We took our noses to some interesting places.
Testing hardness
We tested hardness by seeing how high a golf ball would bounce off different materials.
Apparatus we used
How we made it fair
We dropped the ball from the same hight each time and measured it from the top of the ball each time.
Results
The hardest material is the brick because the golf ball bounced the highest hitting off of it.
The softest material is the cotton because the golf ball didn’t really hit off of it.
A hard material is one which gets the most bounce.
Tremendous Teamwork
A couple of day ago our teacher was giving us a lesson about teamwork. we had to create a algorithm with our hands and then write a very nice poster for others to learn from. We worked in threes but they were randomised partners, we had to learn to compromise and share our ideas with one another.
Top Tips for team work
Talking to each other
Listing to each other
Agreeing with with each other
Discussing each other’s ideas 💡
Looking at each other
Be patient
Compromise
By Aaliyah and Islay
Hair Today
A girl in Banton Primary cut off her hair for the little princess trust which is a charity for people with cancer. As well as raising money the hair goes to make real wigs for young people who have lost their hair due to cancer treatments.
Scots Week 2019
For Scots Week the Biggies have been listening to and reciting poems and writing their own. You can read the Poems, listen to the poets read them and see their illustrations on the Scots 2019 project page.
Watch this space
Christmas Challenge 2,3 & 4
More from the Christmas Challenge!
Christmas Challenge 1 – Minetest
The Biggies have some Christmas Challenges today:
- Minetest, build a snow house, igloo, Christmas tree, bonus points for Christmas jumper
- Newspaper Christmas table, to hold 5 book, max height 20cm
- Santa Sleigh to hold choc Santa & pudding
- Micro:bit Christmas decoration
Here are some early minetest results, not sure if we will get to the other challenges…
Candles for Christmas – Poetry
Straw and Order report
Straw and order is a play set in a court room. The donkeys that live in the stable which the baby Jesus was born in and the cows that live in the same stable are accusing each other for inviting people to they’re peaceful stable when nobody invited anyone. The judge, judge grumps and the narrator leave the court room and go back in time, only by a day but to see what happened before Jesus was born and see Jesus be born.
In this play the school had a few challenges ahead of us, we had to do harmonies in some of the songs. We have never done harmonies so it was quite difficult for us but we got the hang of it by the end. We had to use quite a lot of expression to make the funny bits funny, we had to project our voices and not speak too fast, we had to also dance a lot. I learned how to do all of these things just from a show which is amazing.
It was really fun and it worked out fine in the end, thankfully. Everybody done so well and it was so nice to be part of.
THE END
By Hannah