The Oldest Class in Banton Primary
The Biggies made a spring visit to Dow’s wood on Thursday afternoon. The sun shone and it was a lovely day. We started by gathering photos of mini beasts for our primary 1-2-3 pals. We will share that next week.
We also spent some time drawing the early bluebells, siting in the quiet and sun dappled slopes.
On Tuesday the Biggies set up some spring art.
Yesterday afternoon we were doing art with different materials like paint, pencil and pastels. There was different stations for the different materials and there was 2 pencils station one you have to look at what you see and the other is the idea of the flower.
I liked the pencil arts more than the others because the lines were thin, it was easier to draw and I could add more details.
I liked painting but not as much as drawing on pencil. I liked painting because I could put different shades on top of each over and I could choose if it was thin or thick.
Alexia
I prefer the chalk pastels over the oil pastels because I thought they felt a bit like crayons but they were a bit more precise than the chalk pastels but the chalk pastels I could blend. I also used them together and it looked really good. I really liked the paint because I think it was easy to use and it looked really good. Out of all of them I think I like pencil the best because it is easier to do the details and my favourite picture is the idea of the thing because I could add stuff that wasn’t there.
Juliet
I liked my experiment drawing because it was free I did not dislike anything about this material.
Next time I will try more details.
I think more time would help
Noah
There was two types of pastels oil and chalk, there was only one table for pastels we had to draw a bluebell. I enjoyed doing the pastels because I got to blend the colours together with my fingers to create shadows. I enjoyed drawing with the oil pastels because I liked the texture of it.
Billie
What I liked about my paint art was it turned out to be good but it was a little bit squinty. What I liked about my pastel art was I smudged to add detail.
What I liked about my pencil art was I drew very carefully.
Xander
Mr Johnston told us to think about what we liked and disliked about each of the materials. My favourite was the pastels, there were 2 types of pastels we used chalk pastels and oil pastels, I liked the chalk ones. I like the chalk pastels because of the way it feels to draw with them, it has a nice wee feeling in your body. There where a lot of differences between the materials, some of them are paints are a lot more smooth, pastels are messy and smudgy and pencil is simple and nice. I like the ones that are less smooth because you can really feel the drawing, the only ones that have that are pencils and pastels.
Robert
I enjoyed them all the were fun and nice to experience them all in different ways.
I enjoyed the painting the most cause it was a bit more relaxing than the others but I’m not saying the others were bad I just enjoyed that more.
The paint felt different than the others but I’m because you used it in a different way that made it feel delicate. Then the pencil felt smooth gliding around the paper it felt amazing. Also the pastels felt weird the first felt like very chunky crayon and chalk mixed together.
Tony
I think my drawing from what you see was quite detailed, if I had more time I could have added a bit more detail though. It was really fun drawing from what you see, because you then get to see what a flower actually looks like.
Drawing the blossom art was really fun and I would definitely do it again, and it is also quite calming to just sit there and draw. The teachers also get some quiet time.
Chloe
On Monday this week we had a meeting with Dr Graham Kerr who works at NASA in the USA.
On Monday this week we had a meeting with Dr Graham Kerr who works at NASA in the USA. Dr Kerr originally comes from quite close to Banton, about half an hour drive away!
Dr Kerr tooks us through an explanation of his work on Sun, solar activity, solar probes and lots more. He told us some incredible facts.
He also answered our questions on a whole host of space related facts.
After the meeting I asked the Biggies to do some research and create some art on anything that had caught their interest. They have worked really hard both in school and at home!
As today is the last day beforethe holidays, we spent some time making the solar system in Minecraft. Some of the builds were really inventive. The Sun, planets, astronauts and more. Juliet even had hollow planets with information boards inside.
For the Last six weeks the Biggies have been working in the MakerSpace with Artist Eilidh Manton.
This week we had a dash for the finish ending with a Exhibition in the Playground for the rest of the school.
For the Last six weeks the Biggies have been working in the MakerSpace with Artist Eilidh Manton.
You can see some of the progress on earlier posts.
This week we had a dash for the finish ending with a Exhibition in the Playground for the rest of the school.
I am incredibly proud of the way the children worked over the weeks. Especially on talking to Eilidh. She was very impressed at the children’s practical skills, the way they solved problems and their ability to talk about what they were doing and learning.
The class were especially impressive talking about their work to the other pupils and staff in the playground Exhibition.
Today the pupils continued to impress by writing about their projects. Some wrote about the technical details, some about the feeling and some wrote poems. All the writing below is by the artists.
I wrote a wee poem for ye
The auld swan shall come Tae me
Doon the wee canal
Ye may see it come round Tae ye
The auld swan shall come Tae me
I chose a swan because when I think of Banton i think about nature and in Banton there is a pond with swans in it so that’s why I did it. I also chose it because I like swans and think they are cool. I like this idea and enjoyed making it.
My creation represents jealousy.
It makes me happy when I look at it when I am jealous.
Its leaves are green like nature.
The leaves are crunchy when I step on the leaves.
When I look at the animals they are cute.
They are very fluffy and furry.
The birds are very noisy alll the time.
The trees are full of apples.
The apples are very tasty.
The forest is always there for me.
I made the water mill because I wanted to make some more complicated. I made a mechanism that made it spin round. It was hard to hot glue the curved cardboard.
My creation makes me feel accomplished.
A few weeks ago we started art in the makerspace. An artist named Eilidh Manson came in to do some art with us. We made some sketch books. I didn’t actually choose it. Mr Johnston showed me how to make a tree trunk. I made a tree but I made a leap of logic and it gave me a super lit idea so I made a forest. When I cut the cardboard it was a bit stiff. It was easy to make animal figurines. The finished project made me feel happy.
They where called spittles it took a couple weeks to do but I done it (hardly). Tt was hard at bits I used creative thinking, problem thinking And more. Then I made a susy and peep-corn they both hard to made. The materials I needed were cardboard, fabric and more!!
Once boxes and bags,
Now a tall Cherry tree,
And branches inside can’t you see.
Tissue paper flowers and packaging paper bark.
Held together by glue and duct tape and things like that.
Some real branches hiding,
They blend in so well,
you nearly can’t tell,
It’s a cardboard tree.
The flavour of door toes is like fire, burns your tongue more than a ghost pepper nothing else can beat it in spice.
Prongles is the biggest snack you can have it holds world records with it, it never expires you will love it especially the new giant flavour even bigger that the big flavour so EAT NOW.
The Swan is nice and relaxing,
The cam seats are so calm,
The atmosphere is quiet,
A wee nice feeling roams the air.
I made the swan (pub/bar/restaurant) because I felt like it really symbolised Banton in a good way. The community made it a nice place to eat or drink at.
It makes me feel happy, calm, and bit sad and a wee bit nervous. I feel happy because I finally finished the project. I feel calm because now I don’t have to juggle all the thoughts of what to do next in my head and sad because Eilidh Madison (who helped us build it) will not come back. I also feel nervous because it might collapse. I feel quite good.
Why I made it
I chose to build the shed and the tools inside it because at the start before we built anything I was struggling for ideas. I thought of tools outside in the playground and I thought of a shovel. Then after I built the shovel I built a broom then a bucket then the shed.
Exhibition
My class displayed the things we have been working on for the past few weeks. We told everyone about how we made it, features, why we made it and more like what’s above. Everyone liked the exhibition. It was very fun. Some things gone wrong but we had a great time. The exhibition was a success in the end.
