St John Ogilvie Primary School

We have had a great week in P1B learning all about the letter and sound ‘p’. We thought of lots of things that begin and end in the sound ‘p’. We enjoyed making a penguin craft, colouring in pink pigs and making colourful parrots with feathers.

In math, we learned how to write the numbers 9 and 10. We also learned how 2D shapes make 3D shapes and investigated which shapes can roll, stack and slide. We enjoyed building towers with 3D shapes and made pictures with 2D shapes.

We also learned about ordering numbers to 10 and 20. We worked in pairs to order Numicon, ten frames and dot patterns. We then played a game where one person closed their eyes, while the other made a number disappear and they had to work out what number was missing. Mrs Meikle was very impressed with the different strategies we used to work out the answer.

We have also been learning some more about our senses, this week the sense of touch and taste. We read the story ‘The Incredible Book Eating Boy’ and wrote about things ‘I like to eat’. We had a tasting session to identify different types of tastes. Our favourite was sweet, sour made us all very giggly! We finished off the week by making popcorn, we used all our senses to investigate; what it looks and feels like before and after, what it sounds like when cooking and most importantly what it smells and tastes like.

For H&WB we made a recipe for a good friend and after reading ‘Enemy Pie’ we made a craft friendship pie.

P1B wish everyone a happy and safe October holiday!

Dear parents,

We have had a great week in Primary 6B. Here are some things we would like to share with you:

Literacy: We have been reading our class novel ‘Wonder’ together and focusing on the main characters. We learned how to use Pixton and created our own characters and comics, some of us even used these skills in our free writing.

Numeracy and Maths: Our focus this week was on multiplication and time. We have been learning to convert 12 hour time into 24 hour time.

R.E: We learned about St Francis of Assisi as his Feast day was 4th October. We liked that he was close to nature and cared for animals and the environment.

IDL/Art: We completed our research on ancient Greece and made fact files to show what we have learned. We also used a range of patterns to create our own Greek vases. Here are some below:

Fun Friday: We had fun learning how to follow instructions and create some pictures by following each step. We hope you like them!

Rights respecting school: Well done to Zak and Rebecca for being confident individuals and taking part in a group assessment to help achieve our silver award.

Over and above: Congratulations to Tanya for going over and above this week, well done!

Have a fantastic week,

Mrs Roy

This week in writing we had to write a sentence about what we liked to eat.  We are getting really good at using our sounds and writing them the correct way.  We have been learning about the sound ‘p’.  We read the book ‘Pants’ and then we decorated our own pair of paper pants!  We tried our best to make patterns on the pants.

We have finished our topic on senses.  Yesterday we used all our senses when we made popcorn.  It was great fun!  Everybody was dancing around when the popcorn was popping!

In maths we have been learning about numbers 9 and 10.  We got to taste sweet and salted popcorn and we made a pictogram to show what one we liked best.  The most popular was sweet.

Mrs Fisher brought in some big cardboard boxes and we got to play with them at Block Play.  They became cars, houses, aeroplanes, towers, helicopters and even more!  We really used our imaginations!

Here are some of our personal highlights:

Caiden – I learned about playing police officers.

Diana – I learned about numbers.

Caleb – I have been playing with the transformers.

Laura – I have been practising my letters.

Zion – I have been learning about taste.

Pupil Highlights:

Josh N: ‘ I enjoyed creating our own HOT ‘ Remembering’ questions on a passage from our class novel

‘The Demon Head Master’.

Marriyah: ‘ I liked learning about Robert the Bruce and making our Maths posters.’

Olivier: ‘ I liked learning about William Wallace.’

Ronan: ‘ I liked coming back into school.’

Daisy: ‘ I liked learning how to play C D E on the cornet.’

Adam: ‘ I liked learning about Black singers in music.’

Joshua D: ‘ I liked learning about Scottish History.’

Patrick: ‘ I liked learning about Robert the Bruce.’

Elizabete: ‘ I liked writing instructions – ‘ How to add 100 to a four digit number – beyond the decade.’

Hello special SJO families!

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

Olivier said he enjoyed making passports the best and he would use it, if he could, to fly to Poland to visit his family!  This week, as part of our learning about when our grandparents were young, P2 learned of the first super-sonic flight from London to New York with Concorde.  This led to the passport making activity.  The children then spoke about where in the world they would like to fly to and why.  We had lots of warm places suggested.  I wonder why?

Juliet loved the paper planes we made!  We made our very own paper Concordes following the instructions of a Youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Cy3lRJGiR4 Thankfully the windy day ensured our planes took off!

David S liked continuing learning to play the drums with Mrs Morrison.  This week the children progressed to using 2 drum sticks!

Joe said he liked completing word searches best!  The children were searching for common words in their word search before they completed the task for homework on Seesaw for ‘oa’ words.  Well done Joe!  You found all of your common words!

David K loved it when we were learning about ordinal numbers in maths.  We went out to the MUGA with javelins in groups of 4 to discover who came 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd and 4^th!

Chijiakwu also said he loved learning about ordinal numbers in maths, only instead, he recounted playing ‘Tiddlywinks’.  He came 2^nd!  Well done Chijiakwu!

Zosia enjoyed learning about the life cycle of a frog with Mrs Brand.  It was interesting to learn how the tadpoles grew their back legs first!

My highlight was when one of the children asked was it nearly Christmas!  “It’s not too far away” was my response.  I think the countdown has begun already with some of our little learners!

Another great week in P7B this week! 

Some fantastic reflections this week:

Lucy enjoyed using base 10 materials to explore and estimate numbers.

Vivaan, Mark and Sara enjoyed constructing their model bridges during technology this week.

Kayleigh enjoyed literacy this week, writing narratives about our school heroes’ opposites. They were very creative and interesting!

A lot of the children highlighted maths this week. Our task was to create a classroom; equipped with a promethean board, white board, jotters and other resources and find the best value within a given budget.  The children were in pairs and were given the opportunity to pitch reasons why their budget should be increased. These were fantastic, very good reasons, including the rights of the child. These pitches did however lead to a debate of ‘stolen’ ideas, but not to worry, Judge Pentland and the P7B Jury was on the job and after very great prosecution and defence arguments, the defence was found not guilty.  Well done! It was a lot of fun!

Here are some pictures of our week:

Our numeracy lesson on estimating numbers using different representations.

Our Friday reflection on the four capacities. This is how P7B have been successful leaners, confident individuals, responsible citizens and effective contributors this week! Well done P7B! I am very proud of you all and you should be very proud of yourselves! Have a great weekend!

Mr Pentland