P1 have had lots of fun making pecking chickens, decorating eggs and rolling them down the hill.  Happy Easter to all, enjoy the holiday.

Bankton Market Garden Adverts

P6a were asked to make adverts to advertise the Market Garden. The Garden Groomers have been working very hard on keeping the fruit and vegetables fresh and tasty with the help of Mrs. Thomson. We split up into 4 groups to make the adverts. Each advert was a different theme. When we split up into groups a filmmaker called Andrew Low came in and showed us  the techniques to make an advert. He showed us flip books and pieces of film. It took several months to make the Adverts but it was worth it when they were all finished and we saw them all in our assembly.

Primary seven have been busy practising their weighing skills by making a variety of different cakes and biscuits in aid of red nose day.  This baking has been on sale every Tuesday and Friday over the past few weeks and has always sold out due to the fantastic support of the pupils and parents at Bankton so a big thank you to all who have sampled our tasty treats! 

Primary seven would like to thank Mrs Thomson who has worked hard and has supervised numerous groups whilst baking.  Thanks too to Mrs Balfour who gave the staff a treat with a selection of home baking in the staffroom on Friday morning.  All this baking has raised a grand total of £109.35 for comic relief.   Well done to all involved!

Also, children were invited to come to school in their pyjamas on red nose day and everyone who did made a donation.  The money raised from this is still to be totalled and will be passed onto this good cause in the near future.

Why don’t you do something funny for money and help this very worthwhile cause?!

Thank-you to all the parents, grandparents and

carers who came to the P.3 assembly on the

‘Day for Change’.  £45.00 were donated to

UNICEF.

The P.3 children who went to Craigswood

enjoyed the morning by taking part in hopping,

skipping and jumping activities.  The other

children also enjoyed their visit to the pond.

We are still working on our Katie Morag topic in class and have been looking at lots of different Katie Morag  stories.  We are starting to look at weddings around the world as part of our work on Katie Morag and the Wedding.  In art we have been drawing portraits of Katie Morag’s family taking care to try to draw all of the features in the correct places.  These portraits are going to be used to build Katie Morag’s family tree.  Our classrooms are full of wonderful models of places from the Isle of Struay that we made at home using recycled materials.  We have been using the Beebots to create pathways and have even started to make our own mats to use with them.  They are looking so good that Mrs Sinclair is going to keep them to use another time too!  As budding designers we have designed new wellies for Grannie Island and new hats for Grandma Mainland.  They are a bright addition to our classroom displays.  We also designed new outfits for them when we created a collage of the two Grandmothers and filled in a blank outline making sure we thought about all of the little details we would need.

In maths we have been looking at adding on 10 to numbers up to 100.  We are so good at using adjectives that we are now looking at verbs in our writing.  A verb is a doing word and we have had lots of fun practising them in class.  We are enjoying being quizmasters for our spelling quiz during the week which is helping us improve our results in our spelling test.  We can only be a quizmaster if we get full marks on a Friday! Mr Muldoon is teaching us tricks from ball games in P.E. and in music we have been creating sound stories and also took part in the sign to sing world record attempt.

P7 have been doing some baking to raise money for comic relief. We have made the baking with a red nose theme. We will be selling our baking for 30p at the tuck shop on Tuesdays and Fridays. We will be selling muffins, cupcakes, gingerbread men and lots of other things too!

By Kai Simpson and Kyle Williams

We love our golden time on Fridays. Last week I asked if I could take some photos and add them to the blog  Craig Dalziel

P5 have finished working on our Titanic project and we are now looking at the Scottish Parliament. We have looked at the building online and were amazed at just how much it cost! Our first homework task is to make a factsheet about the Parliament – finding out at least 3 new facts that we haven’t learned in school.

I am happy to be back to school because I have missed doing maths and lots of other things.   Abbie Snodgrass

The P7s have now started reading a book called ‘Goodnight Mister Tom’ by Michelle Magorian. It’s about a boy who’s been treated badly and been sent to live with an old man because of the bombs in England in World War 2. To find out more, look at the blog next week.        Heather MacNab

On the 10^th January 2013, P6 and P7 received a visit from ChildLine who told us about the different forms of abuse, who to talk to about your feelings and much more. They showed us a powerpoint about your worries and concerns. We played a game called ‘the bag of worries’. Every time we thought of a worry, a brick would go into the bag. At the end, every time we found someone to talk to about our worries, a brick would come out of the bag. ChildLine told us not to try to hide a problem that you have and to tell someone about it. The number to call is 0800 1111. We got an activity book to do and we have workshops next week.This was an interesting visit and was very good.    John Skeldon and Erin Hook

January 28^th is a very important date for P7 because they are going to Benmore. Benmore is a camp that makes P7s challenge themselves in outdoor activities that they would not do every day or even ever again. Everyone is looking forward to camp as it is a once in a lifetime chance. This week there was a meeting telling us all about camp at Benmore. It was very helpful and we know a lot more about it now.                                           Dylan Anderson and Deborah Hendry

So far in P7 it has been a busy time.  Here are some of the things that we have been doing.  We’ve had science lessons with Mr Bethune and maths with Mr Sammons.  We have also been on loads of fun trips like the money museum and the book festival where we got to meet an author and get our books signed.  There has been lots of competitions including the maths challenge at JYHS and athletics competitions.  We have taken part in some open days, one was just for p7s and the other one was for the whole school. When it was the whole school we took the parents round the school.

This year, we are looking forward to our trip to Benmore, World War 2 day, our show, and starting high school.   We have been enjoying this year because it’s our last year of primary school.

We love P7 because we have been doing loads of different activites.

By Kiara Black, Kai Simpson and Allana Keanie