P6/7 have been learning about how media affects food sales. Xander commented that some fizzy juices can clean coins. From this we decided to set up a class experiment. We put a couple of dirty coppers into a bottle of fizzy juice in the morning and when they took them out at the end of the day they were sparkling!! Look at the results….
We loved our parents and families coming in to see how we learn in Maths today for our PAT PAL event. We taught them all about Number Talks, Suduko, Play Live on the laptops and games that we play in class to help our mental maths such as I Am Who Is.
“I found it interesting to see how the parents worked out Number Talks!” Ben
“It was good that parents got to see how we learn and develop our skills.” Niomi
“I liked how that parents were all joining in and showing us how they used to work out sums.” Laurie-Anne
We have had a busy week in P2/3 this week. In maths we have been continuing our work on using arrays and groups of to create repeated addition and multiplication sums. We have been working out all the sums in the 2 times table. Next week we look forward to continuing this work and developing our skills to help us share equally.
We have used our numeracy skills to help us complete a Roman timeline for our Romans topic. We even learned that Rome was being built nearly 3000 years ago!
We are all very proud of our performers who said their poems in front of the whole school (having only had a short time to rehearse!)
Well done girls!
We look forward to hearing everyone perform in class next week.
P6/7 enjoyed watching Andy and Wendy tell us all about Robert Burns.
“We particularly liked acting out Tam O Shanter.” Andrew
Two people from each class were selected this week to recite a Scots poem at Burns Day Assembly. Xander and Jonathon did us proud!
“It was nerve racking but we did well!” Xander
We have a new class novel linked to our World War Two topic. It’s called Billy the Kid by Michael Morpurgo. We used our class voting station to vote for this book.
“It was sad at the beginning but it’s really good.” Gary
We learned how to do sudoku this week in Maths.
“I struggled at first but then I got the hang of it.” Calan
We have also been multiplying and dividing decimals in Maths.
“It was confusing at the start but now I get it.” Emma.P
We created a timeline of the events leading up to the start of WW2. We are also keeping a floorbook of our journey through the topic.
“It took us a while to make notes about all the facts but once we had them all it was easy to sort out the order.” Findlay
This week, P1/2 have been showing off their addition skills! The boys and girls have been working hard finding all the different number stories of 4 and 5. We have used lots of different strategies to help us do this like using our fingers, cubes and magnets! We have spotted a pattern with the number stories! Can you spot it too? There are 3 number stories of 2, 4 number stories of 3, 5 number stories of 4 and 6 number stories of 5! We have also been practising our money skills and have been using different coins to pay for items. Lots of fantastic independent work has been carried out this week and Mrs Lloyd is very proud of everyone!
Thank you to all the parents who were able to attend our bitesize reading sessions this week. It was great to have you there and the children really enjoyed showing off their skills!
Well done to all the boys and girls who stood up in front of the class and managed to say their Scottish poem this week. Mrs Lloyd had trouble narrowing it down to four finalists – well done to Chloe, Brooklyn, Olivia and Tobi. It was a hard decision choosing the final two people who stood up in front of the whole school at assembly to recite their poems – well done to Olivia and Tobi – you represented P1/2 really well and made us all proud.
On Thursday, we listened to the story called ‘The Disgusting Sandwich’ and used this to help us make some disgusted faces in our art work.
Finally, Mr Wedlock and Mr Evans made an appearance during maths this week when they decided to have their own number talk during independent maths work time. Great job boys!
It’s been another fun and very busy week. Keep up the good work!
This week, Primary One have been impressing Miss Rodford with their adding skills! We have been working hard finding different ways to make 4 and 5. We have been using our fingers, cubes and singing number stories songs!
Did you know that there are 6 ways to make 5?
We have also been working using different coins to pay for items.
Well done to Hannah and Jamie Wilkie who were very brave a stood up in front of the whole school to recite the Scottish poems that we have been learning.
On Thursday, we listened to the story called ‘The disgusting Sandwich’ and thought about when we have felt the emotion disgusted!
‘I feel disgusting when I eat Mayo’ Kayla
We also made super disgusted faces out of paper!
Super work Primary One!!!!
The RRS team are going to organising a fund raiser for UNICEF on the 6th of February!
It is called ‘A Day for Change’
Our challenge is simply to collect as much loose change as possible. Taking part is this fundraiser is an opportunity to teach our children about nutrition and raise vital funds to help keep hungry children around the world safe and healthy.
The children only need to come in dressed in blue and bring in £1.00!
During the day, children will be finding out more about nutrition and UNICEF as a charity.
Where will the donations go ….
Article 24
You have the right to the best health care possible,
safe water to drink, nutritious food, a
clean and safe environment, and information
to help you stay well.
Please help Bankton to raise as much money as possible !!!
The nursery children had lots of celebrating Rabbie Burns today and even had a special snack.
This week the afternoon children took part in the RSPB Big School Bird Watch. They visited the local woods and recorded what types of birds they saw.
Another busy week in P1/2. This week we have been working on our growth mindset and have been talking about our brains and how they grow when we are learning. We know that making ‘marvellous mistakes’ is good as mistakes help us to learn.
In maths this week we have been practising adding money and buying items in Mrs Lloyd’s shop – ‘Lloyd’s Local!’. We have also been learning the addition and subtraction number stories of 2 and 3 e.g. 2+1 =3, 3-2 =1. We have been thinking about different strategies and have been using these to complete our work e.g. using number lines, our fingers and cubes.
In literacy, we gave out reading books and the boys and girls have been very excited about taking these home to read with their families! P1/2 are really looking forward to their families coming in to see our reading work on Tuesday!! We also started our reading routes work this week where we work in groups to complete different reading tasks. We predicted what a story might be about using the illustration on the front cover as a clue. Some of the children managed to predict correctly and everyone worked well in their groups. In sounds we have been building sentences on our velcro boards and have been practising blending our sounds together to read and find words. We have also been working on generating rhyming words from some stories that we have read. How many words can you think of that rhyme with _og?
After finding a letter and footprints in our class last week we wrote a letter to Sir Helpalot to tell him that we want to help him rebuild Fairyland and his castle and have worked hard to make leaves to help build a beanstalk for Jack. The beanstalk is up but we are hoping the giant does not make any surprise appearances in our classroom!
Finally, P1/2 were the winners of the Goblet of Good Manners trophy today and were so proud of themselves for showing everyone their good manners all week.
Keep up the good work boys and girls and remember to persevere and not give up when you are finding things a little bit tricky!
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