St John Ogilvie Primary School

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.

This week in Primary 5A we have been really busy learning with Mrs Lea, Mrs Ogunro and Mrs Egan.

One thing we have enjoyed learning this week:

Zahra S – learning about and designing tartan

Zara R – learning about money in maths

Ruqayyah – learning about St Andrew in RME

Something new we learned this week:

Tanvi – we learned about the Great Wave and wrote about this using a descriptive bubble

Jaagruti – we learned to multiply larger numbers

Lewis – we learned some new facts about St Andrew

Something which challenged us this week:

JJ – we did some work on doubling which was tricky

Katie – some of the times tables we worked with were tricky

Lily – we did some research on King Alexander III

Our lead learners were Junaid and Millan.  This week they noticed that their class had been working well on multiplication and writing.  They noticed that “the class are good at showing that we are ready to learn, that we have been respectful to all of the teachers that have helped us this week and that we have been safe in the playground.”

Please remember to complete the robot challenge task.  Either click on the robot on the shelf when you have entered the virtual classroom or see the information on Seesaw.

Click on the picture to have a look at our Virtual Classroom.  Here you will see the sounds, frequency words and numbers we are working on it class.  It is very important that we practise these for 5-10 minutes every day.

1. Can you identify our learned sounds m, c, s, p, a, t, i, k, n, o and write the letters?  Can you make any CVC words using these letters?  e.g. c-a-t, p-i-t  How many can you make?
2. Make flashcards for our learned high frequency words.  Can you read these and try to write them by yourself?
3. Can you write the numbers 0-10 using the correct formation and in the right order?

A great week of learning in primary 6!

Numeracy/Maths

We have been learning about multiples and factors and improving the speed and accuracy of our times tables. This has been helpful when working on equivalent fractions. This week we have been learning about road safety and we learned how to calculate the speed, distance and time by completing some word problems, this really got us thinking! The class also used simple charts and graphs to record
and analyse data about their journeys to school during road safety week.

Road Safety week

This week we have been learning about road safety and how to keep ourselves and others safe and how this has changed over time.

IDL

We designed our new space display and it looks great, we have been discussing very interesting facts about the planets in our solar system. We have discovered that some planets have soooo many moons, this is something that interested the whole class.

Literacy

This week we learned, discussed, evaluated and decided on various issues and viewpoints surrounding road safety and how to convey our ideas, decisions and beliefs through a classroom debate and beyond. We drafted a persuasive letter to a local MP to convince the government to reduce speed limits in the places we live and the children made very compelling, factual arguments. At the end of the week, we gathered all the information we learned on road safety and the class explored the concept of fairness and how people decide what is fair and unfair, and explored the process of debate and compromise in group decision-making. Great work, P6!

R.E

We were excited to learn more about the Missio Charity this week, we learned the Missio together prayer and then created our own acrostic prayers. We are excited to continue our work on this.

A message from Mr Pentland 

This week the class have been brilliant and have engaged so well in their learning. We continued our work with anti-bullying week and the conversations, comments, advice and stories were great to hear. I especially liked:

If someone thought I was bullying them I would be very annoyed!

Why would you be annoyed?

Because I have made someone feel so bad that they would used the word bullying and I have not been the best version of myself. 

This very mature comment was agreed universally and I am so impressed with the attitude and patience the children have with each other during these discussions.

I look forward to seeing you all on Monday! Stay safe!

Stars of the day this week:

Caleb, Natalia , Ronan and Samyuktha

Hot Chocolate at home winner – Josh N

Star Writers – Amelia  Vanessa Marriyah

Grant – I liked doing bench ball in P.E

Ronan – My highlight was being chosen for star of the day and playing bench ball.

Adam – I liked circling around the imperative verbs on What a Good One Looks like for a Mind Reading spell.

Samyuthka – I liked when we got to use the parachute in P.E.

Vanessa –

Marriyah – I liked writing what our cloak can do and the texture of it.

Sylvia – I liked playing bench ball and using the parachute in P.E.

Daisy – I liked making up our own spell for our cloaks.

Aoife – I liked highlighting the nouns, the verbs, the personal pronouns and adjectives.