June 27, 2018
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June 26, 2018
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Hannah, Rhea and Max have made the summer edition of the Banton Basher. It is 50p and it has got more pages than the last one.
If you want one bring your 50p in by Thursday the 28th of June 2018.
June 25, 2018
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Burn adventure
Today the biggies went on an adventure to a burn in Banton. The burn was at our teacher assistants garden which was massive. As soon as we got there we took of our shoes or trainers and put on wellies because it was very went and slippery even though the sun was out and everyone nearly died in the heat of the sun.
After that we went into the very shallow burn where we thought there would be nothing so the we picked up our nets and went into the burn in our groups. In our groups we had lots of fun and found lots of disturbing, disgusting also weird creatures and bugs. At the end we regrouped and headed over to a brick wall where we put down a container that was filled with water and creatures where half of the stuff we never even knew what they were. We looked at everyone’s containers to see what bugs and creatures we all found in our groups and the most disturbing creatures that we found was in Emily’s and Aaliyah’s tub. Heather heard some grasshoppers and there was loads but we could only hear them not see them. After a bit of an adventure in the grass looking for them heather finally fought one and we got a container and put it in there gently and put a lid on it so we could see then after 10minutes she released it back into the wild.
Mrs. Gray the teacher’s assistant bought lots of food and drink she bought diluted juice for us and crisps and lollies that were tiny and still took us a long, long time to finish. Then she gave us even more sweeties and it was soooooo generous of her.
When we had all cooled down and finished we went back out to play in the boiling hot sun and we took out different equipment, there was a parachute and a rugby ball also a tiny ball for hand ball that everybody loved and didn’t use for hand ball. After quite a lot of chaos we packed up and nearly left but then there were Mrs. Gray’s dogs that were the cutest and most of us couldn’t resist patting them and wanting to take them home there was a pug called Freddy and two westies that were so cuddly and fluffy after a lot of persuading we left and we were about to die of heat and soreness on the way back eventually we made it!!!
By Emily and Emma 
June 25, 2018
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Dippy’s naturenauts is an immersive experience designed to help children explore, understand and care about the natural world around them.
Dippy the dinosaur and Fern the fox will guide your child on mini adventures in nature. Along the way, they’ll discover the colourful side of nature, learn about the UK’s native birds, flowers and trees – and hear stories from the Jurassic period, too.
We have use the app a little round the playground here is what some of the pupils thought.
What the app does
Lets you find nature feel nature and learn more about it.
How I got on
I got on well on doing the colour game. I found all the things like red=spinning top yellow=butter cup brown=tree green=grass and purple=flower thank you for making this app.
What I think about the game
It’s a very good game for letting people see more nature.
By Heather p4
The naturenauts game is one when you scan things and look for things in the wild.
I thought it was great because it worked smoothly but when you scan the colours is has to be exactly red e.c.t
When I used it I done the colour scan thing and I done the bird one too ( I didn’t see the birds at that moment but I have seen them before ).
Max P.5
Naturenauts is a cool app about getting kids excited about going outside. The app is mostly about nature that’s why it has got nature in its name. It’s a kids game about trying to get kids interested in nature and getting them outside rather than playing all day on there phones.
I think the game could move a bit smoother because the camera needs to be a little less laggy and it could use a bit more explanation on how to use the camera also it kept glitching me back to the start on the first few games of colours. Overall I think it was a cool and fun app but it needs to be a little more adjusted to the lag.
Emma, P7
The app is a good way for kids to go outside and explore the world outside. It was a good way to get some exercise and have fun.
I got on ok. I think that some people and I found it a little hard taking the pictures cause we all thought that you had to tap the screen to take the picture when you didn’t need to do that at all.
I found it fun but my camera kept on freezing and it was driving me bonkers but I really enjoyed it. It was good.
Hannah p.6
We got to play the app naturenauts. The game is about going out and recognising things and just noticing what’s around you in nature. There is lots of different things you can do like go on a colour hunt or look for certain trees and flowers.
I logged on and a thing I liked was that you got to name yourself and make a character. Then it just asks you a few questions like do you like nature and do you agree to be a naturenaut.
I played the colour hunt I liked it because I got to go around and find natural things with different colours even though I struggled with purple. At first I didn’t understand about taking the picture because I thought you had to press the button to take the picture and I thought that I was taking pictures of random things so I kept cancelling out and going back in again. Shortly I realised that it automatically took a picture when it saw the things. After that it was pretty easy to use.
Zara p7
June 15, 2018
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We have made a mynaturewatch camera which we are using to take pictures of the birds in the playground.
The biggies also had a bit of fun with a cheeky jackdaw:
September 5, 2017
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The Pub: People United Banton
Mr. Hastie who is a architect came into the school to ask us about ideas for the Pub.
He is working on ideas to improve the PUB.
We went to the hall and listened to what he had to say.
Some things people wanted were soft plays, fresh food, post office, cafes and sitting areas. Some people drew what they wanted. He said some of our ideas were the same as the adults ideas.
They told us that they met up with the adults so they could get the adults ideas too. They were pictures up on the display board So we got a strip of stickers to put on the pictures. We voted for what we thought was best, there were loads on wifi.
We then had to think of ways of making money. I thought it was a good idea to get parcels delivered there. Then you would have to pay to get it delivered there then they would get the money.
Mr Hastie said he’s going to consider the ideas it was an amazing time and we all enjoyed it.
bye Emma and Zara 
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September 5, 2017
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Last Wednesday the biggies went a walk down dows woods. It was quite a nice day. We saw lots of different things. On the way To the woods we saw ash trees with helicopters people were throwing them about. We then got down to the start of the woods there was loads of squishy mud. It was quite dark at some points because of all the trees were above us
We walked down a bit further there was some fire weed I got a picture of a bee on one of them. As we were walking people were picking up brambles and leaves. We found a rainbow leaf. Whatever group got the most leaves got group points. We then saw 2 butterflies they were a red admiral and a peacock. Mr Johnston got a really good photo of them.
We then had to turn back because we didn’t know how long it would take and we didn’t have much time left. On the grass we found a road it was so small. We then kept going and we eventually got back to the start and we went back to the school and saw the things we collected. We looked at the pictures we took some of them were really nice. We had had a great walk and then we had to get lunch.
September 1, 2017
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Our den!
In side our den we have 2 pallets and 2 sticks a cover for the floor a box for the sign a bench to keep it up. We have to seats a pillow a little hidden we are going to put a cover for our hidden bit. We have a bin and a treasure spot we want to extend it we have friends helping us at the building.
– Aaliyah
Outside our den we have 1 pallet and a bench holding it up. Then we have a pallet at the back of our den witch is holding it up the we put some covers over it and put some sticks inside.
– Emily
We will be looking forward to what we will do soon!
July 6, 2017
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on the 06/07/17, mum, my brother and I, went to the Ulsta pier, next to the ferry terminal. we waited for every body to come, then a man came he told us he was called Rory, It was very exciting.
Fun Facts that you need to know about if you’re looking for otters
Facts about otter poo
Later on we actually saw an otter! It caught a big prey so it swam up to the shore to eat it, we had to be really quiet and be as still as we could manage, so we would not scare away the otter, I had a look through Rory’s big telescope, the otter was eating some kind of white fish, I enjoyed learning about how to find otters, and also looking at a real otter.
June 26, 2017
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Back in April the Biggies wrote poems for the Kilsyth Rotary Club competition. The Primary 7’s recited their’s at their leavers assembly last week and did a great job.
The competition winners were Callum, Fergie, Zara and Aaliyah, but I think they are all great.
Primary 7 reflections
I know just about everything, now that I know about…
Multiplication of maths, equivalent fractions.
What art can’t you do, its up to you,
Don’t go to far back in Banton history,
Doing art and drawing totem poles, learning songs in german,
Lots of flips that make you fall, forward rolls in the wall.
Art that is part of life,
Respect about the different religions.
How many things can you learn about the same thing.
Having the best birthday, And the blasting science,
And that really weird thing about not sleeping.
Alex
I know just about everything, now that I know about …. Tic tac guns, PowerPoints.
Garage bands music and instruments.
How many German songs can you learn.
Light and sound, different religions.
Watching opt art spin you into hypnosis.
Learning poems by Rabbie Burns.
Why you can’t see sound, or touch an active light bulb. Easy sums and word problems.
Sum dog and school bo.
Difference between a circle and a sphere. And that really weird thing about yammer.
Callum
I KNOW JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING NOW THAT I KNOW ABOUT FLOWER PICTURES GERMAN SONGS,
POEMS, COLOURS, QUESTIONS AND TOTEM POLES.
3D SHAPES, FRACTIONS,
ADDING SUMMARIES AND GYMNASTICS, TENNIS AND DAILY MILES,
SOUND, LIGHT, GERMAN COLOURS AND EASTER ART. AND THAT WEIRD THING ABOUT RABBIE BURNS.
EMILY
I know just about everything now that I know about……
German music, Scottish dancing,
Getting messy with paper mache,
Making strange animations,
Remembering the correct names for shapes, Noisy experiments, bright torches,
Learning German words for
Food, drink, farm animals and pets, Organising games for the class, Totem poles of our personality, Forgetting capital letters,
Weird creatures in the water, Dividing giant numbers,
And the weird thing about our eyes.
Zara
I know just about everything, now I know about…. Glow and blogs,
Liquids and solids, gymnastics, rolls, funnest games,
Horrible exhausting dance, lead a game, Flower show art, totem pole,
German, Scottish different songs,
Light beaming, sound blasting,
Small Banton map, look around to learn,
Post blogs show learning,
Animal booklet, trailer to show,
Equivalent fractions too easy, division numbers,
And the really weird thing about new words and strategies.
Emma
I know just about everything, now that I know
about …
Liquids and soiled,
Shining torches into mirrors,
Tam O’ Shanter and Banton in the past.
Mirrors and mining,
Watching videos,
On a big tv.
Why you should never play with lighters and
fire,
Easter art and posters.
Flowers for the flower show,
Simplifying fractions adding numbers,
And the weird thing was about the daily mile.
Adam
I know just about everything now i know about… 3D shapes and adding fractions,
Turning fractions equally,
Reading, spelling and sentences,
Tam O’Shanter and light.
Speech marks and joint writing, Learning about giraffes and rhinos,
PE, ICT and the big TV.
iPads and division.
And that really weird thing about hippos
Alexander
I know just about everything now that I know about German pets, food and drinks,
Doing pencil rolls across a mat, running round the playground and park 4 times,
Joint writing, visualisation, inference,
Pugs, Golden Labradors and German Shepherds Facts, Scottish facts, Scottish dancing,
Totem pole art, Easter art and colourful flower art, And that really weird thing about how we see.
Ava
I know just about everything now that I know about ….
Running to the rhythm,
Badly bending, daring daily mile.
Pleasant poems, silly scratch,
Adventures art jazzy junior leader.
Naked miners, Complicated glow,
And that really weird thing about peanuts the phesant.
Islay
I know just about everything now that…
I know about maths is not about cupcakes and rainbows.
I know About butterflies at Easter and Tam O’shanter.
We work in the mines and learnt, About light and shadow.
And that weird thing is maths is not fun.
Ellie
I know about everything. Now that I know about…. Fitness and games, scratch.
Spiders that turns wasps into lunch.
How many Scottish dances can you learn.
Tennis and Slingshots.
Watching the world through google cardboard.
Fixing mini motors on our little model cars.
Why you must never break your arm because you can’t do gym.
Fails of models cars and slingshots too. Scott’s music, Jammy dodgers.
Tam’O Shanter , Visualisation
And that really weird thing about mining.
Luke
I know about everything now I know about …
Right angles, miners candles ,
Songs that tell stories.
The hundreds of different poems,
Easter art, paper flowers,
Reading between the lines,
Building a self powered car
How some op art bulges.
Hats and candles on miners,
Instructional writing and visualising Billy,
Difficult sums, hard word problems ,
Tam O’Shanter’s ghosts.
And that really weird thing about shapes.
FERGIE
I know just about everything Now I know about … German music, how to work scratch.
Why light can’t go thought everything in the world. Op art is just strange!
Daily mile, dancing,
A colour where going round and round making another colour. Summaries I really don’t understand.
Sports, shapes
And the weird thing about naked miners.
Aaliyah
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