St Bartholomew's Class Blog

We are all working rally hard at improving our reading skills and learning to look for information in the books we are reading. Here we are reading a tricky book about Animal Feet, we need to use the contents page to find out about different animals.

At task time, we are writing by ourselves. We use lots of different things to help us and to give us ideas. You can see some of the characters from the Story Bag that we can write about.

In our maths, we are working on measure and are learning to measure the area of different shapes. As well as this we are doing Number Talks – a strategy which helps us talk about out mathematical thinking and explain how we got the answer.

If you walk into our lovely school, you will see the wall displays from each class – here is our term three display when we were exploring different ways to travel.

As part of our PE sessions we are working on improving our coordination and our fine motor skills, this means improving our muscles in our fingers and hands, which helps us with lots of other activities in class including writing neatly.

Last week, we visited the school kitchen and made our healthy fruit kebabs. We prepared and shared these with our Primary 2 and Primary 3 friends in the afternoon. Everyone loved the fruit kebabs and there was not a single piece of healthy food left over at the end of our buffet!

Primary 1 made 90 kebab sticks to share with the P2’s and P3’s!

Today, we went to the Riverside Museum. While we were there, we did a workshop all about, “People who help us!”

Here are a few pictures to let you see what we were doing all day.

We chose to be fire fighters, paramedics, police officers or lollipop people today at the museum.

Everyone got dressed up.

First of all we found the police car and explored the job of the police person.

We worked well as a team to come off the area.

Next we found the fire engine. It was an old one, we looked at all the different parts of it and used the hose to put out a fire!

Then we found the ambulance and used all of the paramedics equipment to bandage up the teacher!

Here we are exploring the toucan crossing. It has special devices so that people who cannot see or hear still know when to cross.

We even had to
I’m working to explore the toys in the education room.

Some of us coloured some people who help us pictures.

We even had time to go on to the tall ship and see what life was like for a sailor.

Look at this helpful sailor, scrubbing the deck.

Sailors hard at work today n the tall ship.

P1 on the subway.

A very busy week in Primary 5!

P5 were very lucky this week. We got a special visit from headteacher, Mrs Donaldson! She had heard some fabulous things about this class’ work with Number Talks! She was very impressed indeed with all of our hard work! Well done P5!

We also had an amazing time for our first week at swimming! The boys and girls loved getting the opportunity to visit the Time Capsule to improve our swimming skills.

Eva said “While the first group were still getting changed, the second group got to watch a girl ice skating and we all cheered for her!”

Sophie M said “It was really good! We got to do a little assessment to test our swimming ability!”

Gracie “I really enjoyed playing chicken nugget, duck or hero!”

We also had the fabulous opportunity to show off our amazing Spanish skills to Mrs Bolland. She visited us on Wednesday afternoon to see how hard we are all working! She was super impressed!

Maddison said “We were learning all about the Spanish colours and we played Spanish bingo!”

Molly said “Mrs Bolland was very very impressed and we learned that she used to teach Spanish too!”

Very soon we will be doing a spot of Spanish themed cooking. Keep your eyes peeled for an update!