St Bartholomew's Class Blog

We have been working very hard in P2/3 over the last few weeks. We have enjoyed sharing our fabulous stories with each other in the class.
 

P2 have been working hard with the concept of multiplication and division using cubes to help them share out equally.

P2/3 have really enjoyed learning about the Ancient Egyptians in their class topic. Through co-operative learning we have used our knowledge of hieroglyphics to make different words and create groups for our learning.

Next, each group was given a different source of information to analyse and everyone worked very well with their group members to find new information about their topic.

We have also really enjoyed spending time in the library with our P5 reading buddies.

Finally, we finished off our week working hard to create our very own stained glass windows using a variety of colours and cutting the tissue paper into different shapes and sizes. I’m sure these designs will look fantastic on our class Lent display board.

P2/3 had a fantastic day celebrating world book day. They took part in lots of fun activities throughout the day.

To start off the day there was a fantastic book path all around our classroom. We had a look at all of the marvellous books and chose one to read at our table.

Next, as a whole class we discussed different ways that we could organise our the books in our library. After some great suggestions we split into groups and began to organise our set of books in different ways.

We even had our very own Book Swap. Half of the class were given a book swap token and swapped their reading book with someone else. It was great to see all the different books that everyone brought in!

After lunch we had our very own picnic as we listened to Miss Allington reading her favourite childhood book ‘The Tiger who came to tea’

We had a great time celebrating world book day and really enjoyed making our own bookmarks too!

If you walk down our corridor, you will see the wonderful art work and written work that we have on display – this work shows what we have been learning about old and new teddy bears.

One of our class mates brought in this impressive trophy to show us – what a superstar.

This week there has been a buzz about the book fayre! We spent time on Monday looking at the lovely books and it’s clear to see what some of the favourites were!

On Monday afternoon, our reading buddies were back with us for some more paired reading  – again, we were delighted to be reading such beautiful new books.

We have been talking about our learning and we wanted to learn a bit more about using money and using the 5p coin. Also, we wanted to use the numicon to help us.

Talking about our learning.

Playing money bingo.

We are practicing our money skills on the ipads using Espresso Education.

We are using the numicon to work out what coins to put out to make 8p.

Also in maths, we are practicing out take away every day.

In our literacy time, we are reading trickier and trickier books and we love it!

Here we are in PE learning some gymnastics skills.

As part of our Pope Francis Faith Award journey, we have recently been learning about the gift of Understanding. We have been reflecting on the Scripture and on these words in particular:

“My word is like the snow and the rain that come down from the sky to water the earth.”

We have learnt that, as Jesus’s disciples, we need to seek out opportunities to let the Word of God have room in our lives. It is like fresh water that refreshes us on our faith journey. We have been reflecting on how we can do this and how we have used our gift of Understanding this week.

We have come such a long way in P6 with our maths skills. We were able to show them off recently to Mr Young when he popped along to our class to see all the super work that we’ve been doing.

We practised our rounding skills using a Tarsia Puzzle. It was really tricky but we showed excellent resilience and perseverance – most of us solved the puzzle with our partners!

Some of us practised the number skills that we have been learning over the past few weeks. We had to add and subtract 10, 100 and 1000 from a variety of 4-digit numbers. The dice game was challenging but fun…

Mr Young was very impressed!

Our work continues on the Scottish Wars of Independence. Over the past couple of weeks, we have been learning about William Wallace and his crucial role in the Wars of Independence.

We have been exploring historical evidence about Wallace and we found out that, even though the Scots thought Wallace a National hero, the English at that time did not feel the same way. In fact, he was considered to be an outlaw and villain! To explore this further, in pairs, we evaluated some facts about Wallace and decided whether the evidence suggested that he was a hero or an outlaw. We had to work hard to make sure that our answers were balanced and not biased…

We then had to share our decisions with the rest of our group and reach a consensus (this is when everyone agrees with the decision) about Wallace…

Finally, we shared our group decisions with the class and again, had to reach a consensus. After adding our balanced decisions to our class ‘hero-o-meter’ we decided that Wallace did more heroic things that villainous things. It was hard not be biased but we think we did a great job!