Scots poems

We have been reading and listening to some Scots poems this week. Yesterday we had a try at writing out own. Click on the thumbnails to read them.

Rocks by Elise
Wee cats by Rhuraidh Gordon James
TREES by Joshua Luka
Connie by Caelan
Gracie n Cosmo by Kaitlyn McCulloch
Tons a Dugs by Skye
Fush by Kristy
Islay by Grace

Scratch Challange

This week we had a scratch challenge.

I asked the children to make a sprite in scratch that would draw a random rectangle every time it was clicked. Bonus points for asking what the Area was and then checking the answer. Lots of us managed to work out how to draw random rectangles, but Kaitlyn was the first one to get a working solution.  She used lots of skills, using variables, comparison, repeats and operations! She show she was a problem solver and and independent learner.

The Green flag will give you a new question.

The Banton Biggies Podcast Episode 5

The latest episode has been published on the Podcast blog:

BBP Episode 5

I am really please by the way the pupils worked on this episode. They took responsibility for writing, recording, editing and publishing the episode.

Everyone in the class had their say, they worked independently and cooperatively to record and encourage each other.

Get Schooled on Climate Change

During COP 26 the Biggies were invited to contribute to digital book, passed from school to school for COP26. The children had to explain where they though and were doing about climate change and who inspired them. That had to do this in digital formats, audio and video. As I expected the Biggies did a great job, using their creativity and digital skills. Everyone can view the ‘book’ online now.

It has been selected by the Book Creator team to add to their ‘Social Studies’ library. It’s sitting on the bookshelf alongside other examples & sample of various history, geography and other social science books made by students around the world.

Save The Sharks COP 26  Code Along Project

The Biggies joined in the @digilearnscot and @CodeClubScot COP 26  Code Along Project. We joined in a Teams call with Schools from across Scotland to create a game in Scratch. This week we added some finishing touches to the games and published them. You can play them by clicking the thumbnails below.

by Charlie John
by Elise
by Rhuaridh
by Alfred
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by Kaitlyn McCulloch
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by Kristy
by Skye
by Joshua Luka
by Hollie
by Lara
by Hazel
by Rhuraidh Gordon James
by Grace

 

 

Butterfly Gardens

Yesterday the Biggies joined in with 3000 other children learning Scratch from an expert. This was part of @digiLearnScot and @CodeClubScot’s #COP26 ‘Code-Along’ you can click on the thumbnails to see the results.

The topic was around the importance of polinators like butterflies and beets.

This was a great refresh of our Scratch skills, covering random and forever loops.

You can see some of the children’ animations in action by clicking the thumbnails.

by Skye
by Joshua Luka
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by Hazel
by Lara
by Caelan
by Elise
by Rhuraidh Gordon James
by Kristy
by Grace
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by Rhuaridh
by Charlie John
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by Alfred

Balloon Car Maths

After creating and exploring the science behind our balloon cars yesterday we used them for maths today.

We practised measuring distance in metres & centimetres and time in seconds. Then we calculated the speed of our cars by dividing the distance traveled by the time taken.

thanks to The Royal Institution for the idea Balloon car racers

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