St Bartholomew's Class Blog

Once again primary 5/6 have been super busy this week.

On Monday we had a very interesting visit from the SSPCA where we learned lots about the important work that they do in keeping animals safe from harm. Additionally we had the opportunity to take part in some great activities learning all about the different types of animals which the SSPCA help and about we can do to help protect them too. It was very informative and lots of fun!

Wednesday brought some more special visitors to our class, this time from Santander. Again this was great fun and a fantastic learning experience for all of us.

Our fantastic visitors explaining the first task.

We learned about the various different ways that we can earn or get money and completed some group mind maps showing these.

We then thought up all the different ways that we could spend money. We had loads of ideas, everything from sweets to paying off debt. Miss Brennan said we were ‘fantastic’.

We designed our perfect bedroom and learned how and why to budget. Some of us found it difficult to part with our dream TV, but we all managed eventually.

After the tricky budgeting task, we talked about the importance of saving some money and sticking to our budgets. We got to ask our visitors lots of questions about their jobs and everybody learned something new.

Today, we had another busy day. We used our fantastic topic knowledge and created fact file pages called, ‘All About Space’ in the morning. After an exhausting P.E session in the afternoon, we used our learning from the past couple of weeks, practised the recovery position and carried out some peer assessment on our techniques. We were very successful and have worked so hard this week. We’re looking forward to celebrating winning last week’s ‘Cool Class Cup’ tomorrow too. What an awesome week.

Here we have a closer look at some of the model houses from primary 1/2.

A wonderful and creative house by Naia.

A gorgeous white washed cottage by Lee.

Maddison chose brightly coloured paint to make her house unique.

Lewis put a lot of thought into the materials he used.

Fantasy fairytale house by Rhian.

For the last few weeks in primary 5/6, we have been looking at different aspects of time.

First we worked on our estimating skills trying to estimate how long activities would take and how many times we could complete these activities in a set amount of time.

We looked at how many times we could sneeze in  30 seconds.

Then we seen how long it would take to blink 50 times.

We investigated how many times we could touch our toes in one minute… It was exhausting!

We also used our estimating skills for some team building activities in P.E.

We got really good at estimating, so we looked at some different time-related language then practised our time-telling skills with 12 hour analogue and digital clocks.

Telling the time can be tricky business, but we worked really hard and soon we were able to move on to converting between 12 and 24 hour clocks. We played lots of different games to develop our understanding and get lots of practise!

As well as learning all about time, we’ve also been revisiting our learning from throughout the year with some maths stations and games. We’ve worked on multiplication, division, addition and subtraction in addition to place value, shape, patterns and lots of other concepts!

Lastly, we’ve been working very hard on our preparation for Confirmation. Here are a few photos of our work on the gifts and the fruits of the Holy Spirit and how we can use them throughout this Jubilee Year of Mercy.

What a great end to a lovely week here in Primary 1/2. We were all very pleased to hear Mr Young announce that we were the cool class this week.

Here’s a quick update on our experiences this week….

In maths we Primary 1 are learning to add and subtract by counting on and back on a number line while Primary 2 are becoming very confident with their addition and subtraction skills up to 20.

We are learning to use Word when we are in the computer room. We are learning to type our own sentence then change the colour, size and font. Later we will add pictures too.

In PE we are starting a block on Hockey. We looked at a BBC Bitesize video that showed us how to hold a hockey stick, then we were able to practice our skills in the PE hall. It was tricky but we will get better with practice.

As part of our reading this term we are learning all about information books. One group have been reading all about Rock Pools. This clever girl even made her very own rock pool – WOW!

Through ABC music we are all becoming pretty good at keeping the beat and playing our instruments at the right time. We even had a chance to be the conductor this week!

As it’s very cold, we are looking at weather through our drama. This session, we pretended to be Jack Frost, leaping and dancing around the room covering everything in a glittery, sparkly blanket of white. We worked on our own and in little groups. In our groups we created a Jack Frost dance that linked with the music we could hear.