St John Ogilvie Primary School

Dear readers,

We hope you have had a really good week!

This week we have been learning more about The Secret Garden and we are now at the end of Chapter 4. In Literacy, we have done lots of work with our new Spelling words, which were particularly tricky this week.

In Maths, we have been doing Mental addition to help us find the best strategies to be really good and quick at our sums.

In Science, we have learned about the different parts of a plant and also about the different parts of a flower.

On the 1st of October, we found out about our new call back which is : ‘Hands on top!’ – ‘That means stop!’

For reading comprehension we have worked very hard on understanding Chapter 3 and answering with full sentences to our questions.

On Monday we went to the woodlands and have been given the task of creating our own Secret gardens with nature’s own resources from the woodlands.

Today, we watched the very first ever virtual Class assembly presented by Primary 7A and we think they have been absolutely amazing!!!!!!!

As always, we also finished off our week with Big Maths, beat that and our Weekly spelling assessment and Mrs Valente is looking forward to checking them and see how much we have improved!

Yesterday, to say goodbye to our lovely Mrs Green, who is going to be retiring, we have drawn beautiful flowers and made a giant card to give her with the most amazing flower in the front! She absolutely loved it and thanked us all so much for it! We also had a whole school assembly to have everyone saying thank you to Mrs Green for her spectacular work throughout her career as a teacher.

We have been given new ‘ Free time jotters’ where we can write, draw, take notes, practise spelling, maths or do other things we like, but only when we are finished with our tasks and still have a bit of time.😊

We hope you have enjoyed reading about our week and send you lots of love!❤

Primary 5B and Mrs Valente

Learning Highlights:

Daisy: I enjoyed making a mind map from our notes on electricity

Grant:  I enjoyed doing cross country in the rain.

Myles: I enjoyed doing the tesselation pattern in Maths.

Josh : I liked rounding numbers to the nearest 10 and 100.

Samyuthka: We did our rounding to make the sum easier for us to do.

Olivier: I liked adding and  taking away 2 digit numbers and telling Mrs Broadley how I got my answer.

Miss Smith and Mrs Broadley : We have found choosing the hot ‘chocolate at home’ reward particularly difficult this week. The attitude of the pupils towards their learning has been fantastic. We are so pleased that the pupils enjoyed using the non-fiction texts  to find information and to answer their comprehension questions.

Please click on the picture below to enter. Thank you.

Welcome to our virtual classroom! The children have a homework jotter to keep at home with a spelling and maths grid. In addition, activities will also be on the virtual classroom to access at any time. Please encourage the children to take photos of their work and upload them to their glow blog.

Many thanks,

Mrs Roy

Daisy – I enjoyed doing cross country in P.E

Grant – I enjoyed making notes by watching the electricity video clip

Samyuthka – I enjoyed doing the comprehension questions on Alexander G Bell.

Adam – I enjoyed doing rounding to the nearest ten and then doing our daily 10 questions.

Josh – I liked doing my Maths with Miss Smith and listening to our class novel The Boy at The Back of the Class.

Joshua – I enjoyed making my map of Spain.

Elizabete – I enjoyed exploring the triggers in our emotion works lesson and counting the number of faces and edges looking at 3d shape.

The pupils were fantastic at taking notes for the first time. Sam described taking notes and writing ‘ wee sentences’.  When Miss Smith asked the pupils what sort of jobs would involve taking notes, Daisy shared that she had seen her mum take notes at her place of work.

We hope every one had a lovely September holiday.  It was great seeing everyone back at school on Wednesday.

Although it was a short week this week we were again very busy.

We practised forming our sounds on whiteboards and in shaving foam.

We learned to count syllables and we can clap the syllables in our names.

In Writing we wrote a fabulous sentence about what we could SEE on the farm.  We are remembering to use finger spaces between our words and a full stop at the end of our sentence.

We learned about the number 8, how to write it and different ways to make it.  We practised using Numicon by making a Numicon city.

We learned about our sense of hearing and went into the woods to do a hearing scavenger hunt and we also did an animal sound listening quiz which we loved.

Today we were very excited as we met our buddies for the first time through a Teams meet on the computer.  We made a heart for our buddy and they made one for us.  Although we cannot physically be together it was great to see them and put a face to their name.  We can’t wait to see them again soon.

Pupil Voice this week:

Daniel     I like to play with the Opticians

Jayden    I like to play with the house

Ksawery   I like to play with the construction and build things

Anthony    I like playing with all the glasses in the Opticians

Amelia       I like drawing pictures of a house

We hope you all have a lovely weekend and we look forward to seeing you again on Monday.

A short week but a great one.

Virtual Classroom

The children have been excited about this for weeks. Our virtual classroom is now ready. This will be a space where homework will be posted for the week, alongside useful learning resources and little messages from Mr Pentland and Mrs Morrison. This is new and any feedback is welcome on how this works for adults at home and the children. I have to thank the class for their patience and waiting on this being created. Please see our virtual classroom below, the children have also been given access to this link via teams.

Morning chat/HWB

During our morning chats this week, the children have been discussing what they’ve heard on the news and have given each other great words of encouragement and motivation. Our discussions have been rich and critical. This has been very good for the class to break down the news and for us to address any misunderstandings we may have. From this we have began to look at who our ‘everyday heroes’ are and have started brainstorming how to express our appreciation. We will be working on this as a project over the next few weeks.

Numeracy/Maths

In numeracy this week we have been looking at multiplying and dividing by powers of 10. The time we have spent on this has been useful and illustrates to the children the reason why we add and remove zeros when multiplying and dividing by 10, 100, 1000 and so on. I have added a bitesize web page on this  for ‘homework’ to support understanding. For the foreseeable, homework will be online-based using sumdog, prodigy and/or bbc bitesize.  We have now been introduced to decimals. We will continue place value next week – looking at tenths, hundredths and thousandths. With Mrs. Morrison, the class have been doing angles, which they all have been telling me great things about.

Today is the start of Maths Week Scotland 2020. The class have been entered into the Sumdog contest for this. We will make time for this in class but this can also be done at home.

Literacy

For literacy this week, we have continued using our ‘description bubble’. This week we wrote a descriptive story based on a volcano. The children enjoyed this task and have shown off their writing skills along with their knowledge of volcanoes learned through their topic based research. Very impressed with everyone.

Again, it has been a great week in P6B! A massive thank you from Mr Pentland and Mrs Morrison. We hope you all have a fantastic weekend and can’t wait to see you all again next week!