This week, we have been really busy working on our reading skills! Miss Rodford has been impressed with our blending skills!

We have also been working on our spelling skills and been practising blending three letter words!

We have also been revising our number facts for 6 and 7 and learning to count and write numbers up to 17!

On Thursday, we started a science investigation and we wanted to find out if plants would grow differently in different places or without certian things like water or soil.  We all made super predictions about the beans …

‘I think the bean which has soil, water and sunlight will grow because it has all the things it needs to grow’ – Hannah

‘I think the bean without water won’t grow becsue plants need water to survive’ – Rosie

P4/5 have been outside practising their fraction skills in the playground. We used our metre sticks to measure out a line 100cm long then split it up into equal amounts to create our fractions. We then marked our fractions on the lines. Pairs swapped over to work out what the fractions on the line were and to check each others work. It was great fun and gave us another way to practise our maths skills.

March’s Right of the Month is  …

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You have the right to give your opinion, and for adults to listen and take it seriously.

It is important that all children get the chance give their opinions in decisions that involve them!
It gives you the confidence to speak out and know that adults are listening to you!
It can help you to make a change for the better either at home or at school.

Being able to give your opinion as a child is good practise and will help you to be able to make important decisions as an adult e.g. voting

There might be things going on in the world that you might agree/not agree with!

Things you can do at home …..
+ Watch CBBC Newsround
+ Look at news papers with your parents
+ Discuss news with your family and give your opinions

This week in Primary One, we have been learning how to find missing number in number stories to 7. We also have been learning how to use tally marks to create barcharts. We found out that our favourite fairy tale was Cinderella!

On Thursday, it was World Book Day and we all dresses up as a book character. Miss Rodford was impressed with all our costumes!!

In the afternoon, we thought about why bedtime stories were special!

I like bed time stories becuse they make me sleepy!

I like bedtime stories because they make me smile!

We also got another letter from the Friendly Dragon, who asked for our help to build a new castle. On Wednesday, we got into groups and designed a castle which we will attempt to build next week!

Well done Primary One! Super Work!

The RRS team would like to say a big thank you to everyone who brought money in for our ‘Day for Change’ . Everyone enjoyed learning about nutrition and how their money would help other people!

We raised £201.88p !!!! A huge amount!!

We will be able to help alot of children to get the help they need to be healthy!!

Well done!!

Bankton is very fortunate to have a vibrant parent council who work hard to provide resources and events for all of our children.

They also run coffee mornings, Book Fair and Credit Union and will always welcome new members to help.

If you would like to help in any way at all, please contact a member of the Parent Council.

Documents informing all parents about the Parent Council and what they do for the school community have been uploaded to the Parent Council page. Please find time to check these out.

Our next meeting is Wednesday, 8th Feb at 6.30pm, where new members will be welcome.

Thank you so much to all of our adults who visited P2 during our PATPAL morning. We loved having you in class to show off our learning in maths.

We are learning to count ‘groups of’ and some of us are able to work out the matching multiplication sum too!

P2 loved the ‘perseverance’ workshop with Darren on Thursday. We found some of the activities a challenge but we used our growth mindsets to keep trying and we never gave up!

We looked at the soldiers uniform as part of our Romans topic and wrote an application form to be a Roman soldier. We used super capital letters and full stops during our writing. Well done Ben for writing the reasons that he would be a great soldier to convince the reader to hire him! P2 did very well to support each other to make their writing even better during peer marking time, super work!

I loved hearing all of the Scottish poems in class this week and well done to our winner Lauren for using excellent actions during her poem.

Miss Rodford would like to thank all the parents and families who came to our icount PATPAL morning. Primary One were able to show off all our super learning in maths. We were doing lots of adding and counting!

In week in maths, we have been concentrating using money to buy different items and looked at how we could make different values to !

We have also been thinking about what makes a good learner …

We try hard – Sarah

We listen to our teacher – Hannah

We never give up – Rosie

On Thursday, we planted some magic beans … I wonder how big they will grow !!!

Super work this week Primary One!

The RRS team are going to organising a fund raiser for UNICEF on the 6th of February! 

It is called  ‘A Day for Change’ 

Our challenge is simply to collect as much loose change as possible. Taking part is this fundraiser is an  opportunity to teach our children about nutrition and raise vital funds to help keep hungry children around the world safe and healthy.

The children only need to come in  dressed in blue and bring in £1.00!

During the day, children will be finding out more about nutrition and UNICEF as a charity. 

Where will the donations go ….

• Just £3.50 could provide a class of 30 children with vitamin A supplements to stop blindness, and deworming tablets to help them absorb nutrients
• £5 could provide life-saving therapeutic milk to treat a severely malnourished child for five days
• £8 can supply high-energy food for a malnourished child for one week
• Just £16 could provide critical vitamin and micro nutrient supplements for two toddlers for a whole year
• Raising £50 could provide education on nutrition and child feeding for 250 mothers or care givers of children under two
• £150 could provide training for one county health worker on how to provide life-saving treatment for children with acute malnutrition.

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You have the right to the best health care possible,
safe water to drink, nutritious food, a
clean and safe environment, and information
to help you stay well.

Please help Bankton to raise as much money as possible !!!