St Bartholomew's Class Blog

Today, after all of our hard work, we finally opened Cafe Combo to some very special members of our local community.

We worked our socks off in the morning, preparing all the food and making everything just perfect for our special guests (have a look on Twitter for some photos).

Here we are in action as we welcomed The Jubilee Group, the St. Vincent de Paul group, the Eucharistic Ministers and the Church Readers…

We looked after our guests extremely well and we were complimented many times over on our exceptional manners and hard work. And the Strawberry Tarts went down a storm too!

We were able to find out about the work that our special visitors do for our local community and we treated them to a tour of the school including our beautiful oratory.

I think we will all sleep well tonight after a very successful day. Well done P4! You should be very, very proud of yourselves.

A big thanks to our helpers today – Mrs Ruddy, Mrs Morris and Katie’s mum!

Our teams successfully completed all of their tasks today in preparation for the opening of Cafe Combo tomorrow…

We carried out a review of our business planning too. We wanted to make sure that we had achieved our targets and that our final products were fit for purpose…

Our review highlighted a small problem in one of our teams. At first, there was panic…

The arrow is pointing the wrong way!!

But then, after careful thinking and a little bit of improvisation…

Phew!! Problem solved.

We learned that there’s always a way to fix a problem if we stay calm and positive. We are now almost ready for our first customers tomorrow…

We can’t wait!

Primary 1 are glad to be back in school and what a busy and exciting week we have had! On Wednesday we were very lucky to visit the Science Centre as part of our previous topics. We did a workshop on the night sky and a journey through our bodies. The sun was shining and our behaviour was outstanding! Check out the Twitter page for some exciting pictures!

Our new topic this term is The Wonders of Nature. To kick start our topic we have planted some sunflower seeds and are patiently waiting for them to bloom!

Progress of our sunflowers will be posted in the coming weeks!

As part of First Communion preparation, we decided that we should give something back to the groups in our local community. We know that there are a number of groups in our community that selflessly give up their time to help us. So we came up with our ‘Community Cafe’ idea!

For the next two weeks, we’re inviting members of our local community into St. Bartholomew’s for tea, coffee, sandwiches, cakes and a good old natter with Primary 4. We’ll be doing all the work while our customers put their feet up and enjoy some delicious food!

Our preparations started today and we were very lucky to welcome another special visitor into our classroom…

Mrs Davidson has just set up her very own business called Spindl. She and her partner help other businesses to get better at what they do. She talked to us today about the things that we will need to think about when we’re setting up our community cafe. We really impressed Mrs Davidson with our enthusiasm…

First of all, our Advertising Team brainstormed some names for our cafe. Then they asked the other teams for their opinion. We decided on ‘Cafe Combo’! Then it was over to the other teams to get started with their tasks. We made super progress today and really impressed Mrs Davidson with our enthusiasm and initiative. We welcome our first customers to Cafe Combo next Thursday 28th May! A big thanks to Mrs Davidson for helping us to get started.

We also managed to finish our First Communion banners this week. Here they are displayed in our school…

Just over 3 weeks to go! Have a great weekend everyone!

We have had a great start to our last term with a very interesting visit to the Burrell Collection at Pollock Park.

Looking at this huge oak bed- fit for a king!

Amazed at this wooden tapestry. Grant explained how the sheep’s wool would be dyed before using it.

Exploring the beautiful Burrell Collection.

Using wood to create our own building.

Making our own stained glass windows.

Designing and making clay pots.

Making our own yarn for weaving.

Exploring soap stone.

Amazed at the huge Roman wine cup made of marble.

This trip linked in with all of the work we did last term in science when we explored “materials”.  We were able to share our knowledge with our guide Grant and tell him everything we knew about different materials- he was very impressed!

We have brought our clay pots back to school and when they are dry we will paint them and bring them home.

Our First Holy Communion day takes place in just over 3 weeks and we’re working very hard on our preparations in class. We were delighted to be able to share our learning with a very special, surprise visitor on Wednesday…

Father Doherty popped in to see us and very patiently answered our questions. He reminded us that we should, above all other things, be preparing our hearts to receive First Holy Communion. We can do this by praying, reflecting and showing love and kindness to others.

After Father Doherty left, we continued with out First Communion preparations. This week, we have been reflecting on Jesus’s actions and words at The Last Supper. We know that we remember these every Sunday at Mass. We decided to make unleavened bread so that we could have our own class Last Supper…

Before having our class Last Supper, we learned about the meaning of true sacrifice. Jesus made the greatest sacrifice for us when he died on the cross and we came to realise that sacrifice is not just giving something up – it is giving something up for the sake of someone else. We talked about sacrifices we have made and then made preparations for our class Last Supper…

We know that Jesus died for us to take away our sins. Wiktor explained it very simply and beautifully. He said “Jesus died for us because he loves us.” We will be reminded of this when we receive our First Holy Communion, and every time that we receive Communion thereafter.