St Bartholomew's Class Blog

Here we are showing off some of the phonemes we have been learning this term. We know them really well and can use them to write some of the trickier words.

We know all of these tricky phonemes.

This week was our turn to visit the STEM zone. We were involved in some great learning experiences as you can see…..

Working together to make an aeroplane. It’s a bit tricky!

STEM week for us his week. We love to create and design!

Let’s think about what we could make with all of these different parts?

I’ve made my own truck. It was tricky to get the wheels on but I used the tools.

Also it was World Book day. Everyone brought in an object that reminded them of a favourite story and some of us brought the story with us too. Then, we shared our story with our class mates. It was great to hear about the different stories and characters that everyone likes.

We brought in an object that was linked to our favourite book. I have Fluttershy!

What else have we brought in to talk about? We love books!

My favourite character and story!

In P1, we are enjoying Number Talks. In this photo, you can see that we have been working out how many dots we can see altogether. We are looking for adding doubles, adding one or two more, making a ten, counting on and seeing patterns. We are all pretty smart you know!

Working on Number Talks. What can you see and how do you see it? Big questions and big answers.

Each week, we are using Word Aware to learn new vocabulary. This week we are learning all about the word “mean”. No one in our class is mean though!

Our Word Aware Word of the week is “mean”. Thank goodness no one is mean in our class!

Sentence building using our Word Aware word of the week.

Our visitors cam last week to tell us all about Maisie Milk. We are going to bring in spare change to fill a milk carton and donate all of the money to Aid to the Church in Need. This is a charity that Pope Francis would like us to support. It will go on all year, with each class collecting spare change. What a great idea.

We are now collecting cons for our Maisie Milk carton.

Play area time is always an interesting time to play with different things and different people. Look at what we were up to on Friday!!

Balancing fun at the play area.

The painting is always a popular choice at play area.

Everyone loves to be creative at the making table.

We are very smart in P1. We know all of these phonemes.

What a fabulous week!

Some of our boys and girls have been really enjoying their time outside as sports leaders. They have had a ball creating their own games to teach to our younger pupils. Molly had so much fun that she even managed to fall right into some mud! The sports leaders are currently working on writing up rules for some of their new games. We can’t wait to see what they come up with!

We have also been enjoying learning some new Spanish vocabulary. This week we put our learning together to have short conversations completely in Spanish! Primary five can’t wait to begin learning all about colours!

Finally, we are also very excited to be starting our swimming lessons next week! Look out next week for an update on how we get on! : )

Our week started off with a visit to the school book fair. We saw some lovely books and recognised some of them from our own class library.

Everyone had the chance to talk about the books they liked and to share our books with our friends.

I love sharks. I can’t wait to read this book.

We have read this book in class and we loved it! We also loved “Oi frog”.

I like the front cover of this book and I can see the “wh” phoneme in the title.

I think I might like this book. I think I can read some of the words by myself.

These two superstars have been working their socks off to learn some new sounds . They have made great progress and are showing off their skills by writing the sounds correctly. Well done !

I am learning some new sounds this week. I’m getting really good at my sounds.

I’m very proud of myself because I know these sounds.

In PE, we are learning how to play hockey. Firstly, we had to learn how to hold the hockey stick, then we had to learn to control a large ball. When we have mastered this, we will move onto a small ball.

We are learning to hold the hockey sticks with two hands.

We are using the big balls to practice controlling the ball with our hockey sticks.

We know how to hold the hockey stick.

P5 have enjoyed a busy week!

We have been practising our songs for our summer performance – we are really enjoying learning all of the words. Our class are definitely the best singers in the entire school!

Since it has been such a nice week weather wise, we loved getting the opportunity to take our PE lesson outside. We even enjoyed a quiet reading session in the sunshine! Fingers crossed for more amazing weather!

We have also thoroughly enjoyed our first few Spanish lessons. We have learned a few different greetings and how to ask what someone’s name is and reply. If you see us in the hallway, make sure to test us out! We are really quite good!

This week primary 3 had fun in The Stem Zone. Our challenge was to design and built a boat. We are going to test or boats to see if they float.

We also carried out some research on Egyptian Pharaohs during our digital learning this week and recorded our facts in our jotters. We will write a report using our research during story writing.

During our RE this week, we are learning more about the life of Jesus. In the past few weeks, we have learned about where Jesus lived as a boy and how he grew into a teacher. Today we heard the story of one of His miracles. After listening to and watching the story of The Loaves and Fish, we made sentences in our coop groups and read and wrote them.

Also this week, we are learning more about words in our Word Aware activities. This week, our word is terrified. We made up sentences about being terrified!

Our spinner helps us remember the word of the week and understand what it means. When we spin the spinner, we can get to do different tasks.

Everyone in the class is getting really smart at using capital letters. Some of the capitals are tricky to remember but we are doing lots of different activities to help us really learn them.

Making and writing words is a big part of our weekly tasks. We use lots of different resources to make words and here you can see us making CVCSpinner words with our Sea of Sounds fish!

In maths we are learning all about money and have realised that it is just like adding. We can use our knowledge of numbers and our numicon shapes to help us understand the values of the coins. We are now working on putting out amounts to 20p and are really pretty skilled at it.

Using numicon, we can makeup our own addiction numbers stories. We can see how many additions we can make in a minute!

Number Talks is part of our daily routine in maths. Here we are talking about what coins we can see and how we see them. When we talk about this, we might talk about the doubles we can add together, we might talk about how it is easy to add 1p as this is just like adding one more, we might also say that it is easy to add 2p as this isn’t the same as jumping on two more numbers. When we talk about numbers, everyone is involved and it helps us think about the strategies we use when using money.

This week we enjoyed writing some persuasive pieces. We debated the positive and negative aspects of wearing a school uniform. Some very interesting points were made!

Rhian said “I think it is certain that school uniforms are a great idea because they can stop bullying.”

Eva said “School uniforms are a good idea because they look very smart indeed!”

P5 are also very excited to announce that sometime in June we will be putting on a small performance, showcasing all of our fantastic musical skills that we have learned from our Kodaly time.

Molly said “we have even prepared some song mashups!”

We really hope you enjoy it when the time comes!

This morning we thoroughly enjoyed learning all about everyone’s art projects. P5 worked so hard to put together some incredible presentations. I was very impressed indeed! : )

An incredible Roman shield and spear was made by this fantastic girl!

Roman weapons at the ready!

Fantastic information all about the colosseum!

Look at what this great girl made! We really had fun with this art project!

P5 loved learning all about why this fantastic boy chose to focus on Roman mosaics for his art project!