The Tallest Class in Banton Primary
This week the pupils all finished their Automata. There are a few photos in the video before footage of the machines in action:
Today we presented to the parents & guests about our STEM (or STEAM) learning, including a section on the automata Project. The children did a brilliant job of writing scripts, creating presentations and talking to an audience.
More work with the Biggies & Bairns, painting one side of our mythical creatures, writing & recording text to go with them. Lots of inter-stage cooperation, creativity, leadership and fun.
We are making some progress using our Makerspace to work on out Cardboard Automata, here is a video from last week:
The Biggies did a great job working with the primary 1 & 2s in our ‘makerspace’ this week. Last week they helped the wee one design a mythical creature and this week we got to tether to create cardboard versions. We shall makes these into 3D creatures in the next couple of weeks.
In maths we had a Scratch Challenge:
Josh did a great job, including working out how to use messaging to stop sprites deleting other sprites drawings:
We saw a different sort of shape with this triangle in the playground:
We did a whole lot of World Book Day related tasks yesterday. Including mashing up book titles to make our own handwriting blurbs for them and some blackout poetry.
We have been looking at some art by Joan Miró and are planning to make some Miró inspired sculpture. We started by trying some pictures inspired by Miró’s work.
We have had a busy week this week. Highlights for me included our work on Earthquakes. The children did some research to find out the basic facts and yesterday made some model seismographs to explore how these instruments works.
We used our research skills to find how about earthquakes.
Mr Wevling started a new science topic, looking at the different states of matter.
The Primary Sevens are visiting Strathclyde park every day this week, for some outdoor learning with Strathclyde Park Outdoor Education Programme.
Here is a collection of short ‘videos’ of the adventures. The playlist will be added to each day.
Last year, the class went out to the playground and measures lots of the den building materials:
This year we took these measurements, scaled them down by a factor of 10 and then made scale models of dens.
the class also made scale models of themselves at the same scale as the dens.
The children then made wee videos of their learning using iMovie or clips.
There are a couple of videos still to be finished and we will add these to the playlist when done.
One on our podcast the class has just posted a new episode. The first this session.
The class worked really hard and independently on creating this.
From scripting when we hard a brilliant literacy session, class showed iron concentration, talking, listening and editing for flow. Working on expression and talking for an audience.
And recording.
to making musical ‘stings’ and editing the audio.
And finally Publishing.
