The boys and girls are loving having lots of books to read and share at breakfast club! I can’t think of a better way to start the day!!
Remember all reading counts towards the First Minister’s Reading Challenge!!!
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P1/2 Reporting Back on Last Week!
P1/2 worked really hard last week. In maths we worked on counting groups of objects accurately and then worked out how many objects there were altogether.
In literacy we learned two new sounds ‘u’ and ‘d’. We practised writing the sounds and using all of the set 1 sounds to read and make words. We loved working at the craft table where we made umbrellas and dinosaurs.
We watched a live authors event and were a very attentive audience as the author read her book ‘Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam’. It was a very funny story and we enjoyed listening to it. The illustrator of the book showed us step by step how to draw one of the main characters from the book. It was great fun and we all did really well. What do you think of our art work? Mrs Lloyd and Mrs Stewart were very impressed!
RRS information afternoon – Thursday the 17th of November at 2.30pm
Your School Needs You!!
Rights Respecting Schools information afternoon on Thursday the 17th of November from 2.30pm to 3.00pm
Bankton is currently working towards achieving our Level 2 Rights Respecting Schools Award and we need your help!
We are holding a information drop in session to give more information about the award. There will be a chance to meet our NEW RRS CHAMPIONS and they will being talking about why children’s rights are important. You will also get the chance to have your say and give ideas to how we can promote children’s rights in school. The information afternoon is open to everyone!
Thank you for your continued support and I look forward to seeing you all then.
Miss Rodford
There will also be tea, coffee and biscuits!
Letters will be sent out as a reminder
Article 42
You have the right to know your rights!
Adults should know about these rights and
help you learn about them, too.
Halloween in Nursery
Today the nursery children had a busy day celebrating Halloween. Carving a pumkin, guising around the different classes in the school, dooking for apples and Halloween craft work.
Please meet the new Bankton RRS Champions!
After reading lots of super application forms for the RRS champions, Miss Rodford had the hard task of choosing one person from each class ….
Congratulations to …
P2 – Lauren Robertson, P2/3 –Chloe McGregor,
P3 – Finley Mullen, P4 – Jamie Ure, P4/5 – Erin McMeechan,
P5 – Matthew , P5/6 – Abbie, P6 – Kasia, P6/7 – Xander
You are now our RRS Champions for Bankton Primary School. I think you will all do a super job!
Our first meeting will be 12.30 on Tuesday the 25th of October at !
Well done!
Article 12
You have the right to give your opinion, and for
adults to listen and take it seriously.
Could you be a RRS champion
Today, Miss Rodford asked for some volunteers to apply to be RRS champions. These champions will be the ambassadors for our rights at Bankton Primary School.
The RRS champions will help to
- think of ways to promote the rights
- feed back about progress in assembles
- help with fundraising
- Have regular meetings once every two weeks
- Help with displays
If you child has come home with an application form please chat to them about why they want to represent the school.
All applications need to be in by Thursday the 13th of Ocober and Miss Rodford will announce the results in assembly next Friday!
It could be you …
Article 12
You have the right to give your opinion, and for
adults to listen and take it seriously.
Going batty in Primary One
Primary one have been learning the sounds e, f and b in phonics.
b is a red sound because we make it with our lips – Kayla
e is black sound because we make a tunnel with our mouths – Jamie
We made some super bats which look very cute and have also been working very hard to improve our handwriting!
In maths, we have been learning about different dot patterns and how to count carefully and slowly. We also learnt about 2D shapes such as triangle, rectangle, square and circles. We have fun making super shape tractors and had to think about shapes we could use to build the picture.
Circles are round and they look like a wheel! – Jamie Watters
We loved it when the parents came in to see us at the PATPAL morning, we enjoyed showing the mums and dads around the class and having ago at different activities based on money.
Mrs Stewart also came to visit us and read us a super story !
Well done Primary One
Please feel free to leave a comment about our super work below!
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Your education should help you use and develop
your talents and abilities.
Emotion Works @ Bankton
The children loved Showing off the work they have been doing on emotions with Claire Murray from Emotion Works today. The whole school has been working on the Emotion Works cog system to help the children to understand their emotions. They have been developing their vocabulary of emotion words, looking at how different emotions feel in their bodies, how they behave when they feel these emotions emotions and what triggers them to feel different things. Next week we will be looking at how we can regulate our responses to our emotions! Look our for our showcase in November where parents will get a chance to come in and find out more about what we have been doing!
Harvesting in P1
This week, Primary One have learnt all about harvesting. We had a good at harvesting potatoes, carrots and parsnips from the school vegetable patch.
Harvest is when you dig, chop and pick fruit and veg to be eaten – Kayla
We harvested carrots – Summer
We havested parsnips – Sarah.
We all thought that this was great fun and will be sharing our learning with the children in St Julian’s Primary School!
We also looked at different words we could use for the emotions happy, sad, angry and scared. We read the story of the Owl Babies to help us to come up with different words …
Summer – terrified is a another word for scared
Hannah – Cheerful is another word for happy
In maths, we have been impressing Miss Rodford with our number talks strageties and are getting really good at recognising 10 frame patterns. In sounds, we learnt the ‘o’ sound and have been starting to blend on our mouth part boards.
As it was International Language day on Monday, we learnt alittle bit about France and thier culture. We also enjoyed a super French lesson on Friday. We learnt how to count up to 10, to introduce ourselves and animal names!
Well done Primary 1
Recycling in P1 and P1/2 – Global Goal 12
As part of the ‘World’s Largest Lesson’ , P1 and P1/2 learnt about recycling and why this it is important to cut down the amount of rubbish that we throw away ..
Ruaridh – It will help to save the world
Kayla – We can recycle cardboard
Harry – We can recycle metal
Kyle – Wwe can recycle plastic
We also played a game where we had to think of a new use for a item we might throw away! P1 came up with some great ideas !
Rosie – It a stick to balance with
Jamie Wilkie – Its a walking stick
Finally, we all went outside to play a sorting game where we had to sort the recycling into the correct boxes. It was great fun !
