P.3a are helping The Rights Respecting Group to deliver an assembly to the school, next Friday, on ‘Bullying’.  We are looking at ways to stop bullying.  The Technical team are helping us with a powerpont presentation.  We are also presenting the new charters to help us to behave well in the playground, lunch hall and school.

This is an assembly for the whole school.   Parents will be invited to our next P.3a and P.3b assembly which is in February.

Next week P.3 children will be learing Scottish poems to celebrate Burns’s Day.

P1 were very excited to receive a letter from Santa and Mrs Claus. It looks like there may be trouble at the North Pole, a lot of the elves are retiring and Santa has asked the children to help the new elves in their training. We plan to write an information book about the materials used to make different toys. With your child, have a look at their new toys and discuss what they are made from and how they work.

Primary 5/6 attended a ‘Drumming for Excellence’ session with Daniel on 27th November 2012. We played a selection of instruments from West Africa. West Africa includes countries like: Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast and Sierra Leone. We played the Djembe, Doum Doum, Caxixi and Ghana Bells. Daniel helped us learn a bit about our Titanic topic by creating rhythms to remember key facts. The rhythms were: 15th of Ap-ril 19-12, Left Southampton go-ing to New York and Trans-at -lan-tic voy-age. We clapped these rhythms and played them on the instruments. We found this session a lot of FUN! We can’t wait for our next session with the drums! 🙂  

By Primary 5/6.

We arrived in Craigswood and we got split in to 3 different equal.  We went to this sporting event on the 1^st of November 2012.

Team 5 started with the javelin throwing. They started by practicing their throwing by throwing an invisible javelin. Then they went on and threw a foam javelin at the wall. After that they went on and had a competition to see if they could get past the 15 mark. Abby Clinkscales , Jason Smith and Craig Thomas performed well in the javelin.

Then they went to a standing jump part. Cieran Taylor, Tom Buist and Dana Russell were all getting over the silver line that they had to. Cieran Taylor just got over the line and he said, “it looks so easy but it is really hard.”

Then they went to the foot jump. Abby and Starr just went so fast it was unbelievable! The score to beat was 60. On Star’s first turn she got 59 (so unluckyL). Mrs Lloyd had to join in cause Cieran Taylor didn’t have a partner. Tom Buist got 60 after a few turns.

They went to a running part. Mrs Lloyd had to write down their scores. They went on to a relay race and got showed how to do it properly.

Then they went to hurdles. For a bit of fun they done boys vs girls and the girls kept beating the boys.

Last of all they went to a stamina test where you had to run and get one shuttle cock out of one hula hoop and then put it in the other one

At the end our relay girls team, Dana Russell, Abby Clinkscales, Shannon Smith and Debroah Hendry and the boys relay team Harvey Stenhouse, Harrison Spence, Craig Thomas and Tom Buist performed well and did Bankton proud.  

Once all the scores were counted up, Bankton won the best school overall. 

Reported by Murray Scott & Megan-Anne