Our weekly champion was Aaron K with a fantastic total of 33 points and Aaron C coming a close second with 32.
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Chess Club Launch
We had our first chess club today, which was great! We had some budding players and some children who had never played before. We soon got the hang of it and played some good moves! As you can see it all took a lot of concentration and tactics!!
Dyslexia Awareness Week 2015
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:
P6 have been busy!
We had great fun watching the Robin Hood pantomime. It made us laugh! Daryl
I enjoyed writing spooky imaginative stories. We had to try and scare people by using frightening vocabulary. Beth.K
We created Wordle pictures to tell Mrs Hocknull all about ourselves. Alex
We learnt not to tell anyone personal details during internet safety. Harry
We also learnt not to respond to a text if you don’t know the person. Jaime.F
We all loved the Halloween disco! We played musical statues and danced.
We have been been creating Kandinsky pictures in Art. Ciara
Hallowe’en Week
James enjoyed making our Hallowe’en pumpkins.
Lots of children enjoyed the Hallowe’en party and Logan had a great time scaring everyone. Lucy won the corners game and got Haribos as a prize.
AJ made a scary picture during Golden Time.
Baby Harris came in to school again this week and we got to see how he is changing as he can now hold things and sit up more.
This week in P4/5
We had a short but enjoyable week here in P4/5. We learnt about Internet Safety and Liam very much enjoyed it. We had good fun playing dodgeball in PE. We also did some spooky art work for Halloween. We learnt a French song about Halloween from Mr. Herman’s childhood. It was nice to see everyone in the class back after haft term. We started recorder lessons this week and will keep practicing hard! The panto was great and Nathan was our star of the week.
It’s almost the holidays!
Well, Primary 6 and 7B certainly did themselves proud this morning as we said our sad but happy goodbyes to Mrs Oliver and Mrs Learmonth. The ladies have been at the school for a combined total of 32 years! We sang our special version of ‘You will retire!’ to the tune ‘You will survive!’.
We also sang Mrs Lough’s favourite song as she is off to a new school over the river 😉 in Glasgow. We sang James Bay’s ‘Hold Back the River’.
P 4/5’s breaking news
This week in science we finished up our unit on inheritance, where we learnt about different characteristics. We have started to develop our skills in benchball this week and were very successful. Also this week we started reading the Twits, and we looked at a character description of Mr. Twit. Chloe had a very different view of what Mr. Twit would look like, while Lucca’s looked very close to what Mr. Twit looked like in the book. On Friday we had lots of fun dressing up as different animals to help support the building of a orphanage in Kenya. Star of the week this week was Lucca, well done!! Hopefully we will win Goblet of Good Manners when we get back.
P4 update
Carlos really liked doing his art homework for the African art competition. Well done to everyone who took part in it and to Carlos who is our class winner. His picture will be going over to Africa with Mrs Lough and Miss Kennedy in the October break. We hope they have a great time. Brooke really liked our spelling work and now remembers the rule about dropping the e before adding a y. Sanah has been working hard on joining up letters in her handwriting and is feeling pleased with what she has done. Coben thought it was great fun acting out bits of ‘Gangsta Grann’y- our class novel. He really like playing the part of granny. Ryan was really pleased to get all of his work finished off. Well done P4 for a great first term.
P2’s adventure
On Thursday P2, P2/3 and P3 went on a very exciting trip to Inchcolm Island. We went on a bus and a ferry to get there.
We discovered a secret trap door on the floor of the ferry. This morning the P2s imagined what was beneath the trap door:
Sachin: ‘I think that there was a pirate behind the door guarding a treasure chest’.
Jack: ‘I think that it was a door to a mega shark tank’.
Aiyasha: ‘I think that it was a magic door. Inside the magic door there is a magic box with a magic wand in it.
Baillie: ‘I think that it was a door to SpongeBob’s house’.
Maya: ‘I think that it was a secret entrance’.
After climbing off the ferry, we went on an adventure walk around the island and explored the abbey. We had fun watching two seals playing in the water together while we ate our lunch on the beach. The children enjoyed collecting shells and Kieran even found a crab’s claw!
Leo: ‘My favourite part was finding the trap door’.
Jodie: ‘My favourite part was going on the boat’.
Daniel C: ‘I liked being at the seaside and eating lunch on the beach’.
Matthew: ‘I learned how waves work. If the boat goes fast, it makes bigger waves’.
Ayla: ‘I learned that a baby seal is called a pup’.
Daniel was very excited to see the
seals from the ferry window!
Our learning in class:
In P2, we have been learning about nouns. We know that nouns are naming words and we wrote a list of all of the nouns we could think of. We are beginning to understand the difference between proper and common nouns.
In maths, we have been adding numbers together and learning about odd and even numbers.
Alex: ‘I learned how to make another number by adding two numbers together’.
Maya: ‘I learned that 4+4 makes 8 on the fish tank game’.
Niamh: ‘I worked with the 10 frame to add numbers to 10’.
Ryan: ‘I learned to add and take away numbers to 6 and 7’.
Well done to Sarah Foster who won the class prize for excellent behaviour this week!
