St John Ogilvie Primary School

Hello P2A families!

Here are the learning highlights of the week from the Yellow Table:

Pola loved making poppies for Remembrance Day.

Eva enjoyed learning Spanish with Mrs Brand.  The children learned the phrases for ‘sit down, stand up, silence and listen’.

Aiden G loved our Nativity rehearsals that started this week.  The children have been learning the songs and have done very well to remember all the words and actions!  They are very excited to find out their roles next week!

Rurai said his favourite part was music with Mrs Morrison as it involved watching a movie!

Pagie was overjoyed to find out that she was chosen to be a Lead Learner!  She jumped for joy!

My highlight has to have been our Nativity Rehearsals.  The children were so excited to hear that the story of the baby Jesus being born is the greatest story ever told in all the world and that they were helping to tell it with their singing and acting.  Look out for a costume letter going home early next week with your child’s role named on it.  These are very exciting times in Infants!  We are honoured to be part of the retelling of this very special story of the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Pupil Highlights:

Olivier: ‘ I enjoyed drawing a Scottish and English soldier’

Aoife: ‘ I liked drawing the outline of a town and using it as a template with the chalk pastels’

Filip: ‘ I liked doing Science, learning about the human body’

Inaya: ‘ I like learning how to make friendly numbers in our number talks this week’

Natalia: ‘ I like drawing the English and Scottish soldier and creating a night scene with my template and chalk pastels’

Sylvia: ‘I liked doing Science on Thursday’

Ronan: ‘ My highlight of the week was drawing’

Caleb: ‘ I liked learning about the human body in Science’

Joshua: ‘ I liked learning about the Battle of Bannockburn’

Adam: ‘I liked learning about Remembrance Day’

Daisy: ‘ I liked playing my instrument on Monday’

Hello P2A families!

Here are the learning highlights of the week from the Red Table:

David S enjoyed our learning about keeping safe on Bonfire Night.  We watched a safety demonstration in the playground about how to hold a sparkler safely.  We know to wear gloves, hold our arm out straight to keep the sparks away from our faces and put the sparkler into a bucket of water when it goes out.

Julia loved PE this week with Mrs Ogunro where their games involved cones.

Joe said he liked music with Mrs Morrison the best.  The children took part in a body percussion warm up called ‘Hips, Hands, Click’.  They also listened to different music that made them feel different emotions.

David K liked making Bonfire Safety posters today.  The children learned all about The Firework Code from Fireman Sam.  The main messages were about how to hold sparklers correctly, stand far away from fireworks, never return to a firework if it does not go off at first and keep pets indoors. The children worked in pairs to check these super posters.  Look out for them this weekend on Seesaw!

Chijiawku loved making firework pictures using soft pastels and glitter.

Zosia liked learning about the different climate zones in the world.  We were happy to learn that we live in a temperate climate, which is a bit like Baby Bear’s porridge – not too hot, not too cold but just right!

My highlight was watching the theatre production of The Lorax on Tuesday as part of our learning about Climate Change in light of COP26.  There was a very important message about needing to save our trees from being cut down and the need to RECYCLE, RECYCLE, RECYCLE!

We have had another busy week in P1B.

Our new sound this week is n, n is a dark blue long stretchy sound.  We use our tongue to make the sound.  We created a night scene and number n and practised writing n using our thumb to help us.  We also looked at words that have n at the beginning or at the end.

In numeracy we have been looking at dot patterns regular and irregular and trying to count the dots really fast and shout out the answer.  We have also been looking at 1 and 2 more.

In our Outdoor learning we created hairstyles using leaves.  We looked at the shapes, colour and size of the leaves before deciding which ones would look best.

For topic we started to create a nest for our Dinosaur Corner and started making dinosaur eggs using paper mache.  We measured a Diplodocus foot using our own feet.  It took 20 of our shoes to fill it.  We also measured out the length of a Diplodocus using our bodies.

We discussed the importance of keeping safe on Bonfire Night we looked at power points Fireman Sam who helped teach us the Firework code we then made posters to tell people how to be safe.  We looked at a firework display on the computer and then we tried to think of words to describe the sounds the fireworks might make.  We also created firework art work.

We hope everyone has a lovely and safe weekend and we look forward to hearing about it on Monday.

This week we made comics about Firework Safety and learned how to keep ourselves safe on Bonfire Night.

We continued to develop our mental math strategies. We were also revising written multiplication strategies. This week in RE we celebrated the Feast of All Saints on Monday and learned about Diwali on Thursday. We also made some Rangoli patterns in Art.

In our Outdoor Learning we were investigating the habitats of small animals e.g. hedgehogs and built homes which they hope they will use in our School woodland.

This week we made comics about Firework Safety and learned how to keep ourselves safe on Bonfire Night.

In our Science lessons we have been learning about renewable and non-renewable energy sources. As part of our topic we are using technology to research Climate Change Activists and we will be creating a power point to share with the class. Next week we will continue to learn about Earth Heroes who are improving the planet in different ways. We will continue to have a focus on what is happening at COP 26.

This is a selection of some of our learning this week.

This week in Primary 5a we have been learning about…

Natalia – making leaves by using templates and drawing on black paper using chalk pastels.

Sam – making the spidergram about our qualities

Marriyah – I liked learning about the Battle of Stirling Bridge

Sylvia – I liked making the leaves

Adam – I liked sorting the timeline for the Battle of Stirling Bridge

Ronan – I liked that I challenged myself to complete all of the work this week

Inaya – I liked doing the Spanish wordsearch

Another great week in Primary 5a!