This week the nursery children had the opportunity to play imaginatively with raw vegetables, uncooked pasta and pulses in the housecorner.
After the children enjoyed the experience of cutting the vegetables they decided to open a restaurant/ cafe. The children made their own menus for this and decided how much the items would cost.
We even managed a little trip to a real cafe.
P5 spent today exploring Darren’s co-operation task to learn the importance of co-operation as one of Bankton’s values.
Overheard by Miss Lovett…
Cody: “We have to work together to stretch the band!”
Ryan: “I co-operate with my mum to help her cook.”
Logan: “I co-operate with my brother to play our games so I’m making a game controller out of play-doh.”
P1/2 enjoyed some pirate fun in the structured play area this week. Â The boys and girls enjoyed dressing up as pirates, building pirate ships with the duplo, completing pirate jigsaws, drawing pirate pictures and playing with the toy pirate ships! Â It was great fun and everyone worked hard to practise the skills of listening, turn taking and sharing. Â Well done!
In maths, we have been working on linking lots of our maths skills together to work out lots of different word problems. Â It was a bit tricky at first but we are getting better at it! Â We also practised sequencing numbers to 20, sharing objects equally, working out the missing numbers in sums by using the strategy of counting on and working out the different number stories of 9.
In literacy, we revised our knowledge of the vowel house sounds. Â We practised some of the tricky sounds and thought about some ways to help us remember them. Â We used Mrs Lloyd’s post it notes to write the sounds and match them with the pictures.
As part of our values program, Darren from the Lanthorn church came to speak to us about co-operation. Â He left lots of activities for us to have a go at so that we could practise our co-operation skills.
Another hard working week P1/2. Â Well done and keep it up!
The following advice has been circulated to all West Lothian Schools by martin berginnis, our Child Protection officer.
Parents of children at all stages may find this useful.
Primary 1/2 had a super busy week last week. We discovered something very interesting in the playground. It was a treasure chest that was full of pirate treasure and a treasure map. We had a think and thought that maybe some pirates had visited Bankton and left it for us. We are very excited about our new pirate topic!
In maths, we were thinking about different ways to make 8. We tried adding two and three numbers together and used cubes to help us.
We also practised sharing out objects equally between two and four groups. We had to make sure that our sharing was fair!
In Literacy, we impressed Mrs Lloyd with our reading and sounding out skills and also practised the vowel house sounds.
In Science, we thought about animals which lay eggs and worked in groups to share our thoughts on which animals lay eggs. We then watched a video clip to see if we were right!
It was great to catch up with everyone again after the holidays and P1/2 settled right back into working hard as we are now practising P2’s and P3’s. Well done!
‘Tennis on the Road Programme’ aims to inspire coaches, children and parents to get involved in and stay in tennis. This exciting event is taking place at The James Young H.S on Thursday 27th April!  This will be led by Judy Murray who will also be present at the event. Judy’s innovative coaching style and content gives everyone involved a great introduction into the basics of tennis in a fun and engaging way that in no time at all helps them to master the fundamentals of what can at times be seen as a complicated sport to play.
This is a fantastic opportunity for parents and children to come together and learn the game using Judy’s unique style. Please see the poster attached below for the parent and child (5-10 yrs old) session taking place from 3.30-5.00pm and contact details to book on!
Spaces are limited and are allocated on a first come, first served basis.
Primary One found a special treasure chest in the playground! It was full of coins and a treasure map! Â We thought that it might be from a Pirate!
In maths we were thinking about ways to make 8 and we have also been working on sharing objects out equally between two groups.
In Literacy, we have been revising our vowel house sounds and we have been impressing Miss Rodford with our reading skills.
In Science, we thought about animals which lay eggs.
‘A frog lays eggs’ Summer
  
The RRS group have been busy over the pat few weeks creating a Lunch time Charter. We onducted a survery and found out that the lunch hall could be very noisy and we were wasting alot of food.
So we created a charter to give some rules to how we act and our responsiblities in the lunch hall. We also have rewards for children who follow the charter and they will get a lunchpass for the courtyard! Hopefully this will make the lunchhall a quieter and less wasteful place!
April’s Right of the Month is ……
Article 42
You have the right to know your rights!
Adults should know about these rights and
help you learn about them, too.
UNICEF believe that children and young people are to become responsible citizens, they need the chance to participate in the world around them.
If they are denied the right to take part in their community, they will struggle to learn how to become responsible members of that community as adults.
Adults should teach and inform children of their rights.
At home, see if you can teach your family abit about the rights!
Can you name some rights?
Can you talk about why they are important?
Here is a video with abit of the history of Children’s Rights
This week Primary One have been learning about symmetry! We have had fun creating patterns which mirror each other. Miss Rodford has been really impressed with some of these patterns!
We have also been busy making lots of Easter crafts to !!
Have a super Easter holidays !
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