St. Barbara's Primary School

Good morning P5. Let’s make the most of our day today.

Please spend a short time working towards challenges set on Sumdog, First News and Studyladder. Have you completed some tasks from your grid? Select  a challenge that you think you might enjoy for today.
I have added this week’s spelling words to Sumdog Spelling. Please spend time revising focus words.

I have signed up to a fabulous maths resources that we will be using in the coming weeks called Rigour Maths. This resources will provide you with video teaching clips for second level concepts in maths. You simply watch the clip, record examples and try the challenges set in your jotter. You must pause the clip as you work on the set examples. Next week I will also provide you with an online textbook page that will go along with the learning clips. For today I would like you to familiarise yourself with the online clip about negative numbers. To access the clip simply cut and paste/ copy the address below into the URL at the top of your search page. https://youtu.be/a5fhef4uV9Y
Please let me know how you get on with this activity by replying to this post.

If you have Lego at home perhaps you will enjoy today’s engineering challenge:
EYE LEGO Engineering Design Challenge: Amazing Mazes
Challenge: Create a maze that a marble can run through including turns, tunnels, and dead ends to make the maze difficult to navigate.
Engineering Goals:
The maze must have a defined start point and end point. Make sure that you make a plan before you build, just like an engineer would!
Engineers make plans before they build, but those plans often change and evolve during the design process. Good luck!

Try to get your body moving today. How many of each exercise can you do in one minute: squats, star jumps, sit ups, push ups, burpies?

I would love to see more pics of your home activities on St Barbara’s Twitter page.

Please spend some quiet time today and say a Hail Mary and an Our Father for all NHS workers.

If you have any questions, please get in touch. Feel free to send me an email to tell me what you have been learning: louisehaughey@st-barbaras.n-lanark.sch.uk.

Stay safe and keep smiling. Mrs H x

Hi again boys & girls!

I hope you are enjoying your day so far!

I’ve come across a great little page called Lingobox learning on fb.  You will need an adult to show you this, but there are great little videos on learning a new language.  Lots of fabulous songs which you know I love!

Also, just a reminder to go onto studyladder.  You were all given your usernames and passwords.

And, last thing – for all the dancers out there, “the ballet coach” on Instagram and you tube (again get an adult to do this with you) is a great class to do in the mornings and afternoons.  My girls and I have been dong them and I think I’m ready for my tutu now!! 😉

Stay safe everyone!

God bless.

Mrs Graham x

Good morning P4/3!

Spring is definitely here!  What a glorious morning.  I hope you all had a lovely weekend and got outside to enjoy the weather!  Today, I would like you to take your learning outside if you can.  I have attached a spring scavenger hunt for you!  When you complete this, you should try making one of your own for other family members.  Perhaps you could do it on a computer and email it to family members and friends.

Spring is all about new beginnings and although this is a strange time for us all, I would like you to think about all the new things you are learning at home or things that you would like to learn.  For example, baking a cake, learning to knit or sew, planting seeds in the garden.  Make a list and as the weeks go by you can tick them off.  It would also be nice for you to keep a journal, record your activities and thoughts and feelings.  You could do this too by taking photos of your “home schooling time” and create a collage or photo book. Don’t forget to upload some of your activities and accomplishments to twitter so I can see how you are doing – I look forward to these and they put a big smile on my face!

Keep up with your grid tasks, First News and Sum dog.

Enjoy your morning!  I will pop on later this afternoon with another little message!

Mrs Graham

Good morning boys and girls,

I hope you are all well and staying safe.

Remember to keep practising your sounds, reading and numbers and do plenty of exercise.

I am missing you all very much.

Take care,

Mrs Connolly 🙂

Good morning Primary 5,

I hope that you enjoyed a lovely relaxing weekend with your families.  Week two of home learning will be a little easier if you make a plan and try to get into a routine. Some of you managed to spend some time completing tasks on First News, Sumdog and Studyladder last week, well done. New tasks are set and waiting for you for this week. Remember that Sumdog will also allow you access to spelling and reading tasks.

We discussed the idea of creating a Time Capsule Letter to our future selves. In your letter you could give information about your likes, dislikes, your hopes/dreams for the future, what is happening in the world in 2020, what you have been doing during school closure and how you are feeling.  When complete seal the letter in an envelope and mark ‘DO NOT OPEN UNTIL 2030.’ Give your letter to a parent for safe keeping.

The sun is shining today so wrap up warm and spend some time outdoors.  You could jog around your garden or create your own fun workout.

Have a go at Dance Mat Typing on Bitesize: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zf2f9j6/articles/z3c6tfr

This will help to improve your touch typing skills.

Please spend some quiet time praying for those who are suffering across the world. Try to make someone at home smile today.

Stay safe! Mrs Haughey x

Happy Monday Primary 7,

I hope you all had a nice weekend and are ready to start week 2 of home learning.

I thought it might be nice to start the week off by saying a little prayer for a variety of intentions. Use this five finger prayer guide to help you.

It is important to keep active during these times. I remember how much you all loved our boot camp sessions so here is a little activity you can try to get your heart rates up. Spell out your own name and the names of any members of your family. Enjoy!

Today select a chapter from a book. Having read it carefully, create five questions about it which you could give to one of your friends.

You should include different types of questions e.g. literal and inferential.

Keep working on your learning grids this week and post some pictures as I am missing you all and would like to see what you have been up to.

Mrs Butler 🙂

Good morning Primary 2!

I hope you are all well rested and had a lovely relaxing weekend, ready for home school week 2! Tweet me @St_BarbarasPS updating me with your stories and sharing something you enjoyed doing this weekend.

Today I would like you to make sure you get some exercise in, why not start your day off with Joe Wicks @9:00am or by taking part in Oti Mabuse’s dance class @11:30am.

Please continue to work through your home learning grid this week. New challenges have been set on Sumdog for you, make sure to go on and check them out! Well done to the boys and girls who completed the challenges from last week, I was very impressed with the results.

Remember to keep revising your phoneme and common words, we will be learning our new words after Easter!

Keep up the great work,

Miss Shreenan 😃