St John Ogilvie Primary School

P1a have really impressed their teacher by sorting sounds that either had ‘ee’ or ‘oo’ in the middle and made fantastic sheep on Monday too. On World Book Day, the pupils made books and also also brought in their fantastic character spoons to show everyone.  Some of the pupils have also been using the orange vowel house independently in their writing too.

Highlights from the pupils:

Marie: I liked when the buddies made puppets with us.s

Ignancy : I liked when we had to stop anything we were doing and had to read a book.

Sophia: I found trying to write ee and oo words hard but also fun.

This week P7B has been taking part in the West Lothian Sumdog Competition.  Children have up to 1000 questions they can answer and are given time in school and encouraged to also participate at home.  Maida, Kathryn and Heidi managed to complete all 1000 questions! Heidi finished 9th in the whole of West Lothian and received a nice certificate.

One of the particular highlights of the week was working with our P1 buddies, making Stick Man characters based on the book by Julia Donaldson.  We went up to our woodland area to find materials and help our buddies create their own stick man.

As part of Fairtrade Fortnight P7B held a design a t-shirt competition and Maida’s entry was deemed the winner by our impartial judge, Mrs Bett.  Olivia and Anna-Lucia were close runners up.

We continue to prepare for our P7 Show ‘Archibald’s War’ with P7A which will be held at Deans High School on the 1st of April.  Your help in sending in your child’s costume and helping to learn their lines would be appreciated.

In maths, we have been using the Real Life Problem Solving app on the netbooks to develop our problem solving strategies.  This week’s problem involving square numbers was interesting and one task was really challenging.  Meriel and Charlie were successful in solving the problem using the guess, check and improve strategy.

This week in P3B in PE we are doing rolls and hand stands for gymnastics. We were doing backwards rolls on a wedge and we were also doing rolls on mats.

When we were doing maths we were doing more fractions. We were learning about equivalent fractions. That means when fractions are equal.

In science we were learning about our senses. Our senses are smell, touch, taste, sight and hearing. We watched a clip about our senses.

We learned about ancient Egyptian pyramids and made our own pyramids with a fact in them.

For writing we were writing a sentence each and passing it on to the next person who hadn’t seen any of the previous sentences. We ended up with some very silly and funny stories. We also started to learn about commas in a list and played a game about making a shopping list for the supermarket.

On Thursday we celebrated World Book Day. We did a scavenger hunt with P3A. We had to find and solve clues to unlock the cupboard with the Book Day Tokens in them. We also showed our wooden spoon characters to P3A and got to see the ones they had made.

On Friday we went to Mass in the school then we did the Newsround quiz of the week and got 3 out of 5.

Our Learning Highlights:

“I enjoyed Friday because when we went to Mass I got to pray for someone I really miss.” – Niamh

“I enjoyed doing the scavenger hunt on World Book Day because we unlocked a code.” – Urwa

“I liked that we were writing a sentence and weren’t seeing the sentences before.” – Declan

“I liked science because the senses are very interesting and I like interesting things.” – Aditya

“I liked PE because I got to practice my bridge kickovers.” – Gracie

“I liked book day when we got our reading passports because you can get certificates when you finish 5, 10, 15 or books or when you finish the full passport.” – Naman

This week in P3B we have been learning about fractions. We know the difference between the numerator and denominator in a fraction. We know that a shape has to be split into equal parts to be a fraction. We also did some problem solving to solve the mystery of the pancake pincher.

In PE we were doing gymnastics and we had to do different jumps and balances and rolls on the mats.

For writing we had to write about our monster that we designed. We had to describe our monster using similes. We also read a passage about The Marrog. It described an alien and in our groups we had to draw it.

We have been learning about the Ancient Egyptians and what it would be like to live in Ancient Egypt.

We learned about the Lost Sheep and made some sheep with cotton wool. We also learned about Pancake Tuesday, Ash Wednesday and Lent. We even got to have some pancakes!

On Friday we saw a “Science is Magic” show where they fixed a balloon, turned water into special liquid that was pink and the picked a penny out of the air from behind your ear.

Our Learning Highlights:

“I liked that we had pancakes on Pancake Tuesday. I had chocolate spread on mine.” – Declan

“I liked the science show and the guy that did the magic.” – Niamh

“I liked PE because I learned how to do a forward roll off a bench.” – Amelia

“I liked learning about pizza fractions and we learned how to write the fractions.” – Reece

“I liked when we did free writing on Friday because I finished my book.” – Jayden

“I liked when we were doing the writing about the monster because we had to use similes to describe what the monster looked like.”- Aeryn

What a busy week we have had in P6a this week!

Curriculum Areas and Subjects:  In Numeracy and Maths we have investigated the formula for calculating the area of shapes and we have developed our understanding of adding decimals.  We were “Decimal Detectives”, making sure that our elbow partners had put the decimal points into the right places.  In Literacy, we took part in an activity where we had to punctuate the alphabet to show the difference that punctuation makes when you read aloud (see photos at the bottom!)

Interdisciplinary Learning:  we continued to learn a bit more about the human body and also about the SHANARRI indicators for wellbeing (Safe, Healthy, Achieving, Nurtured, Active, Respected, Responsible and Included).

Ethos and Life of the School:  On Monday we begin looking at the cost of the school day for families and identifying things that cost money.  We are going to plan a project to help with this and began our work this week.

Opportunities for Personal Achievement:  Well done to Keedie who brought medals to show the class.  Temi attended Milkshake Monday for showing ready, respectful and safe.  We managed to fill up our Class Recognition Board this week as Mrs Egan caught everyone being ready, respectful and safe at different points during the week.  Well done!

Today we watched the Scientists doing a show.  They turned water different colours using chemicals and they did some magic with the balloon string when they tore pieces off and then put it back together!  Yesterday we completed a maths challenge to find out who was the Pancake Pincher.  It was Seb.  We had to use times tables and division and counting in 5s, 10s, 2s and 3s (forwards and backwards) to solve clues.  We made pyramids for our new topic and we wrote facts about the pyramids on the side.  Did you know that the tallest pyramid was 140m high?  It is the Pyramid of Giza.  We have been learning the 7 days of the week in Spanish.  We updated our EPortfolios this week.  Please look at them and leave a comment.  We can show you how to log in.

Here are our personal learning highlights:

Edin – I had fun describing our monsters with the similes.

Joshua – I liked when the Scientists did the balloon trick.

Daisy – I liked when the Scientist mixed the vinegar and baking soda together and made the explosion.

Josh – I liked when we had to solve who was the Pancake Pincher.  It was a bit tricky!

Grant – I liked when the Scientist poured in the baking soda and the vinegar.

Ronan – I liked when the Scientists poured the water in the cup and it went white then black.

Natalia – I liked when the Scientists poured the water into the beaker and it turned pink.

Aoife – I liked when the Scientists did the balloon trick.

Inaya – I liked when the Scientist threw the ball behind him and one in the air and it went away.