St John Ogilvie Primary School

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.

In Primary 3B this week we finished reading The Twits. We planned for our writing next week by coming up with a new trick that Mr or Mrs Twit could play on each other. We also made our own Roly-Poly Birds and put these up on the wall ourselves! For maths we have been focusing on place value and have played games to help identify hundreds, tens and units. On Friday morning we attended mass in the school.

Here are some of our learning highlights for the week:

“I enjoyed reading The Twits, it was really funny when they shrink.” – Aditya

“We have been saying what is the hundreds, the tens and the units. My favourite game is the basketball game” – Jude

“I liked doing the Roly-Poly Bird because we did lots of colouring and artwork” – Vivien

“We wrote about a trick that Mrs Twit or Mr Twit could do. It was fun writing it” – Sophia

As part of our regular Friday Outdoor Learning, this week P7B were taking part in two activities:

We were learning how to use flint and steel, cotton wool and petroleum jelly to light a fire in preparation for two weeks time when we are going to make toast at the fire pit.

The other task was to use sticks to make a frame and then create a picture using found materials from around our woodlands. We had some very different approaches!

P7B intend to be out regularly on a Friday and if parents can support us in providing children with a change of clothes and shoes (that are allowed to get muddy) and a waterproof coat/jacket, which takes account of Scotland’s usual weather, that would be a massive help.

Many Thanks,

Mr McGurn

This week we finished The Twits and we started writing about a new trick Mr or Mrs Twit could play. We went to Mass with p5 and p7a on Friday. We were very respectful and Miss Stebbing was extremely proud of us!

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

Marriyah – I liked when we were doing The Twits and we were writing about a new trick.

Sam – I liked when we got to make Mr Twits face on our photograph. My beard was very long.

Josh – I was proud of us all singing nicely at Mass.

Emily – I was proud of our mime to act out a scene from the Twits.

Joshua – I liked playing games in maths to help us do the sums.

Inaya – I liked the Spin to Win game for place value. We beat Miss Stebbing!

Here are a couple of photos of our whiteboard work.