St Bartholomew's Class Blog

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!

Primary seven are are delighted to be back and straight into Confirmation Preparation. We are due to be confirmed on the 4th February and this week we have been singing hymns, studying saints and learning about what Jesus did when filled with the Holy Spirit.

Bishop Toal came into visit us on Thursday and told us all about the Confirmation ceremony. He talked to us about his role as Bishop and he even passed around his cross. It was really heavy! He explain about his staff which is called a “Crosier” and he told us all about the Good Shepherd which is on the top of his Crosier. He let us see his special hat called the Mitre. We think he really enjoyed getting to know us a little better.

Our next steps are learning about the Pentecost story and the gifts and fruits of the Spirit.

Last week finished off with P4 sharing their wonderful Christmas Books with the lovely children in P2/3…

This week, we left Christmas behind us and looked to our new term. We were introduced to our new novels that we’ll be studying in class. As well as learning our Reading Strategies, we’ve been working hard on handwriting and presentation. Here are some examples of our fabulous work…

In maths, we’re continuing with our mental strategies for addition and subtraction. We’ve been using number lines, hundred squares and lots of ICT games to help us. We’ve been playing partner games too…

We have also been introduced to our new topic this week. We’re going to learn all about the Victorians. How exciting! We took part in a carousel lesson to decide what we already knew, what we wanted to find out and how we wanted to learn it…

Mrs McLean and Miss Dunbar are now busy planning our topic based on what we told them. Here’s some things that we want to know:

• When did they live?
• What was school like?
• Why did they not have flushing toilets? (seems we have a fascination with toilets in P4!)
• What were their toys and games like?
• What did they do for fun?
• What did they eat?

Here’s how we want to learn:

• Make models
• Make Victorian food
• Play Victorian games
• Visit a museum
• Study and make our own Victorian art
• Look on the internet

Well P4, your wish is our command! We’d better get busy…

What a great start to the New Year. Primary 5 won The Cool Class Cup the first week back. Well done children it was truly deserved!

This week we have been very busy in class. In Numeracy we have been learning all about different number patterns and sequences.

Our new topic this term is The Vikings and we started on our design for our Viking shields. They looked super!

We were also learning about Rights Respecting Schools and the children worked in their co-operative learning groups to decide on what factors they considered important to achieve this within St. Bartholomew’s.