For Eco week we have been designing a sleeve for a bottle of hot water to stop the heat from coming out. We worked in home teams to decide on the materials and how to wrap it. We took the temperature every ten minutes and recorded the results.

We learned how to make paper. Brooke thought that it was fun making it and getting her hands messy!

P4 and P4/5 had their Easter assembly. Isabel thought that we taught the parents about the meaning of Easter and what happened after the story that we told from Darren. Amy and Adam handed over a cheque for £200 to Ms Barr for Jak’s Den Charity. This was money that the class raised through our Christmas enterprise work. Zoe thought that the assembly was a huge success and so did everybody else.

We had an Eco Wildlife Art competition. There were lots of super entries. Matthew from P4 won one of the prizes. Well done Matthew. We are very proud of you.

This week P1b have enjoyed working hard on all things eco!  We started off the week producing print outs of planet earth which we later decorated to make eco posters.

We also went on a wildlife hunt in the playground to get some ideas for the wildlife art competition.  We thought up lots of ideas and produced some super detailed drawings for the competition.

On Tuesday, we took part in another competition to design a new reusable bag for Asda.  We looked at some of Mrs Lloyd’s reusable bags to get some ideas and produced some fantastic designs.

On Wednesday ‘Bag Girl’ a recycling superhero visited Bankton to ask for some recycling help.  She taught the children all about the 3 R’s – reduce, reuse and recycle – and the boys and girls helped her to fight off a nasty garbage monster.  The children also successfully sorted a big pile of rubbish into metal, plastic and paper.  Well done boys and girls!

We also learned about different food groups this week and used this to help us design a healthy packed lunchbox.  We learned that protein helps us to grow, carbohydrates give us energy and vitamins and minerals from fruit and vegetables help us to fight off illnesses.

Well done boys and girls!

Today, we were very lucky to be visitied by Laura from Dobbies.  She taught us lots of different things about plants and berries and even brought in some blueberries and raspberries for us to taste – they were yummy!  After our tasting, she let us plant a broad bean which we were allowed to take home.  We need to make sure we put our bean somewhere where it will gets lots of sunlight and need to remember to water it regularly.  It would be great to have some photos of the beans sent in as they are growing.  I wonder whose bean will grow the tallest?  The competition is on!!!