Banton Buddies

On Thursday 9th March P3/4/5 all went on a trip to Stirling Castle! We had such a fanatic time and met lots of interesting people who worked in the castle.   We learnt lots about the home of Mary Queen of Scots and her family. Although I think our favourite part was definitely sitting on the cannons!

This week, we were learning about different careers. We talked about what we wanted to be when we grow up and what skills we would need for our jobs. We put our skills to the test and completed a series of activities to challenge our teamwork, planning, problem solving and communication skills. Some of these were trickier than we thought!

This week we learnt about the suspicious events around Lord Darnley’s death, Mary Queen of Scots second husband. The murder has never been solved to this day. We held our very own trial for Mary and the Earl of Bothwell. We thought of arguments for and against Mary and even had amazing actors for Mary and Bothwell. We had lots of fun deciding who could have committed the murder!

Through our Rights Respecting, we have been learning about Article 8, our right to an identity. We discussed what makes up our identity and why our names are important. We loved created our own graffiti style names to display proudly in class, showing we all have the right to a name.

We have been learning all about fair trade. We investigated where chocolate comes from, and how it is made. We could not believe how little some farmers get paid for growing cocoa beans. We enjoyed making some fair trade quizzes and even created our own songs and raps to encourage people to buy fair trade!

We have had lots of fun learning about silhouettes and even made our own castle inspired ones!

We had lots of fun making castles out of cardboard! The Biggies helped us with using the tools to cut and bend the cardboard to make our amazing castles. We included different features of castles, like towers, a portcullises and some even had moving drawbridges! Fanatics job done by all and some great teamwork!

Last week, we worked together to use key events from the life of Mary Queen of Scots to create a timeline. This proved to be a lot tricker than we thought. Additionally, we learnt what the term ‘chronological order’ means and had lots of fun completing some challenges in class to help us remember.

Attached is the homework table for February. Week 3 has 2 activities as that is our mid term break. Please complete these in your jotters and let me know if there are any problems.

Homework Table February

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Last Friday was our 3rd outdoor learning day. As our topic this term is the life of Mary Queen of Scots, we had lots of fun royal themed activities. In the morning we had a trip to the woods and worked together to make our own castles! We even added in our own cannons. After break we had a go at solving some Roman Numeral problems, using natural materials. We even tried some addition and subtraction calculations in Roman Numerals.  Very tricky! After lunch we searched the playground for materials that we could use to make our own crowns. We looked very regal indeed!