We are very proud of two of the Biggies who reached the primary 6 semi final of the Glasgow Science Festival Creating Engineers Competition this year.
Microbit Guitars
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The Biggies have been using their coding and craft skills to build electric microbic guitars.
They had to learn to hack their headphones, make a guitar and code the microbits to play music controlled by light.
There is more to do, but we though it was worth sharing now!
Function Machines
The Biggies have been learning about Function Machines during maths. They made their own machines using scratch.
Here are links to the first ones finished, click through and see if you can guess or work out what the functions are:
We will add more machines next week.
Finger Licking Marshmallows
Yesterday we made a fire in the fire pit and toasted marshmallows.
We cut kindling, and made fire bricks out of newspaper.
We had a fire queen and king controlling the movement in the fire circle.
We learnt to be safe with fire and knives.
We found out how to use a burn kit (we did not need it).
We had to cooperate to cut the kindling and to keep safe around the fire.
We had to be responsible for our own and others safety.
We had a safe and good time, mostly burning our marshmallows.
Post text provided by the Biggies.
What We Did At The Woods
Yesterday the Banton Biggies went down to Dow’s wood in groups, we did three challenges. The first one we had to find signs of spring, the second challenge we had to find nouns and write as many adjectives for them and the third challenge was to find symmetrical things and make a symmetrical pattern.
For signs of spring we looked around the area and found: daffodils, buds, 3 species of bee, and other things.
While we were looking for them we went over to the big rocks and started our next challenge and we went to find nouns in our groups. When we all finished we met up at the rocks. We walked all the way to ‘the school wood’. For the last challenge we done some symmetry for maths. After we walked back to school.
Dow’s wood wildlife
Yesterday we went to Dow’s wood and we saw so many different creatures and signs of creatures. These were the creatures we saw.
Things we saw
• Bees
• Beetles
• Millipede
• Centipede
• Ladybug
• Spiders
• Earwig
• Earwig eggs
Signs we saw and heard
• A woodpecker pecking
• Rabbit fur
• Seeds that have been eaten
Adjective Hunting
A bit of outdoor learning. We took out, literacy, maths and IDL down to the woods today.
K’nex Challenge
Today we went to the k’nex challenge at Kilsyth academy and we had to build a go cart and it had to have 4 wheels 1 seat 25 cm tall and 30cm wide or under. And you had to make it have a steering mechanism to turn. And there was 7 schools and we came 1ST!!! Then Ballmaloch was the runner up aka 2nd place. And I got sweets and 2 pencils and so did Fulton. But the other Banton team lost a mark because their cart was to wide. But they got 3rd!!!
You can see more pictures of the event on Kilsyth Academy’s Blog
Testing strength
On Tuesday p4, 5, 6, 7 did a Science experiment to test the strength of paper.
To test the strength of the paper we sellotaped the paper to a table and then we cello taped a plastic cup to the other end of the paper. To test the strength of the paper we put sand in the paper cup and the paper would break and the cup would land in someone’s hand 
. If the sand was not enough weight to make the paper break then we put weights in the plastic cup. Once the cup fell we attached it to a weighed and took a note of the weight. The paper that could hold the most weight was the strongest. Most people fount the strongest paper was the art paper.
Red Noses around the world, and even further #rednoseday2019
We took our noses to some interesting places.
