I was really glad to see all the children back in class this week. We have taken a fairly gentle start to getting back into routine. Everyone settled down really well and are working and playing enthusiastically. Quite a few children seem to have grown an inch or two over lockdown.
On Tuesday we started a new project on Robotics, the Primary 7s are working on the First Lego League challenge and have spent a bit of time starting their first tasks and getting their heads round all the boxes and elements of the challenge. The Team will have to use teamwork, innovate and investigate values while building lego, programming robots and solving problems.
Meanwhile the primary sixes are working on programming micro:bit move robots. I was really please by how well they remembered and used their micro:bit skills and worked independently. I am looking forward to seeing them learn more coding and apply that to some maths and problem solving.
On Wednesday we went for a walk to Dow’s wood. We were looking for signs of spring, there are not too many about yet. Some trees, hawthorn are starting to put out leaves and we found some hazel catkins. It was a beautiful, clear day. After some adventures in the mud the class had a game of hide and seek. Back in school we have been recording our afternoons in individual ways, showing lots of creativity.
There have been plenty of other things going on this week, some good writing, accurate maths and brilliant fielding. I am looking forward to next week.
Formal methods and some fractions in the playground.
Make sure you check out the classrooom early in the week and choose some interesting learning. Post work you do to the Share Learning Area on our Team.
Remember the virtual classroom page, you might find it easier to use than this page, it links to most of the places you need.
Hopefully this is the last week before we get back to school. I am really looking forward to seeing you all again on the 15th of March.
If you sent a podcast script please record your section on Monday. I’ve put the finished scripts into the BBP channel in Teams. Listen to your recording, keep is slow, expressive and clear. e-mail it to me on Monday.
Organise your week. You should be doing maths and literacy every day. If you think of that as your morning work you should plan other activities for the afternoons.
In preparation for coming back to school please think aboutDUMTUMS and making your jotter work as neat as possible.
Banton Primary School Fairtrade Home Learning 1-5 March 2021
As part of our whole school learning about Fairtrade, please use this grid to pick an activity every day for this week. If you have a brother or sister learning at home with you then you can complete these activities together. Don’t forget to send your work to me in teams! Fairtrade Home Learning Grid
Make sure you check out the classrooom early in the week and choose some interesting learning. Post work you do to the Share Learning Area on our Team.
This week: you could post something you are proud of doing. Perhaps some Art, your writing from Wednesday or Fairtrade work.
Hi Biggies,
Meetings this week:
Monday 11:00
Wednesday 13:30
Friday: 11:00
Remember the virtual classroom page, you might find it easier to use than this page, it links to most of the places you need.
Last week there was a much better uptake of ReadTheory, and quite a lot of DUMTUMs, keep this up and try to rack up some points on Sumdog for the competition!
I am also hoping that you will spend some literacy time writing scripts for the podcast (more about that in the Monday meeting).
Organise your week. You should be doing maths and literacy every day. If you think of that as your morning work you should plan other activities for the afternoons.. This week I hope you will do one Fairtrade activity every day.
Make sure you check out the classrooom early in the week and choose some interesting learning. Post work you do to the Share Learning Area on our Team.
This week: you could post something you are proud of doing. Perhaps some Art, your writing from Wednesday or Mary Queen of Scots.
Hi Biggies,
Meetings this week:
Monday 2:00pm
Wednesday 11 am
Friday: 11am
I’ve added a virtual classroom to the site, you might find it easier to use than this page, it links to most of the places you need.
Can we please think about 3 simple things every day this week. DUMTUMS, Sumdog & Read Theory.
Organise your week. You should be doing maths and literacy every day. If you think of that as your morning work you should be doing around 10 activities over the week.
Make sure you check out the classrooom early in the week and choose some interesting learning. Post work you do to the Share Learning Area on our Team.
This week: you could post something you are proud of doing. Perhaps some Art, your writing from Wednesday or Mary Queen of Scots.
I’ve added a virtual classroom to the site, you might find it easier to use than this page, it links to most of the places you need.
Have a good think about how you are going to organise the week. You should be doing maths and literacy every day. If you think of that as your morning work in the afternoon you should be doing around 10 activities.
After our half term holiday we have a two day week! We are going to use these days to explore 4 different topics.
Click on the images to get more information on each topic.
We will be trying to evaluate our own learning. In each topic there are one two learning tasks for each one you need to record the amount of time you spend on the task, your effort and the quality of your work. You could set it out in a table like this. Add this to your e-Portfolio.
In addition you should continue to do 20 minutes Sumdog and a Read Theory Quiz every day.
We will have 2 short meetings on Thursday at 11:30am and Friday at 11:30am to discus the topics further.
Before the first meeting make sure to look over the 4 topics. Bring any questions along.
Make sure you check out the classrooom early in the week and choose some interesting learning. Post work you do to the Share Learning Area on our Team.
Again we got a lot of work handed in last week, well done. Can you try and check on any comments that I add. It can be quite hard to find them, but I’ve put a very short video below to show you how.
Creativity is contagious. Pass it on
Albert Einstein
If you are having trouble or can’t manage to get through the learning, please let me know.
I’ve added a virtual classroom to the site, you might find it easier to use than this page, it links to most of the places you need.
The meeting on Monday will be to celebrate Robert Burns, can you look at the Robert Burns 2021 page in the morning, there are some tasks to do in preparation for the meeting so leave yourself time.
North Lanarkshire Digital Classroom.Note this is a new link. Make sure you check out the classrooom early in the week and choose some interesting learning. Post work you do to the Share Learning Area on our Team.
This week: you could post your louse picture, your Mary Queen of Scots research or something else you are proud of learning.
Hi Biggies,
We got a lot of work handed in this week, well done. Can you try and check on any comments that I add. It can be quite hard to find them, but I’ve put a very short video below to show you how.
The meeting on Monday will be to celebrate Robert Burns, can you look at the Robert Burns 2021 page in the morning, there are some tasks to do in preparation for the meeting so leave yourself time.
This week we will have meetings on Monday at 2pm, Wednesday at 11am and Friday at 11am
North Lanarkshire Digital Classroom. Make sure you check out the classrooom early in the week and choose some interesting learning. Post work you do to the Share Learning Area on our Team
This week: post your Shanarri poster and your maths poster on how people pay for items or services.
Hi Biggies,
It was great seeing so many of you in the Meetings last week. I hope we can keep this up and solve the technical problems for everyone!
This week we will have meetings on Monday at 11am, Wednesday at 2pm and Thursday or Friday TBA
I’ll be in school Tuesday and Friday so might not respond straightway in Teams.
I’ve reorganised the learning for this week. The table above will lead to different posts for different groups. I’ve also explained what to do on each day. I’ll add more to some of the posts during the week so check every day.
This is not the way I would want to start the term but I know you will do your best. We are going to start slowly making sure everyone can use the technology from home.
We will use this blog as the main way of listing the learning you will need to do. We will use Teams to hand in work and our e-Portfolios to think about and record important steps in learning.
You will be able to arrange to pick up your iPad if you need a device for school work. You all have been using Teams on your iPads in school, so should be able to use that to hand in work and come to meetings. If you have trouble with your own devices make sure you get your iPad.
We should be in a much better place for home learning this time. We have practiced adding work to Assignments in Teams, and you all have excellent ICT skills.
The most important thing you can do this week is to make a plan. You are going to need a couple of hours for learning every day, as well as time for any Teams meetings. You need to think where and when you are going to do this. Can you find a quiet space in your home? Can you make sure you have everything you need? It may help to make a schedule.
Please try to do all of the activities this week. It is not a full week’s work but it will let us troubleshoot any problems. Handing things in in Teams Assignments will be a good test of the technology. If you have problems we can find ways to work around things. Get in touch if you have any problems. You can chat in teams. Email me at gw09johnstonjohn4@glowmail.org.uk or your parent or carer can phone the school and I will phone them back.
We will try 3 teams meetings: Monday 2pm, Wednesday 2pm and Friday 11 am. These will be short this week, just to explain things and to check everyone can get connected and that the technology is working.
If you need more work you can head over to the NLC digital classroom. Your parents or carers will have the code and details to let you join that team. You can send me work in Teams if you want me to see what you have done.
This week: please post to your e-Portfolio your plans for lockdown learning. Where you will work, and how you will organise your time.
Reading Green & Blue Groups
This week: spend some time in the epic library. Read some short books and browse through the library.
By the end of the week you should have chosen a chapter book that you want to read.
Go to Search, then choose Books. In the English Language Arts section there is a Chapter Books & Novels section. Find one you like.
Do this Prior Knowledge Exercise.
You can choose a book of your own that you have not read if you like.
Reading Yellow Group
There are 2 books assigned to you in Epic. Open the app and find the books.
Monday: listen to one of the books. Make a list of any tricky words.
Tuesday: Read the book you listened to on Monday aloud. Write sentences with the tricky words you found on Monday.
Wednesday: Listen to the other book. Draw a picture to go with the book. Write the book’s title below your picture.
Thursday: Read the second book aloud.
Friday: Choose a page or two that you like from one of the books and record yourself reading in Voice Memos. Email the audio to me. Help on emailing audio.
Maths Daily Practice
Daily Practice, do this at least. If you think you are weak at something do more (eg tables!!)
Monday: Gimme Some Sums: Do 1 addition, 1 subtraction, 1 multiplication and 1 division sum. Choose ones that you can do but are not too easy.
Tuesday: Sumdog
Wednesday: Do a Speed Test for your tables.
Thursday: Sumdog
Friday: Free Choice of above
Maths Measure Revision
Before Christmas we were learning about measure, length, area, perimeter and volume.
Here is a video going over the concepts. Please do the worksheets below and submit them to Assignments in our class Team.
We are going to studying Mary Queen of Scots this term.
Watch this BBC video. What does that make you think of Mary? Make some notes and bring them to the Team meeting on Friday.
What do you know about Mary ? Does anyone in your family know anything? Make notes and bring them to the Team meeting on Friday.
French
Revise your French numbers 70-100 by watching this video:
Now, write these numbers in French: 81, 75, 99, 87, 100, 73, 84 and 92. Try to write them without looking at the video!
P.E
Design a set of 5 exercises for yourself.
Do them every day, see how many you can do in a minute.
Make a table to record them in your jotter or Notes.
Do you get better as the week goes on?
Hand in the table on Friday afternoon in the Team’s Assignment.
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This week post about your learning in Maths, there are details on the maths pages for Friday. 
