St John Ogilvie RC Primary

P7 pupils enjoyed an informative educational excursion to Hopetoun house last week.   Pupils were able to walk in the shoes of a Victorian servant as they performed various roles and duties around the house.   They were also able to play Victorian games and write using Victorian copper plate writing with a quill made from pheasant feathers from the estate.    

Congratulations to Bernard, Anneliese and Katie for their great work this week! Well done!

This month, we have been enjoying taking part in our daily fitness sessions – trying out lots of different activities and exercise! We have used Go Noodle and Hi 5 Fitness on the smartboard, as well as yoga, all in the classroom.  We also love our outside walks and ‘bootcamp’ fitness!  Our topic this term is ‘Toys and Games’.  We will be learning all about different kinds of toys and how toys in the past have changed.  We have already had a visitor from Museum Services, who showed us some older toys and she has left some for us to play with in the classroom as well.

On Monday 16/11/15 P5S & P5M went on a trip to the Edinburgh Museum to go to the Death in Ancient Egypt Workshop. While we were there we looked all over the museum we played on the activities, we saw lots of different animals, we weighed ourselves on the animal scales (we weighed as much as a blue shark together), we saw a statue that looked like Imogen and journeyed into space!

We went on a quest around the museum to find lots of different artifacts. We also saw a real mummy!

At the workshop we mummified poor Amy the rich noble.

Then some of the girls dressed up as the fearful devourer with the head of a crocodile, the body of a lion and the backside of a hippo!

The museum made a big mistake when they put their Ancient Egypt exhibition into storage – they lost the labels telling them which mummy was which! Then we  had to help the museum to work out who was in each tomb from the clues we found in the artifacts.

We had a great time!

The day was perfect and we were all tired when we came back to class. – Nikola

The day was awesomely good and we all loved it. – Chloe

It was one of the best trips I have ever had! – Owen

I enjoyed exploring the museum.  – Lucy

It was epic. – Isa

P1D had been learning about their 5 senses over the course of Term 1 and took part in a Senses Walk this week.  Thankfully the rain held off for us!  The children explored and recorded pictorially all 5 senses in turn, as they proceeded to walk through our school woodland.  Different examples included hearing an aeroplane and birds singing, touching rough bark, smelling damp leaves, seeing a pile of branches and beautifully carved woodland furniture.  Last of all, we tasted raisins that our teacher brought along for a healthy snack.

We looked at the photos taken when we got back to class which led to much delight as well as discussion about what sense was being used and how did we know.  (Remember that if you click on a photo you will view it as a bigger image.)

Congratulations to our Behaviour Award winners for this fortnight. Well done Olivia, Jamie, Ethan, Elle, Amy and Isla!

On Friday we made bread using a bread maker. Making it in the bread maker was easy. We discussed how much time and effort it must have taken to make bread in Ancient Egyptian times. Grinding the grain, kneading the dough and baking would have taken a long time! We only had to measure the ingredients and let it bake.

Then we had delicious, fluffy bread to eat.

We have been learning about what Ancient Egyptians ate. We discovered they ate lots of bread that was similar to the bread that we eat with flour, yeast and water!

We used our knowledge of microorganisms to investigate what environment yeast likes. We learned that when the yeast is budding (splitting) they create carbon dioxide bubbles which is what makes bread light and fluffy.

We tested the yeast activity by filling a bottle with water and adding yeast, sugar and putting a balloon on top to see how much carbon dioxide the yeast made. We investigated the yeast with warm water, cold water, more sugar, less sugar and put our bottles outside and on the heater. We noticed the yeast loves warmth and sugar because those balloons blew up much bigger.

The children are making fantastic observations of what they see in our experiments and investigations and have been making conclusions based on the evidence they gather.

Great job P5!

Today we shared our points homework between P5S and P5M. We thought our points homework was epic and awesome. We learned a lot from each other. For example:

We learnt that Osiris was buried alive by his brother

We learnt that the river Nile flows through Democratic Republic of the Congo , South Sudan all the way to Egypt!

The river Nile is 6,853 km long

We learnt that the river Nile is most known for the size of it an d where it flows through.

Tutankhamun was the youngest king at the age of 10 and died very  young at the age of  18/19.

Cleopatra was 39 when she died

Cleopatra’s name means glory of the father.

Exceptional work P5!