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 3 along with the rest of the school had great FUN doing the wig walk!

We are enjoying the new Golden Time going into different groups and getting involved in various activities.

Louise said she had FUN completing the 3D wedding cake challenge.

We are looking forward to the long weekend. Miss Henderson is looking forward to a long lie on Monday!

Today, we started our Rights Respecting Schools P1 to P3 group. Miss Rodford introduced the idea that children all have rights. Miss Rodford told us that we were going to a new planet and we had to pack a bag to help us to live on that planet.

We thought about what things we might need to take to be able to grow up there….

‘We will need food’ Ryan

‘We will need water ‘Ryan

We will need clothes ‘Iona

The children then sorted lots of pictures to whether or not they were important to help us start a new life on this planet.

We decided at the end that all children had a right to these different things.

Welcome to our ‘Friends Around the World Thursday Club!’

Each week we have a lunch time club on a Thursday for our children who have come from different parts of the globe with English as an additional language. We support each other and have lots of fun playing and learning English together.

Over the last 2 weeks we have been learning about colours, and today we decorated some colourful biscuits to eat! They were yummy!!

 

 

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

Reminder to all Parents and Carers –

 

Our Meet The Teacher Evening will be held tonight in the Great Hall at 7pm.

At the meeting you will hear about our priorities for the year ahead and how you can be partners in your child’s learning.

There will also be special features on 1+2 Modern Languages and Keeping Young Children safe Online.

Documents mentioned at the meeting will be uploaded to our useful documents page, here on the BLOG.

Look forward to seeing you tonight!

Just a reminder that there will be a P1 Meeting for Parents on Thursday 3rd September to hear all about learning in our Primary 1 classrooms.  You will also receive a pack to try out at home!  Hope to see you all there,

Mrs Ferguson

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!

P2 have been learning about food chains this week. We have learnt that a food chain always starts with a plant as they can produce their own food and animals that eat other animals are called carnivores.

We have been ordering pictures to make simple food chains.