St John Ogilvie Primary School

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!

Hello P2A families!

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

Kayla loved making Hallowe’en art!  The children had 4 activities to choose from: making spooky pumpkin lanterns, paper plate cats/bats/witches, making witchy feet or spooky handprints.  Kayla made a super paper plate witch!  Unfortunately, due to the rain, they had to go in the school bags so they may need patching up a little.

Nathan really enjoyed the ‘Mummy Game’ were two teams were in a race to see who could be wrapped up as a mummy the fastest with a toilet roll!  Well done to Ruari’s team who won!

Ben liked writing poems this week.  The children examined a poem called ‘When the Wind Blows’ and then created their own weather poem in groups.  We had some fantastic ideas such as ‘Crisp packets float’ and ‘Branches wave’.  Well done P2A!

Emily enjoyed listening to a story about children who rescued a dog from a Dog’s Home.  There were so many dogs to choose from!  Some were too loud, too quiet, too naughty and too lazy but in the end they found one that was just right!  The children were giggling when Mrs Devlin told them about a naughty guinea pig she had once who ate a big hole in one of her curtains!

Isabel loved our Word Boost book this week called ‘Love From Lousia’.

Pola liked the Hallowe’en Corners game we played today.  Congratulations to Julia, our winner!

My highlight was the Hallowe’en art.  All the fantastic pieces where placed around the room as part of our Hallowe’en decorations.  The classroom looked great!

A great week of learning in P7B this week. Here are some of our highlights:

Sneha enjoyed working on suffixes and using different addition and subtraction strategies in her learning. She also enjoyed the Halloween activities with her P1 buddy.

Owen enjoyed maths this week, exploring the terms mean, median, mode and range. He liked having a free slot in the class timetable to prepare fun thing to do with the P1 buddies.

Abdullah enjoyed health and wellbeing this week, he liked exploring all about choices and consequences. He also liked out discussion on racism and identity.

Beth liked when Father Simon joined us in class and talked all about what it means to be a good person. She also enjoyed numeracy and IDL.

Alicja enjoyed making clocks this week, looking at what we notice about clock faces. We noticed some fantastic features: it’s a circle, the numbers range from 1-12, they are in chronological order, and the numbers adjacent each other add to 12, to name a few! Well done P7.

Kayleigh liked out discussion on differences and identity. She also enjoyed meeting up with her buddy.

Alex agreed with this, he was very interested in learning about people’s identities and discussing racism. Alex also enjoyed our work on the order of operations this week in maths – BODMAS.

A great week P7B! Have a fantastic weekend.

Mr Pentland

This week we have learned about the Global Goals – there are 17 and we will be learning about them in more depth over the next few weeks. We have continued to think about our school values.

Friendship, TRUST, Respect, Happiness, Kindness, Teamwork and Self-Belief

We know that our words can make people feel welcome in our class and in our school. In Art we learned about one point perspective.

This week we have been learning about similes (with a halloween theme) and on Thursday we were able to write imaginative poems using similes. This was a lot of fun choosing ghoulish words. We continued to learn different mental math strategies.  In our Religious lessons we wrote prayers to thank God for things we have in our life and to ask for help with something we are concerned about.

Next week we will be continue our topic Earth Heroes which is about Conservation and Sustainability with a focus on COP 26.

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