A big ‘thank you’ to Mr. Henderson for welcoming us to his farm. We learned a lot about caring for the animals- we even had a go at feeding some lambs. This is part of our topic to find out about People who Work in our Community- we wanted to know how the land around Banton is used.
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When the primary sevens where away we made bottle rockets. We got all of the things we needed. We needed a bottle something to make the wings out of, a cone ,a pump, water and a cork.
We got the bottle and glue gunned the wings to it so that it will go higher. We then got a bit of paper and cut a circle and made a cut into the middle and made it into a cone. And we stuck it on the bottom we the decorated it a little. We then made stand for it we had a cup and cut a hole in it and pushed the pump through we then had to put some marbles to weigh it down.
We then took it outside and before we filled it with 500 ml of water then put a cork with a hole in it in the bottle and then we attached the pump to it. You have to pump it quick and fast and then it shoots up to the sky.
Zara
Bottle rocket
When the primary 7s were away the 6s made a bottle rocket it worked pretty well. We brung in a bottle each but we ended up doing the one we got all the materials we needed then started.
We needed a 2l bottle, a cone out of card, a strong material for the rocket wings, a cork and a pump. We used a glue gun and stuck the wings on the bottle we cut a circle out of card then put a cut into the middle. We used duck tape and used seletape. To stick the cone into the bottle of the bottle and checked it was the right size. Both of us had to make something to keep it standing so we used a full tub of marbles into the cup. We put a hole onto the cork so it was the right fitting for the pump. One of us hooded the rocket and the other one of us put 500ml of water Into the bottle.
Then we took it outside and took a few attempts it worked but every time Mr. Johnston had done it it went higher and higher the last time when the primary 2-5 came out.
Emma
Today we were lucky enough to have a visitor come to school to help us plant fuschias for the Flower Show at the start of the new school year. The variety we planted was “Patio Princess”. We hope the plants grow big and strong so we have plenty to enter into the Banton Flower Show.
We finished our health week with some activities about food including a BBQ. We thought about hygiene and safety issues when p repairing food. We also kept ourselves safe around fire.
We had great fun on Sports Day 2017, lots of exciting finished and great sportsmanship from all of the pupils. The weather held and the spectators enjoyed coffee and croissants.
Photos: Logan Primary 5
Last Wednesday we went down to Andrew Dows wood to see the different things about spring there were loads of animals and nature. Mr and Mrs Carter took us because they knew a lot more than we know about nature and animals. There was much to learn, about loads of parts in the woods. We learned about some birds and we heard more than we saw.
Emma
The insects we saw, there were butterflies. One species was orange tip. the difference between then are the males have the little bronze bit at the tip of their wings and the females have a light green bit under their wings. We saw dancing midges that do not bite but other midges will bite. We saw bees getting pollen.
Aaliyah
We saw yellow gorse bush and it smelled like coconuts.
We also saw bluebells and butter cups and a king cup which is bigger than a butter cup and grows in the marsh.
We also saw violets and lots of lovely beeees!!!!!!
Collecting pollen and nectar. We saw cherry blossom.
We saw a tree that was giant it was in school woods. We got three people to stand around the tree and link arms and measure how long our arms together would be together and it came to about 5 meters. We then put our arm 45 degrees until it looked like we touched the top of the tree then we took about meter steps and how many steps we took it would be the height of the tree and we got 25 so the tree is about 25 meters high. It grows 2 cm a year. The trees we saw were beech trees, birch trees, Rowen trees , hawthorn trees and blossoming trees.
Zara & Islay
We heard loads of birds even some from Africa like the blackcap and chiffchaff. The reason why the blackcap is called this name is because it has Markings on its face like a blackcap on your head and it is the same with the chiffchaff it is called the chiffchaff because they make a noise that says chiffchaff. There was also a buzzard flying over the area scanning it for prey to eat. We also heard a great tit saying teacher.
Emily
Awe took advantage of the weather to get out and discuss how to solve long division calculations.
I a quick play with the newish clips app at lunch time, I hope the Biggies will be able to make better movies than this.
A busy day for P1-4. We have to give a big ‘thank you’ to JB Bennett who welcomed us today. We found out all about how houses are built. They’ve even built a castle-what a surprise!They were very kind and gave us all high vis vests and hard hats. Mrs Inglis was very impressed by how much we remembered about building. Move over Bob the Builder – now WE can fix it!
We had a visit from the SSPCA who told us to find out about pets before we get one .P1-4 made an information leaflet. Maybe you have seen us out and about delivering our leaflet in the village.
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