St Bartholomew's Class Blog

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.

Here we are at our play area after a very busy week. This week, we have worked hard in addition, and using tally marks. Also we have been working hard in literacy with our reading and writing skills. Everyone is improving all of the time and we are all very proud of ourselves.

Look at us making great use of our new art eagles in our play area….very creative.

This is our new shop where we can use our money skills and counting skills in a fun way.

What an amazing igloo! We really had a fabulous time playing in here.

Using tally marks in maths was tricky but we got there in the end!

Please come to our Christmas fayre on Saturday and buy some of these Christmas wreaths that we made all by ourselves. They are a real bargain.

In our maths this week we have been learning how to add two sets within ten and sometimes within twenty. We have been learning to read the number stories we have  made and have learned the + and the  = signs.

In our class our learning is fun, we listen to  explanations, practice new skills through games and activities and get additional help if needed.

How many altogether?

Count both sets to add altogether.

Adding two sets creates a bigger set.

We can add two sets together.

I know how to read an addition story.

Also this week we were reading with our buddies and have begun to look for words we know and read along with our buddies when we can.

Remember Hoots Owls??? We decided to recall what the white barn owl looked like

and using the internet, we explored photos of other barn Owls. Afterwards, we used sponges to paint a little white barn owl.

Using our observation skills to sponge paint the white barn owl we saw from Hoots Owls.

Here we are working as a cooperative group to make a dragon. In the morning,we explored descriptive words for dragons, just like we did last week for Owls, then we wrote our dragon descriptions. Following on from this,we put our ideas into action add created our own dragon. We used a variety of different materials too as we have been exploring materials as part of our IDL topic.

Using different materials to create an exciting dragon.

We had to work cooperatively.

Look at the finished dragon!