The Biggies finished their Micobit Guitar project yesterday, you can find out more on their blog:
We used micro:bits, computers, iPads, cardboard, duck tape, paint, green screen video, coding and art skills.
The Biggies Dow’s Wood
The Biggies made the last trip of the session to Dow’s wood, some pictures on the biggies’ blog:
Bubble Making!
We made the most of the good weather on Friday by experimenting outside with bubble making. It took great team work, and a lot of experimenting with strategies and ratios to create these HUGE bubbles. It was great fun stepping inside the bubbles too.
K’nex Semi final
Fire Pit, burring Marshmallows
The Biggies had another afternoon round the fire pit. They are beginning to develop their knowledge of how to stay safe while building and lighting fires. They also know how to overcook marshmallows!
You can read their thoughts on the Biggies’ Blog:
Kilsyth Academy Primary Transition Athletics 2019
Our Primary Sevens were part of a joint team with Chapelgreen at this event yesterday.
The Team came second overall with the Banton pupils giving a strong performance. We brought home 3 firsts: boy’s 600m and both girl’s and boy’s long jump. A strong showing for such a small team. Well done all!
K’nex Challenge
Today we went to the k’nex challenge at Kilsyth academy and we had to build a go cart and it had to have 4 wheels 1 seat 25 cm tall and 30cm wide or under. And you had to make it have a steering mechanism to turn. And there was 7 schools and we came 1ST!!! Then Ballmaloch was the runner up aka 2nd place. And I got sweets and 2 pencils and so did Fulton. But the other Banton team lost a mark because their cart was to wide. But they got 3rd!!!
You can see more pictures of the event on Kilsyth Academy’s Blog
Outdoor Literacy and Baking for Maths
P1-3 have had an action packed day!
We went on a scavenger hunt following the clues which led us to letters. We unscrambled the letters to find where Teddy has hiding and had a lovely picnic in the morning sun.
For maths, we put our measuring skills to use. We used the scales to weigh out all the ingredients and baked some yummy cookies. We even cleaned up too!
This afternoon we played parachute games for P.E and made a PowerPoint of a Rainforest animal.
World Book Day
It is World Book Day on Thursday 7th March. The pupils met at assembly and discussed what they would like to do. Primary 4-7 pupils then had the opportunity to create some flyers to advertise our school event.
We hope that all pupils will support World Book Day by coming to school in PJ’s or comfy clothes for the day so we can take time to enjoy reading together and share stories. Please see the flyers the pupils created for all the information you need!
JRSO Speed Watch
Our JRSOs took some of the pupils out today to use the speed guns. We measured the speed of traffic coming into the village at the 30mph and then again when it goes to 20mph. We found that most drivers were going at around the speed limit, some above and some below. We hope that they can remember to slow down when coming into our village.
