St John Ogilvie Primary School

Apologies but it appears that I did not press ‘save’ after recording the children’s learning highlights of the week.  I will ask them again on Monday and update this post.  Meanwhile, I hope you enjoy the photos below which capture some of the learning experiences P5B had this week.

I hope you have a great weekend!

Updated:

Hello families of P5B!

Here are our highlights this week as recorded by the Yellow table:

Ella and Michael both enjoyed the handball festival.  I feel our school really stood out among the other schools as being strong players with super teamwork!

Aayush and Moeez  loved when we lit light bulbs using electricity created by mini handheld solar panels.  First we lit them indoors using artificial light (torches and lamps) and then we went outside and used the sunlight.  We noticed that the bulbs were much brighter with the sunlight.

Daniel has been enjoying working with this team to continue to plan and design products for our Enterprise Showcase.

Ksawery liked using a QR code to access learning about saints.  He chose St Mark and St Kinga of Poland.  He researched their feast days and read up a bit about their lives.

Ellie-May said that the highlight of her week was our lessons on Money Week.  P5B completed a Reciprocal Reading activity on this topic.  Ellie-May found it interesting to learn about the history of money.

Alex loved measuring out and drawing longbows with chalk in the playground.  Longbows, over 6ft, were used by the English in the Battle of Falkirk.  Unfortunately, Scotland were defeated.

Nathan also loved learning about money.  He predicts that everyone will have access to more money in the future and there will be no more poverty in the world.  What a lovely idea!  I hope it is true Nathan.

Aeryn-Leigh’s learning highlight was when the class worked in groups to measure the amount of electricity produced in relation to cloud coverage.  We physically saw the results by using a multi-meter voltage measuring instrument.  The more clouds there were, the less electricity was produced by the mini solar panels.

My highlight were the Money Week lessons.  We had such interesting discussions about bartering.  I told the children a true story about when my father was a boy and how his family traded eggs for fish with neighbours up in the hills.  Towards the end of the week, we talked about what we think the future of money will look like.  The most creative idea came from Daniel who thinks money will be delivered to us using drones (if we cannot get to a cash point).  Only time will tell!

Congratulations to our hot chocolate award winner, Ellie-May!

Mrs Brown

This week in Primary 3 has been full of great fun and lots of learning. Our trip on Wednesday was a huge success, with the children all having a great day. During our workshop we went to an Egyptian market, and got to have a look at all the things we would see, find and smell there. Then we rowed our boats down the river Nile and even got to give our favourite gifts to our excellent Pharaohs during a gift-giving ceremony. We got to explore the Egyptian exhibition in the museum and even had some time to take a walk through the animals and have some play time.

Throughout our other days in school, we have been reading a new book ‘How to be a Viking’ all about Hiccup the Viking. We read through a poem and highlighted all of our rhyming words, the poem was ‘One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish’ by Dr. Seuss, which was a big hit.

Numeracy and maths learning this week was all about estimating, we drew big number lines from 0-100 and we estimated in our pairs where a group of numbers would be on the number line. We also had a look at our NESW compass points and played an active game guessing where each one would be, as well as using a World map to point out countries in different areas.

We created lovely bonfire artwork using the leaves we collected from the playground, we made sure to only pick up leaves which were already on the ground, and ones with autumn colours. We have also been practicing super hard for our assembly and we are excited to keep working on it on the run up to the assembly.

Well done to our Hot Chocolate winner this week Luca!

Well Done to our Secret Student winner this week Cameron!

Well done to everyone in Primary 3 and 3/2 for being Awesome Ogilvie’s and representing our school so well during our trip. We are very proud of all of you.

Can I please remind everyone to bring their reading books with them on Fridays, if you didn’t bring it today please bring it in on Monday.

I hope you all have a lovely weekend,

Miss Duddy.

We’ve had another great week in Primary 2!

We started our dinosaur topic and the children have been very excited about it.  This week we were learning about the Stegosaurus.  We were very impressed by the fantastic descriptions of a Stegosaurus that the children produced in their writing lesson.

In Maths, we continued to work on addition within 30 and we also started to explore money.  The children were learning about the different coins we use and their value.

During outdoor learning, the children worked as part of a team to make an animal shelter to help small animals during the winter months.

Learning Highlights:

Alexander – I was really interested in learning and writing about the Stegosaurus dinosaur.

Rudhvick – I liked learning about money and different coins.

Alfie – I enjoyed adding numbers together.

Leighton – I loved building animal shelters in the woodlands.

Ethan – I loved going to football club.

Ellie – I enjoyed doing Scratch on the Ipads.

Big congratulations to our hot chocolate winner Ollie!  Ollie has been working very hard in class.  He has been following our classroom rules and has been very kind and respectful towards others.

Dear Parents,

Here’s Olivia and Lucy with an update on this week’s learning in P7A…

On Monday we had literacy, we were making poems about Autumn.

On Tuesday we had French, with Mr McGurn, we learned how to count up to 30 in French and days of the week.

On Wednesday we got to see the maths teacher from St Margaret’s.

On Thursday we had PE with 2 new University students, we played netball with them. We had outdoor learning where we collected some firewood for future lessons and we learned about using hammers and nails with Mrs Dwane.

On Friday HWB, we had an online music lesson with a St. Margaret’s music teacher and we learned a lot about percussion.

Thank you,

Olivia and Lucy.

Have a great weekend,

Mr McGurn and P7A

PS Vijval won Hot Chocolate at home as our Over and Above winner.

We have had another great week of learning in P1.

In Math, we have continued learning number stories working on the stories of 8 and 9. It is money week this week so we used 1p coins in our adding calculations and we counted 1p coins to find out how much money items cost. We set up a class shop, which has been very popular.

Dawid – I love shopping.

Guhan Kumar – I liked selling things.

In Literacy, we learned the k and ck sound and used these sounds to build words. We wrote a fantastic sentence in writing and remembered we needed a capital letter and full stop at the end. We enjoyed listening to the story Leaf Man and then went into the woods and made our own leaf man.

Alfie – We went into the woods today.

Lena – It was fun making a leaf man.

This week for topic we learned about fossils, particularly dinosaur fossils. We learned about the role of a Paleontologist and had lots of fun in class digging for dinosaurs, making our own dinosaur fossil and building a dinosaur.

Ava – I liked making dinosaurs.

Arush – I liked playing with dinosaurs.

We enjoyed learning about Guy Fawkes night and we made our own fireworks pictures.

St Francis were house winners this week and enjoyed an extra playtime. We also enjoyed choosing our own learning in the area.

Tiara – I enjoyed 2 play times.

Felix – I liked playing with babies.

We hope everyone has a fantastic weekend.

Attached is our termly overview. An exciting term with our class trip, the wonderful topic of The Magic Castle and other seasonal celebrations of Diwali, Remembrance day, All Saints Day, St Andrews Day and Advent.

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