St John Ogilvie Primary School

Dear Parents,

Just a short week to update you on today.

We’ve been consolidating our work on addition and have now started working on subtraction, we’re doing well but some extra mental maths involving number bonds to 10 and 20 would always help us with quick recall.

Today we have started a National Sumdog Competition – thousands of classes have entered from across the UK and Mr McGurn always likes to reward any Top 10 Students or if his class wins Class of the Day.

We visited our woodlands area on Thursday with some clay! We created some fantastic tree faces/rock faces using found materials from the woods to give added details.

Lily, one of our Lead Learners, had this to say, “I liked being Lead Learner because it was fun and cool.  I got to take lots of photos in the woodlands and write on the board what we were doing each day.”

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!