St Bartholomew's Class Blog

Primary 7 have been working hard on their problem solving and design skills in the STEM zone this week…

The HMIe team who are visiting our school have all commented on the lovely and sometimes, very humorous personalities of our pupils. They have been wonderful ambassadors for St Bartholomew’s and I know that the team are looking forward to working alongside them for the next couple of days.

Our pupil voice groups feature in our timetable today and the first task of the chairperson and secretary from each group will  be to host the Primary 4 to Primary 7 meeting . The agenda will then be discussed with the P1 to Primary 3 cohort, later on in the morning ,and then feedback to Mrs McLean and myself will be scheduled in the afternoon. We are both looking forward to hearing some wonderful ideas!

A huge thank you to our supportive parents  who very kindly volunteered to attended a meeting yesterday,chaired by the lay member of the HMIe team. A further expression of gratitude is attributable to our school partners, who also attended a similar meeting . This is very much appreciated.

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Mrs Bolland

We explored symmetry in maths. P.2 children were matching up pictures to make a symmetrical one and P.1 children were making symmetrical butterflies.

During music time we had to listen and repeat the number of beats. We started repeating the beat with our voices then clapping before moving onto the instruments. Using the instruments was definitely our favourite!

We used the coloured bears to self assess our learning after music time.

We met with our buddies again, this time to continue with our paired reading sessions! We have readings passports to fill in that our buddies help us with. It’s great having the big boys and girls to help us with our reading.

At the end of the week we got to see the primary 4 children performing their assembly all about forgiveness! It was a great way to end the week.

In Maths this week Primary 3 have been working with 3D objects. We have been recognising them by name and talking about where we see them at school and at home. We also explored their different features, learning about faces, edges and corners.

Primary 3 have been working on how to be successful learners. They have exercising their brain and used some new characters to help them with their learning.  Kuba the caterpillar helps us to concentrate, Deema duck reminds us not to give up and Tina and Tim encourage us to cooperate and work together. The children talked about how these characters helped them during the day with their learning.

With a snowy start to the week P4/5 grabbed this opportunity with both hands and ventured out into the snow for some outdoor learning.

We made sure we were wrapped up warm before we headed outside! As soon as we got onto the snow we couldn’t wait to get started on our challenge!

We worked well with our teammates to see which team could build the tallest snowman 😃⛄️❄️ and we checked our snowmans height against a meter stick. It was very close with each group creating fantastic snowmen.

We really enjoyed our outdoor learning and getting a wee heat back in the classroom 😃🔥

Also this week we have been busy cooking when we made some mini Quiches. This involved careful preparation of our ingredients and following specific steps that allowed us to create this delicious food.

Finally, after some class discussions thinking about what makes us special and what things we can do as an individual to be a team player, we shared our thoughts on some jigsaw pieces to display on our new wall display that you will be able to see in the school foyer.

                                                ‘ We are all different but as a team we fit together. ‘

We had a very exciting week in pr 6/7 this week when we saw how much snow had arrived in Coatbridge. We went outside for a lesson in snow rolling and building of snowmen! It was great fun and we worked together to see which team could make the best structure.

Back inside,  in the heat, we have had a great week of target setting from our peer and self assessment. We are learning how to write recounts and we each have a target to achieve for next week. Working together helps us evaluate how well we we are doing. Our recounts are all about Evacuation. We have loved learning about this through our topic:World War II.

This week we have been learning about First Aid and heartstart. Kevin from Skillforce, came in with the Little Anne dolls to show us how to do chest compressions. We picked this up very quickly and we can’t wait to show our parents and guardians next week when they come into hear about our learning. We also learned about the recovery position and we tried this out on each other.