St Bartholomew's Class Blog

This past week Primary 2/3 have enjoyed lots of new learning across the curriculum. During our numeracy lessons we had lots of fun exploring some new concepts and revising some concepts learned last year. The squares group looked at ordinal numbers. We made a line together and then discussed our place in the line, recording the correct ordinal number on our boards. The circles group enjoyed some place value revision as we discussed Tens and Units. We looked at some numbers on the 100 square and discussed how they are made up. We then had fun using our bodies to resemble dienes materials and work as a group to model tens and units.

During literacy we began our first talk for writing block this week. We really enjoyed the hot seating task where we had to think of questions to ask our classmate to try and figure out the animal they were thinking of. We then brainstormed some ideas for different animals that could be in our story to display on our flip chart.

After that it was time to create our own story about an animal on a journey and our ideas were fantastic! We couldn’t wait to get our ideas onto our S map and carefully drew illustrations along our S map to create our own story. We were then able to talk to our shoulder partner and use our S map to retell our journey tale.

We finished off our week by enjoying our first stay and read session where we invited along our parents and carers to our classroom to engage in some reading for enjoyment with us.

We are looking forward to next weeks stay and read session and lots more fun learning!

Our newly appointed house captains were delighted today to receive their badges at the whole school assembly. They were so confident when collecting and reading out house points and we can see they will be brilliant leaders in our school this year.

This past week, we have been working very hard across the curriculum. We have been reading The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark and have been exploring the text in order to develop our comprehension skills. Also, we will be using this story as a model text for our writing over the next few weeks.
Alongside this, we have been researching nocturnal creatures and have found out how they have adapted to the night.
Our owl artwork shows how we have used black paper to highlight the colour and patterns in the owls. We used oil pastel for these.

Our faith is very important to us in St Bart’s, we have been working on our class as a Circle of Friends and we are linking this to our class charter, where we are trying to work on being tolerant of each others differences.
We have been having some more explorative fun at our play area too, this week, the tinkering table was popular again!
Look at this wonderful trophy! Achieved for Irish dancing last weekend. Wow!
Everyone in P4 is looking forward to another hard working, fun week.

Welcome to our class page!

We have had good fun getting to know one another this week. We came up with ideas of how our class should be and we made a class promise. We think our class will be a cheery place to be if we stick to this promise.

During R.E time we spoke about our lovely families. Our families are displayed on our altar.

P.1 have been exploring numbers to 5. Here we are making our numbers with playdough.

P.2. have been learning about ordinal numbers. Here we are using the counting bears to talk about what place they are in the line. Recording ordinal numbers has been a new concept for us!

What fun we have had!

Welcome to our Primary 2/3 class page.
We have had lots of fun settling into our new class and getting to know our new classmates. In the first few days we spent some time sharing information about ourselves and getting to know each other. We also enjoyed taking part in some fun games to explore our classroom.

We have also enjoyed some revision and new learning in numeracy this week as we explored rounding to the nearest 10. We worked independently, in pairs and small groups to use different methods and resources to help us solve our rounding problems.

Lastly, we finished off our week with some celebrations for the feast of St Bartholomew. After celebrating mass on Thursday we enjoyed some delicious ice creams and a movie this afternoon.

Keep an eye on our class page throughout the year for lots more updates and information about the learning experiences in our class. We are looking forward to a fun year ahead!

Welcome to Primary 7

We have had an amazing time settling into pr7. In the first few days we studied the UN rights of the child and we picked some rights as our class focus. From that we made up our class charter and this was signed by everyone and  is now on display in our classroom. We have also been learning about Democracy and the importance of voting. With this in mind, we had our new house captain elections. The children were very brave and presented fabulous speeches. At the end, pr6 and 7 voted for their new house captains. Results will be posted soon.
Tomorrow is the feast of St Bartholomew. We went down to mass to celebrate and this afternoon we had tasty ice cream, movies and common room time!
Children are loving pr7 and it’s shaping up to be a brilliant year!

We have had a great start to P4. Everyone spent time working on our Class Charter. This is an important agreement between everyone in the class and will help us throughout the year . It was signed by all of us and sent home to let parents and carers be part of our learning.

Play is an important part of learning. We have begun to set up a play are for P4. After talking, we decided on a number of areas that we would like to start with, we will expand or change this as we go along.

Hello everyone and welcome to our primary 6 class page!

We will be sharing lots of updates on here throughout the year to allow you to share in our wonderful learning experiences.

At the start of the school year, we had received some letters from our Australian Pen Pals. We will continue to write to our Pen Pals throughout the year and we can’t wait to post our letters back and hear back from them soon.

We have been enjoying our Accelerated reading time in class each day when we have some dedicated time to read a book of our choice and then complete a quiz based on this book.

Every Tuesday afternoon we have ‘Buddy time’ with the P2 children and we have really enjoyed listening to our buddies reading their books and helping them to complete their quiz. We are looking forward to doing more activities with our buddies throughout the year.

Lastly, we have really enjoyed the opportunity to work with Mr Mackay from the Digital school. We are learning how to code simple animations using the Scratch coding platform and we have already learned some important coding terminology.

Keep an eye on our page to see some more wonderful learning throughout the year 😀