St John Ogilvie Primary School

This week has been a very busy week in P1A.  We have been doing lots of work on our topic about living things.  We learned about the lifecycle of a butterfly and made a poster about this using different pasta.  We also discussed all the things that a baby needs and we have had a house corner with two dolls in the classroom to practise looking after them.  In writing, we have been learning about exposition texts and we have to try and persuade people.  We chose between a bee and a butterfly to say which one we thought was the best.  We used Chatterpix to record our sentences.  We also made our own bees during art and we had to use our cutting skills.

In maths we have been learning about estimating.  We have also started learning about the greater than and less than symbols.  We watched Numberblocks and saw Blockzilla who likes the biggest number.  We noticed its mouth had the greater than or less than symbol.

During Outdoor Learning we saw some daffodils growing.  We had to take some shelter in the gazebo when the rain got very heavy!  We played with the loose parts for a while and saw our buddies who had been in the Woodland tidying up the rubbish.  We are looking forward to going back up to the Woodland next week.

Some of our personal highlights this week are:

Chimamanda – I enjoyed playing with the babies in the house.

Caiden – I liked playing with the dinosaurs.

Vivien – I enjoyed colouring in at Creative Zone.

Diana – I enjoyed learning about butterflies.

Linda – I enjoyed learning about the lifecycles of things.

Zion – I enjoyed playing in Creative Zone.

Rory – I loved doing gymnastics at PE.

Exposition or Persuasive text

Dear Readers,

Here are our highlights for the week:

• In Literacy, we have learned everything about the structure, goal and language of a persuasive piece of writing and have practised writing one collaboratively about the importance of having a good breakfast. As it was team work and almost all of us have had an active part in writing it, we are attaching it to this post for you to see as well. We have also had our usual New spelling words, Word Boost and weekly spelling assessment, of course!
• In Maths, we have started working on the 4 times table and have also been revising our 2,3,5 and 10 ones. We have worked on data handling by making a bar graph, a tally chart and answering questions about the information displayed on both.  It was particularly interesting learning how to sort things into a Venn diagram and we managed very well!
• Our Topic, George’s Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl is very interesting and funny and we have tried to predict what it will be about just by looking at the front cover and back cover where we read the blurb!
• We have walked in the playground with love heart frames with the P7 pupils who took pictures of us thanking God for everything that was made by him and that is given to us everyday, including flowers, pets, worms and others.

It has been a lovely week in P3A and we hope you have enjoyed finding out about our weekly highlights!

P3A and Mrs Valente😘😘

Highlights of the Week – 14th March

Cartwheels during P.E

Victorian Workhouse Menus

Learning about how people lived in the workhouse – reading comprehension

Music – Watched Treasure Island and listened to the music

Reading the Bloom, discussing kindness and feelings, book and making paper flowers

Outdoor learning – following directions using the intercardinal compass points and using angles/degrees to describe the turns

Dear Parents,

Lots of learning in P7a this week starting on Monday with a visit from Mrs Amatler who gave us a wonderful literacy lesson on questioning.

Later that day we had a Well-being lesson from Miss Munroe from St. Margaret’s Academy as part of our transition to high school.

On Tuesday for IDL we compared temperatures of Scotland and The Amazon Rainforest and created line graphs to display the information.

Writing we have started a block on Persuasive/Exposition and picked a side and wrote about whether we believed there should be zoos or not.

Thursday saw the second of our Bikeability lessons and the feedback from pupils and instructors has been very positive.

Friday we had some drama for Fun Friday where the main theme was mime.

Have a great weekend,

Mr McGurn and P7a.

This week as part of our journey towards the Rights Respecting School Gold Award we discussed ways children could share their views and opinions. Primary 6 are beginning to think about becoming House Captain and how they will be able to find out the views and opinions of the other children in our school. They are also beginning to think about being Buddies to the new Primary 1 pupils who will join our school in August.

Literacy – We are working on developing a wider range of persuasive vocabulary and how to write persuasive posters, leaflets, opinion writing.

Math – We have been working on finding percentage of amounts (a useful life skill when buying things in a sale) We are going to be continuing this for the next two weeks. This week we also took place in the West Lothian Sumdog Competition and I am very proud to say that Primary 6B were Thursday Daily Winners and Primary 6A were runners up in second position. All of the children in Primary 6A exceeded their own expectations as when we joined the competition we were sitting in 48th position.

On Wednesday we had some Outdoor Learning and went for a short walk looking for signs of Spring.

The children recorded seeing flowers beginning to bloom, budding on trees, insects and a squirrel (which quickly ran away). Unfortunately they also saw lots of dropped litter, glass, abandoned shopping trolleys and dog mess.

Hope everyone stays well and we have a great week of learning next week.

Dear Families

Literacy

We have continued to read our class novel, George’s Marvellous Medicine. We made our own marvellous medicine recipes and designed the bottles, remembering to create warnings on the label! We even linked this to a science lesson, where we were testing out if vinegar or water mix with oil.

We have begun a focus on persuasive writing (also called exposition). We have been planning to write a persuasive writing piece about why we should wear school uniform. We have created the series of arguments we will use in our final writing next week.

Numeracy

We have been working on our 4 times table this week.

We were revising our knowledge of money and coins. We were working out the coins needed for certain amounts.

We discovered that you can reveal a shield when you put some of the new coins together.

Pupil Highlights

Mariam – I enjoyed the science experiment, finding out if oil and vinegar mix.

Szymon – I liked working with the Primary 7. We took part in a prayer day activity finding God’s creations in the playground. I was with my sister.

Paige – I liked finding out about the shield.

Layla – I enjoyed doing the George’s Marvellous Medicine bottles, or should I say Layla’s Marvellous Medicine.

Markuss – I liked Free Writing Friday.

Pupil Highlights:

Joshua D: I liked doing the draw along challenges using art hub for kids and I also liked writing the six times table in my maths jotter and doing the adaptable sheet.

Inaya: I liked writing a nice letter to the tree that was lonely, sad and anxious.

Filip: I liked using my maths booklet do so multiplication sums.

Adam: I liked drawing our bloom flowers.

Elizabete: I liked doing the time tables tasks.

Marriyah: I liked doing work in my multiplication booklet.

Olivier: I liked doing the six times tables work.

Natalia: I liked drawing a wilting flower and a flower in bloom. We had to write negative comments around the dying flower and positive comments about the thriving flower.

Aoife: I liked Miss Smith coming back to school today.

Hot Chocolate Winner: Anastasia congratulations on winning the hot chocolate. You always try your hardest in your work and are always kind to others.

Another great week in P7B

Numeracy
this week in numeracy we had fun exploring ratios and what this means in a real life context. We are looking at measurement and have a great plan on how to use our new measurement knowledge next week.

Literacy

We had a great time this week with different activities everyday this week for world book week! We joined in a full school collaborative writing task, reading activities and making bookmarks for our P1 buddies.

Health and Wellbeing

We linked our whole school reading book ‘Bloom’ to emotions and kind words this week. We made really fantastic posters for display of the impact of positive and negative words.

IDL

This week we learned how to create texture in art. The children had to continue the other half of a animal. They did and are continuing to do a great job at this.

Some photo highlights this week!

Dear Readers,

This week has been amazing!

It was Book Week and we have spent it doing lots of things related to them including reading, writing and illustrating!

All the classes of the school have read and explored the book ‘Bloom’ by Anne Both and have also completed activities related to it, including a big graph with the class’ favourite flowers!

Every day we have had to voto for one out of two books that we read and the big winner of the week was ‘Ninjabread man’, which left many of us very happy!

As the 10th of March is the feast day of our patron St. John Ogilvie, we have learned about his life and miracle and were all very impressed by them.

On Friday we had some very nice treats from the school to make snack time even yummier! Wow!

Also on Friday, our dress down day for SCIAF, we had to cover as many Malawi maps as possible with the coins we have brought from home and, believe it or not, we managed to cover 6 maps! Thank you very much to all of you for your support and for helping to improve the lifes of Malawi people by giving them the means to produce their own food, being independent and adapting to the changes and challenges that climate change brought them.

We hope you have enjoyed reading about some of the highlights of the week and wish you a lovely Sunday and a very good week!

P3A and Mrs Valente