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
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
Poundland Pedagogy has come to Bankton! At the start of the month all teachers were gifted an item from Poundland and set the challenge to use it creatively in their teaching. Look how far a pound can go……
Paper plates were used as a stimulus for pupils to draw themselves trapped in a snowglobe for creative writing.
A folding basket was used to create a Nativity scene.
A bin was used for pupil voice to vote for the class star of the week.
Wooden spoons used for a creative thinking task.
A table cloth was used to create a reading den.
Balloons were used during a reading session where pupils were to ask different types of Blooms questions related to their book depending on what type of balloon they caught.
What creative teachers we have at Bankton
Written by Xander, P6
This week the P6s went to Bubble Gum and Fluff and made tile pictures. You could make a candle, a present or a stable design. We had great fun!
We also had a medal winner this week! Gary won a rosette for an amazing piece of artwork at his old school. He received it in the post. There was great excitement!
In Science we made a rock cycle out of starbursts. First we chopped the starburst into tiny pieces then stuck them all back together. Then we put it in a bag and flattened it in the bag and melted it.
We have been learning about fractions in Maths. Some of us made fraction animals, here’s a picture of one.
We also had generational learning Number Talks homework. We all thought it was fun to do to see how our families work out sums in their head. The results were all different!
We played a game called Blooms Balloons today in our reading groups. We had to catch a balloon and ask the type of Blooms question written on it
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We have been practising hard to learn all the words for our carol service and our sing-a-long on Wednesday afternoon. P6/7 are singing All I Want for Christmas. We filmed us in action and have entered a competition with other schools in West Lothian. The video with the most views wins!! We will find out on Wednesday if we have won!
P6/7 wishes you all a nice Christmas!
This post was written by Erin and Abbie in P6/7
On Friday we went to Bible world and we did a lot of fun things. There was an aeroplane section where we sat in aeroplane seats and there was a screen in front of us . We had to fill in the blank spaces by finding the answers from the short films we watched.
There was also a music section, library section and an old printing press where we had to twist the handles to press the ink onto the paper.
It was amazing!!!
Written by Findlay and Ben, P6/7
Today we had a PATPAL session in p6/7. There were lots of different activities such as bank statements, a shop and an interior designer task. We invited parents to see what we have been learning about money. We also had a comment board to see what parents thought of our learning. We all greatly appreciate you coming to see us. We all think that we all did very well.
“Thank you all very much for coming to our PAT PAL morning. Everybody in P6/7 says thank you for coming and hope you had fun.” Andrew Hunter
“I would like to greatly thank everybody who showed up our PATPAL morning in p6/7. Everybody is extremely grateful and thankful for everything because you really encouraged us to do maths. Ben Torres
“PATPALS IS SUPER!!”
Written by Andrew and Jonathan, P6/7 
We have been doing negative numbers in maths. Some people were working with Mrs Riley to do 
mental maths games and some were playing games on the smartboard.
We also got a reading chart home and when you read a book you mark it down on the day you read something then you need to write down your favourite book, then if you hand it in you 
get 10 dojo points.
Today we had very special visitors to talk to us about how we are all unique. They gave us potatoes and we had to write a life story and give the potato a name, then we got to decorate it. It was very funny! Then we had to try and identify our potato.
This has been a short week but we have been very busy in P6/7.
This week we took part in the Worlds Largest Lesson. We have been looking at goal 14 -life on land, and 15 – life below water. We took a quiz about ourselves to see what amimal we are more like. Some were tigers,elephants, rosewood tree, orangatan, rhino, helmeted hornbill, pangolin but sadly no sea turtles.
We also did P.E with Mrs Murdoch we practised our ball skills.
We had a French lesson about different sports and movements…in French!
Written by Ceana and Emma.S
This week the star of the week was Eric McLeod. Andrew also got Vice Captain for the house. Dojo champion was Emma Passmore.
Written by Rory and Craig
Well done P6/7. You have been fantastic learners this week.
Mrs Hocknull and Mrs Murdoch
