Banton Biggies

Shading Birds

The Biggies have been working on shading, gradients and blending. We took some inspiration from Richard Spare and photos of birds that we can see in our playground.

Blue tit-Hollie

Long Tailed Tit-Olivia Rose

Robin-Bobbi

Chaffinch-Mia

Long Tailed Tit -Alex

Exploring Lego

For this term the Biggies have been working on a Lego Explore topic. It took us right up to the last week!

Today the children finished some ‘poster boards’ explain what they have learned.

The Dog Fam

Lego Go

Clouds

This term of The Biggies Health & Wellbeing work included being part of a group in a range of situations and enjoying eating a diversity of foods in a range of social situations. We combined these by organising a “picnic” for the whole school.

The class spent the morning baking cookies and dipping strawberries in chocolate. After lunch they made smoothies.

The class then brought the whole school out into mixed groups served up the food and encourages some conservation.

After they had tidied up the Biggies used their Junior Leader training to lead the groups through some fun and healthy games. The other children rotated through the groups lead by the Junior Leaders and had a great time.

We could see that all the team work we have been doing this session has really paid off. The Biggies took their responsibilities seriously with out losing a sense of fun doing a great job all day.

Personal Project Morning

On Monday morning the Biggies had some time to follow their own ideas. the previous week they had submitted plans explain what they would do, what they needed and what they learnt.

The idea included making board games, cardboard models, story writing, zine creating, and a micro:bit boat. You can see some of the end results below.

I was excited about the micro:bit boat. The pupils had the idea on seeing a motor attached to a micro:bit in the class. The figured out how to make the micro:bit control the moters and another micro:bit to control that. A lot of problem solving and practical skills involved!

Biodiversity Live Lesson

Last week we joined in this video conference. It was in 3 sections all based on wether.
First we heard from Jess Lilley, Edinburgh Zoo about life in the water. We saw the penguins at the zoo and found out about a fish none of us knew about, the flapper skate.

We then heard the story of the Mermaid of the Clyde, told by Allison Galbraith. The last workshop was by Joe Wilkin-Oxley from Keep Scotland Beautiful. He explainsd about water, how much we use and how to save it.

This was all very interesting. During the week most of the primary sevens were off to Kilsyth Academy, but the rest of the Biggies got busy writing stories about mythical water creatures and working on scale in maths using the Flapper Skate to practise scaling down & up.

Good Ruler – Bad Ruler

While thinking about the Jubilee the Biggies were asked to come up with some ideas for what a good or bad ruler would do.

The children used their ICT skills to name good & bad ruler ‘memes’.

Some Good Queens & Kings

Some Bad Kings & Queens

Pendulum Art in the Gallery

Last week some of the class worked in the playground to make some pendulum Art:

It was great fun and the results looked amazing when wet.

The pictures dried out and went a wee bit dull. We decided to brighten them up using snapseed on our iPads. We then put our pictures on the wall and looked at them. Can you work out how we did it?

Lego Explore

We have been lucky enough to borrow some lego kits from NLC Stem. and started to get to grips with the Spike Robot yesterday. As well as the obvious coding and creativity skills this allows the Biggies to practise their excellent team work.