Children and staff from Bankton Primary School

thoroughly enjoyed taking a Wellie Walk around

the Dedridge Pond as part of West Lothian’s

Walking Week.   Even though the sun shone, the

wee wellie wearers managed to find just a few

puddles – great fun!!!

Ted E Bear has sent us another postcard saying that he has climbed all the way to the Emergent layer of the  rainforest.  He showed us pictures of the creatures he saw and asked us to find out about them.  We have enjoyed finding out about macaws, harpy eagles, hummingbirds and giant spiders.  We have sent copies of all of the fabulous information on the Olympic champions to him and we look forward to hearing what he thinks of our hard work.  Parents you can see your original work on display in school on the open day.

Congratulations to our newly elected

 Pupil Council

Heather McNab P7A, Dana Russell P7B

Shannon McLeary P6A, Caitlin donaldson P5/6

Ben Mason P4A, Rachel McNab P4B

Jay Kimber P3A, Lucas Stenhouse P3B

Kerr McCusker P2A, Ailsa Muir P2B

Roxanne Hardie P1A, Carla Gilmour P1B.

The role of the pupil councillors is to discuss

various issues raised by their class members and

to look for ways to imoorve our school.   Good

luck to all our new pupil councillors.

Some children in P.3 are gathering information about the weather.  We are measuring the amount of rainfall and the temperature.  Some chidren are keeping a record of the types of clouds that we see in the sky.   Others are judging the force of the wind.

Today we looked at the BBC weather forecast for today and the next four days.

Let’s hope there is good weather for the holiday weekend.

Next week some of the P5s are off to Lowport Outdoor Centre.  They are really looking forward to the trip. 

Look out for news and photo’s when they return.

This week P5/6 have been learning all about Titanic’s maiden voyage.  A maiden voyage is a ship’s first journey.  Titanic was built in Belfast and sailed to Southampton before her maiden voyage.

On the 10th April, 1912 she left Southampton and set sail towards New York, America. 

We also have drawn some pencil line pictures of the Titanic.

This week we have created Class Charters (Rules) and are displaying them in our classrooms.

This is the first week that we have had to hand in Maths and Spelling homework and learn our spelling words.  To be a Good All Rounder we must do our homework neatly and hand it in on Friday.   We should learn our spelling words to the best of our ability.

Last week we received a postcard from Ted E Bear.  He enjoyed the Olympics so much he has gone to Brazil to find out about where the next games will be held.  At the moment he is exploring the rainforest!!  We have written a letter to him telling him what we think he will see there.  We are really looking forward to hearing from him again and learning all about the animals and people in the rainforest.  We have even made a rainforest corner in our classrooms.

This week we continued our investigation into the story of the Lorax.  We have met Swomee Swans and Brown Bar-ba-loots who are living happily in the glorious place discovered by the Once-ler.  Their home is clean, safe and provides them with food and shelter.  How happy they are! 

We discovered the name given to the place animals choose to live is called a HABITAT.  Our work this week helped us to understand that different animals choose difference places to live depending on what they need.  We looked at four kinds of habitats and were able to identify the animals that live in each.

Now that the Once-ler has arrived, he seems very interested in the Truffula tress.  Will the Swomee Swans and their friends continue to be safe and happy?

“Way back in the days when the grass was still green..”

and the pond was still wet and the clouds were still clean…”

P5 have been working on our group skills – using quiet voices and taking turns have been the skills we have tried so far.  Today we added ‘working as a team’ and we are getting better all the time.  Today we didn’t give Mrs Maternaghan a headache and she was very pleased with us!