St Bartholomew's Class Blog

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!!

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.