St John Ogilvie Primary School

Adam: I enjoyed learning to tell the time, quarter to  and half past.

Connor : I enjoyed playing a word board game where I had to read the words. I read 24 words.

Olivier – I liked doing the telephone drawing using charcoal.

Myles – I liked practising my spelling words.

Marriyah – I liked enjoying identifying the body sensations of Ahmet in our class story.

Joshua D – I liked listening to our class story and especially when Ahmet fought back against Brendan the Bully in the story.

Josh N – I liked revising our Spanish numbers.

Another excellent week of learning in primary 6!

The children have worked hard and have lots to share with their families.

Update from our lead learners:

**Video uploaded onto the class’ team page

Health and Well-being: HWB continues to be one of our main areas of focus in our learning and the children have been discussing their emotions through the  ‘Emotion works’ lessons.

Literacy: This week we were using description bubbles and our character description criteria to create interesting characters.  We also used this to describe characters from our class novel. We have started ‘Free Writing Friday’, a time where the class can be creative with their writing and put their ideas (any and all) on paper. This is the reverse of our ERIC time. We have been using the quote “reading is like breathing in and writing is like breathing out” to inspire us.

Numeracy/Maths: We have continued to work on decimals. We have been extending our place value knowledge to decimal place value. From this we have been looking at rounding and ordering decimals. We have also been identifying types of angles with Mrs Morrison.

IDL –  We have been learning about the design of buildings and what makes them strong. We took part in a design challenge and designed buildings that would be earthquake proof. We then used spaghetti and mini marshmallows to put our buildings to the test.

Dear readers,

We hope you have had a nice week!😃

We have started our half week by sharing important things that had happened over the October holidays.😎

Mrs Valente was very proud of our last Big Maths scores since lots of boys and girls have managed to level up and are continuing doing a great job!

One of the first things we have done this week was to learn about an asteroid that is very far away from Earth because NASA sent a spacecraft there to collect samples of rocks and to explore it. It is so far away from here that the spacecraft will take more than 3 years to come back to Earth! Wow!

We have learned about different kinds of verbs that we didn’t know existed and we have tried to find them in a big text about the asteroid. Can you spot the forms of the verbs in our post?🤔🤔🤔🤔

We have started working in the Written method of column addition and we have done it with carrying also.

We have already finished drawing our elephants but still need to draw beautiful patterns on them so you won’t get to see them before next week, sorry!😊

We have learned to be grateful to God because of the Gifts and Talents that He gave us and we have done work about our own talents.

In PE we have been skipping and have been absolutely amazing at it!

As usual, we ended our week with Big Maths, Beat that and are looking forward to finding out about our scores next week!

We wish you a wonderful weekend!

Love from Primary 5B and Mrs Valente.💕

This week we have been learning the sound ‘t’.  We had to write the sound carefully with superman. Our story was ‘Christopher Pumpkin’.  It was a scary and funny story. We think you should read the book.

In maths we have been learning about patterns.  We played a train game where we had to put the correct shape to finish the pattern.

At Outdoor Learning we were looking at the leaves in the Nursery garden.  There were orange, yellow, red and brown leaves.  We were throwing the leaves in the air.  We found a worm and a caterpillar.  We brought some leaves into the classroom and put them under paper to make leaf rubbings.

Our classroom is being changed for Halloween.  We have a Potion Shop and a Haunted House.

Some of our personal highlights:

Rebekah – I had fun playing outside with the leaves.

Lucas – I enjoyed playing the Halloween games.

Aiden S – I enjoyed drawing presents for my mummy.

Ollie – I enjoyed doing the pattern game.

Pola – I liked seeing the caterpillar.

Eva – I was having fun in school with the Halloween things.

Julia – I was having fun playing my friend.

A short but busy week in P1B. We have all been very happy to be back to school after the school holiday and have had lots of lovely stories to share with our friends.

For Maths this week we have been ordering numbers on a number line and have been using number lines to find numbers before and after to help us to find missing numbers. We were particularly good with numbers after.  Our teachers have been very impressed with our number line homework on Seesaw.  If you haven’t yet been on to try Seesaw, have a look and see some fun tasks.

This week in Literacy we have been learning all about the initial sound ‘t’. We had fun exploring with ‘torches’ and designed new school ‘ties’.  We practised writing all our learned sounds and started to blend the sounds together to make CVC words. Mrs Meikle was amazed how good we were and gave us a tricky sentence to try to write and we all managed it!! We are all very proud of ourselves.

Our book of the week was ‘The Tiger who Came to Tea’. We enjoyed listening to the story and discussing what happened at the beginning, middle and end. Our book talk focus was about characters, so we looked at the tiger and came up with fantastic adjectives to describe his colour, size and texture. We made fantastic tiger crafts, had a tea party with the play food and wrote amazing sentences about what the tiger looked like. One of the highlights of the week was finding out that the tiger popped into our classroom for a visit, but he ate all the food from our tea party.

We had a big discussion about how we think the tiger got into our classroom and why he came to visit. Addison thinks he must know the pass code to get into school. Georgia thinks he used his paws to open the door and Amelia thinks someone left a window open. Anthony thinks he must have been able to smell the food. Matthias thinks he must have been really hungry and Alex thinks he liked the ice cream best.

We also learned some more about emotions this week and for outdoor learning we used natural materials in the woods to make emotion faces.

Well, that’s the first term of Primary 7 complete. The children have been fantastic and have settled in incredibly well.
This week has once again been a busy one. There has been lots of learning and lots of fun. The highlight for the children was definitely our visit to the woodlands, where we lit a fire and roasted marshmallows.  This was thanks to our wonderful janitor Mr Montgomery who had it all set up for us arriving. Thankfully, Miss Bett was also on hand to help keep the fire lit. It was a great opportunity to reward the children for all their hard work this term.
 
In writing, the children completed a piece of work for assessment. This will allow us to plan our focus for writing lessons for next term and let us identify next steps for individual children.  We also finished our rainforest leaflets from last week. We are proud to report that they produced some fantastic work, I am sure you will agree.
Every week, we have two ‘Writers of the Week’. This week Viktoria and Amelia took the honour for their fabulous work.

The children have all updated their blogs with pieces of work they are particularly proud of this term.  Ask them to show you.

Thank you for all your support this term and we look forward to seeing the children after their well earned holidays.

Mrs Craig and Mrs Morrison