St Bartholomew's Class Blog

We have enjoyed starting off our new term learning some new concepts in numeracy. The circles group revised 2 digit chimney sums and the squares group used some numicon to help them when learning this new concept.

In P.E we have began learning the sport of Netball. We started off learning some fun drills using the 3 different passes of chest, bounce and shoulder pass in our small groups. We practiced using the bounce and chest pass in short passes to our partners and tried using the shoulder pass as a long pass to our partner when they are further away from us.

Later in the week the circles group began exploring 2 digit addition with carrying. We enjoyed using the cars to drive up our ‘1’ into the tens column.

We helped raise money for our school funds by bringing in £1 and we loved getting to wear our own clothes and have some spooky/crazy hair for the day.

As part of our new topic we have been learning about the 3R’s (Reduce, Reuse and Recycle ♻️) we joined P1/2 to do some litter picking around our yard. We know how important it is to keep our environment clean and tidy and we spoke about the different recycling bins we can use to help with this too.

Later in the week we then reused some old cardboard to create some beautiful cardboard jewellery. We picked some shapes and designs we would like for our cardboard necklaces and we are looking forward to making some more jewellery pieces next week.

Lastly we have been enjoying using our rosary beads in school to pray a decade of the rosary this month 🙏🏼. We have now made our own rosary beads so to bring home so that we can pray a decade of the rosary at home too 🙏🏼📿

Over the last 2 weeks we have been exploring features of poetry writing. We innovated in order to create our own poems titled ‘The Cat’, using figurative language to make our poems interesting and exciting.

We also made some art work and redrafted our poems to create a fabulous wall display outside our classroom to showcase our learning.

Finally, well done to all of the children who decorated their paper plate with a Halloween theme for our homework. Your designs were spooktacular!

Everyone was delighted to be starting off the new term by learning a new skill – badminton! Over the next few weeks we will be learning new skills and developing stamina through lots of PE activities.

Today, we all helped raise money for school funds by paying £1 for a non uniform day and all came to school with Crazy Spooky hair….our teacher didn’t recognise some of us!

At art this week, we learned how to use marbling inks to make patterned paper. We used this to make a moon backdrop for our silhouette bats. Very spooky!

Our open area is beginning to look a lot like Hallowe’en.

Our class had a lovely time on our spiritual retreat yesterday. We spent the day in St. Bartholomew’s Church hall with Stephanie and Barbara, the organisers, who had lots of lovely activities planned for us. We had a chance to visit the church, do some arts and crafts, learn new songs and take part in some peaceful meditation. It was a lovely relaxing day and we can’t wait for our next retreat day in January!

We were also lucky enough to have some of the Sports Leaders from St. Ambrose take our class for a zone ball session this afternoon. This will help to prepare us for our bench ball competition coming up later this term. We had great fun and learned some new skills.

We cannot believe it is the last day of term! What a fabulous first term we have all had.
Everyone in our class has achieved so much in such a short space of time. We have had fabulous learning experiences and have worked so hard and played so hard too!

Here are a few moments from this week….

We completed our astronauts and put them up outside our class in our learning and playing zone. We also put some of them in the main foyer display area. We think they are out of this world.
Everyone enjoyed looking back on their learning this week. Our Learning Journey jotters were updated and we added some new entries for September. It was amazing to see how far we have come.
Birthday celebrations this week !
After exploring the earth, sun and moon, we made a model to show how the earth spins and how the moon travels around the earth.
We finished off our clay owls this afternoon. They were colourful and bright.
Primary 4 enjoyed listening to this girl telling us all about her holiday on a cruise ship.
In play area, at the Tinkering Table, this team deconstructed a laptop to see what was inside! It was fascinating to see the tiny components that work together.
So you can see what wonderful opportunities we have in P4! After the break, we will be looking forward to more learning adventures in our brilliant class!
Enjoy the break everyone.

We have had a short week at school last week but it was also a busy one. Every day, we work hard and have fun and try extra hard to get along with our classmates and make our classroom a happy and positive place to learn.
Here we are working on our spelling with our partners.

We also use a variety of reading activities on the iPads to help reinforce and practice what we have been learning.

Wednesday last week was the feast of the Guardian Angels and we went to mass to celebrate along with P5. Father O’Kane was delighted to see us all and it was a beautiful mass.

These pupils served on the altar for our mass. Well done.
On Thursday, we used a circle of clay to make these clay owls as part of our topic work on nocturnal creatures.
We will glaze them next week and share the finished work!
Our Emotion Works wall in class shows what we have been learning about. Our work this term has focused on the 6 cog model. We have added portraits showing different emotions, hearts full of joy and emotion potion bottles. It is important for us to understand how our emotions affect us and how we can regulate our feelings and emotions.

It’s been another great week of learning in primary 2/3. This week during numeracy both groups learned about different symbols we can use to create number sentences. The squares group looked at the greater than and less than symbols whilst the circles group revisited the greater than and less than symbols and learned about the equal to and not equal too symbols. We had great fun using different materials to make number sentences and then draw our own greater than or less than crocodiles to complete our own number sentence.

During literacy time this week each group read a non-fiction book and enjoyed finding out some new facts and information. We then chose some interesting words from our book and had a go at arranging these in alphabetic order. This was a new activity for us this week and we are looking forward to trying it again with more of our reading books.

This week we were very excited to meet up with our primary 6 buddies. Our buddies enjoyed listening to us reading to them and they were happy to help us with any tricky words. We are looking forward to meeting up again with them next week.

Lastly we started work on some lovely autumn art at the end of the week. Miss Allington read us the story about ‘The Little Acron’ and we talked about the different changes we can see in the environment around us, now that we are in the autumn season. We then began decorating our squirrel outlines using the finger painting technique to create our own autumn coloured pattern on the squirrels body. We then created our own autumn trees using tissue paper to fill out the branches of our trees. We are looking forward to finishing out autumn art next week and these will be on display at the main foyer for everyone to see 😁🍁❤️

We are delighted here in P5 to finally have our new Social Zone up and running!

The Social Zone is a space we can go for a bit of calm, quiet reading or even quizzing on the iPads. We were keen to spend some time in here this afternoon.

We also had the chance to get creative when we designed our very own frocks as part of our Literacy Topic on ‘Bill’s New Frock’. We enjoyed experimenting with shape, pattern and colour when designing our frocks.

We worked so hard on our frocks that Mrs Maclean could not resist putting them on display for all to see!

This past week we have enjoyed lots of different number activities as we celebrated Maths week Scotland. We started off our week looking at comparing numbers. Our squares grouped worked with numbers up to 100 and our circles worked with numbers beyond 100. We began by choosing our own number and writing it on our whiteboards. We then had to organise ourselves into a line from the smallest to largest number. We worked well looking at each others number and talking about the digits we could see.

Later in the week we took our learning outside. Firstly we had a wonderful morning exploring our school grounds where we collected some lovely autumn leaves.  We then used them to take part in some fun maths activities for maths week.

We were carefully counting our leaves & writing the number of leaves we found beside them. Then with our partners we discussed who had the most or least amount of leaves. Next we used our leaves to help with some number formation, challenging ourselves to make different numbers with our leaves.

Then we looked at different patterns we could make with our leaves thinking about shape, size and colour before having some fun creating some nice pictures with our leaves. We also really enjoyed working with P1/2 for our outdoor maths activities and we are looking forward to doing more activities like this together this year.

We also had great fun working on our rhythms and beats in our music lesson this week. We used our body parts to help us create different sounds (foot stomp, clap, click and knee tap). We carefully followed a sequence of beats using these different sounds to follow the rhythm of the music.

Lastly on Thursday we were able to enjoy some prayer and reflection time in our oratory. As a class we spent some time praying for our loved ones and people in need across the world. We then listening to a 3 minute retreat reflecting on the gospel reading as we offered up our love and prayers to God.