St John Ogilvie Primary School

Primary 4 have had another busy week!

Literacy  – We have been continuing to learn about how to write instructions and we have also looked closely at the grammar and language used within procedure writing.

Numeracy – Primary 4 have been learning to use rounding  to estimate the correct answer to a calculation. We have  also had great fun creating and designing our own maths board games for children of our own age. Next week, we are going to write instructions describing how to make a board game during our writing lesson.

Topic –  As part of our Scottish Inventors topic we have been researching John Logie Baird, learning about his life and what he was famous for.

Technology – Our class have been learning how to open teams, complete a document and “turn in” our work!

Hot Chocolate Winner – Congratulations to Veerica who was nominated for our Hot Chocolate Award this week.

Mrs Lea

This week we have been reading our class novel ‘The Last Wolf’ and used Word Boost activities to develop our understanding of the challenging vocabulary. As part of Scottish Maths Week we enjoyed taking part in the West Lothian Sumdog Competition and learning how to round to six and seven digits using playing cards.

During out Outdoor Learning we had fun using natural resources (twigs, leaves, stones) to show our knowledge of maths. We created times tables grids and place value grids.

Our Topic this term is investigating the importance of ancient civilisations in our daily lives. We started to collate information to write a report on the Ancient Greeks. We have explored the rights of women and children, slavery and democracy.

We have continued to explore how our emotions can help us to be better learners when we understand how we are feeling and strategies that help us be calm/happy. We also discussed our own personalities, talents and abilities and how they help us to be confident learners and effective contributors to our class learning.

We have continued to learn about Children’s Rights and next week we are looking forward to our Assessment to become a Silver Award Rights Respecting School.

Good afternoon!

Some of the learning highlights this week in Primary 6B:

Numeracy and Maths: We created our own Maths board games using the skills we have been working on this term. We then played our games which helped us to work on addition, subtraction, rounding, times tables and place value while having fun.

Literacy: We have continued to read our class novel ‘Wonder’ together and have learned more about the main characters which we used in our writing too.

Health and Wellbeing: We have been learning about zones of regulations. This week we learned what each of the colours mean and what coping skills we have to help us manage our feelings. We created zones of regulation fortune tellers which we have taken home to remind us of the coping skills. We also took part in our health and wellbeing check in.

IDL: We researched ancient Greece and learned lots of new and interesting facts.

Have a great weekend,

Mrs Roy

This week in P1B we have been learning the sound and letter ‘s’.   It is a light blue colour and we make the sound using our tongue.  We made spiral snakes and snakes out of paper chains.  These activities helped us to continue to develop our fine motor skills.

We have been learning all about the numbers 7 and 8. We have been working very hard at learning how to form these numbers correctly.  We have also been looking at 2D shapes.  We made shapes using lollypop sticks and also created pictures using coloured paper shapes.

In our Writing lesson this week we wrote about things that we like.  Mrs Russell was very proud of all our hard work and we have been trying hard to remember to use a full stop at the end of our sentence.

Some of our highlights:

I liked playing outside (Olivia)

I liked making the snakes (Maja)

I liked playing with the blocks (Ishaan)

I liked playing with my friends (Reesa)

I liked painting S (Georgia Rose)

We hope everyone has a lovely weekend and we look forward to learning more new things next week.

In phonics we learned the sound ‘s’.  We made snakes with spots, stripes and squiggles.  We decorated socks with lots of letter ‘s’ and made sure they were very colourful.  In the purple tray we had spaghetti to make the ‘s’ shape.

In maths we have learned about number 7 and 8.  Ask us how we write these correctly.  We learned about repeating patterns and we made these with lots of different things.

This week we have been learning about our sense of touch and smell.  We had to do a smell test and guess what it was.  We did very well.  For touch we had a feely bag and we could only use our skin to touch, we couldn’t look to see what it was.

Some of our personal highlights are:

Aadya – I learned about writing my numbers the right way.

Laura – I learned about colouring in.

Diana – I learned about playing with my friends.

Vivien – I learned about playing with others.

Caleb – I learned about counting up to 20.

Zion – I learned about being safe.

Pupil Highlights:

Marriyah: ‘ I have liked learning about King Alexander III and Margaret Maid of Norway’.

Filip: ‘I liked making my own yes or no questions for our Word Boost Words this week and Spanish bingo.’

Josh N: ‘ I liked using the place value counters to show what 10 less and 10 more of a number would be and I also liked writing  my own set of instructions –  ‘ How to Play Rounders’

Ronan: ‘ I liked playing with Joshua this week.’

Adam:  ‘ I liked doing the different sports quiz in P.E.’

Sylvia: ‘ I liked doing Spanish and Spanish bingo this week.’

Nilaya: ‘ I liked making our HOT questions posters with Natalia and Vanessa.’

Natalia: ‘ I liked learning about King Alexander III and Margaret Maid of Norway.’

Aoife: ‘ I liked labelling our pends in the classroom and organising the morning starter jotters and writing my own procedure text – ‘ How to do the Berries and Cream Dance.’

Anastasia: ‘ I liked doing Spanish this week.’

Hello everyone!

Despite it being a shorter week, P2A have squeezed in lots of learning!  Here are the highlights of the week according to the Green Table:

Nathan liked art with Mrs Brand.  The children have been learning that at this time of the year, end of Summer, we celebrate ‘Harvest Festival’.  We celebrate and pray for farmers everywhere who provide us with our food.  The children completed a still life drawing of fruit and paid particular attention to the shape, size, textures and colours of the fruit.  Look out for the upcoming Seesaw post showing these super still life drawings!

Emily loved playing the ‘Line’ game during PE with Mrs Lafferty.

Kayla enjoyed listening to 70s music.  Some of the grandparents, during their interviews, have mentioned the music they listened to when they were young. So far we have listened to music from The Beatles and The Bay City Rollers.  Kayla liked The Bay City Rollers best!  We look forward to listening to the interviews that are still to take place.

Ben liked the song ‘I’m the Farmer, Yes I am’ as part of our learning about the Harvest Festival.

Isabel loved learning how to play the drums with Mrs Morrison.  So far the children have learned how to hold a drum stick properly and use it to repeat a rhythm.

Pola enjoyed using the clipboards during an information-gathering lesson.  The children have been learning how to conduct a survey and record results using tally marks.  The clipboards where an easy way for the paper to stay in place during the survey.

My highlight has to have been the lessons about climate change.  The children have been learning about the very important COP26 meeting that will take place in Glasgow during November.  We talked about what we can do as individuals to help our planet.  These lessons will be ongoing.

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Our short week after the long weekend flew in. We had a great time learning! Here are some reflections:

Numeracy

We reviewed what we already knew this week about rounding and checked our understanding of inverse (addition & subtraction, multiplication & division). We also had a numeracy knowledge check to support and move forward in our learning! We showed some of this understanding by making numeracy posters. Vivaan, Sneha and Hesham really enjoyed this and are excited to continue this next week!

Kuba and Vihaan enjoyed literacy this week continuing our work on narrative and character description! We have shown good understanding during our literacy knowledge checks this week too!

Emily and John enjoyed stem this week with Mrs Roy and had a lot of fun learning about bridges and thinking like an engineer.

Alicja and Nikola enjoyed working in groups this week! They enjoyed learning with their friends.

Mr Pentland and the class enjoyed our work on climate change and what this actually means! We had a lot of fun acting out shortwave radiation, longwave radiation and greenhouse gases and demonstrated what is meant by ‘the greenhouse effect’. A special thanks to Lucy (the sun) and John (the earth), Oscar worthy performances!!

Another great week of learning! I am excited to continue our learning next week, have a great weekend. See you all on Motivation Monday!

Here are some of the learning highlights from P6B this week.

Numeracy and Maths: This week we have enjoyed using our skills of addition and subtraction in problem solving tasks. We also learned about calendars and timetables and how they are useful in our lives for keeping us organised.

Literacy: We are progressing well with our class novel ‘Wonder’ and created description bubbles on different characters.

COP 26: We have been learning about what COP26 is and we took part in the survey. We had a chance to say how much we believed climate change would have an affect on our rights and it also helped us think of ways we can tackle climate change.

Art: We created lovely Autumn pictures using chalk, here are some below:

Have a great weekend,

Mrs Roy