St John Ogilvie Primary School

Hello P1A families!

I hope you enjoy reading about what the Red table enjoyed learning about at school this week.  Two absences so a bit short this week:

Archie loved making shape monsters.  The children revised the 2D shapes they learned in nursery (square, circle, triangle and rectangle) and used these shapes to build shape monsters.  Each of them looked very unique.  Next week we will look at 3D shapes and search for squares, circles, rectangles and triangles within them.

Maddison said she enjoyed tasting Fairtrade chocolate the best.  Fairtrade Fortnight has taken place and the children have been learning about farmers, in other parts of the world, who do not get enough money to support their families.  How unfair!  They now know that if they buy products with the Fairtrade logo, that these products have been sourced from farmers who do.  The children tasted dark, milk, mint and white chocolate and after each one, they told me if they liked it or did not like it in Spanish.  

Emily also liked our learning about Fairtrade.  We went to  Morrisons to buy Fairtrade bananas and before we ate them, we had fun turning them in to a Bananaman with chocolate chips and pretzel sticks.  I showed the children an old Bananman cartoon from when I was  a child and they enjoyed watching this as they munched on their Bananaman. We also went shopping on Tesco.com to see what Fairtrade products they sold.

Casey loved playing in the Area and had super fun using the blocks to build a skateboard park!  It was so much fun watching the children balance on a flat piece of wood and slide down a slope that they made.  P1A are very creative!

My  highlight was our trip to Morrisons.  The children behaved very well on the walk up, down and during the visit in the shop, showing St John Ogilvie Ready, Respectful and Safe values in their behaviours.  On the way, we spotted some signs of Autumn on the leaves and some blackberries!

I look forward to welcoming you all next Tuesday or Thursday for parent teacher consultations.  It will be lovely to meet the families of these very special children once again and share all of their successes.

Have a super weekend!

Mrs Brown

This week we have had lots of fun in school.

For our literacy, we have been reading chapters 11-13 of Millions and answering some comprehension questions based on chapters 11 and 12. We looked at prefixes for spelling this week. We had a focus on metaphors in our grammar and did some core target writing, focussing again on handwriting and layout this week.

In numeracy, we have been converting mixed numbers to improper fractions and vice versa. We also have been looking at perimeter and area of a shape.

For topic this week, we were note taking and researching facts about Scotland and Japan and comparing the two. We will be using this research in our information reports next week.

We were lucky enough to have the fire brigade in to talk to us about bonfire night safety. It was very interesting and informative on how to stay safe on bonfire night.

We finished our save the animals posters, had fun during PE, music and outdoor learning and everyone at table 1 got a chance to bake this week!

Well done to all on a fantastic week, have a lovely weekend!

Miss Duddy

This week we have been learning all about Fairtrade. We learned about why this is important, about the logo and what products are Fairtrade. As we were learning about our sense of taste we tasted some Fairtrade chocolate and made a graph of our favourite. White chocolate was the winner. We practised our counting and number recognition by counting pictures of Fairtrade products. We then coloured in a graph to show the different products chosen by someone.

In Literacy, we have been learning all about the letter ‘a’. We have been making and spelling words using our magnetic boards. We wrote a sentence using all our common words.

For Outdoor Learning we went up to the Woodland. We learned about the different areas of the Woodland and practised doing sticky boots so we could all come together in a circle. We had lots of fun looking at the fairy doors and making porridge in the mud kitchen.

On Friday, we got to do a special activity. It is called magic pumpkins. We had to use a torch to see which number was hiding behind the pumpkin. We then traced it on a special pumpkin sheet.

Here are some of our personal highlights from this week:

Fikayomi – I enjoyed playing with the wooden people.

Thomas – I enjoyed playing Potato Head.

Michael – I enjoyed learning about number 11.

Alan – I enjoyed doing the magic pumpkins.

Penelope – I enjoyed learning about my senses.

Well done to Ava who is our Hot Chocolate Winner this week. She always tries hard in her tasks, especially writing and follows our school rules, in particular keeping the classroom safe.

Dear Parents and Carers,

Here are the highlights for this week in P6B:

With Outdoor Learning provided by Kids Gone Wild and Swimming Evaluation at Deans High and a visit from the Fire Service, not much else had a look in this week?:

Inaaya, Olivia, Iha, Theo and T-J all opted for Kids Gone Wild as there highlight.

Some of the comments:

‘I touched grass!’ ‘I had the chance to build a base.’ ‘I loved the war!’

Half of the class all opted for swimming:

‘I never knew I can swim better than some of the boys.’ ‘I liked playing the games and I loved diving.’ ‘I love to go on school trips, it makes me feel independent.’ ‘ I loved doing the backstroke in the water.’

Ciara said, ‘The Fire Brigade was my highlight because I got to learn more things about the dangers of fires/fireworks.’

And finally, our Lead Learner Caleb said, ‘Everything because this week was so fun and I like homework and Kensuke’s Kingdom.’

Caleb takes home the Hot Chocolate for all his hard work and next week we’ll need to pick as we ran out of time today.

Have a great weekend,

Mr McGurn and Primary 6B

Dear Parents and Carers,

Primary 7 have had a busy and productive week!  We have all worked hard, trying to be the best we can be!

Our class went up to Deans woods to continue working on our dens. We worked collaboratively in teams, using natural resources to add detail to them.  During French, we learnt how to say different family words.

Mrs McDonald came  from St Margarets to teach a  problem solving lesson. We were given different clues and tasks to solve the mystery !  We have been learning how to convert mixed numbers and improper fractions in Numeracy. Primary 7 have also been learning  how to calculate the area  and perimeter of different shapes. During Topic, we have been researching the similarities and differences between Scotland and Japan to gather information for report writing next week.  During  “topical talk,” our class discussed the current problem of overcrowding in  prisons and how different countries are finding solutions for this.

On Friday, The Fire Officers, came to our school to give a safety talk on bonfires. We all found it interesting.

Here are some of our learning highlights:

Ksawery  and Annie- ” We enjoyed  comparing Japan and Scotland during research! ”

Aadhya and Alex” Outdoor Learning was fun! ”

Georgia- ” I enjoyed learning how to say family words in French! ”

Nicolas and Anthony- ” We really enjoyed Numeracy and Maths this week! ”

Addison- ” I enjoyed writing, where I  concentrated on my core targets.”

Rowan – ” I enjoyed P.E , we learnt how to play bench ball ! ”

Moeez” I thought our discussion about overcrowding in prisons was interesting and current! ”

Have a super weekend!

Mrs Lea and Primary7 B

Hello Families

We have had a busy week in Primary 3 and have worked very hard! We wrote super descriptions of Bubbles the dog, using lots of excellent adjectives! We continued to learn about Egypt and made super Mummies for our display.

Weekly Highlights

We loved writing about Bubbles the dog – Hallie, Zenith Lena, Ruhamah, Kaya, Tiara, Joy, Dhawan and Shourya.

We loved all of the maths work – Zenith, Vivaan and Hallie

I liked learning our new spelling sounds, ‘oa’ ‘ow’ and 0-e – Daniel and Freddie

We liked making mummies for our Egyptians topic – Martha, Cerys, Eden, Shourya, Vivaan, Emilio and Emma.

We liked doing the mindfulness work – Freddie and Martha

We liked learning odd and even numbers to 100 – Elsie, Alfie, Franek, Lena, Tiara and Joy.

Huge Congratulations to Israel, our hot chocolate winner. Well done Israel!

Have a lovely weekend!

From all of Primary 3

This week in P1C we have learned so many things.

We learned the sound ‘a’ and had lots of fun cutting out and building an astronaut and making a ‘A’ alligator craft. We used the sound ‘a’ to build middle a sound words. We also wrote a fantastic sentence using the word ‘the’.

We read the story Handa’s Surprise and made a story map to retell the story. We also made our own fruit baskets by colouring in and cutting out different fruit.

In maths, we did lots of revision on writing numbers making sure they were the right way round. We also sequenced numbers in the correct order and focused on counting with one to one correspondence.

Olivia – I like to make crafts.

Samuel – I like writing numbers.

Falyn – I liked drawing.

Vikranth – I liked choosing our learning time.

Ruaridh – I like doing Danny Go.

Rosalia – I liked drawing and cutting.

We look forward to another fun filled week next week!