The Tallest Class in Banton Primary
We have been reading a couple of poems called I come from by Robert Seattar and Dean Atta. We found them on the Breadalbane Academy P7 Poetry Blog where that class has written some poems too.
We wrote our own, they are pretty great:
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We are having a nice end of term.
We had out Christmas party this week, slightly quieter than usual, as we had to stick to our bubbles. The Biggies managed to enjoy themselves. My favourite part is watching some of the pupils being wrapped up.
Episode 3 of the Banton Biggies Podcast came out this week. The pupils are organising, writing, recording and editing this by themselves.
We have been decorating or tree using or digital and maths skills, 3 D shapes and microbit driven decoration:
We also belatedly joined in the #12sketchesofchristmas and learned a fair bit about using Sketches for School on out iPad.
We took our Micro:bit games a little further today. Working on Game Over animation (we had Y-M-C-A, dancing and dying) and code for losing lives as opposed to counting touches.
The Class also started to think about designing games using the same ideas.
As part of our eco schools program the whole school was out and about picking up litter. The biggies were tasked with covering the surrounds of the school and the play park.
Despite the weather we got wrapped up, put on hi vis vests and protective gloves and go busy.
After we got back to class we estimated our weights and weighed our rubbish.
After working on some basic circuits we had a challenge today. To make a steady hands game.
The class worked really well on this, working in partners, using nearly all of the skill we could thing of. In particular, practical, communication, creativity and problem solving. We ended up with 100% success and 1 very proud teacher.
The Pupils have been working really hard on the podcast. They have created a website, scripted, recorded and edit the first episode. Different pupils were involved in different roles, production, publicity & sponsorship. We are learning a lot about organisation and planning.
Primary 6 & 7 have been working on their basketball skills with Miss Meechan. This week she asked them to make some videos to show what they have been learning.
We were working on self awareness, dribbling, shooting and working with others.
We played King of the Castle to warm up. King of the Ring helps with awareness and ball control and defence. Aim practise from different angles. One on One helps with defending and attacking, you don’t stop.
We also played no-net basketball, where a person is a net!
The Biggies have been really busy getting their podcast off the ground.
Banton Biggies Podcast – The Banton Biggies Podcast Site!
Where you can here Episode 0
The class have been busy organising themselves, making graphics, writing script, creating the website and getting sponsorship!
We expect episode 1 to be out in the middle of November, but for now you can list the site, listen to episode 0 and find out more.
The Biggies showed amazing creativity early this week:
We have had a couple of maths stars, Alfie decided to up his game with division 812352 divided by 6
And Alice has become a speed demon at multiplication.
Ben showed his amazing general knowledge in a quiz, answering more questions than the rest of the class put together!
Lastly we have a pupil working from home today and making a really good job of keeping up with the rest of the class in Teams.
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