St Bartholomew's Class Blog

What an excellent first day at Gowanbank!

we have had the best fun! We have eaten loads and have had hot chocolate, cakes and we are ready for bed!
we cannot wait for more fun tomorrow 😁

We had the best time tonight around the campfire! We toasted marshmallows! We sang really loudly and danced around the fire! It was amazing!

Last week, we had our fabulous Christmas show!
Everyone took part and everyone did an amazing job.

Look at these superstars!

We also looked at some angel art as part of our RE, where God sent a messenger to Mary, to tell her she was going to be the Mother of God.

Then we created our own angel art.

Primary 4 have had a busy time!
Last week, we had our class assembly. Everyone had a chance to contribute to the assembly which was based on our IDL theme of Rainforests. We had learned so much about the rainforests of the world that we were excited to share our new knowledge with our family and friends.

Even though the technology let us down…..we were still amazing!
After the assembly, our families and relatives were invited to our class where we had prepared refreshmentsand we showed them around our Rainforest wall display and explained what we had been learning about.

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We think our art work is really super and we learned so much about the rainforest and the importance of the rainforest to our environment.

As part of our novel study on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, we carried out some ‘hot seating’ today. We had fun pretending to be the different characters from the book, then interviewing the characters to find out their views on events from the story.

We also enjoyed practising our French numbers to 20 today on our lovely new Smartboard! We can’t wait to explore all the cool features it has to offer.

We had great fun with Miss Walker from St. Ambrose High School this week as she visited us to deliver more science lessons. We did a really cool experiment on chemical reactions using water and vitamin C tablets. It was rather explosive!

We also had fabulous fun yesterday on our final day of our class topic on France. We had the chance to taste some different French foods and treats.

At the end of our lesson we carried out a survey to identify the most popular and least popular foods.

We have been very busy and working very hard as you can imagine!

Mrs Carlin found a bird nest in her garden and brought it in for us to have a look at. We couldn’t believe a little bird had made such an amazing thing! We could even see a bit of the shell and some fluff from the baby birds. It was so interesting!

We then read a book called Lazy Ozzie as part of our Scottish Book Week activities. It was about an owl who couldn’t be bothered learning how to fly! This made us want to learn about other birds. We had a look at some Scottish birds and had a class vote on which bird we’d like to learn more about. The golden eagle was the winner! We will keep you up to date with our learning on this amazing bird!

Donations for the food bank filled our classroom and we felt very proud of ourselves for organising this collection to help our local community. We each carried a bag of food down to the local food bank and Pastor Stuart was blown away by the amount we had collected!

Miss Duffy is so lucky to have such fabulous, kind and hard working children in her class!

This week in primary 2/3 we were joined by a special visitor. Mrs Akram came in to speak with us and P1/2 about her Muslim faith as part of our ‘Other world religions’ learning. We found out about the use of prayer mats, prayer beads and the special dress that men and woman wear during prayer time.

We were also lucky enough to have some special Henna designs drawn onto our hands. We learned that Henna is applied to the hands of Muslims during the special celebration of Eid which takes place twice a year.

With our Christmas Fayre fast approaching on Saturday we had to work hard to prepare our Reindeer hot chocolate cones. We were able to work excellently in our pairs to pour in scoops of the hot chocolate powder and then sprinkle on some tasty marshmallows.

Once the cones were created we added the finishing touches by sticking on two googly eyes, a red nose and some antler ears. We were delighted with the finished products and we hope people will enjoy them on Saturday.

This week was also Scottish book week and we have enjoyed reading the book ‘There’s nothing faster than a Cheetah’ by Tom Nicoll. There were lots of different animals trying their best to beat the Cheetah and we really enjoyed drawing our own funny mode of transport for our animal to try and win the race! We also welcomed our grown ups from home to come and enjoy a ‘stay and read’ session with us this week and it was great to have so many of you joining us to celebrate reading during Scottish book week.

Lastly, we finished off our week by donating all of the items we had collected to our local Foodbank. We were so excited to pack up all of the fantastic donations with P1/2 before we set off on our walk to meet Pastor Stuart at the Foodbank. Pastor Stuart was delighted with the amount of donations we were able to deliver and we are so happy that we could help others.