St John Ogilvie Primary School

This week we have been practising for our Nativity performance. We are very good at singing all the songs and saying the lines we need to. We all now have our parts and we are looking forward to practising in the hall next week.

In maths, we have been learning different strategies for addition. We can use our finger patterns, a numberline and we have learned to keep a number in our head and count on. We also learned the number bonds for 8 and 9.

In literacy, we have been learning the sounds ‘h’ and ‘u’. We have been practising building words with the magnetic boards and trying hard to remember the middle sound. In writing, we wrote a sentence about a cat in a hat. We used our common words and tried to sound out and write the words.

Well done to Lewis who is this week’s Hot Chocolate Winnner!

Hello it’s Lili and Farrah,

We all had a blast at dynamic earth. We learned lots and were involved in different activities. We touched a huge iceberg and visited a room with shaky floors which were pretend earthquakes during the formation of Earth. We even went back in time by 8 billion years! We did a workshop and got to make tornados using two bottles and some coloured water, we also had to find meteors and compare them with rocks. We explored volcanic rocks too.
We got to watch a 3D movie which took us on a journey through different climates and we saw a range of living species.

Over all we had a great time and really enjoyed ourselves!

Have a great weekend

Hello P3A families,

Here are this week’s highlights from the Yellow table:

Diana and Laura said the best part of their week was making our new role-play jewellery making shop.  Our previous cinema was not getting as many visitors so we decided to change it and the next most popular vote was a jewellery shop.  A group who was interested in making this, including Diana and Laura, had a £10 budget.  They worked together to shop on Amazon for beads and elastic string.  They calculated what was too expensive and what items totalled their £10.  Their shop sign looks very sparkly and I’m sure they will get lots of visitors to their shop.

Riley loved football with Miss White on Thursday.

Vivien’s highlight was teaching the class how to draw a house using one pencil movement.  You were not allowed to lift the pencil from the page.  She started it off as a challenge.  She showed the children what she wanted them to draw and they practised it on whiteboards.  It was so tricky!  Even Mrs Brown could not do it!  In the end, she revealed the steps.  Thank you Vivien for this super problem-solving lesson!

Linda loved the story from our ‘Read, Write, Count’ bags called ‘The Worry Tiger’.  In this story, Rory came out of his den to discover a  jungle had grown in his bedroom!  We decided we wanted to transform our classroom into a jungle too!  Mrs Brown already had lots of vines so the children drew different jungle animals and put them all around the room.

Hasika said that her learning highlight was note taking.  For our writing this week, we continued to examine description writing.  As an extension to ‘Honey Bees’, we had a choice of writing about a ladybird or a dragonfly.  The children watched a short documentary piece on each and while they did, they jotted down some notes which would support them when they came to write their own descriptive piece.  What fascinating creatures these bugs are!

Aadya also enjoyed writing a descriptive piece about ladybirds.  She included all of the features:  title, introduction, characteristics and evaluation.  Well done Aadya!

Angel absolutely loved playing bench ball!  We finally moved on to playing this game after acquiring all the skills needed.  The score was 3-0.  We look forward to game two on Monday!

Olivia liked creating a piece of art called ‘Circles’ that Diana showed everyone how to do.  It involved drawing around various sized circles that overlapped and colouring each section a different colour.  Everyone managed to draw their circles and has made a start on the colouring.  To be continued…

My highlight was watching the confidence of the two young ladies, Diana and Vivien as they delivered their lesson to the class.  As the class carried out the tasks, they went around supporting.  This has sparked the interest of some others who want to teach the class something too!  Some future teachers in the making perhaps?

Congratulations to Ollie, our hot chocolate award winner this week!

Regards

Mrs Brown

Hi all,

This week we have a had a big focus on reading for Book Week and had purposeful discussions for Anti-Bullying week. On Monday we watched an Authors Live about World Environmental Day – we talked about the different ways we could be more sustainable. We have also written book reviews and enjoyed regular opportunities to take part in ERIC.

Our theme for Anti-Bullying week was how to stand up and make noise against bullying and we had discussions about how not to be a ‘bystander’.

For RE, we have been looking at heritage and identity and will continue this next week and create our own family trees.

Our class highlight was having the first run through of our Burns performance – we all did a fantastic job, well done again!

Have a great weekend,

Miss MacGregor

This week has been Anti-Bullying Week. There are three articles that provide a particularly strong link this week:

Article 2 – Non-discrimination: The Convention applies to every child without discrimination, whatever their ethnicity, gender, religion, language, abilities or any other status, whatever they think or say, whatever their family background.

Article 12 – Respect for the views of the child: Every child has the right to express their views, feelings and wishes in all matters affecting them, and to have their views considered and taken seriously. This right applies at all times, for example during immigration proceedings, housing decisions or the child’s day-to-day home life.

Article 13 (freedom of expression) – Every child must be free to express their thoughts and opinions and to access all kinds of information, as long as it is within the law.

Article 19 – Protection from violence, abuse and neglect: Governments must do all they can to ensure that children are protected from all forms of violence, abuse, neglect and bad treatment by their parents or anyone else who looks after them.

We used the petals of our kindness flower to write rhyming poems to tell people to be respectful and kind. Next week we are going to film them and put them into our rights conversation padlet. Hopefully we can then share them with you.

As it was also Book Week we created a mini library from the books we are currently reading. We also had a trip to the local library to hand in St. John Ogilvie PS, Anti-Litter Poster Area winners which they are going to display for the local community to see. Our winners were announced for classes and area winners in Assembly this morning. Our School Campaign to improve our local environment and raise awareness of Climate Change continues.

We are working hard on creating wonderful Christmas gifts and learning our Christmas songs to entertain everyone at our Christmas Enterprise Show.  In science we have started the challenge to build the most effective wind turbines with boxes, straws, paper clips, string and tubes. Hopefully we can film working models next week to share with you.

Have a great weekend everyone.