St John Ogilvie Primary School

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.

This week in P3B we have been learning about different addition and subtraction strategies. We have been sharing our strategies with the class to find the one that works best for us. It is Anti-Bullying Week, so we decided to make Anti-Bullying posters. We talked about all the things that make a good poster and used these while working with a partner to make our poster the best it could be. To celebrate World Kindness Day, on Wednesday we delivered a little gift to all the staff in the school. We also went round the class and gave each other compliments. Primary 3 were very kind and left compliments on the whiteboard for Miss Brannan as well. On Monday on Remembrance Day we made a Poppy Wreath to remember those who died in the wars. We also made flowers to remember people in our lives who have died and said a special prayer for them.

Our Learning Highlights:

“I liked doing the Anti-Bullying posters. We had to use bright colours.” – Vivien

“We did chimney sums to add and take away.” – Naman

“I played ring toss. I threw the circle on the stick and I got 30 and 20 and 50 points. I added them to get 100” – Marcus

“We delivered a present, a kit kat, to the teachers for World Kindness Day.  We said nice things about other people in the class.” – Aeryn

“We made a flower for people up in heaven.” – Amelia and Ali

Primary 6 carried out research homework on various planets  and then we  presented the homework to our class . Some of us prepared power points, models and posters to make our presentations more lively and interesting.  At the beginning,  a few people were a little bit nervous but everyone enjoyed it in the end!

This week we have been doing lots of activities for Anti-Bullying Week.  Look out for our posters that will be on display around the school soon.  On Wednesday for World Kindness Day we delivered some treats to the staff and made lots of people happy.  We had vertical groups this week, ask us what we did in our group.

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

Sam – I liked learning to do the EPortfolio.

Edin – I liked learning about the day and the night cycle in Science.

Daisy – I liked when we learned to do Kahoot!

Samyuktha – I liked learning about dividing.  I learned how to do the arrays.

Josh – I liked when we were doing Kahoot!

Grant – I liked when me, Patrick and Josh were playing with the telephones at Outdoor Learning.

Inaya – I liked giving the Kit Kats to the staff.