St Bartholomew's Class Blog

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.

What a busy week we have had in class. During reading time we read with a partner and helped each other with tricky words. Miss Duffy enjoyed listening to us.

Primary 2 have been exploring number families during maths time and primary 1 have been learning about take away. Some of us were forgetting to take away and we added on instead but we’ve got the hang of it now!

We also made number bond bugs and a counting in 5s caterpillar for our maths wall. We still have a few things to add but we think it looks good.

Since it’s the beginning of term, our buddies came to help us set our targets. Thank you buddies for helping us.

At gym time we had to work in teams for our junior jog activities. Even if we weren’t on the winning team we still enjoyed taking part! Toilet tig is one of our favourite warm ups!

We had a great end to our week exploring and working with our friends during our play session!

What a great first week back in Primary 4/5. We have returned to school ready to work hard and take part in lots of fantastic learning opportunities.

We started off our week with some competitive games in P.E encouraging our teammates as we raced against each other to see which team would be victorious.

We also enjoyed working in small groups during maths as the primary 5 children began learning about probability and discussed with each other how likely something is to happen by having a group vote.

The primary 4 children enjoyed extending their knowledge about graphs and have come up with a range of questions for each other about their pictograms.

We finished off our week by discussing what things we would like to learn about for our new topic – The Romans.

Keep a look out on our class page for lots more fun activities and work we will be sharing this term!