St John Ogilvie Primary School

Another great week in P1A and lots of hard work going on!

This week we have been learning a new sound, it is the sound ‘e’.  We learned to write the letter and we have been writing words with ‘e’.  We are getting really good at sounding out and blending the words.

We read the book ‘Robot Rumpus’ and then we drew our own helpful robot.  We had to write about our robot and say what it did.  We learned new word boost words, ask us what they are and what they mean.

In maths we have been making stories for 6, 7 and 8. On Thursday we played a game outside to help us practice our number stories.  Some of our classmates held up big Uno cards and when Miss Stebbing shouted out a sum we had to run to the right number.  We have also been learning about money.  Next week we are going to have a shop in our classroom.

This week we started to learn our songs for the Christmas Assembly.  We are not singing the songs we are doing sign language and we are going to act out a special version of the Nativity Story.  Miss Stebbing is very impressed with how well we can copy the signs.

Remember to post a photo of your Robot on Seesaw.  You will be talking to your classmates next week about your Robots so a photograph will help you.

Have a lovely weekend!

It’s been a technology filled week in Primary 7a!  The children have been focusing on improving their digital skills and our visitor Miss Gibson, very kindly worked with them on how to use One Note, which will be particularly helpful when they go to high school.  The children also had the opportunity to carry out some coding.  They thoroughly enjoyed it and we hope to build on these skills in the coming weeks.

Literacy

We completed our writing for the nature writing competition this week.  Mrs Craig has sent of our entries, so keep your fingers and toes crossed that we might have a winner from the class!  Although, all of the children worked so hard and produced such wonderful work, that they are all winners in our eyes.

Maths

We continued to work on perimeter and area, investigating the relationship between the two and finding the area and perimeter of compound shapes.  We also continued our work on multiplying and dividing decimals.

Here are a few pictures of us drawing and measuring compound shapes in the playground.

Topic

The children’s  Japan personal projects are progressing well and we look forward to hearing their presentations in the coming weeks.  They also spent some time comparing Japan and the UK, with a particular focus on cleanliness.

Lead Learners and Writers of the Week

We all could not believe it when our lead learners and our writers of the week were the same two people – Luke L and Dawid.  Both boys produced excellent pieces of writing and have worked hard to improve their writing skills.  They have also been doing a fantastic job of leading the class in their learning and helping them to meet the targets set.  We are only 6 marbles away from receiving our class reward so keep it up P7A!

Daily Mile

We continue to add up the miles for Father Simon’s challenge.  The children are really challenging themselves to improve and to beat their own record.

We hope you all have a happy and restful weekend and we look forward to seeing you all next week.

MrsCraig and Mrs Morrison

A great week of learning in primary 6!

Numeracy/Maths

This week we continued our work on multiples and factors, which we’re all doing brilliantly with and making great connections. We moved onto finding a fraction of an amount which the children have really enjoyed and engaged with. I have added some resources on the class’ team page to support their understanding.

Literacy

In literacy we have been learning how to write expositions (persuasive texts), the class have been writing on why they think children should or should not be astronauts and they have made very compelling arguments both for and against.

R.E

We were excited to continue learning about the Missio Charity this week and started designing Christmas cards for the charity.

Comments

The children have said:

“I really enjoyed making our Christmas window design” – Charlotte

“I enjoyed doing Kahoot quizzes on maths, literacy and space” – Owen, Mark and Hesham

“I really enjoyed writing and reading Charlie and the chocolate factory” – Beth

We were excited playing Kahoot

We loved starting our Christmas displays

We have had a great week of learning in P6B this week! I hope you all have a great weekend, I look forward to seeing you all on Monday! Stay safe.

Mr Pentland

A fantastic week of learning in Primary 6!

Lead learners: Erin and Luke D have worked well together to create 3 targets for us to focus on this week and also awarded points to children they have noticed being ready, respectful and safe.

Literacy: We continued to work on sentence structure with a focus on the subject, object and predicate. In our writing we planned our journey to Space. We created our own spaceships to travel in and designed our suitcase which included all the important things we would bring. Some of us even created our own planets we would visit. Here are some examples below.

Maths: This week we have been working on multiples and factors. We also enjoyed some problem solving and word problems through basic equations.

R.E: We have been learning more about the Missio charity and the work that they do. We created Mission prayers and finished our Nativity art work for the competition next week. We are ready to post our work and very proud of how they turned out.

Rights of the child: Our focus this week was article 16 the right to privacy. We had great class discussions around this and were able to write about how to put this in place in our lives.

Have a great weekend,

Mrs Roy

What a very busy week!  As we have continued practising our times tables. Most of us have improved our scores and/or moved up levels in Beat That and CLIC over the past few weeks. We are able to apply our maths knowledge to solve word problems and find out the times of buses and trains. Our spelling and grammar continues to improve because we have worked so hard. During Wellbeing Wednesdays we have been looking for ideas to help us think about and self esteem by building routines, sleeping well, finding calm spaces to think, everything is going to be ok, peace comes from within and we should be proud of ourselves.

We have been trying to be respectful this week thinking about ‘treating others as we wish to be treated’. We had two fantastic lead learners (voted for by their peers) they set a great example to everyone and have been positive praising others in the class. However we still need to remind some of the children not play rough games or say unkind things. We want everyone to treat others respectfully and safely.

We have two new lead learners for next week also voted for by their peers. Today most of P4b were able to post their class work onto their personal learning blogs. Those who ran out of time will be given time to post their work on Monday.

Highlights of the week ; Creating our founder portraits, the first potions lesson. Working as a group to create the first paragraph of a story about our founder and using our imagination to see inside the Mirror of Erised. We are outside again for PE and Mrs Lafferty is teaching us outdoor games. During our Religious lessons we have been talking about good choices and bad choices and saying sorry.

Hope everyone has a lovely weekend. 🙂

Children can now bring in indoor shoes to wear which will be kept in the classroom.

Dear Parents,

Here’s an update for this week’s learning in P7B:

We’ve had a busy week with SNSA tests in numeracy, ready and writing which we spread out over the week.  Our results are very positive and they give Mr McGurn areas we can focus on before the move to high school. As a reward for our hard work we had a fire up in the woodlands on Thursday so sorry if we came home stinking of smoke.

We were writing a persuasive argument about ‘Computers Are Good For Us’ and were able to come up with many valid arguments on the positive case for using computers.  Next time we will write a balanced argument on whether Zoos are a positive thing or not.

In mathematics, we were learning on how to calculate the perimeter and area of composite shapes.

We had our first class Advent Service since the First Sunday of Advent is this coming Sunday.  It was very nice and gave us some time to reflect and prepare ourselves for the season.

We have continued with our Daily Kilometer and Father Simon has asked us to record how far we are walking.  There is currently a charity virtual walk happening and I am waiting for more details of how our Kms are helping to reach a target. We even had a rainbow on Tuesday.

Now we’ll hear an update from this week’s Lead Learners:

This week we learned about area and perimeter, it was fun and really challenging.  We also did our SNSA tests, they were really fun but they were a little tricky.

Charotte and Aaron

Have a great weekend everyone,

Mr McGurn & Primary 7B

This week James and everyone else had a fantastic time making 3D shapes using spaghetti and marshmallows.  We took pictures of our shapes and are putting them on our seesaw pages.

We started learning about a new story called “The Man who wore all his clothes” and we are all wondering why!  We have written questions and are following the events of the story.   Emma made really good predictions about what might happen next.

Everyone had a super time using the Beebots and the Beebot app to practice coding and learning about directions.

Halli was respectful when we lit a candle and said prayers to remember people who have died.

In PE we played games and had lots of fun!  Jude won the game but everyone had a good time playing together.

Emma won our Hot Chocolate this week for being an excellent listener and working hard all week!

It has been another busy week in P1B.

This week we have been learning the sound ‘e’.  We can recall words that beginning with e and we also looked at words that have the sound e in the middle of their word.  We tried very hard to read words by blending our sounds.  We practised forming the letter e.

We read the story ‘The Old Toy Room’ we sequenced pictures into the correct order to retell the story and we wrote a sentence to describe a toy.  We looked at toys from the past and compared them to present day.  We then looked at how toys move, whether it is by motion of push or pull.

We investigated money coins, we matched, sorted and ordered them by value.  We also looked at number bonds for 7 and 8 and made the number in different ways.  We learned the facts to 8 by giving a lady bird her spots.

We have added a cafe and shop to the play area with money coins for the children to explore buying items.

The children have enjoyed the block play.  They worked collaboratively with their peers to design and create buildings.

Nicolas ‘I loved playing with the blocks’

Aaeryn-Leigh ‘I liked playing in the shop with Georgia’

Kacper ‘I liked playing with the Lego’

Haadiya ‘I love learning all the sounds’

Ksawery ‘I like playing tig outside’

We hope you all have a lovely weekend and look forward to all the exciting learning we have planned for next week.