November 28, 2023
by The Banton Biggies
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The day started with a touch of frost. Despite this we tackled the Bee hotel wild flower beds. These have become full of grass with no flowers. We have dug out the grass, and will cover them up over the winter. in spring we will seed some more will flowers. We added some sand to … Continue reading “Outdoor Learning Day” Continue reading
October 26, 2023
by The Banton Biggies
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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
by The Banton Biggies
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We ended the term with a fire pit, cooking some damper bread and marshmallows. Continue reading
October 13, 2023
by The Banton Biggies
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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
September 9, 2020
by The Banton Biggies
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IMG_3669 Yesterday we had a fire in the playground for this to go ahead we had to sit at the fire pit and we needed to have the right equipment. So we fixed the logs at the fire pit and got water kindling and the first aid kit. With all that we where ready to … Continue reading “Fire Pit Fun 🔥” Continue reading
March 20, 2020
by The Banton Biggies
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The weather is still lovely. We took advantage by going out for a photography session this morning. We tried to be creative in different ways. Continue reading
March 19, 2020
by The Banton Biggies
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We have only half a class today, but the sun is shining so we went out and wrote some poems. We wrote some lunes and kennings to describe some of the signs of spring. birds are sing Up in the bright sky Feeling the wind Alana Crocuses poem Purple blooming in the air, On the … Continue reading “Playground Poetry” Continue reading
November 29, 2019
by The Banton Biggies
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We have crammed in so much this week that it is hard to remember it all. We also were so busy that we took far fewer photos than usual. We continued our preparation for the Christmas Fayre, 3 group organising the making tree ornaments, Santa faces and some cookies. The children did really well under … Continue reading “Highlights of the Week 29-11-2019” Continue reading
November 15, 2019
by The Banton Biggies
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The Biggies are great den builder at playtime. In this wee project we made scale models of dens by making scale models of the pallets, tarps and pipes in the playground. We measured all of these in the playground, scaled the size down and made mini pallets, pipes and tarps. We used these to make model … Continue reading “Scale Model Dens” Continue reading
November 6, 2019
by The Banton Biggies
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Heather and Rhea have been putting out our nature watch birdcam. On Thursday they got over 1000 photos of birds on our feeder before the battery ran out. Mostly sparrows. Continue reading
