March 21, 2018
by Mr Fowler
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Close control in Primary 3

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Primary 3 recently studied hockey for the first time as part of our P.E. programme. We started off with a quick warm-up called ‘Toilet Tig’. This game is really fun, and nowhere near as disgusting as the name sounds!

After that, we learned how to hold a hockey stick correctly. We then learned that, when dribbling in hockey matches, you should aim to keep the ball close to you so no one can tackle you. We put this skill into practice by dribbling around the hall. What great control!

After that, we split up into teams and practiced dribbling around objects. This was a little bit tricky!

Finally, it was time for a quick cool-down. We decided to play one of our favourite games called ‘Traffic Lights’.

What a great lesson! We had fun, learned new skills and worked together. We can’t wait for next week!

March 16, 2018
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A catch up with P.1/2.

Here we are in the STEM Zone making models and inventing lots of wonderful creatures!

Last week we carried out a floating and sinking experiment. We were surprised at some of our findings!

We have been working so hard in our writing too. P.1 children writing independently and P.2 children writing at length!

March 16, 2018
by Ms Kiernan
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Primary 5/6 Update!

Primary 5/6 have been working hard with their timestables and carried out different times table challenges.

We also created fact files on our topic Space using our research from ICT.

March 16, 2018
by Mrs Carlin
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Primary 1 news.

This shows just how good we are at writing in primary 1! We haev got finger spaces, we have got full stops and capital letters. You can also see how neat our writing is. Our teacher is very proud of us.

In calss, we love to rad, here we are in our class library enjoying the books there.

For maths this week. we have been learning about graphs and making and using graphs to gather information.

These wonderful clay crosses were made by us a few weeks ago, we have allowed them to dry and now we have painted them. They are empty crosses to show that at Easter time, we celebrate that Jesus rose from the dead.

The book fair was in school today and we allhad a chance to go up and look at the lovely books.

March 12, 2018
by Mr Fowler
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A trip to church

This week, Primary 1 went to visit St Bartholomew’s Parish Church. It was a fascinating visit and we learned so much during our trip. Fr O’Kane was very impressed with our knowledge of the church and our two parent helpers were very impressed with our behaviour.

What a lovely trip!

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March 10, 2018
by Mrs Carlin
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World Book Day in Primary 1.

We had a great day celebrating World Book Day on Friday. We spent the day reading stories about bears, designing book covers, reading with our friends and listening to stories from our teacher. It was a great way to explore new books and talk about our favourite kinds of books with friends.

At the assembly in the hall, we had a chance to see other book characters too and listen to other pupils talk about their favourite books.

Here is a snapshot of one of our classroom activities today, where we all designed a book cover for one of our best stories, “We’re going on a bear hunt.”

March 9, 2018
by Ms Kiernan
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Primary5/6 Superstars

In Primary 5/6 the children created some fantastic personal projects on our topic on Space. They presented them to the class through a 2 minute talk. Well done!

Today we celebrated World Book Day a week later! The children dressed up as their favourite book character. Our class winner was the scarecrow from the book Wizard of Oz.

February 21, 2018
by Mr Fowler
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Hockey time!

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Primary 1/2 have been learning how to play hockey during our recent P.E. lessons. We started by learning about different hockey equipment and what this equipment is used for. Next, we learned how to use a hockey stick to dribble with a small ball. Finally, we worked in small teams to demonstrate close control. We had a fantastic time!

Have a look at the photographs above and we’ll see you soon!

February 19, 2018
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Primary 4/5 News.

We have been very busy in primary 4/5 with lots of different things happening in our class over the past two weeks. Have a look at the different things we have been doing!

We really enjoyed making our own questionnaires and then visiting some other classrooms to ask children throughout the school a variety of questions.

During Art and Design we worked hard putting together the finishing touches to our Roman shields. These shields were used as great props by our soldiers for our class assembly.

This week we were able to enjoy some time in the STEM Zone where we worked individually, in pairs and small groups to create a variety of different models.

We created models of all different shapes and sizes using our imaginations. We even discussed with each other how we could adapt our models to make them better or develop them further.

Also this week we met a few different animals when the Zoolab visited our class. We even got the chance to hold or pet them. We saw some slimey African snails, a millipede, a transhaler and a python.

Finally, to finish off our week we discussed as a class the importance of Lent and shared our thoughts and feelings about what we could give during lent. Then we each wrote out our own Lenten promise and attached them to our class lantern which will be displayed with the other classes outside the oratory as St Bartholomew’s primary begin their Lenten journey together.

February 16, 2018
by Mrs Carlin
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Primary 1 News.

Here we are looking at materials in science. We are making our own paper. Everyone tore up the paper from our paper bin into tiny pieces, then we added them to a pot of warm water and mushed the paper up. It turned into pulp. We then made our own paper and we are going to use it as a painting canvas when it isn’t dry…..we will photograph our final results.

Zoo lab came to visit us this week. Some very interesting creatures were introduced to us… we loved it!

At library time, we read a book by one of our favourite authors, Nick Sharratt. It was very, very funny and we were all giggling and laughing. We read it again it was so much fun. You might have seen our tweet about it, Nick Sharratt did and he sen5 us a reply! We loooove books. We are all still borrowing books from our class library and everyone has their favourites.

In science we have been exploring materials. We made clay bowls to see how the clay could be changed by using a force, we painted them and gave them to our mum for Valentine’s Day.

We also used a variety of materials to create a house. We thought they were brilliant, but would not keep the wind or rain out!