St John Ogilvie Primary School

What a busy week in P4B.

For PE we were dancing in the hall with Mr P (E), it was fun! (CF)

We shared our learning about Scottish Inventors at our assembly on Wednesday. It was good. (ID) Mrs Ross thinks we were absolutely brilliant!

As part of our writing we followed instructions to make paper areoplanes. (EB) We tested them out in a competition. Elvin came first, with Amariah-Grace, Aaron and Aarav were runner ups.

We started using TEAMS for our homework and lots of people managed to get their task and complete it.

Hello P7B families, 

It’s Fatima M and Veerica, this week’s bloggers! 

This week’s highlights include: 

• Our online chat with the Head of Houses from St Margarets Academy in which we asked some questions to Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Munro, 

• Our weekly visit from St Margarets Academy’s math teachers in which we did math relay races, 

• We also did some autumn tree art where we painted a tree trunk then added autumn coloured leaves with cotton buds, 

• In our writing, we researched an animal of our choice. We then started an information report on that animal,  

• We had a look at our interests and thought of a career path that would suit our skills, 

• We also continued to prepare for our Mock Court in December. The lawyers and witnesses got together to find flaws in the opponent’s story. 

That’s all for this week, hope you enjoyed it! 

Tune in next Friday for more info! 

It was lovely having everyone back together after our long September holiday weekend.  We hope you all had a lovely time.

In Literacy we looked at the sound ‘s’ we worked on formation and distinguishing the m, c and s sound by sorting. We developed our talking and listening skills by sharing our news with the class.  We introduced the common word ‘see’, we will use this next week in our talking sentences and writing.

In maths we looked at the number 8 working on forming it correctly.  We also worked on 10 frames – making amounts and adding one more. We continued to work on our mental maths and counting.

For our Senses topic this week we focused on the sense of taste and linked it to Fairtrade as it was Fairtrade Fortnight.  We tasted different types of Fairtrade chocolate then voted in class for our favourite.  We then added our class results to an area wall display. We looked at the story of chocolate and then completed a shopping basket activity.  The children had to choose 5 Fairtrade products to put in their basket. 

Weekly Highlights:

Tiara ‘I liked learning about Fairtrade’

Alfie ‘I liked gym’

Emma ‘I liked helping to tidy’

Daniel ‘I liked cutting out the snake’

Myra ‘ I liked writing’

Well done to Guhan Kumar our Hot Chocolate winner this week.

Good afternoon all Primary 3 families, it has been a short (but sweet) week in Primary 3.

This weeks numeracy and maths has been great fun, from exploring skip counting in 4s (and some even taking on the challenge of doing it in 8s!), to creating our own tiling pattern out of 2D shapes, there have been lots of opportunities for thinking, problem solving and challenges.

In our literacy this week, we revisited our ‘a’ sound spelling pattern, using a-e, ai and ay. The children used active strategies to consolidate their learning. We also re visited the story of ‘The Obvious Elephant’ and played a fun word boost game, where the teacher gave a clue to someone about a word, and they had to figure out what word it was related to. We also played a game where we threw a beanbag back and forth – this one was a hit!

In other areas of the curriculum, we celebrated Fairtrade fortnight by creating some beautiful artwork. We drew chalk drawings of Fairtrade symbols and Fairtrade products, and painted lovely pictures of the symbol.

For our RE this week, we learned about God creating us in his image and what this means. We also learned about the three things that make us up as people, our mind, body and soul. We now know that our soul is what makes us who we are, and this is what connects with God, and goes to be with him in heaven.

AbdulHameed’s highlight of the week this week has been painting the Fairtrade logo! He enjoyed using the paints and also loved the chalk drawings.

Victoria enjoyed doing Word boost this week, she loved the beanbag game we played to revise all of our words.

Rose and Aaron loved creating their 2D tiling and they both thought it was so fun!

Faye enjoyed painting and enjoyed getting creative when making Fairtrade symbols.

Well done to our hot chocolate winner today Aaron!

Well done to this weeks secret student Katie!

I hope you all have a lovely weekend!

Miss Duddy

Dear Parents,

Here is Julia, Lead Learner for next week, to tell you about this week in P7A…

On Wednesday we were doing grammar about venomous snakes and we had to highlight nouns, adjectives and Present tense verbs.

On Thursday we had outdoor learning and we were building bird houses out of sticks, leaves and stuff we found around.

On Friday we went to mass and after mass we went back to school and we started the Sumdog Competition on the laptops. After that we had fun Friday.

Have a great Weekend from Julia , P7A and Mr McGurn

PS – St. Margaret’s Academy have asked us to share their open Evening information with you

A short week but we’ve done lots in P4B.

We have been practising for our assembly this week and its been fun. (MG) We have also practised our assembly song – ‘Scottish Inventors’. (AGF)

We went on the netbooks to go on TEAMS, I thought the games on it were fun, (EA) We were learning how to work the netbooks and get on TEAMS. (BC)

We have been learning about history, Scottish Inventors. I found it fun and interesting. (AD)

We made Buddy Bots and chose their name. We looked at the things that make a good friend. (DL)

We have created our homework folder and put our diary and logins inside. (MD) We put the things we are doing on different days in the diary. (CF)

In literacy we looked at what a ‘bossy verb’ is and when we would use them.