P6/7 would like to invite you to come along to ‘Meet the Teacher’ on Thursday 15th of September at 6.30pm. There will be a reward of 15 extra minutes break time on Friday for the class with the highest percentage of parents there on the night. We would greatly appreciate it if you come along to ‘Meet the Teacher’.
Thank You.
By Ben & Cynthia
This post has been written by our ‘Bloggers of the Week’ – Findlay and Gabriel.
This week we have finished our Learning Pits. Here is an example by Emma.P and Cynthia. This gives you strategies when you are stuck with your learning.
Guess who won the Dojo points? Its was Niomi with a spectacular 44 points!!!
Xander won star of the week for having a growth mindset.
In Number Talks we learned loads of new strategies in mental maths like making a friendly number.
Our reading homework was to do an illustrator task using a book we have read. They were all really spectacular. Here are some 
This week in health and wellbeing we are learning about the green cog. The green cog is behaviours. We used the movie Inside Out. We drew around some P1s for the outline of the characters. We added behaviour words to them. 
That’s all from us. See you next week….
This week’s blog below is written by Niomi and Laurie-Anne (P6/7). Each week we will have a ‘Class Blogger of the Week’ and two pupils will write the blog. It is the responsibility of the whole class to record our learning during the course of the week by taking photos on the class ipads and making notes on what they would like to be put on the class blog for the ‘Bloggers’ to upload each Friday.
This week we have been working on Learning Pits and our growth mindset as well as mistakes.
We have also been working on Number Talks where we don’t put our hands up instead we used hand signals that we have been taught.We had to think of as many strategies as we can to solve Maths problems.
Our topic this term is Human Rights and Democracy and our class novel is the Hunger Games.
It is very fun learning in P6/7. We are having a great time. We all are adapting to our new classroom and teachers.
One more thing we have to say is our new whole school Health topic is called Emotion Works. We can’t wait!
Hanna performed at the Usher Hall with her gymnastic club. They showcased Princess and the Frog and Madagascar. Well done Hanna!
Erin took part in an organised run on Dechmont Law on Sunday. She came 21st and got a medal!
Brooke and Zoe’s dancing group went to Blackburn Gala Day on Saturday. They took part in the parade showing off some of their moves and tricks.
Isabel was awarded a special Queen’s 90th Birthday Celebration Brownie badge on Sunday for taking part in celebrations at Inveralmond High School.
Here are some photos of P4 taking part in Sports for Champions with Liam Davie. We were all super excited and inspired. There’s someone with a growth mindset!
P6 took part in first aid training today thanks to Mike and Dave from Lowport Centre. This was organised after P6 took an interest in first aid during our drugs education topic. The training was excellent and P6 have gained some valuable life skills. Here’s what P6 thought:
Amy says, “I was glad I took part in it because it’s an important skill.”
James says, “The dummies smelt funny”
Ian says, “Both the men who were running it said that I was the best.”
Arran says, “I learned how to do CPR properly!”
Niamh, “I learned how to put somebody into the recovery position.”
Euan “It was really fun and it’s a great life skill. The adults were much harder to give CPR to.”
This week in our Growth Mindset lunchtime club we have been looking at famous failures. A lot of famous people in the past have been discouraged but then went on to succeed. Here are a few examples:
And those are just four of millions.
Watch out for our growth mindset celebrity spotter display at reception.
Written by Jamie P7 (Mindset Master)
As part of Eco Week P4 were set the task to work in home teams to design a sleeve that would prevent a bottle of water from cooling.
Pupils planned, selected appropriate materials and worked as a team to decide how to best wrap bottle.
Then they took the temperature of the bottle of water every ten minutes and recorded this.
We then shared results as a class and decided which material made the best sleeve and why.
Bankton has a new lunchtime club! Every Tuesday one class representative from P4-7 will meet to develop growth mindset within the school. Today was our first meeting and we decided to call ourselves The Mindset Masters.
Watch this space for more information…..
P4 and P4/5 will be holding their Easter Assembly this Thursday at 2.20pm in the Great Hall. All are welcome. Wee look forward to sharing our learning with you.
