St John Ogilvie Primary School

This week in P3A we have been learning the 3 times table. We have been practising our 5 times table too. We had maths stations to help us with our dividing by 2, 3, 5 and 10. For the assembly next week we have been saying a Scots poem and we have nearly learned it all off by heart.  During activity zones we got Draw Bots, we have named them Dave and Kev!  This week we have been learning how to play hit the button and here is the link for this game.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Some of our personal learning highlights are

Daisy – In Science we learned about the 5 kingdoms.

Emily – I learned about the 3 times table and practised  using the activities on the purple tray.  I used the numicon and the googly eyes.

Inaya – I have learned about the plant kingdom.

Aoife – Because we were good we got to have a snowball fight before lunch using the indoor snowballs.

Josh – I learned the 5 kingdoms.

Sam – I liked learning about the 5 kingdoms.

Ronan – I liked making up music on the IPad.

Patrick – I liked learning about fungi kingdom and the animal kingdom.

Curriculum and subject areas

In Maths we have been learning about probability which is about the chances of things happening.  We learned certain, impossible, likely and unlikely.  We also started learning about decimals.

In RE we focused on our God given talents and watched a video about the Three Trees.  We also learned about St Paul’s call to love.

Interdisciplinary Learning

This week we have been learning more about Robert Burns and his life and works.

Ethos and wider life of the school

We have continued to practise for our Burns Supper which takes place in a few weeks.

Wider achievements

Niya received an award from Kumon this week.  Keedie attended Milkshake Monday and also helped Mrs Lafferty who was holding some gymnastics training for other teachers.  Ciaran got his new kickboxing uniform.  Andrew helped Mrs Miller to do a task in school.  Dawid collected a football trophy.

We have been learning about the moon when we read the story “The Man on The Moon – A Day in the Life of Bob”.  We went on an adventure in our imaginations where we put on our spacesuits and explored the moon.  We looked at the character Bob and what he wears, likes and does in his job.

This term, we are using money in our maths lessons and began identifying different coins.

For science, we looked at pushing and pulling as part of a Forces Study.   We sort items into different groups depending on whether they can be pushed or pulled.

We have been looking at the Wellbeing Indicators for our topic and this week looked at how we can stay Healthy.  We have also been practicing for our assembly about this and look forward to sharing with our families.

Week Beginning 6.1.20

P1B highlights:

Jude – “I liked when we made goals for 2020.” The children learned that in the new year, people like to make promises to themselves to help them be a better person.  These are called ‘New Year Resolutions’.  We watched a clip on YouTube showing footballers scoring goals.  Sometimes they got the ball into the net and sometimes they didn’t but kept trying.  We then set our own goals and know to keep trying if we fail.  As we tried to score a goal in a basket, we shouted out our goal.  P1B had some super ideas!  We then wrote about them.  Good luck P1B trying to achieve your goals.  I know you can do!

Shelby – “I liked looking at the picture of Jude’s new little sister.”  Congratulations to Jude on becoming a big brother again!  Baby Martha made her entrance into the world over the Christmas holidays.  What a present!  She is beautiful and we wish Jude and his family and big Congratulations from P1B.

Amelia – Amelia told us that she liked playing with the baby dolls.  Amelia liked dressing and undressing them.  We will be learning how to take care of a baby in the Spring and fingers crossed will have a real life baby come to visit us!

Stefi – “I liked making boats.  Mine sunk.”  The children have been learning about the story of Noah’s Ark this week.  We followed this up with making our own boats.  We had origami paper boats, boats made from plastic bricks and boats made from plasticine.  Only the paper boats sailed.  We learned about something called ‘density’.  High density means it will sink and low density means it will float.

Mrs Devlin’s Highlight –  My highlight of the week was seeing the children again on Tuesday.  I believe they have all grown!  It was so nice to hear the goals they have set themselves for the year ahead!  I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and a peaceful New Year!

Happy New Year!

This week we have been learning about SHANARRI.  We had to draw a character for safe and healthy.  In maths we have been learning the 3 times table, we need to practise counting in 3s. We also did a maths treasure hunt to use a calendar.  For writing we thought about the gifts we would give to Jesus.  This morning we were at Mass with P1, P5 and P7.  Miss Stebbing was very proud of us as we showed excellent manners and we were very respectful.

Our personal learning highlights this week are

Daisy – I learned how to do the 3 times table.

Josh – I learned how to play Lions and Gazelles in PE.

Myles – I learned about times by 3.

Inaya – I learned how to play the Lion game in PE.

Aoife – I learned how to play Uno.

Connor – I learned about the 5 times table.

Joshua – I learned the weakest gazelle game, it was fun.

Ronan – I learned about living and non living and once living in Science.

Here are some photos of what P1B have been up to this last week of 2019 at school.  I wish you all a Happy Christmas and a peaceful new year!  See you in 2020!