St Bartholomew's Class Blog

In primary 1 last week, we had four amazing STAR WRITERS –

They wrote stories about being brave! We are reading a book called, “The knight who said, NO!” and in it there is a little brave knight called Ned. We wanted to explore what this word meant so we wrote stories about being brave.

Also, here we are listening to and reading with our buddies at paired reading time, it is always a very peaceful and enjoyable part of the week.

In maths, we are exploring 3D shape and can name most of the shapes now. We wanted to use the shapes to build a castle just like the one Ned lived in long ago in our story.

Once again in number work, we are learning the number names and do this through games and activities with our friends.

As it was Halloween , we read some stories about witches and then made these scary witch faces to take home and scare our families!

In the play area, we played with a variety of activities and had fun playing and learning with our friends.

Look at this new play area lego we have !! Isn’t it amazing! Mrs MacFarlane in P6, who is Mrs Carlin’s friend, gave us this for our play area because her boys do not play with it any more – thank you Mrs MacFarlane.

What a fantastic term we have had! Primary 5 have worked so incredibly hard and will now enjoy a very well deserved break!

I think that P5 has to be the most creative class in the school! As part of our novel study the BFG, we enjoyed using tissue paper to design and create some amazing dream trees! They turned out fantastic and are super effective! Well done boys and girls!

We also enjoyed making some amazing dream catchers which we then used to plan and write some detailed instructions on how to make them as part of our taught writing. They are now hanging around  our beautiful altar. We are definitely budding artists in this class!

Finally, we also had the chance to present our solo talks to the class. Primary 5 prepared some very interesting and detailed presentations all focussed on places of interest within the United Kingdom which was our topic this term. I thoroughly enjoyed learning from the children and it was clear that a lot of hard work went into them. A massive well done to all of the boys and girls who prepared and delivered an amazing solo talk, I was very proud of you all!

Another well done also goes to our pupil of the week!

A massive well done to you all, P5. You have worked so hard this term! I hope you all have a fantastic, peaceful break. Make sure you spend some quality time with family and friends, and return to school well rested and ready to learn!

Look at our lovely Autumn display! We explored God’s wonderful world in autumn and created some autumn trees using different media. Everyone chose what they would like to use and then went about creating! We had to be like Kuba the Caterpillar and really concentrate.  All of the colours are autumn colours.

In our Growth Mindset activities we have been learning that sometimes it is better to work in a team, especially if the task is too tricky for one person. We put this to the test when we made our autumn umbrellas and worked in small teams.

In maths we have been learning about flat shapes and solid shapes. We used some flat shapes to make a shape picture, we learned some new, tricky shapes called pentagon and hexagon.

Can you see what we have made and what shapes we have used?

Look at this imaginative shape picture! Carly Anne used her imagination really well to create this.

Also in maths, we explored symmetry and then we created symmetrical butterflies with autumn colours.

Look at the fun we had at the obstacle course on Thursday! We went under tents, over benches, through tunnels and had magnificent fun!

In literacy we have been trying really hard to make word all by ourselves and with Have a Go Hamal the hedgehog, we are becoming more confident.

In gymnastics lessons this week, we have been learning to add a roll to our sequence. This roll you can see is the Teddy Bear roll and it was quite tricky!

Watch this space for more interesting news next time. Have a great holiday and we will catch up in the new term 2!!!

We have had another’s great week this week and can’t believe it’s almost the end of term 1.

Here we are enjoying Stay and Read on Friday with our parents and carers.

This morning, we were thinking about the kind situation of jobs we would like to do when we grow up. We wrote about them.

This is our wall display for our work on “Our Community “. We learned lots and enjoyed showing off our work at our assembly.

You can see some of the 3D houses we made as a homework challenge. It was good to work with our parents and brothers and sisters at home who helped us create these wonderful designs.

In gymnastics, we are learning about balancing and added some balances into our jump sequences this week.

The book fair visited our school this week and we all enjoyed looking at the nice books.

In primary 1 we are learning some gymnastic skills. Jumps, balances and patterns have been the main skills that we have been practicing.

In maths we have been learning how to create a pattern, it was tricky at first but we have been practicing and developin* these skills every week, now we are quite good at making patterns with two or three different colours or shapes.

This was an exciting week for us as it was our assembly. We invited our families to come and watch and then we all visited our classroom to share some sweet treats, fruit and water. It was a great day.

In art, we have been very creative with these October cats. We used crayons and made the patterns then painted over with 5in black paint, they’re not quite finished yet… so watch this space.