St John Ogilvie Primary School

This week in P3B we started learning about compass directions and began directing our friends around the classroom using North, East, South and West. We finished writing our story about Mr and Mrs Twit’s new prank and some people read these to the class. As well as this, we learned more about exclamation marks and tried to use these in our writing. In Science with Mrs Valente we were learning all about freezing and melting. We also talked about International Day of Peace which was last weekend. We spoke about the theme of Climate Change and drew different things we can do to waste less. Tempest Photography were in to take our pictures.

Our learning highlights:

“I enjoyed learning about the compass” – Alex

“”I liked writing a poster about when you write an exclamation mark” – Zephaniah

“I enjoyed learning about freezing and melting” – Summer

“We were doing warm ups at PE, I had fun” – Ali

“I liked getting my photo taken” – Vivien

This week in Primary 3 we have been participating in lots of different activities to celebrate National Coding Week. Today both classes took part in activities together over the two classrooms. Some of the activities included Coding a Classmate, using the Beebots, having a turn of coding on scratch and using the Spheros.

Some of our highlights:

“Scratch is fun. I made a bear go away far out the game. It went far I couldn’t see it anymore” – Keaghan

“I played the rocket game with the Spheros” – Zephaniah

“I liked playing with the tablet and helping make the pictures talk” – Niamh

“We played spin to win. We played with the five digit one” – Naman

“I taught someone in P3B how to use Scratch” – Daisy

“I liked using the iPad to make things talk” – Joshua

In P4B we have had the opportunity to build a circuit to light a bulb, sound a buzzer or to work a fan. We learned about conductors and insulators, testing how different materials affect how the circuit works. We really enjoyed this activity.

P4B have been learning about the history of communication. We investigated the invention of the internet as a means of communicating and learned about internet safety. Today we are thinking about our digital footprint and what we want our digital footprint to be in 15 years.

Week Beginning 8.9.19

PIB highlights:

Layla: Miss Miller taught us how to listen well.  We need to look at our teacher to show we are listening.

Matteo:  We made monsters for our ‘m’ phonics work this week.  They are on the wall.

Alexa: I run at Break Time with my friends.  We have fun.

Millie: My favourite part was when Paula the caterpillar taught us how to say “Que tal?” (How are you?)

Mrs Devlin: The highlight of my week was when we lit our candle and thanked God for our talents.  We learned that P1B are very talented!  Some people can sing well, dance well, are talented at gymnastics and someone can even open their eyes under water!

P1a have amazed their teacher by working so hard at learning to make the ‘m’ sound. We have been making the m sound, describing how we make the m sound by closing our lips together, and explaining why the m sound is coloured red. We have also been working so hard at blending words beginning with m. Mason blended the word ‘ m-oo-n’ and was able to win the picture of the moon. We have also been using red paint to practise forming our m, and we stuck pieces of macaroni on an m template. We will be spending our short week identifying whether the m is at the start or end of a word by using our cat sticks.

Please follow p1a’s twitter page for the fantastic learning that takes place in the class  : @silvanasmithou1

Primary 6 had great fun completing a variety of outdoor learning cards in our playground and woodlands area.

The children created fantastic dens out of twigs and sticks for a small toy. They created symmetrical works of art using different natural objects.  Some groups made bird’s nest using natural materials. Twigs and leaves were used to make amazing Autumn art animals.

Primary 6 worked collaboratively in their groups and displayed fantastic examples of being Ready, Respectful and Safe.