St John Ogilvie Primary School

Dear Parents, here’s what’s been going on in P7B this week.

In maths, we have been continuing our work on subtraction but are now ready to move onto multiplication after the holidays – some times tables at home will help us be prepared for this.  We continue to enjoy the Real Life Problem Solving App – ask us about this week’s profit calculating activity. And we revisted tellling the time using analogue clock faces – it was pretty tough for some of us.

In literacy we wrote some excellent pieces of Personal Writing and it was good to think back to different times in our lives.

In HWB we have been using God’ Loving Plan to learn about changes that we experience when we grow up and having a chat with us about this will help us feel more confident.

We built dens outside in the woodlands using tarps, poles, rope and things we could find around the woods. It w.as a lot of fun and we all took different approaches to building.

Here is an update from this week’s Lead Learners:

This week P7B has been doing lots of subtraction with large numbers in maths, in topic we were finishing pictures made of different materials for our rainforest display. In PE we have also doing some orienteering with Mrs Lafferty. Plus making fun dens in outdoor learning on Thursday.

In spelling we have been working on different fun spelling cards with challenges like pyramid writing, bubble writing and more. Also in RE we have been reading some verses out of the bible and discussing what’s happening in them, and we having been reading more of our class novel ‘The Explorer’.

Melody and Neil

Enjoy the October break,

Mr McGurn and P7B

We have had another busy and productive week in P1B.

We have been learning the letter and sound p.  We picked apples from our school apple tree and made apple prints.

We have been practising writing our sounds and common words.

We played a game of sound splat to see if we could identify our sounds and then begin to blend our sounds to make cvc words.

In writing we wrote a sentence about what we can smell.  We worked hard to use finger spaces between our words and a full stop at the end of our sentence to show we were finished.

This week we have been learning about being respectful and safe. We sorted out cards for friendly and unfriendly.  We have been trying hard to be gentle with our friends.

In science, we have been learning about our sense of taste.  We made popcorn, it was great fun.

We have been learning all about the letter ‘p’.

During Outdoor Learning we were looking at the trees because the leaves are changing colours.  We saw yellow, green, brown, orange and red leaves.  We played with the outdoor learning toys.  Some people even tried to build a den.

We’ve practised writing our numbers all the way from 0 up to 10.

Some of our personal highlights were:

Kyle – I liked doing maths.

Minny – I liked learning how to write ‘p’.

Ben – I liked outdoor learning.

Rebekah – I liked playing with the fire engine.

Zosia – I liked when we played with the parachute and writing the letter ‘p’.

Julia – I liked playing with the other boys and girls.

Ella – I liked playing with my friends.

We all loved making the popcorn, it was a bit loud but it tasted yummy!!

Dear Parents,

This week’s update for what we have been learning in P4B .

We have been working very hard this week with our maths. We have been taking part in the Scotland-wide Sumdog competition. This will help us prepare for the West Lothian competition which starts in November. We have also been learning more about 3D shapes finding faces, edges, vertices and vertex.

We have continued to practise our daily spelling. We are using describing bubbles in class to try and write Primary 4 level sentences. This has helped us writing interesting stories. This week we worked in trios or pairs to  investigate a famous Scottish Inventor. We then started to write a report about him, when our reports are finished we will share them with you on our personal learning blog.

In Science we have been investigating how an electrical circuit works by building our own circuits and lighting a light bulb and a sound box.

electrical circuit

During our Outdoor Learning we collected autumn leaves to create artwork which will be posted on our learning blogs next week.

On Friday morning we all watched Primary 7 Kindness Assembly on Teams. They encouraged us all “To be the reason someone smiles today.”

Some of remembered to post our homework to share with Mrs Miller.

Next week is the final week of our first term in Primary 4.