St Bartholomew's Class Blog

Primary seven have been learning all about Sir Nicholas Winton who sadly died last year at the age of 106. Sir Nicolas Winton was responsible for rescuing 669 Children from the clutches of Hitler during World War 2. The children were amazed to hear about this wonderful humble man and how he made his mission to evacuate children into Britain from Prague and Czechoslovakia.

The feeling in our classroom today was one of deep admiration for this hero and deep sorrow for those parents who never survived to see their children again. We all had a tear in our eye when we heard how Nicholas was reunited with his rescued children in 1988 on the TV show “That’s life”

Tonight the children are asked to further research this amazing story and also that of Schindler, another war hero.

It is believed that there are over 6000 people alive today because of Nicholas Winton, wow! After a lot of reflection we decided that nothing is impossible and who knows how each one of us can help others in this modern day world. What an inspiration!

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Primary seven have been raising money for SCIAF. We decided to take part in a game of balloon lottery! Balloons were filled with secret messages which were either prizes or rewards.

Children paid £2 to receive a balloon and then after a countdown we all popped our balloons at the same time! What a noise! Between the popping and sequels of laughter it was definitely the noisiest way to raise money.

Children were delighted with their chocolate bunnies, Easter eggs and sit with a friend tickets! Great fun for a great cause!

It’s been a jam-packed week in P4 and boy, have we worked hard. In literacy, our novel studies are continuing and we’ve been working on metalinguistics, HOT skills, main idea, inference and summary!

In maths, we’re learning about division and we’re polishing up on our mental skills. We know that you can use your tables facts to help with division calculations and that you can split bigger numbers into tens and units to quickly work out division facts. We used our skills this week to solve a very serious problem indeed! It involved a rare breed of shark called the South African Skittle Shark. Have a look at our photos to find out more…

We managed to solve the problem and work out how many times the sharks could be fed. And we may have eaten some of the skittles too! Oops!

We’ve not just been learning about Skittle Sharks this week, we’ve also been learning about the events that took place during Holy Week. We decided to explore the main events through drama…

We prayed the Stations of the Cross in class and held symbols to represent each station. We know that we can link each of the events to our daily lives. For example, since Simon of Cyrene helped Jesus to carry his cross, we too should look for ways to show kindness and caring towards others.

Finally, today, we made our own Easter cakes and treats in the get-together room. We had lots of fun and the photos speak for themselves we think…!

And really finally…here is a class superstar who has just been awarded his red tags in Tae Kwon Do. A truly fantastic achievement! Well done!

Happy Easter everyone!

As it is Holy Week, primary seven have been looking at the life of Jesus in the build up to his death and resurrection. Today we had a study of the Stations of the Cross. After looking at each individual station we went down to the school Oratory to look at the stations again and to say our own private prayers. We reflected on how the stations can often mirror difficult times in our own lives and how we must look forward with positivity in our hearts knowing that a good outcome will be there in the end.

The primary seven children “wowed” everyone with their World War 2 performance of Archibalds war on Thursday night.

The children have been learning all about evacuation, conscription, women at work, air raids, American GIs, British morale and the the victory at the end of the war. We have been looking at the feelings and emotions of that time and have been able to appreciate it a bit more through the study of our show. The children have been working as a team, learning lines, stage directions, singing songs, making costumes and taking on extra roles when some of our cast went away ill.

Their commitment to the show has been outstanding and their enjoyment was evident on Thursday when those curtains opened to reveal a very proud and happy class!

After the show, we were delighted to share our models and projects over a cup of tea and cakes!

Thank you so much to those who came along. It was a night we will not forget!

Mr McGinty had his last day in primary 7 on Friday. We gave him a grand farewell with a party. Musical bumps, musical statues and even the huckle buck! He will be back to see us for certain, before the end of the year. He said the class were fantastic and he couldn’t have asked for a better placement! We loved having you too Mr McGinty and we will see you soon.