Today the morning children visited the Froggy Pond to look for Tadpoles but sadly we could not see any.
They had great fun playing in the woods just before the Froggy Pond
And even managed races on the BMX track before climbing up the big hill.
Well done to Mrs Stewart and Mrs Ferguson for winning a well deserved star of the week! Â
All of the staff and children at Bankton wanted to say a huge ‘THANK YOU’ for everything that you do every day to make Bankton Primary School a very special school to learn and work in!
You are a true stars!!!
P2 had a very exciting start to the week when a box arrived in our classroom from Buzzy Bee. It had lots of objects inside like tomato sauce, beans, flowers and honey. Buzzy taught us about how these objects linked to bees through pollination.
Olivia: ‘pollination is when bees collect nectar from the flowers and the pollen sticks to their fur. Then they go on to another flower and the pollen drops on to the flower and it makes new seeds’.
Here is a picture of us drinking our ‘nectar’ and collecting ‘pollen’ when we landed on our flowers.
We learnt that because there aren’t as many wild flowers as there used to be, bees can’t pollinate as they used to and are becoming endangered.
Ben: ‘Bees are becoming endangered because of habitat destruction’.
P2 decided that we would help bees by planting some new seeds to grow into flowers for the bees to pollinate.
We enjoyed spending time outside with P1, P1/2 and P2/3 this week learning lots of new skills and showed excellent team work on the tyres and trim trail!
P1/2 have done themselves proud this week as they were able to talk to our special visitors about their learning with great confidence.
In maths, we worked on finding lots of different ways to make 10. Â We used rekenreks, cubes, bead strings, numicon and much more!
We have also been learning how to read and set half past times on analogue clocks. Â Â This has been tricky but we will practise this again next week and will remember that our marvellous mistakes help us learn! Â We particularly enjoyed designing and making our own watches with our brilliant parent helper Ms Graham. Â Thank You!
During our reading routes work this week we used our question words to make up questions that would help us to find out more about pirate ships. Â We came up with some really good questions to help us learn even more!
We were astonished when we received a message from Captain Blackbeard asking for our help! He wants us to make a raft to help him to get back to his ship so we wrote back to say we will help him.
As we continue to work through our pirate topic, we had fun again out in the structured play area. Â We enjoyed dressing up as pirates, playing with the small pirate ships, hunting for tricky word treasure, building a pirate ship/treasure chest with the lego and lots more!
Thanks also to Chloe’s gran who came in to read to the boys and girls again this week. Â We love having your in our classroom.
Finally, we enjoyed the lovely weather yesterday by spending lots of time practising our co-operation and kindness values as we played and helped each other outside. It was so much fun!
We played on the new trim trail.
We enjoyed starting our Bankton marathon and completed our first half mile!
We had fun on the tyre park.
We also enjoyed reading in the sun with the new comfy cushions! Â It was the best day ever!
Keep up the good work!
A lesson we will never forget!
This week Primary One have been busy learning about ways to make 10. We were lucky enough to share our super learning with some special visitors who were very impressed with our maths!
We have also been learning how to tell the time to half past! This has been tricky but we are going to use our Growth Mindset and keep trying!
We have also been learning how to write questions to find out more information.
We also got a surprise note from Captian Blackbeard asking for our help! He wants us to make a raft to help him to get back to his ship so we wrote back to say we would love to help him.
Finally, as a treat for working so hard this week, we spent some time outside playing on the new trim trail and the tyre park! It was so much fun!.
Well done Primary One
P1/2 have been working hard in maths this week.  We have been working on a pirate maths task which involved us in recording results in a tally chart which we then used to make a bar chart.  We also worked on estimating the length of some objects before measuring them with cubes and lolly sticks.  While doing all of this we also revised our number stories to 9 and used lots of different materials to help us do this!
In Science, we learnt about living things, non-living things and things that were once alive. Â We practised our co-operations skills and worked in groups to cut out pictures and sort them under the correct headings. Â We also looked at the life cycle of a chicken and worked in teams to create super lifecycle pictures!
We finished off our super detailed pirate portraits and had fun in the structured play area where we were creative at the art table, played with the pirate ships and pretended to be pirates burying treasure!
Keep up the good work me hearties!!
This week, Primary One have been learning to sort, make tally carts and organise their results into a barchart. We have also been practising our measuring skills. We used different items such as cubes or lolly pop sticks to measure different pieces of Pirate treasure!
In Science, we learnt about things were alive, not alive and once alive. We worked in groups to cut out pictures and sort them into groups. We also looked at the life cycle of a chicken!
Again, we had to work in groups to draw and label the four different stages of a chicken life.
Well done Primary One!
The nursery children had the opportunity to wear their pyjamas to nursery to promote The Big Bedtime Read. We visited the library where the children choose 2 books to take home and they listened to stories back in the nursery.
The children had lots of fun playing in their pyjamas.
