November 14, 2016
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A Truly Blessed Visit

This week we have had the honour of Father Laurence and Antoniette from Ireland to come into St Bartholomew’s to teach us all about the Eucharistic Adoration. It was a special and wonderful experience that taught us all about the Eucharist. Having a chat from Antoniette we learned a lot about Jesus and how He connects to us within our hearts. It is so important that we cherish Christ in our hearts and through the receiving the Eucharist, The Body Of Christ.

In class we have also been learning about the Monstrance and how sacred this vessel is with the Catholic Church to hold the Host during Eucharistic Adoration. We were so lucky to see one up close and to touch it!! Thank you!

We then celebrated mass with Father Laurence in our very own school Oratory. It was truly a beautiful experience and one we are so grateful for, especially in preparation for our First Holy Communion next year.

November 13, 2016
by Mrs MacFarlane
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Special Visitors in pr 5

This week in primary five we were visited by three special people. This was all part of our working world topic.

First we were visited by Dr Ross Fairgrieve who told us all about his job as a paediatric anaesthetist in Glasgow.

He told us all the different types of doctors there are and he told us all about his journey to become a doctor. He said it was a long but fulfilling journey and he loves his job. The children were amazed at how Dr Fairgrieve and his team save so many lives each year. Quite a few of our children want to be doctors after this visit!

Our next visitor was PC Chris McQuade who came in to talk about his job with the police. He told us all about the training and how a police officer must be fast and very fit. He was amazed about how much the children knew about the world of work and the children thought he was the coolest police officer ever! Many of our pr 5 s are now thinking about a career in the police force.

Our last visitor was Mr Colin MacFarlane who is a youth work manager for the National YMCA. The children wanted to know if his job had anything to do with the song! He told them all about working for a charity and how the YMCA has made a positive impact in many people’s young lives. He even told us he has travelled all around the world doing his job. Sounds great fun!

We can’t wait to share all our learning with our parents at our assembly coming up this Friday.

November 11, 2016
by Mrs Carlin
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A wealth of learning in Primary 1.

We are becoming very confident with our phonemes and can match pictures to sounds as well as capitals to lower case.

In maths we explored more and less. It was actually quite tricky for lots of us but by the end of the week we were extremely good at it.

We programmed the bee bot to travel more or less than the number on the spinner.

We challenged our partner to put out more or less counters.

Our work in Feasts, festivals and celebrations saw us looking at Remembrance Day. It was sad to think of all of the people who had died. We used our artistic skills to make poppies to remember them by. We used different types of papers and needed to use our best cutting skills to make sure that each circle was neat. We glued them together and added a seed centre with black sparkles.

November 11, 2016
by Miss Maclean (Nee Devlin)
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P3 Poppies

This week in Primary 3 we have been learning about Remembrance Day. We wrote an explanation in our jotters about why this day is celebrated, then we made our own poppies to mark the occasion.

November 11, 2016
by Ms Kiernan
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Primary 6/7 have had a very busy week!

We were invited to Buchanan High for an interactive bible workshop.

In maths we have been working on shape and measure. Primary 6 were measuring angles and Primary 7 have been working on shape rotation and reflection.

: What angle

: Which shape?

Our Christmas card winner!! Super card!

: Winner!

November 11, 2016
by Mrs MacFarlane
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Primary five and the world of work

We have been very busy in primary five learning all about the world of work. We have been further looking at our skills and strengths and thinking about what jobs we may be able to link with them.

A really interesting thing we did this week was looking at a day at school and a day at work. We couldn’t believe the amount of things that were the same. Then we looked at our favourite things about a day at school and we discussed how these should be our interests to develop further.

“I love to read and write. Maybe I could be an author.”- Ellie

“I love to help the little ones. Maybe I could be a children’s nurse.”- Sinead

” I love solving problems and mysteries. Maybe I could be a detective.”-Aiden

We also looked at all the jobs in the class and consulted with each other to write a final list of jobs and job descriptions for each.

We had lots of fun next when we had to apply for one of these jobs. We filled in application forms and wrote about our skills and strengths and we even gave examples of our experience of using our skills.

Mrs MacFarlane then taught us about Persuasive writing. We went on to write about ourselves and how we really should be considered for the job! We used lots of persuasive words like punctual, motivated, responsible and trustworthy! We hope that this persuasive piece will help us prepare for interviews and writing CVs.

in our next blog we will tell you about our visitors, the interviews and who got the jobs!!!!!

November 7, 2016
by Mrs Carlin
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Feasts,celebrations and festivals with Primary 1.

This week we looked at Fireworks Night. We used our ITC skills in the digital learning suite to work through a module on Espresso that helped us understand the meaning of bonfire night. Afterwards, we listened to a video with the visual off a don,y the round on. It really made us listen! As we listened, we heard explosions, whizzing, banging and shouting. It helped us imagine a fireworks celebration. Throughout the week, we learned how to keep safe on bonfire night and ended our week by writing a fact about bonfire safety. In art, we explored colour and lines to create these wonderful pieces of art. We even added texture using different sprinkles!

In PE Mrs Carlin is teaching us the skills we need to play hockey. The hockey sticks were tricky to hold and we needed lots of practice. It was great fun. We let our teacher know how we got on by choosing a coloured mat to stand at, green means we think our skills were good today, yellow means we need s little more practice and red means we need a lot more help to get the grasp of the new skills.

Everyone is looking forward to next session.

November 7, 2016
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Spooky Houses and the Solar System

We got a little spooky last Monday as we completed our Spooky Halloween houses and advertised them for sale. As promised, here are our finished pieces of artwork…

Then it was time to get forget Halloween and really focus on our new topic which is space. Here we are reading about the solar system and watching a video in order to develop our note-taking skills…

We we are really refining our note-taking skills and we’re enjoying learning lots of different ways to organise our notes. On Thursday, we wrote some excellent explanation reports using only our notes! Watch out for some photos of our Star Writers!

On top of all that, we performed our amazing class assembly about Spain on Friday. Each and every one of us took part and did ourselves, our parents and our teachers proud. Well done P6!

November 7, 2016
by Mr Fowler
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“Our School” – episode two

For this episode of “Our School”, we decided to look at our fantastic playground. In our playground, you can see –

a Trim Trail
climbing frames
monkey bars
one enormous tree
a huge hill

Wow! What a great place to be! When you are in the playground, you can play tig with your friends. You can also have great fun when you are playing football or basketball. We like our playground because there is a lot of space.

Tune in next week for another exciting episode of “Our School”!

November 6, 2016
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A Spooktacular Time in P4

For Halloween this week, we made some scary spider mobiles to be hung as spooky decorations. We loved making them even though some of our legs went missing!

Here we are excited and are giving our best scary faces in preparation for Halloween night!