St Bartholomew's Class Blog

Travel and Transport has been our theme for the last few months, learning about travel and transport now and in the past. This has helped us learn all about how transport has changed the way we live. Look at these wonderful sailboats!

Brilliant Boats using mixed media – paint, pastel and tissue paper.

If you come into our class in the morning, you can chose how you want to be greeted! You can choose a hug, a smile, a high five, a thumbs up or a wave! We love to be greeted so warmly in the morning. It means everyone comes in to the class feeling delighted and welcomed.

How would you like to be greeted in the morning?

In P1, we are using a new resource called “Word Aware”. Each week, we will learn new vocabulary that we may not have heard of before and by the end of the week, we will have a greater understanding of the word and be able to use it confidently. This will help our reading and writing skills.

Word Aware Working Word Wall – our word of the week is “astonished”.

Writing is a big priority in our class. Not only are we learning to form the letters correctly, write on the line and keep the letters the correct size, but we are also learning to write sentences on our own. Look at some of our Star Writers!

A super Star Writer – look at the neat handwriting!

Another super Star Writer – capital letters and full stops too.

Star Writers using their sight words to write a little story.

Star Writers using sounding out and blending to help write tricky words.

Here we are using our Word Aware word of the week to check our understanding of what it means and create some sentences using the word.

Word Aware – using our word of the week to make a sentence.

Word Aware – working together to build a sentence with our word of the week.

Word Aware – using our word of the week to make and read a sentence.

What a fantastic couple of weeks we have had! Last week we worked so hard preparing our class assembly. We had lots of fun practising and were so dedicated to learning our lines and all of the words to our songs.

After our performance we all set up our Roman and Celts museum outside our classroom which contained our fabulous art projects! We also enjoyed having some treats and snacks in the class that afternoon with our family and friends!

We really loved learning new and interesting facts about the Ancient Romans and the Celts.

Aimee said “I liked that after our assembly our parents and family got to come and have snacks and look at our projects!”

Lewis said “I like practising for our assembly. I liked being on stage and rehearsing my lines!”

Rhian said “I enjoyed singing the Boudicca song and really liked acting out all of the lyrics!”

For all of our hard work and dedication we even earned Cool Class Cup! We look forward to celebrating our win this Friday afternoon! We hope we can win again!

Yesterday we had fun making and designing Valentine’s Day cards! We hope you had an amazing day filled with love and happiness

This Thursday and Friday we worked hard at writing a set of instructions all about how to make your own slime.

Nathan said “I enjoyed writing the instructions and also watching a video clip showing me how to do it step by step.”

Malinka said “We all agreed that Miss Kirkland would take 3 random jotters and try to make slime by following exactly their step by step instructions. If the slime works out the people who wrote the instructions will get to keep their slime!”

We will let you know next week who the winners and star writers are! Fingers crossed.

In our PE these past few weeks, we have been developing skills for “Invasion Games!” This sounds quite scary, but here is what we have been doing….

We have been learning to control the ball with our feet and move in different directions with the ball.

It has been tricky to keep the ball under control and not touch it with our hands!

Also, we had to learn to stop the ball with our feet, another skill that we need more practice with!

Not only did we use our feet to control the ball, we also used our hands and have been learning how to bounce the ball while moving slowly around the room. We all liked this best, but we still need to practice.

You can see that we are trying hard to write sentences. Look at these short sentences about a cat and an owl, with capital letters  and full stops.

Here, you can see that we are working hard to improve our handwriting and have new handwriting books to practice the size and formation of the letters.

Also, we are trying to make the muddled up sentences, this is a challeneg as we have to read every word and then see what makes sense. Everyone works as a team when we are doing this quick activity at the end of our literacy session.

This picture shows one of our story writing jitters. We have been writing stories about different ways to travel. Everyone thought of a story about travelling in a boat…. it was very interesting!

What a great week!

We have been learning all about Celtic Jewellery and artwork. On Thursday we had the opportunity to compare and contrast Celtic and Roman art work. We learned about the history of Roman Mosaics and we even got a chance to design some of our own.

Eva said “We enjoyed using bright colours and making patterns for our mosaics!”

As a part of our topic (The Romans and The Celts) we enjoyed learning all about the Roman invasion of the Celtic Territories. We used our map skills to identify the spread of the Roman Empire over hundreds of years.

Malinka said “I learned that the Romans took over most of Europe!”

This week was also our first session of ‘Better movers, Better thinkers’ with Mr Munro (AKA Andy!). We got to test our listening skills alongside our fitness level! We had to think hard whilst keeping moving at the same time!

Connor said “Mr Munro took us to the PE hall where we practiced our skills and played some games. I enjoyed the ball game where we had to grab the ball when the magic word was said!”

We are looking forward to another great week. Enjoy your weekend! : )