This week in our topic work we were learning all about harvest.  We learned about the sequence of events that farmers go through to harvest their crops and even had a go at harvesting and digging up some vegetables from the vegetable patch in school.  It was great fun and we managed to harvest some very small carrots and some huge potatoes!  Miss Cambell helped us and she has offered to work with us next week to make some tasty vegetable soup.  We are really looking forward to this.  Thank you Miss Campbell.

Today Miss Rodford and I were the proudest teachers in Bankton as we took our classes on a trip to Beecraigs.  The behaviour was brilliant from start to finish and the children enjoyed a fun filled day which included long walks, bark rubbings, animal spotting and lots of fun playing in the park.  They were very keen to know when it was snack and lunch time and were responsible citizens tidying up after themselves and putting all their rubbish in the bins!  They spotted lots of different animals including deer and we even saw a baby Highland cow that was born yesterday!

Well done boys and girls and a big thanks also to our brilliant helpers Mrs Mansour, Mrs Hyland and Mrs Smith. Thanks also to Mrs Ross for helping us get everything organised and packed up!

Primary 2/3 are very excited because on the 26^th May, they are going to visit Edinburgh Zoo with Primary 2 to help them learn more about their topic, ‘Living and non-living things.’

For our topic, had to sort some pictures in to categories, but Mrs Horne didn’t tell us what these were.  After a while we worked out it was living and non-living things.  Then the next day we spent some time outside photographing examples of living and non-living things.

The planter boxes have flowers in them – these are living things.

We have art work around the school to make the playground more interesting – these are non-living things.

Some children have been learning how to write a report and they are going to be writing their own report next week.

Last week we planted some seeds to grow for our class planters, and this week many of them have started to show tiny green shoots.  We have also worked some more on our planters and hope to have them ready to go on show soon.

We all think it is great to see Ms Barr starting back at Bankton and we had great fun in her lessons this week.

Mrs Lloyd’s maths group had fun in the sun today when we were outside counting in 2’s, getting into groups to show either an odd or an even number, running to the correct side of the playground when either an odd or an even number was called and using the natural environment to collect and find groups of objects and deciding if they had collected an odd or an even number.  It was a lovely morning and made maths even more fun!!