Bankton Primary now have a team of Fantastic Fundraisers!

Our team are from primary 4 – 7 and are:

P4:

Hannah B

Amy

P4/5

Chloe

Baillie

Emma

Cody

P5

Amy

Ewen

Rehan

P5/6

Emma S

Emma

Ceana

Neve

P6

Alex

Ciara

Niamh

P7a

Amber

Katie

Cassidy

P7b

Sophie

Wiktoria

 

For our first fundraising challenge, we are raising money for a charity that supports orphans in Kenya, and helps support them through school. It is an amazing charity that aims to ‘give kids in Kenya a chance.’

More information can be found here:

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Did you know Mo Farah was wearing one of the charity bracelets on television?! We will be supporting the children in this orphanage too!

We will keep you posted about the fundraising events that will be taking place this term including our:

•  Going on Safari Dress Down Day-Friday 16th October
• African Art Competition– Entries will be from home and will cost 50p. There will be a winner selected from each class and as well as a prize…the winning pieces of art work will be taken to the orphanage in Kenya to share with the children there!
• Book Sale– On Wednesday 14th October we will be holding a book sale. If you have lots of books at home, in good condition that you would like to donate, please start to bring these into school for the Fantastic Fundraisers to collect.
• Pin the tail on the giraffe– STARTING SOON! 20p a go at playtimes and lunchtimes. Winners will be given a raffle ticket and small prize. One overall winner will be selected on the dress down day.

The Fantastic Fundraisers are already extremely excited about the work they are involved in, so if you have any questions don’t hesitate to ask any members of the team!

Some of them have even offered  to dedicate some play times and lunch times to get everything organised and are keen to get to work!

We will keep you posted!

The Fundraising Team

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Primary 5 have been extremely busy, working hard on our topic-Wish You Were Here…– We are learning about Scotland’s landscapes and how they were formed. So far, we have learned about how rivers and mountains were formed and have used internet research and note taking skills to help us to learn. We have made a model river with tissue paper, which we have clearly labelled. We have created beautiful paintings of these landscapes too.

Our new science topic this term is life on Earth and this week we have been learning why it is important to classify living things.  We looked at lots of pictures of animals and discussed how we could classify these. We looked at the characteristics that could be used to classify dogs if we had to explain this to an alien visiting our planet!

 

During RME we have been researching famous saints and exploring the stories of how they were given this title. So far we have used drama and art to summarise the main points of these stories. We will be moving on to consider what qualities are important to be considered a good person and consider who would qualify as a modern day saint.

Please keep checking the blog to follow our learning!

 

Mrs Lough & P5a

Welcome back to Primary 5 with Mrs Lough.

We are all very excited about all of the wonderful things we have ahead of us this year!

Here are some of our thoughts:

‘It’s going to be a great year!’ Lana

‘It’s going to be awesome!’ Jade

‘We are going to be learning lots of new things.’ Abbie

‘It’s going to be fun this year.’ Alexander

‘It’s going to be a happy year!’ Daniel

‘I am looking forward to writing this year.’ Karolina

‘I am looking forward to new topics!’ Sophie 

‘I am really looking forward to science.’ Josh

‘I’m looking forward to the trips!’ Casey (and Mrs Lough!!)

So, stay tuned for exciting updates from primary 5 this year!

We have been carrying out a lot of research for our castles topic. This week we researched different parts of the castle  and worked in groups to produce posters about what we have learned. We had to make sure that we make sure that everyone participated and supported each other with this task. It was important to listen to the ideas of everyone in the group and we all had different roles to perform. The posters are very informative and also have bright, colourful sketches too.

In maths we have started to look at time. We made our own analogue clocks, which we have been using for lots of fun time games and we have looked at o’clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to times. We know that there are 24 hours in a day and that we use am and pm to help us too.

The title of our imaginative writing task this week was A Princess in Peril and we had to make sure that it had a clear beginning, middle and end. Everyone worked hard to make sure that they included VCOP in their work.

Today we had a Fairtrade assembly about bananas. We learned about the journey of the banana from farms to stores and the important people who are involved in making this happen.

‘I learned that in the Great Hall table cloths were made out of different materials.’ Katie

‘I have learned about the dungeons because there were no pillows and there were no lights.’ Daryl

‘I learned that a dungeon is  a small, airless cell.’ Kalanah

‘ I leanred that am is in the morning and that pm is after noon until midnight.’ Conner

‘I learned that dungeons were undergroud.’ Beth M

‘We listened to the bible story of Jacob and Esau and htat God was angry with Esau for giving up his birthright so easily.’ Alex

‘Esau got his name becuase that was their word for red and he was red and hairy when he was born.’ Laurie-Anne

‘ We worked in partners to research and sequence the steps to becoming a knight.’ Ciara

Primary 4

This week we have been learning about the different jobs that were required in a castle. There could be as many as 150 servants working in a castle. We researched the different duties servants had and also considered the skills that an individual would need to carry out the job properly. We wrote a job advert for some of these jobs. We also made a collage of the different servants of the castle.

We had a visit from Mrs Ferguson, during our writing time and she was very impressed with our hard work!

Today we had a fantastic Scottish Assembly, where our classmates performed poems, songs and played musical instruments. It was super!

In maths we have been learning about arrays and have explored the different ways we can lay out counters in rows and columns. Our work in arrays has helped us to calculate the area of a shape.

‘I have learned that arrays can help us with area.’ James

‘I learned that knights at the age of seven went to a castle and had to train for fourteen years to become a knight.’ Jaime

‘I have learned that the Easter bunny doesn’t give the eggs for nothing.’ Kian

‘The Easter egg shows us how the rock went away from the cave and we roll eggs.’ Emma

‘I have learned about Christianity and Judaism. The Jewish one believes in God and not Jesus.’ Daryl

‘Christianity and Judaism have some differences and similarities. Christians think the founder was Jesus.’ Euan

‘I have learned in Christianity they have a Good Friday. They call it Good Friday because Jesus did a good thing and then he died.’ Conner

Thank you for reading and please leave us a comment!

Primary 4