St Bartholomew's Class Blog

Here we are, taking part in Number Talks! We are using the sign to let the teacher know we have an answer for the problem. this is when we explore numbers and talk through our strategies for solving the number problems.

We know what capital letters match to the small sounds. We are learning to use these sounds in our reading and writing and we are learning to use the capital letters at the start of a sentence.

Look at how clever we are – we an make words with the sounds that we know. We can sound them out, blend them and read them.

Everyone has their House badge on and this lets everyone in the school know which house we belong to. We can win points when we work hard and behave well. Then, the winning house gets an extra play on Friday.

In maths, we are learning to put out pairs patterns for numbers up to 10. When we do this, we can see which numbers are odd and which are even. It also helps us recognise the numbers very quickly.

You can see, that we are also using money to put out amounts. Sometimes we use 1p and sometimes we use £1 coins.

Look at these wonderful line drawings of us! These will be added to our busy street wall display. Can you spot who is who???

Would you like to live in a house like this? Everyone designed a house for our Busy Street. We used different materials and they all look amazing!

Lots of learning going on in Primary 1 again this week. Let’s see what we learn next week.

On Friday, we had another successful Stay and Read session with our parents and carers.

In the computer room, we are all learning to log into the computers by ourselves. We are getting quite good at it already. Also, we are learning to use the mouse and move the cursor around the screen to point to the right things on the desktop. Splosh is a useful way for us to improve our mouse skills.

In PE on Friday’s we are taking part in some Active Health activiteis and work our way around some circuits to keep fit and learn new skills.

Look out for our new art on the walls soon! Here we are exploring colour and learning to sue the paintbrush carefully to make different shapes for our picture….what will it be?

We had some prayer time in the Oratory this wee again. It is a quiet and peaceful place to pray as a class. Everyone loves the Oratory.

Let’s hope you enjoyed reading about some of the things we have been doing this week. What will our blog bring next week…..

We have had a busy start to Primary 3! So far we have got stuck into our numeracy and literacy work and have started to explore our topic. Our topic this term is ‘Scottish Wildlife’ and we have enjoyed researching information to share with our peers. We found so many interesting videos, pictures and facts so far. During our Art lesson today we created animals from different habitats around the world. We are looking forward to finding out more fun facts about these animals and comparing their habitats.

Last week we were learning all about Vincent Van Gogh and looked closely at his Starry Night painting. We talked about the techniques he used to paint and we even created our own Starry Night! We are so pleased with our paintings and cannot wait to display these for the whole school to see!

P4 have had another busy week!

In maths we have been comparing numbers using > < and =. We enjoyed playing a crocodile comparing game on the smartboard where we could all help one another.

We are also learning about 2D shapes and during ICT time we were applying different skills of inserting, creating and formatting different shapes on PowerPoint to make our own 2D shape monsters- it was very fun!

We completed our all about me silhouettes and they are now on display outside out class. We think they look fabulous!

Finally we enjoyed spending time in the library for accelerated reading.

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.