layer, go on the websites we went on…….WHY NOT!?

http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/10h.html

http://www.geography4kids.com/files/earth_composition.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/geography/natural_hazards/tectonic_plates_rev1.shtml

http://www.ngkids.co.uk/science-and-nature/structure-of-the-earth#

http://www.scienceforkidsclub.com/earths-layers.html

http://www.ducksters.com/science/composition_of_the_earth.php

http://www.kidsgeo.com/geology-for-kids/0020-crust-mantel-core.php

or…..if you learn better through music, how about testing your knowledge with this song…

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Book Week at Bankton

November 25, 2016 Mrs Sinclair Leave a comment

Read, Write, Count and P1 Family Bookbugs

We were absolutely delighted to see so many families in Bankton today learning together! The children are very excited about their bags and we are looking forward to hearing about the fun you have with them.

A huge thank you to Jen Harwood from the Scottish Book Trust for coming along today and joining in the fun!!!

Bankton Breakfast Club @ Book Week

We are still having lots of fun reading at breakfast club! This week we have been doing lots of fun activities related to our favourite authors and we even had a prize draw for everyone who took part in activities this week!

And the winners were….

Happy reading, writing and counting!!!!!

Primary 5

Goodbye Mrs Horne

November 25, 2016 User deactivated 1 Comment

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

Primary 6

Primary 6 preparations for St Andrew’s Ceilidh

November 25, 2016 Mrs Murdoch Leave a comment

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Our preparations for our St Andrew’s Day celebrations are underway. All children in Primary 6 are working hard to remember their lines, song words and dancing steps!

We look forward to sharing our learning at the Lanthorn with our cluster schools and also on our family ceilidh night Thursday 1st December 18:30. Tickets are still available!