Dear Readers,

We hope you are all doing very well and the cold hasn’t been preventing you from enjoying walks in the sun.🌞

This week’s highlights were:

• Our work on writing –  we continue to develop our knowledge on how to structure and write a balanced argument.
• Our work with conjunctions and other words that we can use to vary our writing.
• The work with money and giving change up to £2. We are really enjoying this and have made it a priority to be good at giving change so that we can all do it in the Enterprise!

It is very interesting to see the different ways different children organise their ‘fake’ money.😄

• We have dedicated a good amount of time to our Climate Smarter Science lessons and this week we have learnt about the renewable wind energy and how it turns into electricity. We have also learnt that it has been used for thousands of years to help sailors navigate, which show that people have started understanding wind energy’s potential for many years. After learning about the maximum efficiency of wind turbines and how there are so many off-shore wind turbine’s projects in Scotland, we have surveyed the wind speed in our own playground with the anemometers from our Science kit. The results were then analysed by us and we have concluded that the readings made in the middle of the playground, on the little hill, were the highest, which means that would be the best place to install a wind turbine in our school and use the wind energy for our own consumption. Who knows if we will manage to convince the authority to do it!😄

• Our Enterprise work has been continuing and we are very excited to see how nice some of our products are! We are already very proud of them!😊
• To celebrate Remembrance Day and its link to Article 38 of the Rights of the Children, we have made beautiful posters that were noticed by all who came into the classroom, including other teachers, because of how amazing they are!🖼😃
• Finally, for our big Rights Respecting Schools Project all the classes of the school went litter picking, the little ones from the infants area in the playground and the middle and upper school around the school, in the community! We were truly proud of ourselves and, to make things even better, when P5s went litter picking they were seen by one of the members of the Carmondean Community Council who shared what they saw with all the other members. They were so thankful that the next day, on Friday, the school got an email with a Thank You letter and an Official Certificate to all the boys and girls of St John Ogilvie Primary school for their great work cleaning the community! We got even prouder!🏆🥇👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏😍

We say goodbye for now wishing everyone a great weekend!

P5A and Mrs Valente😘😘