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September 12, 2019
by The Banton Biggies
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Junior Sports Leader’s – Hannah & Aaron

What it’s about

Junior sports leader’s is a club of p5-7’s getting coached to coach the p1-4’s to be more active and have fun.

Session 1

Julie from active schools came in to talk to us about how to be a Junior Sports Leader. We got booklets of how to be a junior sports leader. Julie quickly ran through session 1 of the booklet and then she teaches us some warm up games like Tig, What’s the time Mr Wolf and other games.

Session 2

Now Julie went onto the main games like Ice Cube where we couldn’t be seen moving. And we obviously had to start with a warmup game which was tig and we also made our own obstacle courses. And then we tidied up and we are to do session 2 in our little booklet.

September 6, 2019
by The Banton Biggies
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Highlights of the Week

As usual the Biggies have been a delightful company. Here are a few things that have stood out for me.

Jess painted a marvellous picture of a poppy. She did a brilliant job of tinting and shading.

Rhea worked very independently in literacy. She researched the meaning and pronunciation of some new words using an online dictionary, wrote sentence to show she understood the meanings and recorded her self reading the sentences showing she had learnt how to pronounce the words correctly!

We started our e-Portfolios by adding our first targets of the year. The children in primary four and five had not used e-Portfolios before. I was amazed to see that 3 of them had posted to their e-portfolios from home. Not only that they had customised their blogs even though I had only mentioned that it could be done. Well done Grace, Rhuraidh M and Alice. Grace posted a beautiful picture taken from her window, Rhuraidh some lovely ones of his family’s cat. Alice found some Red Tractor labels while food shopping after we had been talking about them in class.

August 30, 2019
by The Banton Biggies
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Biggy Monsters

We were learning to animate in keynote. We practised grouping and layering. We applied gradients and colours. We used our imagination.

There was a lot to take in and we had you use our listening skills.

We used templates from @wrightinteract, from their great site.

Click the images to see them full-sized:

Skye’s monster

Types: Art

Alana’s monster

Types: Art

Grace’s monster

Types: Art

Rhuaridh’s monster

Types: Art

Rhuraidh’s monster

Types: Art

Caelan monster

Types: Art

Hazel’s

Types: Art

Ben’s monster

Types: Art

Kristy’s monster

Types: Art

Tanya’s monster

Types: Art

Elise’s monster

Types: Art

Rhea’s Monster

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Alfred’s monster

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Jessica’s Monster animation

Types: Art

August 22, 2019
by The Banton Biggies
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Hello Biggies

We have some old and some new Biggies this year. They introduce themselves with some Bio Poems

Skye

Alana

Lara

Heather

Rhuaridh M

Elise

Hazel

Fulton

Kristy

Jessica

Alice

Tanya

Josh

Rhuaridh

Grace

Alfred

Caelan

Hannah

Rhea

Aaron

June 27, 2019
by The Banton Biggies
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A Biggie Bye Bye to Primary 7

The primary 6s and 5s told the Primary sevens what they really think of them!

We wish them all the best in their new schools next year and will miss them all here.

June 25, 2019
by The Banton Biggies
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Robot Microbit Guitar Music

Transferring Through Rectangles
Living Room
Under the Sea with the fishatron
Band
Great-tar
Green Screen
Puppy Guitar
Guitar Gangstars
Guitartastic
The Fishy Fishatron
In the Zoo
Micro:bit Madness!
The Devil Cats

We have been working on out Micro:bit guitar project.
We started by Hacking our headphones to work with the micro:bits Microbit Guitars

We made guitars with our artist skills and programmed the micro:bits to react to light and acceleration to make ‘Music” Micro:bit guitars part 2

We then make Robot masks, and video or still image backgrounds for our performance.

We videoed ourselves playing our guitars in from of the green screen and used iMovie to add these to our background Movies.

June 21, 2019
by The Banton Biggies
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Dow’s Wood in June

We had another visit to Dow’s wood today.

Our tasks were:

To take photos of flowers.
Gather tinder for firelighting.
Create shelters from some lost woodland ‘wee folk’.

Shelters for the wee people

May 30, 2019
by The Banton Biggies
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Micro:bit guitars part 2

We have been working with our micro:bit guitars. We now control them with light and acceleration, the light controls the tone and the tempo is controlled by the acceleration.

To play the micro:bits you need to move it and control the light by waving you hand over it or putting near a light source.

Today we added two bits of tin foil on our guitars, and we will use this in the nearer future to turn it off or on.

May 17, 2019
by The Banton Biggies
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K’nex Semi Final

We are very proud of two of the Biggies who reached the primary 6 semi final of the Glasgow Science Festival Creating Engineers Competition this year.