November 17, 2023
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We have started a new STEM project. Building some Steady Hand games for our Christmas Fayre. Yesterday me and my class were making steady hand games in the makerspace for the Christmas fayre. The games that buzz at you when you touch a shaped wire with a hoop. Nathaniel We were making a steady hand … Continue reading “Steady Hands Stage 1” Continue reading
November 10, 2023
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Yesterday the class joined in with the Create-a-long session broadcast in Teams by Digital NL and Education Scotland as part of #CSScotland23. We had a bit of bother with the sound, so had get caught up this morning. The session showed how to make a simple maze game with Microsoft MakeCode Arcade. The class changed … Continue reading “Arcade Fun” Continue reading
November 10, 2023
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Last Friday we went a trip to Banton Mill. The was organised by Mr Carter, Mr Morecroft & Mr Barrie. Mr Barrie is the owner of the mill which is now the headquarters of Calders and the home of around 30 businesses. Mr Carter & Mr Morecroft are local history experts. We learnt about how … Continue reading “Banton Mill” Continue reading
October 31, 2023
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We had our Halloween party on Friday last week. We took photos of all the Biggies against a green screen. Today we took the photos and used the remove.bg site to take away the green background to make transparent versions. We then found suitable background and created these images in Keynote. This allowed us to … Continue reading “HALLOWEEN MAGIC” Continue reading
October 26, 2023
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After reading Write Out: Gathering Sensory Details for Haiku on Kevin’s blog I though we could join in. We are a little late for Write Out which inspired this, on holiday last week. We watched the video embedded on Kevin’s blog and looked at his classes examples. Then we went out into the playground. A cold breeze and some … Continue reading “Autumn Haiku” Continue reading
October 13, 2023
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We ended the term with a fire pit, cooking some damper bread and marshmallows. Continue reading
October 13, 2023
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On Tuesday, as part of out outdoor learning day, the Biggies had a walk around High Banton. We are studying the way people lived in Banton in the past so went to look at the houses and landscape. We then went down one of the roads out of Banton to the mill and took some … Continue reading “A walk around High Banton” Continue reading
March 3, 2021
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We have been taking part in the e-sigol STEM activities, with Gail MacVicker. Today we planned and set up our experiments for testing fertilisers. We will try egg shells, coffee grinds, grass cuttings, tea leaves and carrot peelings. We had … Continue reading Continue reading
September 22, 2020
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Many congratulations to those pupils who celebrated their First Communion last night. It really was a beautiful Mass. Please keep in your prayers the following Primary 5 pupils who will receive their First Holy Communion in Our Lady of Good Aid Cathedral this evening: Emily McIlvanney Michael McGinnis Jared Lafferty Julia Lis Nina McCarthy Molly … Continue reading “Wednesday 23rd September 2020” Continue reading
September 22, 2020
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Primary 6/7 worked on answering word problems using their place value skills. After that we looked at items to include in our Agents of Rights Tool kit. We thought about what each item could represent and how we can use them to show people how they help us remember our rights. Continue reading
