St Bartholomew's Class Blog

This week, we had a visit from PC Maxwell who spoke to us about anti-bullying. We gave him some great ideas on how to be a good friend!

We worked on our typing skills during our time in the digital learning zone. We can change the size and colour.

Our writing this week was about our trip to Stirling Castle. It was good fun looking at the photos from our trip! The photos helped us write our stories.

To finish off our week, we made thank you cards for our paired reading buddies and delivered them to their class. They loved them! Thank you buddies!

PC Maxwell came for a visit yesterday to deliver a presentation on Anti-Bullying. All of the children listened attentively and came up with lots of different ideas for ways to tackle this issue.

In other news, Primary 3 were awarded the Cool Class Cup last Friday for all of their hard work preparing for our successful Jungle Assembly. We enjoyed playing the Nintendo Wii at the end of each day as our reward, and it was also a fun way to keep fit!

Mrs McGuinness has been working with us to develop our cooking skills. We have been learning how to prepare food and how to stay clean and safe in the kitchen! We wish we had cooking every week!

During gym time we have been working on our jogging skills through different games and activities. We have been talking about how we feel before and after being active. Sweaty, warm, tired and a fast heart are some of the ways we described our feelings!

As it was world kindness day, we spoke it about why it was important to be kind to people and we each said something nice to someone in our class. We decided that even if you weren’t really friends with someone you can still say nice things to them. We all felt so good hearing how wonderful we all are and said thank you to God for all the kind people in our lives.

Here we are doing paired reading with our buddies to help us improve our reading skills!

To finish off our week, we visited Stirling Castle as part of our upcoming Scotland topic! We explored the castle, visited the grand hall where the king and queen would throw parties and dressed up as princesses, jesters, knights and more. We had great fun doing lots of exploring and even had some sleepy heads on the bus on the way back!

Primary 7 are taking part in the Micro-Tyco challenge. We have been very busy this week carefully planning and organising a variety of fundraising activities. We have investigated the roles involved in running a business and used our own ideas to advertise and promote our own business ideas.

We have worked really hard to generate a profit!

Putting our entrepreneurial skills into action1

Today is the beginning of the Scottish Interfaith Week. It is an opportunity to follow the example set by our Holy Father Pope Francis to reach out to our neighbours and to recognise all people of faith as brothers and sisters. Recent events have shown how important this is for world peace. I would encourage you to pray this week so that people of faith might work together for peace.

“My wish is that the dialogue between us should help us to build bridges connecting all people, in such a way that everyone can see in the other not an enemy, not a rival,but a brother or sister to be welcomed and embraced”. ( Pope Francis, 22 March 2013)

It is both my intention and that of Mrs Gamson, from Townhead Primary, that St Bartholomew’s Primary and Townhead Primary will work together in the very near future, so that our community can be strengthened. Watch this space…

Mrs Bolland