St John Ogilvie Primary School

Wow, P5 have had an amazing week. We finished our Eco school models and had the chance to present them and our learning to some visitors from Heriot Watt University. They were very impressed. 2 groups have been chosen to represent P5 at a showcase event at the university at the end of May. ( Details will follow soon) From P5b the Science Experts are the chosen team with the Energy Experts as 3rd overall out of P5. But Mrs Ross said its a shame that there couldn’t be joint ist place because everyone did so well and each group has different styles of presentation.

We are still working with fractions, decimals and percentages and trying hard to be quicker with our times tables to help us.

Here is a link to some online games that could help –

times tables multiplication and division

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Search.aspx?q=games

We are also exploring the wonderful world of adjectives and looking at lots of exciting and different ways to describe things.

Several members of the Parish were able to compliment us this morning at Church because of our outstandingly great behaviour and the very respectful way we took part in the service.

We had a short assembly to learn about some special people and how we can Pray in May.

https://www.marysmeals.org.uk/get-involved/churches-and-prayers/pray-in-may

Shelby recieved our Hot Choc at home this week for her continued enthusiasm and positive approach to things.

Hopefully everyone has a wonderful long weekend.

Stay safe and be kind!

2324P5-learning overview term 4

Here are some of the learning highlights that your child will experience during Term 4:

Dear Readers,

We hope you are all very well.

This has been a very different week, with most of its time dedicated to Science and to our Climate Smarter Projects. We have planned, answered to questions about all of our choices for the Eco-school models and also researched many different things to make sure that it all makes sense together. Our models are almost ready as well as our posters and we’re looking forward for Tuesday, when the Climate Smarter judges will come to admire our models. The chosen one will get to go to the big Heriot-Watt show case on the 22nd of May and to proudly represent St. John Ogilvie! 🥰Wow! What an honour!

This week we have also had the opportunity to work on our new spelling words, as well as our division. To celebrate Earth Day🌎, on the 20th of April, we have created Acrostic poems with the words EARTH DAY, that we would like to show off outside of our classroom! As we have had a cold but sunny week, we went outside for the daily mile, which was very nice.😊 We continue our Human Football practice and have managed to stop our Science for a bit on Thursday just because of how much we enjoy it!

That’s all for this week, thank you for reading us!😀

P5A and Mrs Valente 😘😘

Hello P3A families,

Here are this week’s highlights from the Blue table:

Chahiti has been enjoying making her tote bag.  She is making it out of an old pink t-shirt.  Thank you to all who donated items for this Earth Day project!  Each day a few children will make it with Mrs Brown’s help during ‘Choosing our own Learning’ time in the afternoons.  Hopefully it won’t be long until all who has made one has finished.  We have had some super ideas as to how these tote bags will be used.  They will be some children’s swimming bags, gymnastics bags, Judo bags and some are making it for their parents to use!

Ethan has enjoyed listening to the personal talks this week.  Those who opted for this activity have delivered most interesting talks.  The children have been working hard on making eye contact and projecting their voice when speaking in front of an audience.  If your child still wishes to deliver a personal talk then it is not too late!  They only need to let me know.

Rory said the highlight of his week was football with Miss Whyte who very generously bought trophies for the children!  They were awarded to those who demonstrated good teamwork and passes in the game.

Alicaj enjoyed observing some white roses each day to see if they changed colour!  The children have been learning about the role of the stem.  We set up some water containing coloured food dye and have watched as the petals received this water and turned it a different colour!  The stem acted a bit like a straw!

My highlight was our lessons on how we can reduce our carbon footprint!  The children were very passionate about this subject and are hoping to educate their parents on how we can all take better care of God’s beautiful world for future generations by acting now!

Congratulations to Jiade, our hot chocolate award winner this week!

Lead Learners were Alicaj and Grace.  They had the important role of looking out for people who were demonstrating our school rules of being Ready, Respectful and Safe.  They also get to say something extra for the blog:

Alicaj – “I liked playing Rounders in the PE hall.”

Grace – “I liked writing the Earth Day poems.”

Maths homework next week will be sent home on paper.  It links a health lesson on the importance of sleep with our learning about Time.  The following week it will be National Screen Free Week.  All homework for P3A will be paper versions that week in light of this.

Regards

Mrs Brown