Good morning everyone and welcome back to another week of home learning.😊
I hope you all had a lovely holiday weekend with your family. I spent my weekend going long walks in the sunshine, it was glorious.☀️
Yesterday was a little different from our normal daily blogs as it was….
I hope you all had a fun-filled day taking part in all of the activities!
These superstars certainly looked like they enjoyed Virtual Sports’ Day.
Well done Charlie, Abbie, Anna and Zoe for taking part in some of the activities.
I would love to hear more about how you all got on so make sure to send in any pictures or videos of your day!
Let’s get started on today’s activities.
We will begin today as always, with our morning prayer.
God our Father, as we prepare to begin our work, we ask you to help us use properly, the many gifts you have given us, so that we may fully benefit from our day together.
If you would like to show off any work you are proud of make sure to send it over to gw19shreenannatasha@glow.sch.uk to see it featured on this week’s blogs.
Good Morning everyone and welcome to our first ever Virtual Sports’ Day!
Today, activities have been set for the whole school to enjoy.
We hope that you enjoy the day and we ask you to upload pictures onto Twitter or to email pictures to your child’s class teacher. Thank you!
Just like every day, we will begin with the 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.
Happy Eid!
Health and Wellbeing…let the fun BEGIN!
Today is Sports’ Day!!! I know it’s different from any sports’ day that we’ve ever had but we can still have lots of fun! So for health and wellbeing today I want you to follow the grid with lots of suggested activities. Don’t worry if you can’t do some activities just adapt them to suit yourselves. The important rule today is to exercise and have FUN!
After all of the fun of Sports’ Day, time to relax and focus on the R.E. tasks below.
During Sunday’s Gospel we heard about Jesus praying for his friends and for us. He wanted us to be one, to be united in love, as closely as Jesus and God the Father are united in love. So, let’s think about how we can be more like that.
After Sunday’s Gospel Father Campbell spoke about how it is now 9 weeks since we have been together in the Church. He spoke about what people were missing about coming together for Mass. These feelings we have about missing things were the same feelings that the disciples felt when Jesus ascended into Heaven. Jesus prayed for his disciples and the disciples prayed to help them be closer to Jesus.
Watch this short video to help us reflect on Sunday’s Gospel.
What could we do to help us be united in love just like Jesus wanted us to be? Perhaps you have a favourite book and could read it to your little brother or sister. Perhaps you enjoy making music; you could play it over the phone for a loved one. Maybe you could do a very helpful thing around the house for your parents without being asked. Today I would like you to pick an act of kindness to do for someone else and help put a big smile on that person’s face! Have a look at some more ideas below:
Now write down your act of kindness inside a heart and decorate it.
Please send your pictures to your teacher’s email address or Tweet us @St_BarbarasPS. We love seeing your pictures.
We all hope that you enjoyed an active, fun day. See you tomorrow!
Good morning, boys and girls and welcome to another week of learning and fun!
As usual, let us start the 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 that you have given us, so that we may fully benefit from our day together at school. St Barbara Pray for us.🙏
Tuesday 26th May
During Sunday’s Gospel we heard about Jesus praying for his friends and for us. He wanted us to be one, to be united in love, as closely as Jesus and God the Father are united in love. So, let’s think about how we can be more like that. Watch this short video to help us reflect on Sunday’s Gospel.
What could we do to help us be united in love just like Jesus wanted us to be? Perhaps you have a favourite book and could read it to your little brother or sister. Perhaps you enjoy making music; you could play it over the phone for a loved one. Maybe you could do a very helpful thing around the house for your parents. Today I would like you to pick an act of kindness to do for someone else and help put a big smile on that person’s face! Have a look at some more ideas below:
Please send me your pictures at (Teachers Glow Email) or Tweet us @St_BarbarasPS. We love seeing your pictures.
HWB
Tuesday 26th May
Today is Sport’s Day!!! I know it’s different from any sport’s day that we’ve ever had but we can still have lots of fun! So for health and wellbeing today I want you to follow the grid with lots of suggested activities. Don’t worry if you can’t do some activities just adapt them to suit yourselves. The important rule today is to exercise and have FUN!
I am so excited because today is our Virtual Sports’ Day. I hope you are all up, had a good energy providing breakfast and got your sports clothes on. The sun is shining which makes it even better! Have a look at the Virtual Sports’ Day blog to find out what you are being asked to do.
Let’s begin our day as we always do, by saying our morning prayer.
God our Father, as we prepare to begin our work, we ask you to help us use properly, the many gifts you have given us, so that we may fully benefit from our day together.
St. Barbara, pray for us.
I know this is not how you imagined your final Sports’ Day at Primary School however let’s try to make the most of it and have fun! I look forward to seeing the videos and photographs of you participating in today’s races.
And here is some work that Callum sent in. Thank you Callum for working so hard at home. 👍
I’ve assigned you some reading in Scholastic Books.
Remember you can still choose another task from your updated learning grid and there are other tasks on Sumdog, StudyLadder, FirstNews and Scholastic Books.
Welcome to this week’s update which is on Thursday due to the bank holidays tomorrow and Monday.
It has been just fabulous to see all of the work that has been going on across the school this week, even if you were completing it at home. I have loved looking at all of the photographs of your healthy snacks; you certainly have been really creative. They all looked delicious.
I’ve also really enjoyed looking at all of your hard work in jotters, your pictures and collages, outdoor learning and even stop motion videos. Well done, everyone!
Primary 4, your video was just beautiful and I hope that everyone else saw it too. If not, you can access it through the Parish website. Well done to all of you and to your families. A special, ‘Well Done’ to all of your friends in Primary 5/4 and Primary 4/3 who have supported you as well as to the staff who all made it possible. I would like to thank Fr. Campbell for leading it (which took several attempts to make sure that he held the candle in the correct hand!) so well.
Parents, thank you so much for your continuing help in supporting the children at home. I know that it is extremely difficult for you at times but I really appreciate your effort.
Teaching and Support Staff, thank you for all that you are doing for the children daily and behind the scenes; I greatly appreciate all that you do.
Finally, well done to all of our St. Barbara’s Superstars, our children! As always, you are a credit to your families and to all of our school community. Well, today we would have been at church as it is the Feast of the Ascension; Fr. Campbell has been on the phone already because he wanted to remind me to remind all of you (!) that you have to have a special, sneaky extra playtime today! Great news!
Next Tuesday the whole day is going to be a Virtual Sports’ Day – so look out for more information on the website!
So everyone – it’s Thursday, it’s the holiday weekend which means that once you have finished your work and had a long playtime, it’s Golden Time! I hope that you have a lovely, long weekend with your families.
Well boys and girls, it’s HAPPY THURSDAY today as we stop our home learning for a little break until Tuesday 26th of May and as you know, from our Health and Well-being posts this week, that is when we will have our Virtual Sports Day. So all you budding athletes, let’s get out there and practise over the weekend. Hopefully the weekend will be as lovely as the weather yesterday. ☀️ 🌞
Let’s begin our day with our Morning Prayer. We will also say a Hail Mary for all NHS staff looking after the people sick in the hospital and all the key workers.🙏
R.E.
Ascension Thursday: 21st May 2020
Today is Ascension Thursday!
We have been thinking about loving and caring for others all week and we have tried to follow Jesus’ commandment to, ‘Love one another as I have loved you.’
You have created a Caring Wreath to show that you care and you have learned about how Jesus ascended into heaven forty days after his resurrection on Easter Sunday.
Normally on Ascension Thursday we would all be going to Mass. Although we can’t actually go to church today, Bishop Toal is celebrating Mass for all of the children of the Diocese of Motherwell at 11am.
This Mass is being streamed on Facebook so you will need an adult’s permission to watch this:
www.facebook.com/rcmotherwell
Father Campbell is also celebrating Mass on St. Barbara’s Parish website at 10am.
With an adult’s permission, please select a Mass to follow.
You might also like to watch the clip below. You can join in if you like.
Literacy 📝
Choose a starter activity from the link below. Remember to choose one you haven’t already use.
Today we are going to revisit homophones – that’s a tricky word isn’t it – can you remember what they are? Watch the following link to give yourself a little reminder.
Do you remember now? Homophones are words that sound the same but have different meanings and are spelt differently. Let’s look at to/too/two this week?
I have attached a worksheet if you have time to complete it. When you complete the worksheet there is no need to print, put it in your jotter, writing the full sentences with the correct homophone to ensure you sentence makes sense.
If we were back in class we would spend around 15 minutes going over our spelling words. If there are any of your phoneme words you are still unsure of, remember to practise them. Take time to use the strategy that works for you. Remember people use different ways to learn new words.
Reading📖
Make sure you read today for at least 10 minutes. Find a quiet time and concentrate really hard on your book. Use a dictionary if you don’t know the meaning of a word. Reading expands your vocabulary and helps you in so many different ways in literacy.
Health and Well-being 🏃🏻♂️
As I reminded you earlier, it’s the last day before the holiday weekend and before Sports’ Day on Tuesday!!!
For some of today’s activities you need dice or you can make some (see below).
Select one or more of the following to do today:
Look out for news about Sports’ Day activities!
Numeracy 🧮🔢
Today is the last day for the Sumdog Contest, so boys and girls there are a few of you still to finish. A great big WELL DONE to Amelie, Jenna, Kyle and Lennon, Mason, Matei and Ronan who have finished their questions, fantastic. 👏👏⭐️⭐️
To start us off for number today we will log on to Sumdog for a wee 15 minute warm up. Try to finish the contest questions if you can.
In ‘Time’ this week you have been working hard revising o’clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to the hour, with some of you even moving on to digital time, well done! Please finish the exercises set by Mrs Graham yesterday from your Teejay textbook. If you have finished everything and you still have some time remaining for number work, please drop me an email and I will set you your next exercise. You can get me on gw09boyceshirley2@glow.sch.uk. Please try to use this email address as I am having problems with my other one. You should try to email me from your own glow email. You will get the instructions on how to log on from the post dated last Thursday, 14 May, on the blog.
Well boys and girls you have worked really hard and I think you all deserve some golden time. Enjoy and I will be back next Thursday. Bye for now and I’ll be watching what you have been working on until then. Good luck for our first Virtual Sports Day on Tuesday, can’t wait to see your pictures!
Mrs Boyce x🌈🌈
Remember, it’s Thursday, let’s make some noise for our NHS workers tonight at 8.00 pm.
⭐️⭐️Our shining stars⭐️⭐️
A great big well done to all our shining stars so far, I will update it before the end of the day. Keep watching!!
As usual, let us start the day with our morning prayer.
Have a look at the Virtual Sports’ Day blog to find out what you are being asked to do.
