St Bartholomew's Class Blog

It has been a mind puzzling, fantastic fun week in our school- it’s been Maths Week!

Our highlights of the week have been the escape rooms and the maths family fun day!

In the escape rooms, we were given different puzzles to solve. With each answer we uncovered the combination to a padlock in the box. Once we had opened one padlock in the box we had to then go on solving puzzles until we got the next one. The last padlock was our timer and we got to switch that off to get a completion time. It was great fun! We loved the challenge, the team work and working against the clock! Awesome fun!

For the family fun day, our families were invited in to join us for a quiz and to have a go at some of the interactive maths activity tables. We had parents playing snakes and ladders, making times tables fortune tellers, going on maths trails, solving puzzle mysteries and so on! It was a huge success and we were so delighted with how many family members took time to come and join us. After it was all over, our families were rewarded with tea and cakes before heading home. What a fantastic day at St Barts!

What a fabulous start to our new year! We have really enjoyed getting to know each other in our new class.

In literacy we have been working on a class novel “Ratburger” by David Walliams. This novel has been hilarious and we have enjoyed working together on it to explore the comprehension strategies. MrsMacFarlane  finished reading it aloud on Friday and we all started clapping once it was finished. What a great read!

We will now work on our on our group novels and use the comprehension strategies independently.

In maths primary seven have been looking at various forms of multiplication. Rounding and adjusting, the grid method and long and short written methods. Next week we will be tackling multiplying by two digits. Like 237×58???????

Primary six have been looking at equivalent fractions and we have become really skilled at simplifying fractions. Our next step is finding fractions of numbers. We can’t wait!

We have been exploring paper art. This was inspired from making rosettes through our Scottish Parliament topic. Watch this space for when we share our finished items.

Primary 3 came to the gym hall this morning to find that it had been transformed into a fabulous theatre! We had great fun watching a performance all about mindfulness. It taught us about the emotions we experience and how we should always try to think positively. We loved the cool songs and dances and even got a chance to join in.