St John Ogilvie Primary School

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

Another excellent week of learning in primary 6!

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

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 to help us improve our writing. We created description bubbles about two of the main characters in Gangsta Granny.

Maths: We have continued to work on adding and subtracting decimals. We played a decimals game with a partner and also played some math games on Sumdog and Prodigy. We have also been identifying types of angles and created Autumn pictures using angles.

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. We also created posters to show how to be safe during an earthquake (drop, cover and hold)

Art: We used the painting ‘The Great wave’ by the artist Hokusai as inspiration for our Tsunami pictures and used oil pastels and paint to create our own versions. We also made NHS thank you cards to show our appreciation for their continued support.

Over and above: Well done to our over and above winners this week. Jagoda and William, you have worked extremely hard in all areas of your learning. Keep up the hard work!

We would also like to wish Ava and Lena all the best at their new schools. We will miss you both but we know you will continue to be awesome no matter where you are learning.

Have a fantastic break and stay safe,

Mrs Roy

This week we have been learning the sound ‘a’.  We have been writing ‘a’ and Miss Stebbing said that we did really well.  In writing, we were writing about things we could smell.  We used some of our common words and our sounds.

In maths we have been learning about 3D shapes. We now know all the names.  We were building towers with the shapes and knocking them down, this was great fun!

We read the book Pirate Pete and his Smelly Feet. It was a very funny book. At our morning activities we have been trying to find the common words in our books. ‘The’ was the winner this week!

Here are some of our personal highlights:

Joe – I liked playing with the lego.

Nathan – I enjoyed playing with toys.

David – I enjoyed eating snack.

Aiden S – I enjoyed apple activity time.

Minny – I enjoyed playing.

Rebekah – I enjoyed playing with the penguins.

Have a great holiday week everyone!

Dear readers,

As usual, this has been a very busy week for us!😃

We are always working and that can be very exhausting!😂

During this week we have improved even more our mental addition skills by using a new strategy: partitioning. We have learned to use partitioning when we first started Primary 5 and have now learned how to use it to make our mental addition even easier and quicker. Also in Maths, we have learned about really tricky 3d shapes and their properties and had to be able to describe them in order to get some more of our so much loved house points!😂😂😂

in Literacy, our Spelling words keep on getting more and more complex and we think we are going to be amazing with our spelling in the future because of how much we have been working hard now! In fact, some boys an girls work so, so hard that when it is time for the spelling test, on the Fridays, they don’t even need for Mrs Valente to dictate the words to them because they already know them by heart! This is hard work, no doubt!

Reading comprehension is always a very important task because we then have the opportunity to really look in depth to the extract of the chapter we’re reading and understand it properly. Mrs Valente says we are getting better at ‘reading between the lines’ and she always says that it is very important.

For grammar, we have had lots of fun learning about contractions and have realised that we didn’t know why we used apostrophes lots of times and that was why we sometimes put them in the wrong place. We are hopefully getting better at it now!

In Big Maths, Beat that, the amount of boys and girls practising throughout the week after having finished their tasks is impressive and Mrs Valente is super proud!😍

We have started to draw our elephants which relate to the Topic of the Secret Garden, since the main character, Mary Lennox was born and brought up in India and we have learned how important these animals are in the Indian culture. Unfortunately we have not finished them yet and so you will only be able to have a look at them when we come back after this break, sorry!

And this is only a bit of what we have done this week!😃

We hope you have enjoyed reading about some of the many things we have done and wish you a very pleasant October break!

Love from Primary 5B and Mrs Valente.💕