St John Ogilvie Primary School

Dear Parents,

This week we have been working very hard this week with our maths. We practised using adding and subtraction strategies.

We made our own clocks to tell analogue time

We created haunted houses then used persuasive language to put them up for sale.

During our Outdoor Learning we saw lots of signs of Autumn changes. We  built homes for lego people and tried to identify types of trees from feeling their twigs. Some of us created spiral artwork using leaves, stones and sticks. We collected sticks to make into our wands for our Harry Potter topic this term.

Most of us posted our homework on our personal learning blogs to share with Mrs Miller.

Next week we are looking forward to finding out more about Harry Potter.

Primary 5 have had another busy week with lots of fun learning experiences.

Maths– We have been learning how to estimate the length of various objects and then accurately measure items using our ruler. Some of our estimates turned out to be the actual  measurement!

Grammar- We have been learning about adverbs and how to use them to improve our writing.

Writing –  In story writing this week, we wrote  letter from Mary Lennox  ( a character  in our class novel) to her ayah in India, outlining her experiences at her uncle’s mansion. We tried hard to use the correct layout and emotive vocabulary.

Science – We learned about photosynthesis and how plants turn light energy into food. Although it was a difficult  concept to understand, we rose to the challenge and found that we have many budding scientists in Primary 5 A!

We are looking forward to starting our new topic and meeting more challenges next week !

Mrs Lea and Primary 5 A

It has been another busy week in P1B

The sound of the week this week was ‘i’,  We practiced writing and forming ‘i’ correctly and we made igloos using cotton wool.  We are now beginning to write words blending the sounds we have learned together.  We also enjoy practicing writing a sentence using our knowledge of sounds.

Our story this week was ‘Room on the Broom’ we enjoyed retelling the story and sequencing pictures into the correct order.  We drew pictures of all the characters sitting on the broom.  In writing we wrote what animals there was room for on our broom.

In Maths we looked at patterns and repeated patterns.  We made our own Halloween patterns and made patterns using the coloured blocks and elephants.  We also worked on using number lines to find the number before and the number after.

We made pumpkin crafts and a spider hat.

We read the story ‘A Magical Muddle’ and drew what animal the spell would make us turn into and we decorated our own muddle spell biscuit.

We danced to some Halloween songs creating our own spooky dance moves.

We met our P7 Buddies through Teams and we were delighted to receive a Halloween card and little chocolate treat from them.

We made a Halloween pumpkin card to give to our buddy.

This week we have been learning about how to keep safe at Halloween and different rules to follow.

We hope you all have a lovely weekend.  Remember to keep safe and don’t eat too many sweets.  🙂

Dear readers,

We hope you are all very well and have been managing to keep safe!😃

As always, this has been a super busy week in Primary 5B! Let’s see if we can remember about everything we did.

We started with our new super duper tricky spelling words and Mrs Valente is really looking forward to see how well we’ve done in our weekly spelling assessment!🤔

In maths, we have been solving huge addition sums using the written method and we enjoy a lot doing it. We have also improved our measuring skills by learning how to use a ruler with centimetres and millimetres to measure our classroom objects, but only after having estimated their measures before.

Our reading comprehension was on Chapter 5 of the Secret Garden and because we have finished our Secret Garden topic, but not our book, we got to watch The Secret Garden with popcorn brought by Mrs Valente! 🥳

Of course we only got to do this after our Spelling assessment and our Big maths because we are all completely crazy about our weekly scores and didn’t want to miss a week of them!😂

Our grammar lesson this week was about adverbs and we have learned not only what the word means  but also what they do and how to use and identify them.

The writing session of the week was about the Secret Garden and we have been asked to pretend to be Mary Lennox writing a letter to her Ayah to let her know about the way she has been feeling since she left India and also how much she has changed since. It was very interesting and we would like to congratulate all who worked hard on this, particularly our star writers of the week, for their brilliant work: Hanna, Monique and Sam!🥇🥇🥇

Going to the woodlands was super fun and we have collected the most beautiful leaves ever to make our Autumn wreaths, that we hope will be amazing.

And these were only some of the many things we did during this week! You can imagine how tired we are, of course, and in need of a restful, cosy and sweet ( with treats) weekend!🎃🎃🎃

Have a wonderful time until next week!

Love from Primary 5B and Mrs Valente

Dear Parents and Friends,

Another busy week in P7B, with learning right across the curriculum.

In literacy we have continued with our class novel about 4 children lost in the Amazon rainforest eating grubs and cocoa beans to survive – this gave me an idea to try some very strong dark chocolate – 70%, 78%, 85% and 99% cocoa! There were a range of reactions from loving it to spitting it out but Oskar’s reaction to the 99% cocoa looked like this…

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In Numeracy we have been working on multiplication – multiplying by 10, 100 and 1000 (and multiples of), doubling and halving and 4 digit numbers by a single digit.  There is some decent challenge within this but it is made so much easier when we have quick recall of tables facts.  Any extra support you can give us with times tables will really help.

We have started our new topic, Japan, and are excited to find out all about the geography, culture and history of this exciting country.

On Friday, as a special treat because the current situation has meant that for the safety of all Halloween guising has had to be called off, we spent a bit more time on Halloween than we normally do in P7.  We had some treats but had to tell a joke to get them and those that chose to, were allowed to dook for an apple.  We all had our own individual containers of water and towels and were socially distant from other when we took our turns.  Not quite normal but still good fun and safe!

Have a good weekend everyone,

Mr McGurn and Primary 7B.

We have had a busy week in P6B!  We (Mrs Egan!) forgot to choose new lead learners on Monday so our round up this week is a whole class reflection.

We thought about:

Something new that we learned this week:

Alex – function machines; Mark – Hallowe’en code breaker; Rory – cinquain poems; Charlotte – possessive nouns.

Something that challenged us this week:

Vivaan – algebra; Owen – fractions of numbers; Sneha – stamina and endurance work in PE

Something that we most enjoyed this week:

Sara – Free Writing Friday; Vihaan – cinquain poems; Kayleigh – warm up games in PE

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