St John Ogilvie Primary School

This week we have been learning about odd and even numbers. We have been using tally marks to count in 5s.

We have been learning about words that rhyme.  We have been reading The 3 Little Pigs.  We did a huff and puff challenge.  We had to blow different items across the table.  Our partners had to tick a sheet to say how many huffs and puffs we did. On Tuesday the Wolf blew down our castle.  He left footprints all over the floor.  We made wanted posters to find the wolf.  He wrote us a letter to tell us he had a bad cold and had sneezed and that was why the castle fell down.  We built houses out of sticks, bricks and wood.  Miss Stebbing tried to blow them down using a hair dryer.  The hair dryer had ears on it so it looked like the wolf!

At outdoor learning some of us were making a fire, some were climbing a tree and some people were playing in the mud kitchen.  It was fun! We were finding sticks for making a fire pit.  They had to be the length from your finger to your elbow.

Some of our personal highlights are:

Ben – I learned about playing nicely with my friends.

Ollie – I learned how to climb trees safely.

Ruari – I learned how to make a fire pit.

Chijiakwu – I learned to count in 5s.

Pola – I learned about being nice to friends and being safe.

Kayla – I learned to share the space in the woodland.

Zosia – I learned about living creatures in the woodland.  I worked with Chijiakwu.

Here are some of our learning highlights:

Ben: I enjoyed learning about similes.

Sophia: I really liked about learning about looking after a baby.

Zofia: I enjoyed learning about the five times table.

Mason: I liked learning about Magic E with the ‘o’ sound.

Julia: I liked playing outside with my friends.

Have a super weekend everyone!

P4a had a fantastic week . We did lots of fun maths activities for National Numeracy Day on Wednesday, especially,  trying to estimate how many press ups, skips and jumping jacks we could do in one minute! 

Olivier – I liked working out the change when I pay for items with 50p.

Grant- I liked doing the hot morning starter questions.

Ronan – I liked doing P.E. this week.

Sam – I liked doing the hot morning starter questions too.

Josh N – I liked doing the multiplication number squares with Olivier

Daisy – I liked being the teacher to explain how I worked out one of the morning starter questions.

Inaya – I liked doing the handwriting this week.

Natalia – I liked doing the multiplication number square with Nilaya.

Aoife – I liked learning how to use a ruler and measuring each other’s hair.

Marriyah – I like learning about Isabel Soares from our Earth Heroes Stories.

Pupil Highlights

Aoife:  I liked doing the secret number sums in our morning starters.

Ronan: My highlight was creating big pictures with Myles.

Joshua D: I liked  long distance running in P.E.

Grant: I liked doing guided reading with Miss Smith this week.

Samyuktha: I liked working out change in Maths.

Elizabete: I liked learning about the man who built floating schools for children in Bangladesh.

Marriyah: I liked doing the shop game with my teachers on Wednesday.

Daisy: I liked doing the spelling test.

Patrick: I liked doing relay racing in P.E.

Vanessa: I loved doing money with Mrs Broadley.

Natalia: I liked doing handwriting this week.

Josh N : I loved doing the spelling and maths test.

We have been busy bees this week in P2A! Here are some of our learning highlights.

Miss Thomas’ Magical Moment was reading all of our super recount stories.

Damian: I really liked learning about how bread is made.

Sophia: I really enjoyed writing a recount of my trip to park.

Baibua: I liked making a wand for magic E!

Aaron: I enjoyed practicing my common words.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Although this week has been brief, we have managed to pack a lot into a short amount of time!

Miss Thomas’ Magical Moment was hearing about how everyone copes when they have a worry and what they do to help make the worry smaller.

Some of our learning highlights:

Jemima: I loved playing shopkeeper when I was learning about money in maths.

Sam and Ben really enjoyed creating a risk assessment for our outdoor learning.

Julia liked learning about vowels and consonants.

Ailsa really liked Emotion Works.

Have a fantastic weekend everyone!

We have had a fantastic week of learning in P4a this week. Our hot chocotlate at home pupil was Patrick this week for his outstanding contributions to classroom discussions and an all round super member of our class.

Pupil highlights:

Emily: I liked making our Global Goals display for our classroom.

Samyuktha – I liked doing the javelin

Natalia – I liked making the fraction wall.

Inaya – I liked finding half and a quarter of a shape.

Sylvia – I liked doing the javelin too.

This week we have been learning to use the Rekenreks to help us find the missing numbers in sums.  We have been practising sums like 2 + ? = 10.  We also used the Numicon to help us make numbers. We have been learning to count in 2s and in 5s.  We listened to some songs to help us.

In Health and Wellbeing we made a baby’s bottle.  We put in 120ml of water and 4 scoops of powder.  We flattened the powder with the back of a knife.

During Topic we made information sheets about an insect.

Our new sounds this week were ‘ai’ and ‘oa’.  We learned to write words with these sounds.  The staff were very impressed with our handwriting and we even got a sticker.

We need to practise being good listeners so we are going to try hard to follow the good listening rules.  Ask us what these rules are.

Here are some of our personal highlights from this week.

Pola – I enjoyed doing Spanish and I enjoyed doing our finger spaces and full stops because we were doing the ‘ai’ and ‘oa’.

John – I liked playing with Nathan in the playground.  We were playing Spiderman.

Chijiakwu – I was trying hard to listen well this week.

Ben – I enjoyed doing the fact families game.

Ruari – I enjoyed playing with Nathan and Ben and Aiden and Ollie outside at break.

Zosia – I enjoyed doing our information books about insects.  I learned about dragonflies.