St Bartholomew's Class Blog

Our new topic is now in full flow and this week we were learning about the wax seals used by nobles when sending letters.  We have now began to create our own personal wax seal. We began by looking at examples of wax seals before discussing some of the features these had.  The next stage was to create our own design based on what we had discussed in our lesson. We did this by designing it in our jotters which we then used when creating our clay moulds.

We did this by rolling out a piece of clay and used bottle lids to create the round shape we required. After this we used cocktail sticks to add our design to the clay. Once the clay moulds are dry we will use these to create our own wax seals in class.

In other news the homework projects were due in this week and I am pleased to say they all look fantastic and I cannot wait to hear the pupil’s talks next week. Have a great couple of days off and we will see you back on Thursday.

Mr Walsh

What an exciting start to the week for Primary 2/3 as our class pets arrived yesterday!

Firstly the fish were kept in their bag and placed into the tank to allow them to climatise to their new environment.

But it wasn’t long until they were swimming around and exploring their new home :D!!

Last week we had a great time at Summerlee museum. We went there to find out about what life was like in the past. We explored lots of different toys and household items and looked at where people did their shopping before Tesco or Asda!

Here are the highlights….

In the afternoon, we did an art wokshop all about colour and shape. This took us on a tour of the museum which was great. After looking at paintings with cold and warm colours, we created our own art work which we got to take home.

Primary 2/3 have had a very exciting start to the week as they began preparing their fish tank for their new class pet.

The boys and girls worked together to wash the pebbles and helped Miss Allington create a clean, safe environment for their fish who will be arriving on Monday.

Our fish tank is looking great, all ready for Sparkles arrival!

Also this week we joined Primary 3 in the hall for a taster session of Boxing.

Everyone worked hard with the punching routine created by the instructor and there was even time for some questions at the end.

Finally Primary 2/3 completed their homework challenge for this month and created some fantastic book covers for their favourite books!

Here is a little snap shot of the work we did last week at STEM. Some budding engineers in the making I think…..

In p.1 we have been learning how to get on to the Glow site. In the Dogital Learning room, we have been working on Glow to explore a lot of things. Our teacher has put some great literacy, numeracy and topic work on our Glow page and each week we are learning new things. Now that we all have our login at home, we can visit Glow at home and try out some of the activities.

As part of our homework challenge for January we had to design the front cover of a favourite book…….

Aren’t they super! Everyone also enjoyed a visit to the school library on Friday where we had fun reading a wide variety of books.

Afte our hard work, we sometimes like to end our lessons with yoga. This can help us calm our minds…

In RE we are learning about people who care for us. We all drew a picture of someone who cares for us at home or at school.