The Tallest Class in Banton Primary
We are continuing our tradition (since 2020) of designing a logo for our class. This should identify the class and represent our activities. Like last year all the pupils designed a Logo. This year we asked Mrs Mcleod to judge. A hard job. The winner was Caelan, his design, the featured image above, shows we learn inside and out with fire and technology. We also think and assess our work.
And they are a pretty decent bunch.
The class have settled in really well and are working hard with a great attitude.
We are going to continue with the idea that we do not need a strict set of rules as long as we are “Pretty Decent Kids”. We spent some time thinking about the sorts of things that a Pretty Decent Kid would be like. From explorative through silly to creative. We made some graphics to represent these ideas. Click on the thumbnails below to see in more detail.
Yesterday we started learning about climate change. We thought about how beautiful the natural world is and went out into the playground to take some photos to show this. Maybe these photos will change your view.
We will be continuing to practise out photos skills and take more lovely photos soon.
We had great fun finishing of our scribble bots and making some “art”. We found that chunks of glue stick worked better than rubbers to keep the wobble going.
Is it Art? you be the judge:
We also used videos, pictures, drawing to write reports and instruction about Scribble Bots on our e-portfolios.
The Medals for the Team arrived today. Unfortunately we have one member off, but the others put together a short video to show some of the things they have learnt.
The Primary Sevens along with Caelan from p6 have been working really hard this term on the First Lego League Challenge :
FIRST LEGO League Challenge teams are introduced to a scientific and real-world challenge for teams to focus and research on. The robotics part of the competition involves designing and programming LEGO Mindstorms robots to complete tasks. The students work out a solution to a problem related to the theme (changes every year) and then meet for regional, national and international tournaments to compete, share their knowledge, compare ideas, and display their robots.
Their team is called the Cog Cats.
The challenge has involved an incredible amount of hard work. Along with the robot challenges went an innovation project where the children had to design a solution to the problem of keeping people active.
The group were also judged on their core values of:
The group have worked on this all term working very independently and show an amazing amount of resilience. Both in the robot challenges and the innovation project the children have had to repeatedly iterate on their work, improving and testing each time.
They have exemplified the school values of Respect, Responsibility Resilience & Compassion
On Thursday 17th June we went along to the virtual South of Scotland heats. The group had to run their robot through the challenges, present on their innovation project and answer questions on their core values.
Although we did not win our heat, we were delighted to be the winners in the Core Values section. I think this victory show what we already know about this primary seven they are pretty decent kids!
The Biggies have been making Scribble bots.
They need to use the knowledge and circuit building skills they had learnt during our electricity lessons in term 1. Some Teamwork, practical skills and problem solving lead to success.
Another busy one! We have Miss Mowitt in class helping us a the moment, she has brought some fun ideas.
The Primary Lego group made some progress, we now have our competition  playing field finished and set up. This week the group tested an example challenge:
The Primary sixes had a deal of fun making a robot avoid crashing:
Miss Mowitt, worked on some data handling and we had some good looking results.
We have been learning about Ramadan and the class made some fanoos lanterns.
The Highlight of the week should have been sports day on Wednesday, but it was too wet. We wrote some poems instead.
Two of my favourites were Ben’s:
A universe that never ends
The water is strong
Like an army going to war
It over takes any obstacle
and Lara’s:
The bright sun beaming through in my window,
just like to look out to see the birds flying past my window,
bird after bird.
But everyone has some good ideas and words. Quite a few were a bit longer.
on Thursday the weather was much drier, and a lot colder, so we went out for
Although we missed the audience we had a great sports day. The children were brilliant at taking part, playing fairy and encouraging others. Lots of enthusiasm
There will be some more pictures of the sport’s day on the main Banton site soon.
The Primary sixes have been working on programming their micro:bits to follow a line. We added a bit of creativity to the coding by designing tracks to give the bots some character: disco dances, dogs and more.
The class also were creative in their movie making:
We will add the rest of the videos when they are finished.
As part of our sustainability day the classes are doing a bit of cleaning up. The Biggies took a walk around the school and picked up over 9Kg of rubbish!
We are designing some posters to go up around the village to remind people not to drop litter.
