Our right this month is …

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Your education should help you use and develop your talents and abilities.
It should also help you learn to live peacefully, protect the environment and respect other people.

All children are good at different things e.g. dancing, writing, reading or football.  We need to have the chance to develop our own talents and abilities. Our families and teachers are also there to help us to achieve our goals!

All children have the right to develop something that they are good at!

Miss Rodford will be sending home a family learning challenge on Monday based on the ‘Right of the Month’. Have a chat with your family about the different abilities and talents that you all have. Talk about what you have to do to
develop your abilities. Fill in the sheet and bring it back to school. The class that brings back the most sheets will win a prize!!!

We are all amazing!

Today, the last day of school, had probably the most successful carol concert ever. The tickets were sold out, the hall was full and the brass band was playing while people were settling down.  The songs were all traditional carols that people sing yearly. The readers were very clear when they said their lines and we even got a couple of parents to sing along with us!  The brass band were playing things like Little Donkey and Rudolph.

Our buddies sent letters to Santa and today a special hand written reply from Father Christmas himself arrived!  We took the letters down to the classes and read them to our buddies.Our buddies were so happy to see us and were amazed when we read the replies to them. They liked that every letter was different in a lot of ways. Some people wanted strange things like real unicorns and motorbikes! They liked that every letter had exactly what they asked for and that every letter had different decorations and colours.

Hope you all have a very Very Christmas from primary 7!

Blogged by James Hyland

Poundland Pedagogy has come to Bankton! At the start of the month all teachers were gifted an item from Poundland and set the challenge to use it creatively in their teaching. Look how far a pound can go……

Paper plates were used as a stimulus for pupils to draw themselves trapped in a snowglobe for creative writing.

A folding basket was used to create a Nativity scene.

A bin was used for pupil voice to vote for the class star of the week.

Wooden spoons used for a creative thinking task.

A table cloth was used to create a reading den.

Balloons were used during a reading session where pupils were to ask different types of Blooms questions related to their book depending on what type of balloon they caught.

What creative teachers we have at Bankton

Primary 4 have been working on a mini Polar Express project.  On Friday they all came home with their first gift of Christmas wrapped in a beautiful handmade box and filled with messages about friendship and kindness!  We have been learning about the term ‘Christmas spirit’ and have been planning ways we can share this over the next few festive weeks!

Merry Christmas everyone, we hope you have a holiday filled with fun and laughter, surrounded by family and friends!!!

The RRS Champions would like to say a big thank you for all the donations of food and toiletries. We have counted over 300 items!

These items will really help people in West Lothian who are less fortunate than us !

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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.

One week left for the food bank donations!

Everyone has been so kind and given so much. The Champions will be doing a half way count up of items on Tuesday!

Thank you

The RRS team!

Just a wee reminder about the Food bank collection! We have already collected lots of food and the Champions will do a half way point count to see how many items we have!

There is still one week left to donate what you can!

Here is a list of items that we are wanting to collect …

Diluting juice

Long life fruit juice

Tinned potatoes

Instant mashed potatoes

Tinned sponge puddings

Tinned custard

UHT milk

Jam ot other spreads

Sweets or chocolate

Toiletries

Cleaning products

Unfortunately fresh food cannot be accepted.  

Please give what ever you can to this important cause as it will help so many people!

Thank you from the Rights Respecting Team!

Article 24
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.

Primary One have been busy this week learning how to subtraction using cubes to help us! We have also been learning about the sh ,ch and th sounds.

We have also been making super Jack in the Box pictures as part of our ‘Toys’ topic! They look super!

This week has also been our last week of Nativity practise, we are looking forward to putting on our costumes and performing to our families !!

The Rights Respecting Champions are collecting food for the Dedridge Baptist Church Food Bank.  We feel that it is very important to give something back to the local community!

The collection starts on tuesday the 29th of November and will end on the 19th of December.

Here is a list of items that we are wanting to collect …

Diluting juice

Long life fruit juice

Tinned potatoes

Instant mashed potatoes

Tinned sponge puddings

Tinned custard

UHT milk

Jam ot other spreads

Sweets or chocolate

Toiletries

Cleaning products

Unfortunately fresh food cannot be accepted.  

Please give what ever you can to this important cause as it will help so many people!

Thank you from the Rights Respecting Team!

Article 24
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.

Thank you to all the parents  who were able to make it along on Friday to receive their Book Bug Bags and to see the children working on different literacy and numeracy activities related to the books for Scottish book week.    I hope you all enjoy reading the stories and using your playing cards at home.

In topic we have been learning about ‘The Inuit’ and the Inukshuk, the singular of inuksuit, means “in the likeness of a human” in the Inuit language. They are monuments made of unworked stones that are used by the Inuit for communication and survival. The traditional meaning of the inukshuk is “Someone was here” or “You are on the right path.”

In Art we designed our own Inuksuit.

Aaron K – I enjoyed drawing pictures as part of our ‘Golden Time’.

Nicole:I had lots of fun talking to my mum during book bag event.

Josh:In maths we have been learning to subtract 11 using the strategy: subtract 10 and then subtract 1 more and we had lots of fun using dienes to work out our answers.

Samantha:I enjoyed writing ‘My Magic Crayon’ story.

Maya:I loved everything in school this week.

Ryan:I enjoyed working with a partner in maths.

P.E.:We have been learning how to play badminton

Arran:I enjoyed drawing our  ‘inushuk’ pictures as part of our topic work.

Aaron:I enjoyed drawing my crayon picture as part of our book bag activities.

Roots of Empathy

We had to draw and write about a time when we were feeling sad.