St John Ogilvie Primary School

This week in P3B we have been learning about St. Andrew to celebrate St. Andrew’s Day. We used what we learned to create a fact file about St. Andrew. We also designed our own tartan and made Scottish kilts for our puppets. In maths we were learning different strategies to do multiplication sums and started to learn about 3D shapes. We used our knowledge of 2D shapes to design a mitten with patterns on it.

Our Learning Highlights:

“I enjoyed doing the mitten. I drew shapes” – Akash

“We learned about St. Andrew and we made kilts. We designed the tartan” – Ali

“To multiply we can do step counting and arrays and we can do any sum at all” – Niamh

“I liked when we were doing the shape hunt. We were looking for 3D shapes around the class” – Urwa

“We were looking at animals that go to sleep in the day and they are awake at night” – Jude

Primary 6B made their own 3D space stations using  a variety of materials. First we planned our design and then worked in pairs to create our models, they look amazing ! In Art we learnt about perspective  and created our ” Falling into Space” pictures and it was great fun. They will be displayed in the upper are soon.

By Aaron and Oskar

This week we have been celebrating Book Week Scotland.  We have been making new front covers for ‘The Knight Who Said No’, we took part in the book domino challenge, we made a picture of the castle from one of our books, we made a catapult and we had a special afternoon with our family members to do some activities using Read Write Count bags.  Today we are having a pyjama day which is special and Mrs Carlyle and Mrs Fisher brought us some special treats!  Hot chocolate and biscuits.

Our learning highlights for this week are.

Adam – I liked making Mrs Egan jump when she found us reading in different places.

Josh – I liked when we went to the woodland to find the books.

Aoife – I liked making the castles.

Caleb – I liked making a new cover for the Knight Who Said No!

Daisy – I liked when we did the book dominoes.

Natalia – I liked when we were making the castles from the Knight who said no!

Marriyah – I liked making the new book cover.

Patrick – I liked making our own alien cards.

Inaya – I liked surprising Mrs Egan.

Grant – I liked making the catapult.

Today primary 7’s heldan election and we invited in parents to vote.

There was 8 candidates (Shannon, Calum, Mia, Stanislav, Zara, Dhanu, Zayn, and Abhay) who has to stand up in front of everyone and give their speeches! they all did really well.

We had loads of fun making the posters and rosettes and writing the manifestos and speeches – it was an interesting topic since the UK election is coming up.

Shannon had the most votes with 17 so she won the election for her party and had to give a victory speech.

By Eve and Maida, P7B Lead Learners

We took part in some art activities last week.  We used a range of media to create these effective pictures.

Today P7b were lucky visitors to sky skills academy.  We made a trailer for a mini movie having optional genres like horror comedy action sci-fi and more.  We had a great time and would really recommend this experience to others.