St John Ogilvie Primary School

This week in P3B in PE we were playing the weakest gazelle. On Tuesday we had tennis rackets and we had to pass a balloon to each other and we were doing teamwork. Whoever could do it the fastest was 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd or 4^th.

We planned our writing about what it would be like inside a pyramid. We had to think about what we could see, hear, taste, smell and touch inside the pyramid. To help us we watched a 360° video about the inside of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

We have been practicing using commas in a list. We wrote different sentences and put the commas and the word ‘and’ in the correct places.

We finished off our maths activities around equivalent fractions. We had a bingo game and a matching game as well as others. We have been doing some number talks this week and were talking about different strategies like near doubles, friendly numbers and counting on.

We were speaking about animal groups in science. We can see how we can identify animals and can see how they are different.

In our morning greetings we added some different things like rock, paper, scissors and a wave. We also got our Sumdog passwords and stuck them in our diaries and can now use these at home as well as in school.

Our Learning Highlights:

“I liked when we were doing the pyramid writing because I liked that in the video you can move the video around – it was 360°” – Aeryn

“I enjoyed the number talks because I got a turn. I used counting on.” – Reece

“I enjoyed PE when we were doing the weakest gazelle because when I fell someone else won the game for me.” – Niamh

“I enjoyed writing about the pyramids because I liked learning about the pyramids and writing about the different things about the pyramids like taste, smell, hear and all of that” – Amelia

“I liked how we put those rock paper scissors in the morning greetings” – Ali

“I liked when we were doing commas in a list. It was really fun” – Naman

“I loved it when we got our passwords to go on Sumdog.” – Sophie-Leigh

This week P4B have been practising hard for our Fairtrade assembly. We are looking forward to performing to our families on Friday and teaching them a Fairtrade song.
Olly – I enjoyed learning about chocolate and it made me sad that farmers don’t get paid enough to have nice things.

In maths, we have been doing data handling and word problems, which we find quite tricky.
Zak – I like data handling because I like looking at bar graphs and analysing them.
Tanya – Word problems are hard, but also really fun.

In literacy we wrote our first persuasive writing piece on whether children should/shouldn’t get homework from school.
Debbie – I think that children should get homework because if you forget about stuff, homework can help you remember and memorise so you know what you are doing.
Rupert – I think homework should be band as it is a waste of time and stops you from doing fun things.

We are looking forward to learning more Harry Potter spells next week!

P1a  have been really enjoying doing emotion works. The pupils are using emotion words ‘angry’ and ‘sad’ with the help of our feelings wall . We especially love the story ‘Marvin Gets Mad’ and ‘The Huge Bag of Worries’.         

P1a have really impressed their teacher by sorting sounds that either had ‘ee’ or ‘oo’ in the middle and made fantastic sheep on Monday too. On World Book Day, the pupils made books and also also brought in their fantastic character spoons to show everyone.  Some of the pupils have also been using the orange vowel house independently in their writing too.

Highlights from the pupils:

Marie: I liked when the buddies made puppets with us.s

Ignancy : I liked when we had to stop anything we were doing and had to read a book.

Sophia: I found trying to write ee and oo words hard but also fun.

This week P7B has been taking part in the West Lothian Sumdog Competition.  Children have up to 1000 questions they can answer and are given time in school and encouraged to also participate at home.  Maida, Kathryn and Heidi managed to complete all 1000 questions! Heidi finished 9th in the whole of West Lothian and received a nice certificate.

One of the particular highlights of the week was working with our P1 buddies, making Stick Man characters based on the book by Julia Donaldson.  We went up to our woodland area to find materials and help our buddies create their own stick man.

As part of Fairtrade Fortnight P7B held a design a t-shirt competition and Maida’s entry was deemed the winner by our impartial judge, Mrs Bett.  Olivia and Anna-Lucia were close runners up.

We continue to prepare for our P7 Show ‘Archibald’s War’ with P7A which will be held at Deans High School on the 1st of April.  Your help in sending in your child’s costume and helping to learn their lines would be appreciated.

In maths, we have been using the Real Life Problem Solving app on the netbooks to develop our problem solving strategies.  This week’s problem involving square numbers was interesting and one task was really challenging.  Meriel and Charlie were successful in solving the problem using the guess, check and improve strategy.