St Bartholomew's Class Blog

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! : )

Here are some of the photos from our trip on Friday to Stirling Castle. It was an amazing experience and everyone thoroughly enjoyed it.

Arriving at the castle! So exiting…

Who are these royal kings and queens?.??

We know how the knight stays safe in battle with his armour.

Look at these unicorns, they are the national animal of Scotland.

This Lady in waiting told us all about the baby queen Mary.

The queen’s bedroom was very impressive and her lady in waiting had beautiful clothes.

Look at the old leather football, she told us king James may have played with one like this when he was a little boy living at the castle.

In this room, we found eleven unicorns, then we got to make a wish.

The kitchen area was so interesting and would have been the hottest area of 5e castle.

We saw huge barrels of fruit and vegetables that would have been cooked for the king and queen at a banquet.

In the bakery the servants made all kinds of bread and pastry and cakes…yummy!

In the cosy storyteller’s room, we made some loud battle sounds.

Sylvia had lots of puppets to tell us stories.

We eat Rory the castle lion and heard an amazing story too.

Sylvia let us play with the puppets after the storytelling.

We loved the little castle mice puppets!

Look at this tiny mouse knight! Sylvia made all of the puppets herself.

The castle was full of cats in the olden days.

We came home with a big book about Rory and everyone got a t-shirt with Rory the castle lion on the front!

We have been learning a little more about the Holy Family and read the story of Mary and Joseph taking Jesus to Jerusalem.

Here are the clay owl song we made. We were investigating how  hard and soft materials and discovered that clay can be a soft and hard material.

Look at these winter moon paintings! We really like them and used lots of colours to make a winter sky. Then we wrote winter poems too! We are pretty smart, aren’t we?

In term 3, we are starting to write sentences all by ourselves. This is tricky at first, but as you can see, we are doing really well.

What a busy time we have had in school these past few weeks! Not only have we been busy with literacy and numeracy but we have also been busy getting ready for the Christmas show!

Here is a very smart P1 making and reading his own sentence – how clever.

Capital letter and the start and full stop at the end.

Look at these wonderful angels – we have been learning about the important news that the angel gave to Mary and the important news that the angel gave to the shepherds.

Hand print angels – how creative!

You will have seen us on the stage on Monday – weren’t we just superb? Our teacher was so proud of us and she could not stop smiling at us when we were singing and saying our lines and dancing on stage. It was a great show.

Also this week, we have been designing and making in the STEM zone. W made some models then tested them out to see if they would move!

Using the plans to make a model.

Look at this lovely flower!

It can be tricky to join some pieces together!

Working as a team to make a long chain.

My flower pot and flower.

We worked on our own and with friends. It was interesting to share ideas and help each other with the designs.

On Thursday, we had our party. It was an amazing afternoon and everyone loved the dancing, party games and we even had a visit from Santa ! Amazing!!!

A good old fashioned game of pass the parcel.

Party food time – delicious!

Santa said I looked just like a mini Santa!

Sharing our party food with each other.

A beautiful bunch of children!

Everyone in Primary 1 has had a fantastic first two terms and has learned so much in this time. We hope everyone has a brilliant Christmas and comes back safe and ready for more fun and challenges in the new year! Mrs Carlin will miss us terribly over these two weeks and will be looking forward to hearing all of our news in the new term.