St John Ogilvie Primary School

P2A Virtual Classroom and Homework

Hello everyone! Please click on the picture below to enter where you will find your homework for the week. Please make sure that your child is supervised while following the links. Have fun!

Highlights of the week:

Ronan – I enjoyed working with Sam highlighting facts in a non-fiction text.

Daisy-  I enjoyed doing the electricity alphabet.

Marriyah- I liked making my Spanish map.

Adam – I liked reading my reading book with Miss Smith and answering the questions on it.

Olivier – I enjoyed making a Spanish flag.

Teacher Highlights: Mrs Broadley and Miss Smith are extremely proud of how hard Primary Four have been trying in their Literacy and Maths.  We can now describe the features of a non-fiction text. Miss Smith has to remember to bring in examples from Edinburgh Waverley for the classroom wall!

Highlights from our Outdoor Learning:

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Well done to Natalia, Vanessa and Samyuthka for making a super start on our big map of Spain. We are all looking forward to doing special language activities this week as it will be European Day of Languages on September 26th.

Dear readers,

We invite you to read our blog of the week.

To start the week, we have been to the Woodlands for the first time in Primary 5. When we were there, some of us decided to surprise Mrs Valente by spelling her name with wood sticks and at the end of her name we have placed a lovely love heart shaped rock! We will try to attach the clip with that to share it with you here!

One of the reasons for us to start going to the Woodlands is the fact that our topic is The Secret Garden. While we were there, Mrs Valente has divided us into pairs and gave us challenge cards that we had to complete. We have really enjoyed that!

This week in Maths we’ve learned how to round to the nearest thousand and we got really good scores! We have also learned about the Compass and the Cardinal and Intercardinal points and we were using them to follow instructions on how to move from one place to the other. We also tried to give instructions to other people on how to go from a place to another.

We have started reading The Secret Garden and felt very shocked at the events from chapter 1. Our reading comprehension was about Chapter 2 from The Secret Garden and we got to make Mary Lennox in cardboard, which was particularly fun since she is very grumpy! Our writing was a detailed character description of Mary and we congratulate our star writers of the week for their achievement!

For Art, we have been doing our own watercolour trees but we will only start the water colouring part next week.😊 We hope to show them to you in our next blog.

In Religious and Catholic Education, we have learned how to locate a given scripture in the Bible after learning how it is organised.

Since we have worked really hard, we are looking forward to a nice, sunny, calm weekend and we send our love to all of you!

See you all next week!😘😘😘😘

Primary 5B and Mrs Valente

We have had another great week of learning in P1B.

In maths we have been working on our formation of the numbers 6 and 7. We have also been looking at different combinations of numbers that add together to make numbers to 7.

For literacy, we have been learning the ‘s’ sound. We were able to identify words that begin with ‘s’ and practised really hard to write it the correct way round.  We enjoyed reading the story ‘Rex’s Specs’ for book talk and made our own specs to wear home. Also, Ogilvie Bear shared pictures with us of an adventure that he had on a train. We helped him make sentences about his adventure and we all remembered a sentence needs a full stop at the end. Next week we are going to try to write our own sentence.

This week we have started to learn about our senses and focused on sight. We all had great fun playing in our class role play opticians and loved going into the woods on a sight scavenger hunt. We also did a task where we had to try and draw a picture with the clipboard on our heads so we couldn’t see. We all found this really tricky.

Scott – I liked people playing with me outside.

Sean – I liked going outside to play.

Jayden – I liked playing on the trim track.

Addison – I liked learning.

Alek – I liked going into the woods.

Alex – I liked listening to stories.

We hope you have a fantastic September weekend and look forward to seeing you all again on Wednesday.

This week we learned about Roger the Rooster. We learned about his important job to make sure everyone wakes up in the morning. He told the little lost egg that he was going on a journey home and should remember EAT…SLEEP…LEARN… REPEAT. (IS)

We also learned that routine is very important and a good sleep will help us learn and grow. We gave the message to our little lost egg. (CC)

We have been practising finding numbers that are greater or than each other and finding nouns around the classroom and in our reading books. We have had our first week of having a book to read at home and a book to use in class. We also have been working on our spelling. We got our sumdog login details too.

Our hot choc at home person went over and above in trying to listen and show his learning. He tried hard to improve his handwriting and attempted everything he was asked to.

Have a great weekend and we will see you all on Wednesday.

Dear Parents,

It’s been another busy week with rainforest poems in writing, Qwizdom in maths, climate in our rainforest topic work and UN rights of a child in HWB.

The biggest highlight though was building a fire from scratch in our outdoor learning and cooking marshmallows over the flames.

Here are a few pictures.

Have a great September weekend!

This week we have been writing our numbers and letters on our new clipboards.  We also drew some pictures.

We have been working on our new sound ‘s’.  We had to listen for the sound at the beginning or the end.  In writing we wrote all about what Ogilvie Bear can see.  He was at the zoo.  We need to remember the full stop at the end.

This week we learned how to write 6 and 7 correctly. We need to keep practising.  We can show different ways of making 6 and 7 using our finger patterns.

In Science we learned about our sense of sight.  We learned about our eyes and some important words ‘pupil’ and ‘nerve’.  We know that the eyes have to work with our brain to see things the right way up.

In Outdoor Learning, we had a Scavenger Hunt to find things in the woodland.  Then we got to play with the mud kitchen.  We had woodland soup, salad and spaghetti.  Some people were playing with the sticks.

Here are some of our personal highlights:

Ollie – I liked going into the Woodland.

Minny-Lydi – I liked finding things.

Nathan – I liked playing with everybody.

Julia – I liked colouring in.

Ben – I liked the Scavenger Hunt.

Aiden G – I liked going to the Woodland.

Joseph – I liked drawing on the clip boards and the post it notes.

It’s been a busy week in primary 7.  On Wednesday we were in the woodland with Mrs Craig and we created a large picture of a rainforest.  Here are some photos of our rainforest:

We have also been learning more about measurement and have been converting between different units of measure.  We went out into the playground to do some large scale measuring of our own:

We wrote letters to Prime Minister Boris Johnson to persuade him to use his political powers and contacts to help stop deforestation of all rainforests around the world.  Do you think he will reply to us?

We have been learning about inference and trying to use logical thinking to glean information from pictures without making up information using our imaginations – it’s quite hard sticking to only what we can see!

We also had a fun time with Mrs McLaughlin discussing the difference between equality and equity and realising that fairness doesn’t actually mean we all get the same but rather we get what we need.

Have a lovely long weekend!