St John Ogilvie Primary School

We’ve had a great week in P6B!

Numeracy/Maths: We have been learning about addition and subtraction using the column method. We have also been learning about angles with Mrs. Morrison.

Literacy: We have been learning about nouns, adjectives and verbs and successfully included these in our writing. We also began to explore different types of text this week; videos, pictures, written text etc. The children found this interesting and enjoyed their comprehension activities related to a movie trailer.

Health and Wellbeing: We are learning how to express our emotions and discussing strategies that can help us in times of worry and change. We continued and finished our detailed team work art project this week and they look amazing!

Outdoor learning: In our groups, we worked together to find sticks for a game of knots and crosses! It was a lot of fun and we did a GREAT job at remembering our school and class values: ready, respectful and safe!

IDL: We enjoyed working in groups to discuss our topic Extreme Earth we were able to share our prior knowledge with each other and thought of many exciting things we would like to learn about. We researched facts about the earth and began to build a fact file on volcanoes for our topic working wall.

The detailed SJO bear

A detailed pineapple surrounded by different fruit

A detailed man with a moustache

A detailed island!

A detailed ‘queen’ bee!

A volcano with great detail!

A detailed trophy with gold bars

Our Topic working wall

Last week in P7B we had quite a range of things going on.

Outdoor Learning:

We split into two groups and switched half way through the session.  The first group were completing a colour matching activity, trying to find a range of colours in nature. Some were more easy than others.

Melody says, “Outdoor learning was fun last week because we got to go in pairs and look for different coloured things. It was so fun getting to work with a friend.”

The second group were learning about the Fire Triangle and that for fire to exist it needs three things: Fuel, Oxygen and Heat.  We also collected some kindling and next week we will use the flint and steel to try and light a fire!

Kashvita says,”We learned about the fire triangle then we collected wood for a real fire.”

House Captain Speeches.

On Friday we had a Teams meeting P4-7 where those who wanted to gave speeches to try and become the Captain (or Vice-Cpatain) for their House.  After each house’s speeches, the pupils in that house (4-7) voted and we hope to soon find out who has been successful.

Finlay says, “When I gave my speech I felt nervous but confident.”

Faryl says, “Doing a House Captain speech was nerve-wracking and scary but if you don’t try there isn’t going to be a second chance.”

We are continuing with lots of other learning, working hard and enjoying being back at school.

A fantastic week of learning in primary 6!

HWB: We have been learning how to express our emotions using the colour monsters to help us. This week we also created our kindness tree and have been adding acts of kindness to it each day.

R.E: This week we were learning about the Good Samaritan and from this trying to be kind to others at school and at home.

IDL: We enjoyed working in groups to discuss our topic Extreme Earth we were able to share our prior knowledge with each other and thought of many exciting things we would like to learn about.

Literacy: We have been learning about nouns, adjectives and verbs and successfully included these in our writing.

Maths: We have been learning about subtraction and trying different strategies to see what works best for us.

Art: We learned about the artist Bridget Riley who is famous for optical illusions and had a lot of fun trying to make our art work look 3D.

Well done to our first over and above winner this week!

Have a great weekend everyone.

Mrs Roy

Another busy week of learning in P1A!

This week we have been writing sentences about what Ogilvie Bear can do.  We remembered the full stop at the end.

We have been learning the ‘m’ sound.  We make this sound with our lips.  We were writing the letter ‘m’ with the red crayons.  We played a game where we had to jump in the hoop when we heard the ‘m’ sound at the end or when it was the first sound.  We had to listen carefully.

In maths we learned how to write number 3 and 4.  We played the Yeti game to help us count properly.

In RE we made some special mirrors to show that we are all unique.

These are our personal highlights from this week:

Ella – I liked drawing.

Ruari – I liked playing with the cars.

Pola – I liked being in the pizza shop.

Zosia – I liked to draw.

Ollie – I liked doing the mazes.

Aiden G – I like it when we do the sticky waffle song.

Kyle – I liked drawing.

On Monday we will be posting a link to our virtual classroom on the blog. This will have links to activities to help us consolidate our learning at home.

Have a lovely weekend!

Primary 1A and Miss Stebbing

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We have had another great week in P1B. We are all getting used to our daily routines and continue to show how to be Ready, Respectful and Safe.

This week we have had tickly lips from all our fantastic learning of our first sound ‘m’. We have enjoyed learning to form a ‘m’ and thinking of words that begin and end with the ‘m’ sound.

Our focus this week has been on the numbers 3 and 4. We have been trying really hard to form these correctly and enjoyed watching the Numberblocks.

Ogilvie Bear shared with us things he can do and we came up with a sentence. We all did so well remembering a full stop. Next week we are going to try to write our own sentence about what we can do.

We all loved reading the story of ‘The Invisible String’ and talking about the people we love and care for. We were excited to colour in our hearts, one to keep in school and one to give to someone at home, so that we are always connected to them.

Scott: I liked making m in foam.

Kacper: I liked playing with Lego.

Matthias: I liked playing games with my friends.

Ella: I liked playing with the dragon.

Ksawery: I liked drawing.

Daniel: I liked playing with Lego.

Please look out next week for our new Virtual Classroom, which will be shared with you here on the school blog.

Have a lovely restful weekend!

We met Agent Grateful.

She told us that when we feel sad we can think of happy memories to make us feel better. (IS) We should always remember to be grateful for what we have. We drew who we were grateful for on a leaf (ED), and made a gratitude tree. We have used our sensory jar to help us remember is important for now and what we can deal with later.(ED)

On Monday, we had no rain and had some sun for our PE. (EM)

With Mrs Dickie we learnd about the green cog which is about how our body looks or feels with different emotions. (EM) Last week we thought of 15 emotion words for the orange cog and this week we thought of 40! (AS) Mrs Dickie used the characters from Inside Out and we learned about how they felt. (LM) She also read the story, Marvin gets mad. (EM)

We have been learning about different ways to add and find answers. (IS) We were learning to count different parts of numbers and put them together again. (JD) Partitioning. We also have been talking about doubles and halves. (AS)

We did some work with common words and reading with Mrs Garvin. (FF) We made spelling flowers with the common words. (FF)

We practised saying hola in Spanish.

www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks1–ks2-mfl-spanish-greetings-with-ben-shires/zfksqp3

P3a have worked really hard this week. Trying to write in jotters and are using beautiful handwriting. Well done everyone. Congratulations to our first above and beyond winner.

Remember PE on Monday and Wednesday. Dark joggers or leggings, school t’shirt and school jumper too, please. No hoodies but a rainproof jack if possible and you can wear your trainers.

Have  a fabulous weekend.

House Captain Speeches: Many of us have been writing, editing and practising our speeches in the hope of being voted House Captain or Vice-Captain. We hope to find out the results on Monday.

Maths: We have been practising rounding numbers within 10s of millions and multiplying large numbers by multiples of 10, 100 & 1000.

Literacy: We’ve started two different class novels, Holes and The Explorer and we have been learning about past, present and future tenses.

Inter-disciplinary Learning (IDL)/Topic: Our Rainforests project is well underway and this week we have focused on de-forestation and habitats.  Hopefully we’ll be able to share some pieces of work with you soon.

Art: Our “stained-glass” windows are coming along well as are our rainforest plants and animal oil pastel pictures – photographs soon!

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

P7A, Mrs Craig & Mrs Morrison

This week in P2 we have had a great week of learning which we have all enjoyed.

We have been on a hunt round the classroom for the letter ‘h’ and we have been building fabulous structures with letters.

Jonah really enjoyed Free Writing Friday where he shared a fantastic story with the class in our Author’s Chair.

Hannah liked Arts and Crafts time where she painted a lovely abstract picture.

Sophia really enjoyed revising the ‘h’ sound.

Ignacy really liked counting in twos. He also enjoyed practicing adding using classroom objects.