St John Ogilvie Primary School

P7B Update!

We had such a fun week this week in P7B!

Literacy

During literacy we worked on our note taking skills. We used a digital resources to read this week about the rainforest and showed our comprehension skills to answer follow up HOTs questions. We continued our work on information reports and concluded our research to begin our writing. We have been working on using OneNote to share our work with Mr Pentland.

Numeracy

For numeracy we worked on some more fractions, decimals and percentages. We showcased our skills to convert fractions to percentages and enjoyed working on these skills to illustrate access to fresh drinking water across the world and to estimate the snowfall across Scotland. We also worked on measure, exploring the jobs involved in building a house and their knowledge of perimeter and area.

HWB

We continued our work on substance and drugs this week and looked at myths or facts to do with alcohol. Some we knew and some surprised us. We explored article 3 this week which was all about the best interest of the child. This was connected through most of our lessons.

Thank you for a great week P7B!

Another great week of fun and learning in Primary 6B!

Here are some highlights we would like to share with you:

Literacy: We have been developing our understanding of information reports. This week we made our own notes on the brain as part of our human body topic. We were then able to use these notes to create our information reports in the correct structure and self assess against the success criteria. We were able to use red, amber and green to show what we are doing well and what we need to improve on.

Numeracy and maths: This week in maths we have been using our knowledge of times tables to add and subtract fractions. Our times tables helped as we had to find common denominators. We also enjoyed playing around the world and taking part in our Sumdog and Prodigy challenges.

Fairtrade fortnight: As part of fairtrade fortnight we looked at ways we can help coffee, cocoa and banana farmers. We then created information leaflets on what we had researched. Here are some examples:

We also created some fantastic artwork based on the Kelpies which we researched last week as part of our Scotland topic!

As part of our Scotland topic we also enjoyed our challenge of creating the Loch Ness monster with clay. This took quite a bit of perseverance and we had to shape the clay quickly before it got too dry. They are a work in progress and we look forward to painting them soon.

Well done to Mohid our over and above winner this week!

Have a great weekend,

Mrs Roy

Hello P2A families!

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

Julia said her favourite lesson was gymnastics with Mrs Lafferty!

David S liked the Spanish we learned this week.  We had learned how to respond to the classroom commands: ‘sit down, stand up, silence please and listen’.  His favourite was ‘listen’ which is ‘¡Escuchad!’  Next week we are going to revise how to respond to the register with ‘Presente’ (present) or ‘Ausente’ (absent).

Chijiakwu loved our learning about the Sacrament of Baptism.  We watched a baby get Baptised and learned about the different parts of the service: welcome at the back of the Church, the different oils used, Holy Water (3 pours over the baby’s head as the priest says, “I baptize you in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit“) the white clothes/blanket and the Baptismal Candle.

David K said his favourite learning was about the River Almond.  We watched a drone video showing us different parts of this very long river.  Watch again here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bsji_27BGZo

Joe liked our lessons on money.  This week the focus has been on finding the total up to at least £1 and using a range of different coins to pay the shopkeeper.

Zosia also liked learning about the River Almond and enjoyed watching the different Seesaw homeworks were some classmates made their own home-made River Almond!

Izzan said he loved working with Mrs Devlin for maths in the Area, just the two of us.

My highlight was our learning about Fair Trade.  It is currently Fair Trade Fortnight.  The children were horrified to learn that there are many farmers in other parts of the world that are not paid a fair price for their crops and because of this they cannot pay for a home, clothes or food for their family.  We will continue with this learning next week as we learn about banana farmers and coco farmers.  We are looking forward to a tasting lesson!  Look out for the Fair Trade maths homework on Monday.

Congratulations to Emily, our Hot Chocolate Award winner for this week.

This week we have been learning the sounds ‘ai’ and ‘oa’ and how to read and write words with these sounds.  For writing we were able to give a talking sentence about a picture on plants.  We also wrote an inf0rmation report about apples.

This week we have been learning about how we can record information using tally charts and bar graphs.  We made our own tally charts and could answer questions about them.

We made a class tally chart for our favourite topping on toast and then made it in to a bar graph.  The most popular topping was chocolate spread.

We listened to the story the Widow’s mite and discussed how the widow gave all the money she had while the wealthy people gave some of their money but had some left over.

During Outdoor Learning we continued to explore the loose parts and made a tent and bridge.  We also developed our gross motor skills using the scooters and bikes.  We discussed the importance of wearing a helmet and made sure they were on securely.

This week is the start of Fair Trade Fortnight.  We discussed what fair trade means and drew our own logo.  We took the logo home to teach our families about fair trade and that it means the farmers get a fair price for his/her products.  We looked online at products in the shops that have a fair trade logo.

We have great fun using the Block Play this week and created some amazing things.  Pupils Highlights:

Lilly ‘ I made a working table and a fire with the block play’

Eli ‘I made a gaming room with Lewis’.

Lewis ‘ We wrote a sign to say we made the room’

Safaa ‘I made a ship’

Reesa ‘I made a desk and an office’.

Congratulations to Ishaan who is the Hot Chocolate winner this week.

Dear Families,

It’s been another busy learning week in Primary 3B!  Here are a few of the children’s learning highlights:

Markuss:  I liked Free writing Friday because I could write and draw about my favourite thing.

Emily: I loved learning the 3 times table because it was so much fun!

Szymon:  I enjoyed publishing my information report about Dragonfruit.

Aiden:  I liked getting Splash Learn on the iPad because it was fun and I learned new maths.

Stefi:  It was good fun learning about Fairtrade and making ‘choose the world you want’ posters.

Amelia: I loved singing Encato songs outside.

Layla:  I liked making pictures of Aquaducts in West Lothian.

Jonah:  It was so much fun playing table mountain to help us learn the 3 times table.

Millie:  I liked doing gymnastics with Mrs Lafferty in the hall.

We worked really well in pairs to learn our 3 times table.  Here a few photographs of us at work:

Here are a few examples of our ‘Choose the World you Want’ posters that we made for Fairtrade Fortnight:

We hope you all have a great weekend!

P3B

Another fantastic week in P4A.  We have been working on division and are exploring the links between division and multiplication.  We have also been learning about the Roman Gods this week.  We have really enjoyed getting lots of new information and facts and using these in our information report writing.

Pupil Highlights:

Max : “We made Roman shields.  I liked the different designs.”

Emily : “We made 3D shapes using nets – it was very fun.”

Francesca : “I have really liked learning about Roman Gods.  My favourite Gods are Neptune and Venus.  Neptune was powerful and Venus was beautiful and kind.”

Eilidh : “I liked starting gymnastics in PE.  We used our bodies to make letters and words – I loved it!”

Akshaj : “I like the new research area in our class.  We can use laptops, ipads and books to research and make fact cards.”

Julia : “I love finding out new facts and especially like sitting on the cushions in the research area!”

We are all looking forward to lots more learning next week!

This week has been another busy week for Primary 6. Working towards our Rights Respecting Gold Award we celebrated Article 3 – The best interest of the child must be foremost when making decisions. The children had a lot to say on the subject as you can imagine.  Fortnight began on 21st of February and will continue until next Friday. In class we used ipads to research  Fairtrade and we created leaflets with the information we discovered. As part of our learning about Scotland and famous Scottish places we carried out research into The Kelpies visitor site and created Information Reports. We were able to use our writing targets to make these interesting and structured. We also used modelling clay to create our version of the famous Loch Ness Monster – Nessie. We hope to finish painting them next week.

In math we have been continued developing our knowledge of fractions, decimals and percentages. It is great to know that we can use our multiplication and division skills to solve problems and change fractions into decimals, decimals into percentages and percentages into fractions.

In RE we have been learning about the Stations of the Cross and some children were able to complete some writing on their Pope Francis Faith Award.

The weather has been very changeable and the children who brought a change of footwear greatly appreciated not having to sit with heavy wet boots and socks on.

Have a great weekend

Pupil Highlights:

Anastasia: I liked doing the trash and treasure activity for our note taking task. We had to find the find the important information and also the trash. The trash was the information we did not need.

Elizabete: I enjoyed doing the note taking on the Victorians.

Emily: I liked watching the 1900 House documentary. I found it interesting and weird to watch.

Daisy: I enjoyed doing the maths challenge where we had to provide a decimal number in between two numbers.

Ronan: I liked doing the note taking on the Victorians.

Josh N: I liked making letters with our bodies in P.E.

Grant: I liked doing the note taking because Miss Smith let me work with Sam.

Sylvia: I liked doing gymnastics in P.E.

Inaya: I liked working with decimal numbers.