St Bartholomew's Class Blog

We learned how to access and use google earth this week as part of our topic. We spent time locating our local area and the street that our school is on. Then we explored typical streets in Townhead, looking at different types of houses and other buildings. It was very interesting.

Some me of us used the iPads and others used the smart board. We also spent time looking at street furniture when we were in the ICT room and managed to match all of the labels to the correct items like lamp posts, pavement, sign post and kerb.

We have been using ABC music to learn about keeping the beat and playing the correct sound on the right beat. It was tricky!

We worked on using our adding skills to play games…it was really good fun.

Today in primary 1, we worked on our addition skills again. Mrs Carlin is very impressed with us! We all understand what it’s all about….

Also primary 2 are investigating number triangles – these are clever triangles that help us write addition and subtraction number stories. When we use them, we can see the link between adding and subtracting…

In PE, we are completing our block on gymnastics. Today we were exploring rolling – we learned to do forward rolls and we taught our partner to do a fantastic log roll..

After PE, we started to look at the Church. This will be our main focus for RE over the next few weeks. We looked at ewtn kids website to find out the important objects that are found in a church. Then we visited our own Oratory to see what important objects were there. We discovered that almost all of the things found in a church are in our Oratory – in fact we have our very own little church right at the centre of our school. We all feel really special…

Over the last weeks we have been exploring the Year of Mercy and have completed some work on what it means to show mercy towards others. Here are some photos of our wall display…

In primary 1 this week we talked in groups about what Santa got us for Christmas. It was important that only one group member spoke at a time while the other members listened. We have been trying hard to take turns when people are speaking.

Describing our presents

Deep in conversation!                                          

After our discussion we wrote a story about Christmas Day. Some of us have been sounding out and writing by ourselves. Our writing is getting better every day.

    Thinking hard of the sounds we can hear in our words.           

Writing them down.                                          

During maths time we have been learning how to add two number together! We used number tiles to help us. Miss Duffy gave us a tricky sum and we had to jump along the number line to get the answer!

We are all glad to be back at school. We had a wonderful holiday and are all set to work hard again this year!

This week in ICT we looked at plans of the school and learned what a plan is and what it looks like.

Working in the ICT room.

One of the sixth year pupils from St Ambrose, Daniel, came to work with us again this week. He helped us learn about being proud and being humble. We all agreed that Humble Henry was the best friend to choose.

Choosing a good friend.

Primary 1 are learning to add – they are really great at it already….

Primary 2 are working on practicing their addition and subtraction up to 20 and are also completing some tricky puzzles.

we ended our week with our weekly visit to the Oratory. Here we listened to the Gospel for Sunday and heard all about Jesus being baptised in the river Jordan.

It’s been a busy two days in Primary 4 as we settle down into our new term.

We learned about the Epiphany. It falls on 6th January and celebrates the day when the Three Wise Men gave gifts of Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh to the infant Jesus in Bethlehem. We were very interested to learn that in some countries, children don’t open their Christmas presents until the Epiphany. We talked about the gifts we could give to Jesus then we decorated some Epiphany stars to remind us of our promises…

Following the success of our home-reading programme at the end of last term, we have decided to keep it going. We will visit the school library each week to choose our own books to read at home for 20 minutes each night. Mrs McLean has loved hearing about our books and we have loved reading them!

After we picked our books, we discussed what makes a good book. This is what we decided:

• It should be suitable. Not too hard and not too easy (Cameron and Leon)
• It should have some pictures to make it more interesting (Harvey-Jo)
• It should be exciting with lots of things happening in the plot (Lucie)
• It should be funny enough to make you laugh (Molly)