Well boys and girls your final day of primary school is finally here! I know this is not how you imagined your final day at school but you have really done yourselves proud over these last few months and that is something positive that you should take away from this whole experience.
Let us begin our final day as primary pupils with our morning prayer.
God Our Father, as we prepare to begin our work, we ask you to help us to use properly the many gifts that you have given us, so that we may fully benefit from our day together.
St Barbara Pray for us.
You have been an amazing Primary 7. I remember your first day at St. Barbara’s Primary School so clearly, because it was my first day as a teacher there too. We started our journey together and I am so grateful that I taught you not just once, but twice, throughout your time at our school. You are a fabulous group of pupils and we have had many laughs and created lots of fantastic memories over the years. I am so proud of you all and of everything that you have achieved over the course of your 7 years at primary school. You have grown into independent, kind and brilliant children. I am positive you will continue to succeed as you begin the next chapter of your lives, high school.
You have been super role models for your peers; in particular, your little Primary 1 buddies who I know loved having you by their side during their first year at school. They have made a little video for you all to say thank you for all of your help.
To celebrate all of your amazing achievements over the years and each of your unique talents and personalities we have made a virtual awards ceremony. Click on the link below and watch in slideshow mode to see if you have won an award. Good luck!
I wish you every success for the future and hopefully we will be able to organise a reunion to help give the Primary 7 class of 2020 the send-off that you truly deserve.
Have a super summer Primary 7, I will miss you all.
Love
A very proud teacher,
Mrs Butler
xx
Primary 7 I hope that you’re up and ready to go because you might want to peep outside from 10am onwards…you never know who you might see!!!
Can you believe it is nearly the weekend already? One more day of home learning activities and then you can have two days off to relax. There were 3 important things that I asked to be sent over to me this week-
My best memory of my time at St Barbara’s Primary School.
Where do I see myself in 20 years time?
A photograph of you in your uniform.
I would really like to have these from all pupils by the end of today so if you have not completed these tasks can you please do so ASAP! When you have completed these activities send them to me at gw13reidsiobhan@glow.sch.uk. For the 2 writing tasks it would be good if you could type them in an email or send them as a word document rather than as a picture.
We will being with our morning prayer.
God our Father
As we prepare to begin our work
We ask you to help us to use properly the many gifts you have given us
So that we may fully benefit from our day together.
Well done to Connor and Charlie who drew and labelled the human body with accuracy and detail. Well done boys!
Here is the link for today’s learning activities and some resources to help support you-
Here are today’s Health and Wellbeing and This Is Our Faith activities-
Friday 5 June- Health and Wellbeing
Let’s get active with some more Yoga practice. Remember all the good advise Mrs McFall gave on Monday! Enjoy and make sure you drink plenty.
Well done – we have definitely kept our bodies well looked after this week!
Friday 5th June- This Is Our Faith
As today would have been our final First Friday Mass of the school year I would like you to follow Father Campbell’s mass at 10.00 am on Facebook (with an adult’s permission).
Remember to have your SSP (Special Sneaky Playtime). Hopefully the sun will be shining.
How are you all? How have you been coping with the tasks that you have been set this week? If you need anything explained to you in a little bit more detail please don’t hesitate to contact me at gw13reidsiobhan@glow.sch.uk.
Let us begin, as we always do, with our morning prayer.
God our Father
As we prepare to begin our work
We ask you to help us to use properly the many gifts you have given us
So that we may fully benefit from our day together.
I thought it would be nice to start today with some positive thoughts. Write down 3 things that you are grateful for. Get the other members of your family to do the same and then sit together and share what you are all grateful for. Every day I am grateful for, my friends and family, a roof over my head and my health. You can list any 3 things that you feel grateful for on a daily basis.
Here is the link for today’s learning activities and the answers to yesterday’s pie chart task-
Here are today’s Health and Wellbeing and This Is Our Faith activities-
Thursday 4th June- Health and Wellbeing
We were talking yesterday about how important it is to look after our bodies. Drinking plenty especially during exercise and warm weather to keep us hydrated. Our bodies are amazing things.
Here is a little activity to keep you busy and at the same time learn about all of the parts that make up ‘US’!!
Have you got a roll of wallpaper lying around or if you have been receiving lots of packages (did you know all our posties are busier than their busiest time of the year, Christmas!) during lockdown and have cardboard boxes around I want you to lie them flat on the ground and get someone in your house to draw round you. (The weather’s not looking that good today but should be dry so even do this task outside).
Here we have our template!! Can you label and identify as many parts of the human body – all our organs? See if you can have a good guess at where they are located. Our heart should be easy, what about our lungs, liver etc. Try to see how many you can find. You could even put your artistic talents to good use and draw them in.
Remember to email your marvellous pictures to gw13reidsiobhan@glow.sch.uk or upload it onto Twitter with an adult’s permission.
Thursday 4th June- This Is Our Faith
As we know things just now are very different from what we are used to. By now our new Primary 1 children would have been in to visit the school but, like you, they have not been able to come in for their visits. We are thinking that it would be a lovely idea for you to say a little prayer for them. In order to make them feel welcome to our school in August, I would like you to choose the word for your stage below, write/colour it on a sheet of paper, hold it up and ask an adult to take a picture of you holding your word with a big smile and if it is possible you could wear your uniform. Please email your picture to gw13reidsiobhan@glow.sch.uk. We will use these to make our Primary 1’s feel very welcome in school.
I hope you are all up, had your breakfast and are ready to start your day. I am still waiting to receive some of your best memories, the deadline for sending these over to me is this afternoon so please try your best to complete it if you haven’t done so already. I have really enjoyed reading the memories I have been sent over so far, they have brought a little tear to my eye.
Let us begin with our morning prayer
God our Father
As we prepare to begin our work
We ask you to help us to use properly the many gifts you have given us
So that we may fully benefit from our day together.
Yesterday I received some more fabulous work. It is great to see how hard you are working at home.
Connor and Charlie made some very refreshing looking slushies! Well done boys, I hope you enjoyed them!
Here are today’s Health and Wellbeing and This Is Our Faith activities-
Wednesday 3rd June- Health and Wellbeing
I hope you enjoyed your Slushies yesterday!! We just managed to get them made in the warm weather as today is to be a bit cooler.
YOGA
We are going to follow a little Yoga session that Mrs McFall (Daniel and Luke’s mum) has kindly allowed us to share on the Blog.
Below is a great Yoga workout that you can do along with an adult or your siblings. You can also have your favourite ted join in too.
Yoga is a great skill helping you learn the importance of how you breath which in turn helps us relax and sleep well. (Parents: Mrs McFall recommends that you allow your child to go with the flow and, if you are able to accompany them doing the video, ask them similar questions). Remember with any exercise we should remember to drink plenty to keep us hydrated, looking after our bodies!!
Once again a great big thank you to Mrs McFall and Luke.
Wednesday 3rd June- This Is Our Faith
Over the course of the last few days we have been learning about the importance of Pentecost. It has shown us how important the feast is in the church’s year.
There are a few activities below which you can complete to reinforce what you have learned about The Feast of Pentecost and the Holy Spirit. You can choose to do one activity or why not complete it together with your siblings.
When you have finished your activities, take a few minutes to pray together with your family. I have attached a lovely hymn that you could sing together to finish off your Pentecost work for today.
Have a wonderful Wednesday Primary 7 and remember I am just an email away if you need anything at all.
I hope you all had a lovely day yesterday and enjoyed the glorious sunshine . Thank you to those who sent me over their best memory of their time at St Barbara’s. If you haven’t yet sent me yours over can you please do so today? Remember to either attach it to an email as a word document or just send it as an email.
Let us begin our day with our morning prayer
God our Father
As we prepare to begin our work
We ask you to help us to use properly the many gifts you have given us
So that we may fully benefit from our day together.
Amen.
I found this Joyful June calendar and thought I would share it with you all as it has some great ideas to promote positivity.
I am delighted to share some fabulous work that I received from Niamh yesterday. Well done for creating an amazing acrostic poem. It was very informative and positive.
Here are today’s Health and Wellbeing and This Is Our Faith activities-
Tuesday 2nd June- This Is Our Faith
The Feast of Pentecost is a very important celebration in the Church’s year and watching the short clip below will give you a snapshot of the importance of this great celebration.
The Feast of Pentecost is seen as the Birthday of the Church.
The Holy Spirit came to the disciples not only as a reminder that Jesus would always be with them but so that they received the strength and courage to continue to build God’s kingdom, not only in Jerusalem but to ensure it reached the ends of the earth. In John’s Gospel on Sunday we heard not only about Jesus’ word but about Jesus’ action, “he breathed on them and said receive the Holy Spirit”. Jesus’ breath gives new life, eternal life into the disciples, giving them the courage to go out and spread the word by being given special gifts. Jesus gave them the gift of speaking different languages to be able to carry out his work all over the world.
The Holy Spirit came to us in the Sacrament of Baptism and will or has come again to us in the Sacrament of Confirmation. Talk to an adult about your Baptism/Confirmation (if you have made it yet). Think about all the wonderful gifts God has given us and give thanks to the Lord for all that we have to be glad of. Just like the disciples we give thanks to the Lord of all the gifts he has given us. We are so grateful to God for always being with us.
Tuesday 2nd June- Health and Wellbeing
With the hot weather that hopefully we have all been enjoying we are going to look at ways to help us stay hydrated. We know that we need to drink plenty of water and ensure we do that more frequently during hot days.
Another great way to enjoy the hot weather is with a lovely cool Slushie!!
Yum Yum. Below there is a great recipe, with a little bit of science thrown in, that lets you make a slush with your hands!! Yip that is right you don’t need a fancy NutriBullet or a blender, just your hands. So here goes :
Instructions to make a cool mouth-watering smoothie!!
Place one cup of your chosen juice into a small Ziploc bag and zip tight.
Place 4 cups of ice and half a cup of salt into a large Ziploc bag along with the juice bag and zip that tight too.
Shake the large bag over the sink or outside for 2-5 minutes or until the juice bag turns to slush.
Pour into a cup and enjoy!!
If you have your own recipe/method for making a Slushie please email this along with a picture of your Slushie to gw13reidsiobhan@glow.sch.uk or upload it onto Twitter with an adult’s permission.
Have a terrific Tuesday Primary 7 and I will be back tomorrow morning with more activities for you to complete.
One of today’s tasks is to write your favourite memory from your time at St Barbara’s Primary School. I think it would be a good idea for you to practise your typing and emailing skills by sending me your favourite memory via email. You can email me your memory at gw13reidsiobhan@glow.sch.uk. I am really looking forward to reading all of your memories.
It is marvellous Monday, the sun is shining and we are now in the month of June. This is your final month of Primary 7 and although it is not how we imagined it would be, we are going to try our best to make the most of it!
I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. Wasn’t the weather fabulous? It really lifted my spirits and put a big smile on my face. I really enjoyed going a nice walk in the sunshine.
Let us begin this beautiful day with our morning prayer.
God our Father
As we prepare to begin our work
We ask you to help us to use properly the many gifts you have given us
So that we may fully benefit from out day together.
Amen.
Here is the link for today’s learning activities and some resources to help support you-
Here are today’s Health and Wellbeing and This Is Our Faith activities-
Monday 1st June- This Is Our Faith
The Feast of Pentecost – 31 May 2020
“They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak”
“When Pentecost day came round, they had all met in one room, when suddenly they heard what sounded like a powerful wind from heaven, the noise of which filled the entire house in which they were sitting; and something appeared to them that seemed like tongues of fire; these separated and came to rest on the head of each of them. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak foreign languages as the Spirit gave them the gift of speech.”
The Feast of Pentecost brings to an end the Season of Easter and falls 50 days after Easter Sunday. Pentecost celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit. As we heard in the first reading of how the disciples were all together and how they were afraid now that Jesus had left them. On this day they were given the gift of speaking many different languages so that they could travel far and wide to spread the good news.
We learn that God is always here for us, we just need to ask him for help if we are afraid, worried or feeling lonely. He will answer our prayer and help us. Especially in these times when we are feeling sad about not seeing our friends and families like we use to. God will be by our sides to guide us through to better times.
Above you will see an image of Pentecost. There are important symbols that are associated with Pentecost – we can read about them in the extract above from the Acts of the Apostles. We also saw Father Campbell in his red vestments when watching Mass yesterday.
For today’s task I would like you to design your own Pentecost poster incorporating some of the important symbols of Pentecost. This poster will remind us that the Holy Spirit is with us in everything we do. Please email your poster to gw13reidsiobhan@glow.sch.uk or upload it onto Twitter with an adult’s permission.
Monday 1st June- Health and Wellbeing
Over the weekend hopefully we were all able to go visit a member of our family! This has been something we have taken for granted all of our lives (as we probably did this every weekend or more). From Friday onward this has been a very special time for many. Hopefully your family don’t live too far away and you have been able to spend some time with them. It must have been a great feeling to spend time, in our gardens, with loved ones.
How it has lifted all our spirits and given us such a positive boast. If you were able to visit someone you have not seen during Lockdown you will know this feeling. Hopefully it won’t be too much longer until we can see all of our family.
Today is also a new month/season JUNE begins our three months of SUMMER, can you believe it!! This too should make us feel more positive as hopefully we have lovely weather.
How positive did this little visit have on us. Being positive makes our world a better place and after all the changes that have happened over the last few months, we will begin to see a brighter, happier, and more POSITIVE future ahead.
I would like you to take the word POSITIVE and write an acrostic poem. (Remember you take the word POSITIVE and in large letters you write it down the left-hand side of your page and then write a word/sentence that begins with each letter of POSITIVE).
Here is an example for the word Welcome to let you see how your poem should look.
You can email your poem to gw13reidsiobhan@glow.sch.uk or upload it onto Twitter with an adult’s permission.
Now to keep that positive vibe going let’s try a little Zumba.
Remember to have plenty of drinks throughout the day. It’s going to be another hot day and we need to stay hydrated!! Watch out for tomorrow’s post to give you another idea for keeping hydrated!!
Please remember to send me over any completed work so that I can share some of your wonderful work on our Primary 7 GLOW homepage. We want everyone to see how amazing the Primary 7 pupils of St Barbara’s Primary School really are!
Have another fantastic day boys and girls and remember if you need me, for anything at all, please do not hesitate to contact me at gw13reidsiobhan@glow.sch.uk.
We have completed another week of home learning and next week we are moving into the month of June. Can you believe it?
Join your hands, close your eyes and let us begin today with our morning prayer.
As we reach the end of May I think it would be nice to take some time out of our day to say another little decade of the rosary to honour Our Lady. On a Friday we celebrate the ‘Sorrowful Mysteries’. Today we will explore the fourth ‘Sorrowful Mystery’, Our Lord Carries the Cross to Calvary (Matthew 27:32).
Here is the link for today’s learning activities and some resources to help support you-
Here are today’s Health and Wellbeing and This Is Our Faith activities-
Friday 29th May- This Is Our Faith
We have been learning how Jesus prayed for his friends and for all of us and how he taught his disciples to pray to our Heavenly Father. We know that saying our prayers is very important. On the accompanying illustration of Jesus praying, draw pictures or write names in the thought bubble of yourselves and some of the other people Jesus was praying for. You could choose your families and friends, as well as our brothers and sisters throughout the world.
Colour your picture in when you have finished writing in the names of your family and friends. Now show someone your picture and tell them how much you love them and that you will remember them in your prayers.
Please send me a copy of your picture at gw13reidsiobhan@glow.sch.uk or Tweet us @St_BarbarasPS.
Friday 29th May- Health and Wellbeing
It is very important for us to talk about how we are feeling. It is especially important now as some of you may be worried about the changes we have all had to make in the last few months. Talking to someone, exercising and relaxing are all great ways to help your health and wellbeing and keep you feeling happy. Today I would like you to play the lanterns game below where you write down how you are feeling and what has made you feel that way. You will then see your feeling float up into the sky.
Click on whichever video you like or do all three! My favourite is I like to move it 🙂 it certainly gets your heart beating!
Now for some relaxing time. A great way to relax is by doing yoga. Yoga is an ancient form of exercise that focuses on strength, flexibility and breathing to boost physical and mental wellbeing. The main components of yoga are postures (a series of movements designed to increase strength and flexibility) and breathing.
Why not send us some pictures of you taking part in any of the exercises you have been doing today. Send to gw13reidsiobhan@glow.sch.uk or Tweet @St_BarbarasPS.
It has been great reading your emails this week and seeing the amazing work you are doing at home. Please feel free to send me over any completed work or pictures. Email them to me at gw13reidsiobhan@glow.sch.uk.
I hope you and your family have a lovely weekend! The sun has to be shining so try to make the most of it, I know I will be!
I will be back on Monday with more activities to work your way through. Speak to you all soon.
I hope you have had a good day and enjoyed working your way through today’s learning activities. Remember to send me over any work that you have completed and would like to share on our Primary 7 blog.
Here are the answers for today’s calculating the mean worksheet-
I hope you all feel confident finding the mean and range of a set of data. Any questions or concerns just send me a little email to gw13reidsiobhan@glow.sch.uk.
I hope you are all well. I received quite a few emails from you yesterday and it really put a smile on my face reading them as I am missing you all.
Let us begin as we always do with our morning prayer. I would like you to say a special prayer to your Guardian Angel to continue to watch over and protect you.
Angel of God My guardian dear To Whom God’s love Commits me here Ever this day Be at my side To light and guard To rule and guide.
Amen
Here is the link for today’s learning activities and some resources to help support you-
Here are today’s Health and Wellbeing and This Is Our Faith activities-
Thursday 28th May- Health and Wellbeing
We have all been enjoying the lovely sunny weather recently and it has been great to be able to get outside and play. Even though it is important for everyone to enjoy the sun we have got to remember that it can burn your skin. There are three important steps to stop sunburn:
• Cover up with clothing and a hat
• Spend time in the shade,
• Wear suitable sunscreen and apply it often
In the attached sheet the character in it is out in the sun with no hat!!! I would like you to design a hat for the character and make sure it offers suitable protection against the sun.
Please send us your pictures at gw13reidsiobhan@glow.sch.uk or Tweet @St_BarbarasPS.
Thursday 28th May- This Is Our Faith
When we pray it is important to remember a few simple things. Prayers can be simple thoughts and words coming straight from the heart. Sometimes God doesn’t seem to give us what we pray for. Do not give up praying – keep on talking to God and listening for he knows what is best for you, even if it is not what you expected. It is also important to remember that we don’t just ask God for things we want. Remember to praise God and thank him for his goodness, to tell him about ourselves and others and say sorry if we have done wrong.
Why not join in with this hymn Alleluia Alleluia Give Thanks to the Risen Lord below to praise God:
I would like you to write out a short prayer thanking God for all the wonderful things you have in your life. I have included a template below for you to use or you can design your own.
Please send us a copy of your picture at gw13reidsiobhan@glow.sch.uk or Tweet us @St_BarbarasPS.
Also as it is Thursday again let’s remember to praise (thank) all NHS workers tonight at 8pm by clapping and making as much noise as you can for them.
A few children have contacted me to say they have completed their Scholastic novels that they were set and would like to be assigned new ones. Well done if you have completed your assigned novel or indeed a personal reader as we all know how important reading is and it is such a nice way to switch off and relax. I have really enjoyed reading my book in the back garden with the sunshine.
Continue to try your best Primary 7 and remember to take plenty of breaks, get lots of fresh air and do something that you enjoy to help keep your spirits up.
Send over any work that you have completed so that I can share it with your peers on our daily blogs. Any task that you complete should make you proud as I know it can be difficult to stay motivated during these times. I am proud of you all!
Have a terrific Thursday and I will be back tomorrow with more learning opportunities.
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