St Bartholomew's Class Blog

This week in Primary 2 we have been learning all about Robert Burns. We found out where he was from and some facts about his family. We also learned about his job and the types of poems and songs he wrote. Next week we are going to listen to more of his poems and try to learn some Scots words! We have been working very hard since we came back after the Christmas holidays so we won the Cool Class Cup. We loved having the wii this week and are getting very good at playing Just Dance!

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Today we have been learning about a style of Victorian art called silhouette art. We looked at some examples and then we made our very own by cutting around our own silhouette photographs and then painting them back…

Next week we’re making the frames for our Victorian Gallery. Watch this space!

Learning  journey folders go home tonight. We hope you enjoy our hard work!

As it is the year of Mercy this year, Primary 7 have been looking at the logo and the symbolism behind it. We have been exploring how Jesus looks like the good shepherd carrying mankind and how the two faces merge to only have three eyes, showing how Jesus can see things through our eyes. We have also been looking at the use of colour to show Jesus carrying us From darkness into light.

We all took a different focus and tried to recreate a part of the logo. Can’t wait to see the finished results.

We have had a very busy week in Primary 5!

We have been learning how to write using the Viking alphabet. We made some Viking scrolls for our wall display.

In Numeracy we have been working with numbers up to 1 million!

In Literacy we have been learning all about Rabbie Burns and we wrote our own Scottish poems.

The rain doesn’t stop us!!!

Words of the Junior Sports Leaders today as they took an indoor session of games for pr2!

The Mark Miller Performing Arts Studio was transformed into a games station at lunchtime today.

The very organised pr7 sports leaders planned and  a game of shark and life guards!

There was squeals of delight as the children from pr2 were really enjoying themselves.

Well done Sports Leaders!

Well done to the members of the school football team from primary 5, primary 6 and primary 7 who put in a good performance against Saint Mary’s.  They showed great character throughout the game and demonstrated excellent sportsmanship from the first whistle to the last.  A special well done to Ryan who scored three goals for the third game in a row! Their performances have been improving greatly and it won’t be long before they get a few wins under their belt.

What a hard-working bunch we’ve been this week! It all started with Queen Victoria…

We carried out some internet research about her in the ICT suite and recorded our notes onto a Word document…

Then, we looked at Queen Victoria’s reign (the time that she was Queen) and placed all the important things that happened on a human timeline…

After that, we learned a bit more about Queen Victoria. Some people have said that she was an unhappy, or even grumpy, Queen and we decided to investigate whether or not this was true. We looked at lots of pictures and things that people said about her in the past…

We had to decide if we believed that Queen Victoria was unhappy, sad or grumpy by looking at the evidence. We had to be able to justify what we said. We decided that:

• She never smiled in her portraits because she had to pose for them and wouldn’t have been able to smile that long!
• She didn’t smile often in photos because it wasn’t fashionable to do that in Victorian times.
• She wasn’t grumpy because many people, including her own granddaughter, talked about how funny she could be.
• She was sad at times because her husband died and she missed him very much.

On top of all that, we’ve been developing our mental strategies for addition and subtraction. We took part in a maths carousel lesson that allowed us to practise all our strategies. We’re getting really good at it!

Well done P4!!

Q-“Cows standing in a field. How do you know which one is on holiday? ”

A- “The one with the wee calf!”

heehee!

Primary 7 have had great fun with puns this week! We were playing around with words and homophones to make witty puns and headlines.

This afternoon we really enjoyed a co-operative task where we were given headlines and we had to match them to newspaper stories. We then had to explain the pun in each one. Maybe one day some of us will be famous journalists!