St Bartholomew's Class Blog

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.

Last week, this clever girl won a trophy for her Irish dancing- wow! We are all so proud of you.

As you can see, everyone in P4 loves to read. There is a wide variety of books for us to choose from in the class library and the school library.

Some of us chose to read books about space because we are going to be learning about the earth and space next week. Others chose to read books about food chains and food webs because we were learning about this recently.

We are continuing to work on our word processing skills in the computer suite each week.

In art, we have been using line, pattern and limited colour to design an out of this world astronaut character!

Also, working collaboratively to create a cosmic background for the astronauts! Next week, we will post the finished artworks.

We started off our week with another successful hockey lesson where we were learning to dribble – this was tricky. We worked in teams and in pairs and had some practice developing our own skills.
In RE, we have been learning about the church. After sharing our knowledge about our own church, St Bartholomew’s, we looked at the wider Catholic Church and learned all about the leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis.

Throughout the week, we have been exploring how to order numbers that are tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands. We are pretty skilled at this now.
Health and Well-being is a huge part of our day. Through our Emotion Works activities we delve deeper to help understand our emotions. We built up our 6- cog model and completed some work on how the cogs link together.

Understanding more about the world around us has been part of our IDL this term. We have learned a lot about nocturnal and diurnal animals. These nighttime foxes are beautiful. We developed skills in art using pastel to create texture for the fox, then used paint and chalk to create a cold night sky.
When we were in ICT, we started working on improving our word processing skills. We will keep you up to date on how we are getting on.

At our play area, we were all very busy this week creating, designing, repairing and dismantling!

What a team! A super class who have worked hard and followed the class charter all week. Fabulous!

Primary 7 have been learning about suspense in pr 7 and as a result we thought we would look at suspenseful art. We studied the painting The Scream by Edvard Munch.
We started looking at the lines of colour and  then we decided to have a go at the painting ourself. We looked at angles, colour, perspective, 3d bridges, symbolism and of course how to draw the scary face!
We hope you like the results!

It’s been another great week in primary 2/3. This week we learned some new concepts in numeracy as the squares group looked at number words and the circles group looked at counting on and back in 1s and 10s. We also enjoyed some fun games and activities to continue developing our skills with place value.

During literacy this week we have enjoyed learning how to use adjectives within our writing. We looked around our classroom and picked some items we wanted to describe. With a partner we when then shared some adjectives to describe our objects and created a word shower from this.

We enjoyed another great session of stay and read this week as we invited in our parents and carers into our classroom to share in some reading for enjoyment with us and we look forward to welcoming them back again next week for our final stay and read session this term.

Finally, we finished off our week by putting our knowledge of adjectives into some written work as we picked some animals from the flash cards and created an interesting sentence about them including some adjectives to add some detail and description. This will be a useful skill to help with our innovation of The Gruffalo story as we change the main character of our story to a new monster.

We have been working very hard this week and look forward to sharing more of our learning next week!

Our Monday PE session was great fun this week once again. We are learning some hockey skills and we all enjoyed a collaborative game at the end!

Everyone in our class loves reading. We are always keen to get to the library to change our books.

Sometimes we can all feel a bit overwhelmed or excited, relaxation or guided meditation is an effective way to regulate our emotions or just to have some still and quiet time.
This has been another great week for us in class. We are all working extremely hard to be the best we can be and to be mindful of our class charter.