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Snow Day Activities

Check out the blog under ‘important documents’ to find things for all P5-7 to be busy with during our snow day.

Other ideas for P5:

Outside

  • How many tennis ball sized snowballs does it take to go round the perimeter of your garden?
  • Put out a slice of bread for the birds. How many birds come down to your garden to eat it? How many different types of birds do you see?
  • Time yourself to see how long it takes you to clear the snow from your front door to the pavement.
  • Build a snowman. Measure in cm to see how tall you can make it.

Inside

  • Choose your favourite book and make up a brief talk about why it is your favourite. Remember to include the title, author and summary of what the story is about. Extra challenge- create a powerpoint to go with your talk.
  • Design an alternative cover for our last class novel ‘Cool’.
  • Look out of your window and write a description of what you see and how it makes you feel. Use a thesaurus to try and help up-level your description.
  • Create a short newspaper report on a t.v. programme or video game that you watch/ play today.
  • Log on to Sumdog and see what rewards you can earn.

Remember – if you are out and about, make sure an adult knows where you are, who you are with and when you will be home. Wrap up warmly with a cosy jacket and sensible footwear and don’t forget the hat, gloves and scarf. Stay warm and keep safe.

Hard Workers in P1a

We have been really busy in P1 recently.

In numeracy we have been working on numbers to 20 where we have been working on counting (especially backwards) and recognising the numbers. We have also been learning the number stories to 5 as well as the take away facts.

In non-number maths we have been learning how to read o’clock and half past times. We have also been making symmetrical pictures. (I will add photos when I can)

If you have time between snowball fights and sledging (or it gets too cold!) maybe you could practise some of these at home.

Also keep an eye out for items in your home that are run by mains electricity or are battery powered.

Remember it is world book day tomorrow so enjoy reading stories with someone at home too!

I’m going to sort some things for our door display and cut out some new things for the classroom (and watch my girls have fun in the snow!!!).

Snow day @bankton

Some ideas for today boys and girls:

1. Build a fabulous snowman ⛄️

2. Go on to World Book Day Webite for lots of great activities

3. Logon to your Sumdog

4. Write a snowy story or poem to share with me back at school ⛄️

5. Draw/paint a snowy landscape picture – bring it in for my Superstar wall!

6. Cosy in with your favourite book – remember Badger the Mystical Mutt!

Mrs Ferguson

Egyptians !!!

This week, we have been busy learning all about Egyptians and we used this knowledge to write super stories about a tomb discovery. In Art, we started to make paper mache death masks. We have also been researching Pharaohs such as Tutankhamun.

We have also been learning the Robert Burns poems and well done to Sarah for standing up in assembly to recite ‘The Red Red Rose’.

In maths, we have been learning about time such as quarter past, quarter to. We have also been putting this knowledge into every day situations.

Well done Josh for getting ‘Star of the Week’ for your super story about the ‘Tomb Discovery’

Well done P4

 

Right of the Fortnight

Our new ‘Right of the Fortnight’ is

 

Article 2

All children have these rights, no matter who they are, where they live, what their parents do, what language they speak, what their religion is, whether they are a boy or girl, what their culture is, whether they have a disability, whether they are rich or poor. No child should be treated unfairly on any basis.

 

 

Have a think about how you are respecting everyone’s rights over the next two weeks!

Are you listening to others?

Are you being kind?

The reason we learn to respect every one’s rights because its helps us to become responsible citizens!

Try to remember this saying …..

Rights + Respect = Responsible Citizens

 

Christmas Message from Mrs. Stewart and Mrs. Ferguson

Christmas Message From Mrs Stewart and Mrs Ferguson
To all of our amazing children from P.1 to P7 – we have enjoyed watching you progress on your learning
journey this year and are incredibly proud of the progress you have made. We are also proud of the way
you are all trying to develop as polite respectful young people making Bankton Primary School a very happy
place to be. We hope you will all have a wonderful Christmas with your families and that you enjoy
spending time together. Stay safe during the holidays so that we can welcome everyone back on
Wednesday the 9th January.

 

CHRISTMAS NEWSLETTER IN THE NEWSLETTER FOLDER

Badger The Mystical Mutt @ Bankton

You may already be aware of the Magical Badger Buzz at Bankton!!  We are delighted to be teaming up with Badger the Mystical Mutt and Authors McNicol and Jackson for an inspiring fun-filled year as our very own reading patrons!

This project has been set up to inspire the pupils and further develop a love for reading and writing in our school!

Badger visited the school last month and was recorded for a very special radio broadcast which will be aired on BBC Radio Scotland on Boxing Day at 12.30 (see the link below for details).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09kf6cx

Tune in and you may just hear some voices that you recognise!

Watch out for more magical Badger events in the New Year!

The photo below is Badger and the BBC at Bankton!

Find out more about Badger: http://www.badgerthemysticalmutt.com/index.html

 

Bankton Christmas Fayre

Santa and his little elves have been VERY busy crafting and making Christmas cards and decorations for our Christmas Fayre. There will also be a chance to talk to Santa, a fabulous raffle, tombola and a wide variety of stalls in the Great Hall. Don’t miss out!

BANKTON CHRISTMAS FAYRE

SATURDAY 2ND DEC. 11.00AM -2.00PM

SEE YOU THERE!

Super Tessellations

This week, we have been busy doing lots of different things. In Maths, we have been recapping properties of 3D shapes and we have been learning how to tessellate 2d shapes to make super patterns.

In science, we have also been learning about conductors and insulators. We conducted an investigation to see which materials would let electricity flow through them. Materials such as paper clips, foil and coins would conduct electricity!

We have started to learn our 3 timetables about we have been practising making arrays and repeated addition. We have also been learning to multiply a 2 digit number by a 1 digit number!
 
Well done this week Primary Four!!

A busy week in P4

This week in P4, we have been learning about Anti Bullying week. We know that bullying is when someone is repeated unkind to you!
We have spoken a lot this week about being a good friend and we wrote a ‘recipe for friendship’.

In maths, we have been learning how to solve word problems using these rules
1. Read the problem carefully
2.Underline the important facts
3. Draw a picture
4. Write a sum
5. Solve the problem

We also learnt how to use the bar modelling strategy to help us to see what the problem looks like.

In Science, we learnt how to make a parallel circuit.

At the end of the week, we had a very exciting assembly all about ‘Badger the Mystical Mutt’ . The authors of this book are going to be our reading patrons and we will be doing some work with them over the year.
‘I liked listening to the story she told and the Unicorn’ Samantha
‘I enjoyed Badger’s magic tricks’ Ayla
‘I liked it when the author showed us the crystal’ Katie

Josh and Emily were lucky enough to speak to the author and this chat will be aired on BBC Scotland radio on Boxing day!

Its all been very exciting!!!