St John Ogilvie Primary School

Hello P1A families!

This week’s highlights come from the Blue table.  I hope you enjoy:

Bianka enjoyed our visit from the Guide dogs (see previous post) this week.  The children were very excited to meet them and hear all about the important work they do.

Cooper said that the lesson on the sense of smell was his favourite.  The children sat in a circle and smelled different things that were passed around (vinegar, coffee, caramel syrup, ketchup, toothpaste and shampoo) then they smelled some empty containers that once held that item and had to match up the smells.  Cooper’s favourite smell was vinegar!  We learned all about the nose and that it is really important to look after our sense of smell and not put anything up our nose.

Levy liked looking in the mystery box to see what was in it for our ‘p’ sound.  We found a plant, a pig mask, purple playdoh, a pink pencil and a pot!

Nathaniel loved smelling Mrs Brown’s perfume (relating both to ‘p’ and to ‘smell’ learning).

Joshua really enjoyed watching the popcorn maker pop the kernels!  There was squeals of delight as the first few sprung out and bounced out of the bowl!

My highlight was watching the excitement of the children when I turned a classroom desk upside down and converted it in to a washing line so they could peg up the common words, sounds and numbers we have been working on so far.  If your child asks to help peg the washing up, you know why!

I hope you all have a super weekend!

Mrs Brown

This week we have been learning all about the letter ‘p’. We have been learning lots of words that begin with ‘p’ and finding ‘p’ in our library books.  We learned to write Pp and also sorted p/not p objects after sounding them out. We wrote the sentence I like… and also made cut/stick pigs and peacocks.

We looked at the sequence of numbers to 10 thinking about numbers before and after.  We also looked at data handling, making a class pictogram and we looked at using pictures to make a block diagram.

As part of our senses topic we learned that are taste buds are on our tongue.  We tasted different fruit and discussed what it tasted like i.e. sweet, sour and which we liked the best. We used the results to make our pictogram.

We looked at the SHANARRI Indicators and discussed what each one means.

Our Outdoor Learning Sessions will begin on Monday.

Here are some of our personal highlights this week:

Ruaridh ‘I enjoyed learning about ‘p’

Ariya ‘I liked reading books’

Vikranth ‘ I am proud of my drawing’

Hamza ‘I am proud of writing up to 10’

Rosalia ‘I am proud of counting numbers

Taro ‘I liked learning numbers to 10.

Have a great weekend everyone.  See you all on Monday.

This week we have been learning all about the letter ‘p’. We have been making the letter shape using pink paper, finding lots of words beginning with ‘p’ and we loved hearing the story of Pirate Pete and his Smelly Feet.  We have set up a Pizza Shop in our role play area and we have loved creating pizzas for our friends.

On Wednesday, we used all our senses and made some popcorn. It was very exciting! We tasted three different types of popcorn and chose our favourite. We made a graph and we talked about how we knew which was the most or least popular. We also wrote a sentence using our common word ‘like’ to say which popcorn we liked best.

For maths, we have been learning about 2D shape. We made our own shape monsters. Miss Stebbing was very impressed with our creativity.

We had our first Outdoor Learning Session this week and we were out in the playground. We practised writing our numbers using chalk and enjoyed trying to get as many numbers as we could in the space. We also played a game using dominoes. We had to count or subitise the spots and then find the cone that matched. We then got to Choose Our Own Learning using the loose parts and the bikes and scooters. We are looking forward to going to the Woodland next week.

Here are some of our personal highlights this week:

Freddie – I enjoyed tasting the popcorn.

Maya – I enjoyed making the letter p.

Penelope – I enjoyed doing the graph.

Alan – I enjoyed doing the number task in the playground.

Millie – I enjoyed doing the Seesaw task.

This week has been a lovely week for primary 7a.

We have had so much fun in our numeracy this week, we have been taking part in the Sumdog competition this week, it has been great to have some friendly competition between the upper area classes. Everyone has tried so hard and done their best for our class to succeed. I am so proud of everyone who has taken part.

For literacy this week, we have been looking at tricky plurals in spelling, and our grammar focus was similes. We also had some core target writing where the children used a stimulus to create a short story and assess with their core targets, our focus this week was on handwriting and presentation.

This week we finished our Japanese Pagodas, using oil pastels and smudging them to create a lovely background.

We got the chance to bake Malteser cake, the children did a great job and it looked very tasty!

I hope you have a lovely weekend!

Miss Duddy

Dear Parents and Carers,

A shorter week this week with the Monday holiday so on Tuesday we had grammar work, writing planning, maths, topic and drama.

Wednesday we wrote our stories and maths was again the Sumdog competition, RME the sorrowful mysteries and we continued to work clearing the stairs to the woodlands, though the wasps didn’t thank us for that!

Thursday we are doing well with our class novel, Kensuke’s Kingdom, which we have a tripped planned for that more details will be coming from the office soon. More Sumdog, Rights as part of our Rights Respecting Schools programme, PE and HWB/Spanish with Mrs Callaghan.

Friday we did a little more Sumdog…

…which let us win Best Class in the School!

Then PE, a Prayer Service to St Matthew followed by an assembly in the hall about positive behaviour.

This week’s Lead Learner was Olivia who took home the Hot Chocolate at Home and he is followed by Caleb next week.

Next Tuesday we are Outdoors with ‘Kids Gone Wild’ 9-11.45am so make sure the children are properly dressed for the good Scottish weather.

Have a great weekend,

Mr McGurn and Primary 6B

This week we have enjoyed learning about…

• Making 3D shape nets of triangular prisms and square based pyramids (Martha)
• Making houses (Elsie and Alfie)
• Naming and colouring 3D shapes (Shourya)
• We learned that the corners are called vertices in 3D shape (Zoe)
• We made pyramids and The River Nile for our display (Hallie and Daniel)
• I liked learning about The River Nile (Felix and Eden)
• Learning about division

Dear Parents and Carers,

Primary 7 have had a productive week!

We have been learning to write imaginative stories  based on a “mystery” theme. We have tried to include an interesting ” twist ” in our writing! During spelling, we have been learning about rules for tricky plurals. We also learnt about well known similes and enjoyed making our own examples.

During numeracy, we have been exploring mixed numbers and improper fractions. We continued to practise our “rock” tables. We investigated different types of triangles, including scalene, equilateral and isosceles. Our class entered the West Lothian sumdog competition and are trying to answer a variety of questions accurately. Currently, we are in first position in our school!

Primary 7 worked collaboratively to take on the challenge of building a spaghetti tower, we used glue guns to join the spaghetti and explored how to make the structure strong.

During outdoor learning, we worked in teams to make dens using wood and natural resources.

Have a super weekend!

Mrs Lea and Primary 7B

P1 had some special visitors today!  Not one but two guide dogs!  This was part of their learning about the sense of sight.  We heard all about what the invaluable work these working dogs do to support the blind and visually impaired build their independence both at home and out and about.

P1 were a super audience and had the opportunity to pet the dogs at the end.  The children know not to pet guide dogs when they see them at work in the community.

Well done P1 and a big thank you to Margaret Foster (a former SJO colleague) for organising the learning opportunity today. 👏🐾

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