John Johnston

Highlights of the week 23 Apr 2021

We have had a really busy week the first week back. The class are really working hard in their maths and literacy.

The Robots project is going well.

We had a walk down to Dow’s wood on Wednesday and Among other thing there were some amazing drawing done in a very short time:

Aaron combined his language & ice skills in the outdoors:

The Primary Sevens had 2 challenges from Kilsyth Academy, we decided it would be a good idea for the sixes to join in. The first challenge involved designing a boat:

The second was to design a setting for Tunnock’s teacakes:

The biggies have great imagination & design skills. The creature image is Alice’s she turned her Teacake upside down to make a campfire!

Back to School Highlights

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.

Playground Maths — Formal methods and some fractions in the playground.

BPS P6_7 Home Learning WB 8 March 2021

Please listen to the audio above and read the notes below the table.

Week Beginning 8 March 2021
Spelling	Green Group Stage 6-7 Affixes 2	Blue Group Blue Group Common Words 5 a	Yellow Group Spelling
Literacy	Green Group Literacy	Blue Group Literacy	Yellow Group Literacy
Maths	Maths Squares	Maths Pentagons	Maths Octagons

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.		ICT
This week post about your learning in Maths, there are details on the maths pages for Friday.

You might like to check out: Nature’s Calendar: March and let us know what you are seeing.

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.

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 about DUMTUMS and making your jotter work as neat as possible.

Maybe something like this:

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Mary Queen of Scots	ICT	Shanarri	Mary Queen of Scots
P.E	French	P.E	Art	Golden Time

BPS P6_7 Home Learning WB 1 March 2021

Please listen to the audio above and read the notes below the table.

Week Beginning 1 March 2021
Spelling	Green Group Stage 6-7 Affixes 2	Blue Group Blue Group Common Words 5 a	Yellow Group Spelling
Literacy	Green Group Literacy	Blue Group Literacy	Yellow Group Literacy
Maths	Maths Squares	Maths Pentagons	Maths Octagons
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 Visit the Youth Online Exhibition Hall \| Fairtrade Foundation for some inspiration.
P.E. ideas	Shanarri March Responsible		French
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.

Maybe something like this:

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Fairtrade	Fairtrade	Shanarri		Fairtrade
P.E	French	Fairtrade	Fairtrade	Golden Time

A quicker way to see feedback on what you have handed in.

BPS P6_7 Home Learning WB 22 Feb 2021

Please listen to the audio above and read the notes below the table.

Week Beginning 22 February 2021
Spelling	Green Group Common Words 5 B	Blue Group Spelling Rule, double final consonant	Yellow Group Spelling
Literacy	Green Group Literacy	Blue Group Literacy	Yellow Group Literacy
Maths	Maths Squares	Maths Pentagons	Maths Octagons
H&WB	P.E. ideas	Shanarri February Respected
Other	Mary Queen of Scots	ICT	French
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.

Maybe something like this:

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Mary Queen of Scots	ICT	Shanarri	Mary Queen of Scots
P.E	French	P.E	Art	Golden Time

A quicker way to see feedback on what you have handed in.

BPS P6_7 Home Learning WB 15 Feb 2021

Please listen to the audio above and read the notes below the table.

Week Beginning 15 February 2021
Spelling	Green Group Common Words 5	Blue Group Common Words 4	Yellow Group Spelling
Literacy	Green Group Literacy	Blue Group Literacy	Yellow Group Literacy
Maths	Maths Squares	Maths Pentagons	Maths Octagons
H&WB	P.E. ideas	Shanarri February Respected
Other	Mary Queen of Scots	ICT	French
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 11:30am
Wednesday 1:30 pm
Thursday Squares 1:30pm
Thursday Pentagons: 1:45 pm
Friday: 11:00

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.

Maybe something like this:

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Mary Queen of Scots	Shanarri	ICT	Mary Queen of Scots
P.E	French	P.E	Art	Golden Time

BPS P6_7 Home Learning 11- 12 February

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.

BPS P6_7 Home Learning WB 1 Feb 2021

Please listen to the audio above or read the notes below the table.

Meetings: Monday 2:00pm, Wednesday 11:00am, Friday 11:00am

Week Beginning 1 February 2021
Spelling	Green Group NLC Spelling Rules	Blue Group Phoneme Week 2	Yellow Group Spelling
Literacy	Green Group Literacy	Blue Group Literacy	Yellow Group Literacy
Maths	Maths Squares	Maths Pentagons	Maths Octagons
H&WB	P.E. ideas	Shanarri February Respected
Other	Mary Queen of Scots	ICT	French
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 thinking on your emotions, your Mary Queen of Scots Work or something else you are proud of learning.

Hi Biggies,

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.

Meetings: Monday 2:00pm, Wednesday 11:00am, Friday 11:00am

BPS P6_7 Home Learning WB 25 Jan 2021

Please read the notes below the table.

Meetings: Monday 2:00pam, Wednesday 11:00am, Friday 11:00am

Week Beginning 25 January 2021
Spelling	Green Group NLC Chilli Challenge Spelling 1 per day (Literacy Tray)	Blue Group NLC Chilli Challenge Spelling 1 per day (Literacy Tray)	Yellow Group Spelling
Literacy	Green Group Literacy	Blue Group Literacy	Yellow Group Literacy
Maths	Maths Squares	Maths Pentagons	Maths Octagons
H&WB	P.E. ideas	Shanarri January Active
Other	Mary Queen of Scots	ICT	French
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

Lockdown Learning W/B 18-01-2021

Please read the notes below the table.

Week Beginning 18 January 2021
Spelling	Green Group Spelling	Blue Group Phonics	Yellow Group Spelling
Literacy	Green Group Literacy	Blue Group Literacy	Yellow Group Literacy
Maths	Maths Squares	Maths Pentagons	Maths Octagons
H&WB	P.E. ideas	Shanarri January Active
Other	Mary Queen of Scots	ICT	French
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.

Week Beginning 8 March 2021

Week Beginning 1 March 2021

Banton Primary School Fairtrade Home Learning 1-5 March 2021

Week Beginning 22 February 2021

Week Beginning 15 February 2021

Week Beginning 1 February 2021

Week Beginning 25 January 2021

Week Beginning 18 January 2021