Dyslexia Awareness Week 2015

This week the children at Bankton are looking at how we support all our learners in the classroom.  We are looking at our displays and Helps Boxes to see how we can use these to help us when we get stuck.   Some of the older children are learning about what dyslexia is and are talking about how we all learn in different ways and how we all find different things difficult.

We are also learning some cool facts

Over 50% of the people who work at NASA are reported to have dyslexia.  This is because they are excellent problem solvers and work well with 3D images!  The sky holds no limits when you can venture into space!!!

The government GCQH employs more than 100 dyslexic staff to work on anti-terrorism projects as they are able to analyse data and crack codes in a way that others can’t.

Famous Dyslexics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_qGJ9svUbM

We think dyslexia is a certainly a gift!!!

Find out more about dyslexia:

http://www.dyslexiascotland.org.uk/

The P7 writing group have been working very hard today and have collaborated to produce this amazing piece of writing.  We hope you like it!

The Tsunami

Everywhere I look, the landscape has been taken over with rubbish, rats and blood stains.

My fists are locked with anger because this wave has destroyed my life.

The air is filled with sounds of other people’s screams and cries.

There is a disgusting smell of sewage all around me.

The most important things in my life have gone!

Written by
Wiktoria, Glenn, Ryan, Barry, Ben, Liam and Scott

Welcome to our ‘Friends Around the World Thursday Club!’

Each week we have a lunch time club on a Thursday for our children who have come from different parts of the globe with English as an additional language. We support each other and have lots of fun playing and learning English together.

Over the last 2 weeks we have been learning about colours, and today we decorated some colourful biscuits to eat! They were yummy!!

This week the children loved reading our stories The Short-Sighted Giraffe and Giraffes Can’t Dance.  We loved making our own peg giraffes too!!!

This week we read The Very Hungry Caterpillar and made our own caterpillars to take home!

This week the boys did exceptionally well and built an amazing Starwars Vehicle.  They were very focussed on working well as a team and using good instructions to complete the task.

I was very proud of their achievements – Great work boys!!!!

This week at Book Club, we had a giggle reading the story ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’.   We then had fun designing a splendid outfit for him to wear that everyone would be sure to see!!!

The children have had great fun today using our new phonics phones.  They really loved hearing  their voices as they sounded out words and everyone agreed that they helped them with their reading!

The children gave them a fantastic 5 out of 5!

A great success!!!

The book club really enjoyed our pancake theme yesterday.

We read the story Mr Wolf’s Pancakes, and we all agreed that Mr Wolf was rather greedy!!

We then took the ‘Pancake Flipping Challenge’, where we had 30 seconds to flip a pancake as many times as we could (it was quite hard)!!!

Finally, we settled down to read some books and ate some delicious pancakes! Yummy!!!