St Bartholomew's Class Blog

Primary 5 have had a busy few weeks since the summer holidays! We have been getting used to our new timetable and have lots of new and exciting things happening in our class this year. On Thursday we had our first Kodaly session where we learned some songs and rhymes that we loved singing together as a class, it was great fun. In P.E. we have started a block of tennis and we will be learning lots of new skills over the next few weeks so look out for some of our pictures! In taught writing we are working on narrative stories and this week we wrote about a time when we had been naughty, I bet our parents would love to read them!

Another successful and busy week in our class. We had Paired reading with our Buddies 5is week where we were able to practice reading our class reading book and also we were able to share a story for enjoyment with our friends and Buddies.

Our artistic skills have also been developed this week when we created our own painted paper to use in a new project next week….watch this space for updates!

Also this week, our parents and carers came to read to us on Friday morning at Stan and Read. This is a great chance to get together and enjoy some stories from the class library.

In our maths we have been learning about and creating patterns. Everyone created a repeated pattern on their paper T-shirt, then everyone created a repeated pattern using colourful shapes. 

This wall display, shows what we have been learning in RE. Look at all of the special little faces in our class…everyone is special, God knows everyone, and we treat each other with care.

This week in Primary 1, we started Stay and Read. After the bell rings at 9.00, parents and carers are invited to Stay and Read with the children. Not only is this a great way to enjoy stories, it is also an ideal opportunity to get to know one another.

A positive way to start the day reading with mum and dad.

Sharing a book with mum in the school library.

Stay and Read is a brilliant way to get to know our new parents and carers.

Stay and Read with our friends and family

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This week, we have been reading more fairy tales. We enjoyed “The three billy goats gruff.” Also we have been writing about he fairy tales too. We have not had a letter from our friendly dragon this week and we are hoping to get one on Tuesday after the break. You will see that we have been continuing with our growing topic too and have spent time looking at flowers in art and exploring the shapes and colours. We created these beautiful colour wheel flowers for our wall.

We made magic wands to cast spells! We’ve been reading lots of fairy tales.

Finger rosary beads that we made with Mrs Wilson.

Can you guess what we are painting ?

Our finished colour wheel flowers!

Adding the final touches….

Science , Art and Literacy in primary 1! We have been reading lots of Fairy Tales and recently enjoyed “Jack and the Beanstalk”. If you have anything to do with P1, you will know by now that we have a friendly Dragon from Fairy land that comes and visits us regularly, this Dragon also leaves us “D-mail” most mornings! So….last week in our post box, was the story of Jack and the magic beans. The dragon also left us some magic beans to plant and some sunflowers! We are hoping to grow a beanstalk to the clouds.

We have been looking after the seeds so well that most of them have sprouted now. Some are pretty tall!

As well as learning how plants grow, we wanted to paint some sunflowers using the warm and bright colours of the sun. This was great fun and we spent some time researching what the sunflowers might look like when they are fully grown.

Watch this space and we will post a picture of the completed sunflowers soon!

What do you think of our wonderful writing? We are just about ready for Primary 2 and our teacher is super proud of the work we have been doing to improve our writing skills. Wow!!