St Bartholomew's Class Blog

Today St Bartholomew’s Primary are marking the International World day of Peace by remembering and praying for the Syrian Refugees. We have been learning about the plight of these people and so to show our support, each child in the school is making a prayer footprint. These are all being dislayed to represent our concern and prayers as these brave people continue on their dangerous journey for a better life. Each child has been asked to make a donation of £1 to the SCIAF appeal and we will be collecting this all week. The theme of the next two week’s Tuesday morning prayer service will be peace in our world when we will be praying in particular for the refugees. All pupils, staff and parents are welcome in the Oratory before school.

We all wrote our own prayers of peace and support for the Syrian Refugees.

Our footprints stretched all around the foyer.

In Primary Seven we have been really enjoying learning about Britain during the 1960s.  The children took a particular interest in learning about the two groups called the mods and the rockers.  We have looked closely at their different fashions and their different music tastes.  Every day we have been listening to a different genre of music and we really enjoyed learning about The Who, The Doors, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Elvis and many more.

We have loved looking at the mods fashion of suits and parka jackets and the rockers fashion of leathers.  We were amazed how no-one wore a bikers helmet in those days yet they went around on motorbikes and vespa scooters.

We were really intrigued to learn about the clashes between these two gangs and how they came together to fight in 1964 at seaside towns along the coast of England.

We decided to write about these events and this week we wrote fantastic recounts of the clashes between the mods and rockers.  We used language straight from the sixties like “rumble” and “youths” .  We explained how the press created panic with these stories and how the fighting suddenly stopped between the gangs just as quickly as it started.  We can not wait to share these recounts with our parents at the next parents night.

This week we had a go at pop art as part of our topic work. We chose a flower theme for the pictures and we had to use lots of bright colours to make them stand out. It was great fun!

This week we tried our hands at writing a summary of a fiction text. We worked in pairs to find the main events then worked independently to write our summaries.

And let’s not forget our Star Writers from last week. Mrs McLean enjoyed reading your excellent Information Reports:

And finally, here is another super star who completed extra homework this week:

Well done everyone!

Hello and welcome to our Primary 2/3 class blog. We are excited to have it up and running again and can’t wait to share lots of information about our learning experiences with you. Watch this Space!