St John Ogilvie Primary School

P1 had a super day today at Deep Sea World! The children were fascinated in the tunnel each time a shark swam fast and we sang “Baby Shark” to them. We learned that a star fish has an eye at the end of each of it’s arms and had the opportunity to touch one during our workshop called ‘Plastic, the Sea and Me’. We learned how important it is for us to reuse our plastic water bottles and bags for shopping. We heard sad stories of sea creatures who have died from eating plastic that has found its way into the ocean! The important message was to make sure we recycle all plastic!  The highlight of our visit was watching the turtle and seals get fed.  I hope you enjoy our photos.

P6a have continued with our learning about the human body.    In Numeracy and Maths, we have been learning about percentages with Mrs Morrison and area with Mrs Egan.  We have worked really hard on presentation of our work and Mrs Egan is impressed with the standard of our jotters!

Today, we have been thinking about music to wash our hands to.  We have selected our favourite songs or a well known tune and re-written the lyrics to reflect the importance of washing hands thoroughly.  The highlight was when some of us chose to perform our songs to the class!

This week we learned more about the Egyptians and we listened to how mummies talked.  We learned about what was inside the pyramid so that we can write a story about being inside the Pyramid of Giza.  In art we made ourselves into Egyptian Pharaohs, we used our photograph and oil pastels.  We learned that the nose and beard of the Sphinx fell off and they are now in museums in England and France.  In maths we learned the 4 times table. We learned about the blue cog in emotion works.  We now know this shows ways for us to calm back down.  We learned how to play a new game to help us learn about past, present and future tense.  We practised our spelling skills using a coconut game.  Here is the link.

https://www.arcademics.com/games/coconuts

Some of our personal learning highlights are:

Ronan – I learned about the Egyptian Pharaohs and I liked doing this artwork.

Myles – I liked learning about how the mummies talked.

Adam – I learned that the Sphinx does not have a nose or a beard.

Amelia – I learned how to do the 4 times table.  My strategy is to count up in fours.

Emily – I learned what was inside the pyramid.

Patrick – I learned about how the Egyptians all put make up on.  Their favourite was eye liner.

Aoife – I learned how to play the new Brain Box game.

Elizabete – I learned what was inside the pyramid.

Grant – I liked learning about how the mummies talked.

Sam – I learned that in the Pyramid of Giza there was an unfinished room and I liked learning about the Egyptians.

This week P7B have been working hard across the curriculum.

As part of our topic, WWII, Mrs Liddell from Museum Services visited both P7 classes and shared lots of stories of what it would have been like during the war.  She passed round artifacts collected from the time of the war and it was really interesting to get to physically interact with items from the past (we had to wear white gloves so the oils from our hands wouldn’t damage them).

Eve said, “It helped me learn more about World War Two.”

“It was fun to find out about what people could eat during rationing,” said Molly.

In maths we have been learning about scale and ratio and making accurate scale drawings.  It has been challenging but linking to fractions and multiplication and division has helped us find success. We have also continued with the RLPS app which helps to put the uses of maths in a real life context.

“We learned about the melting points of metals in Real Life Problem Solving,” said Andrew.

In literacy, we reached a really exciting part of our class novel where the main Character gets into a fight with his nemesis from school.  Using this part of The Machine Gunners, we also completed a HWB task using the Emotion Works cogs which helped us to better understand our own thoughts and feelings – in this case a stressful situation.  We revisited direct speech and will try to apply our learning more consistently when using speech marks in writing lessons.  Our writing lesson this week was a report and we looked at the pros and cons of Evacuation and we had to give our opinion on whether it was a good or bad thing.

“I enjoyed writing the report but found it sad to find out that so many children had bed experiences when they were evacuated,” said Emilia.

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’.