St John Ogilvie Primary School

The Scottish SPCA came to our class and we learned facts about keeping animals safe, building cool coding robots that moved using the tablets.

Michelle from WELDAS , came to talk to our class about the dangers of smoking and raise our awareness of how it is not good for your health! We took part in some fun activities

.On Halloween we completed maths  Murderer Mystery activity, we worked with a partner to solve various clues which eventually told us the winner of the Halloween costume competition!

In art, we created geometric patterns using bright colours and then designed a tree silhouette using black card.

It was a busy week !

By Sasha and Adrian

Week Beginning 21.10.19

P1B highlights:

Leah – I liked making pasta in the mud kitchen for Paige.

Millie – My favourite part was learning about God making the world in 7 days.

Markuss – I like teaching P2 and P3 the actions to the Hail Mary prayer at assembly today.

Meave – Using the soft pastels was my favourite thing.

Mrs Devlin: Today I had a good old chuckle to myself talking to the kids about Ireland.  During news time I told them that my sister will be visiting from Ireland next weekend.  Matteo made me laugh until I cried when he said, “They talk funny in Ireland.  That is why you say Ogilvie Brrrrrrr.”  This then led to the children trying to teach me the “correct” way to say bear.  I literally had tears running down my face it was so funny.  Thank you Matteo for the laughs.

This week we have been learning about animals in the Rainforest. We were pretending to be Howler Monkeys!  We have also been learning about adding and taking away with 2 digit numbers and saying all our strategies. In PE we had a football coach to work with us.

Here are some of our learning highlights from this week.

Marriyah – I liked when we were drawing the animals from the Rainforest.  It helped me think about the layers of the Rainforest.

Grant – I liked drawing a snake.  I used the oil pastels and my hands didn’t get messy.

Aoife – I liked doing the football. I learned different exercises for listening.

Joshua – I liked when I drew my tree frog and I got to go to show Mr McGurn and P7b.  I got theee stickers.

Emily – I tried my best to draw the bird with the oil pastels.  I did a good job.

Edin – I really liked to draw my snake.

Miss Stebbing – I was very proud of the whole class when they were drawing their Rainforest animals because everyone concentrated and tried their best.  No one gave up or said “I can’t do this!”

This week in maths we have been learning about the greater than, less than, equal and not equal to symbols.  Ask us all about these!  We have been doing comprehension and the story was about a birthday present.  In topic we were making Rainforest leaves and we learned the names of the four layers. They are the emergent layer, the canopy layer, the understory layer and the forest floor.

Here are some of our individual learning highlights from this week.

Marriyah – We learned about the Joyful Mysteries in RE.

Daisy – I liked when we made the leaves.

Sylvia – I liked when we made the leaves.  I used pink and blue to make mine.

Olivier – I liked doing the numbers in maths.

Josh – I liked when we were learning the alphabet in Spanish. It was quite tricky.

Aoife – I liked when we sang the Continents song again to help us remember.

Sam – I liked when we did the leaves.  We had to pay really close attention to the instructions.

Miss Stebbing – I was very proud of P3A’s writing this week. They remembered the main details of the How to be a Viking story and use great vocabulary in their work! Well done everyone.

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Primary 6 designed earthquake proof buildings as part of our Extreme Earth topic. We worked in pairs to create a design brief before building our models. The buildings had to be at least 30cm high and withstand a 30 second shake test !¬ We had great fun and everyone enjoyed working as part of a team.

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By Srikar  and Elias  Primary 6B