St Bartholomew's Class Blog

This week we really worked our socks off in taught writing. As we are now in seniors, we are trying to write more but we are also trying to include all the features of our genre; persuasive writing.

To make sure we are fulfilling our success criteria we went into pairs and did a peer assessment with each other. We discussed what we did well and made up new targets for next week.

We had a lovely end to our week when we got to be narrators at our buddies’ assembly. We even got to go down to the classroom for sweets and a biscuit! It was fab!

This week we had a fantastic week exploring the Stem zone! We had a go at Kinex, gears and levers and we were the first group to try the lego challenge stations. Some of our challenges were to make a robot, to make life size food and to make a home out of lego. Some of us made bridges, games and one group even attempted to make remote control mouse!

We were using our creative skills along with problem solving skills and of course we were being very co-operative working with each other. It was a great week all round!

We have had another busy week in class. P.2 children have been using symbols to make number sentences. The symbols mean less than, greater than or equal to. We’ve been using crocodile mouths to help us with this! It’s been great fun.

P.1 children have been looking at the number before, after and between. The big number tiles helped us with this…

We love reading in class too. We have enjoyed having our parents in for Stay and Read!

We finished off our week with the P.1 Thanksgiving Prayer Service. Thank you to the P.2 children for being a great audience!

We had another great week in primary seven this week. We began learning all about laws and how a law is made in Scottish Parliament. Then we looked at persuasive writing. After learning the features of persuasion, we then wrote a draft letter for Nicola Sturgeon about our ideas for possible new laws in Scotland.

We also started learning about colons and semi-colons. We have been looking at their purpose and when is best to use them. It was tricky but great fun!

This week in PE, we have started to become even more skilled in badminton. We are getting more confident with serving and hitting back to our partners. Mrs MacFarlane said we have some excellent players in our class.

This week we have had great fun painting our politicians for our Scottish Parliament wall display. We can’t wait to share our finished wall with you next week.

Pr6/7 have been enjoying some parental engagement homework this term. We have had children playing board games with family members, children cooking meals with and for their families and children were even asked to set tables, make beds and tidy up at home! What great homework! Getting everyone at home working together!

Welcome to the primary 1/2 class blog. Check here to see what new things we have been learning in class!

Our topic this term is Dinosaurs! It’s really interesting. We are currently making dinosaur eggs using papier-mâché. It’s quite tricky but we are getting there!

We have also been writing some wonderful stories.

Well done for working so hard! Miss Duffy is very proud!