St John Ogilvie Primary School

Hello P3A families,

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

Hasika has enjoyed learning about the Ancient Romans’ toilets and baths.  We learned that poor people who lived in the city would go to the toilet in a bucket that was then emptied from the windows to the ground below.  Anyone who was walking under the window at that time got a nasty surprise!  It then became the law that it could only happen at night.  The children were shocked to hear that this very thing happened in Edinburgh in the past!  We also looked at pictures of a bench with holes that was built over a stream.  The water washed the waste away.

Angel also liked learning about the Ancient Romans.  His favourite learning was about under floor heating in villas that belonged to the rich.  Hot air from a fire was pumped through tunnels under the villas.  We can thank the Ancient Romans for their contributions to early plumbing.

Aadya liked revising the ‘ar’ sound and opted to complete a follow up worksheet of matching sentences to pictures.

Olivia said she enjoyed handwriting.

Diana and Laura joined the other St Ninan House winners today to celebrate them earning the most house points.  They enjoyed a movie and snacks in the PE hall.

Vivien also enjoyed learning about the ‘ar’ sound and made some stars with playdoh.

My favourite part of the week was our discussion on what to turn our role-play area into.  The majority voted for a cinema.  Those that were involved researched the price online and decided to reduce it to attract people to their cinema.  They got busy making tickets and popcorn and laying out the chairs.  They were very creative with their ideas and did super teamwork.

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

I hope you all enjoy the October break and will see you back on Tuesday 17^th October.

Regards

Mrs Brown

Hello P3A families,

First of all I would like to say how proud I am of your wonderful children for their fantastic assembly today!  Every one of them have worked hard throughout all the stages of the process; planning right through to performing.  Thank you for coming along to support your child.  For those who were not able to join us, your child had a P6 friend to join them for the activities afterwards.

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

Tvisha loved displaying the fantastic pyramid she made for her Egyptians mini topic.  She confidently spoke of how she made it and answered any questions the children had afterwards.  Well done Tvisha!

Jack, like myself, said that the assembly was the best part of his week.  Jack had the final reading to do, which was the longest of all the readings.  He did himself proud.  Super job Jack!

Tadwia  liked our maths lesson on the importance of zero.  We have been exploring the value of larger numbers and what each digit represents.  The children have been reading and writing 3 digit numbers.  If we do not have zero in the correct place, it will be a different number!

Jiade enjoyed making Pharaoh death masks.  The children had to paint their mask in a pattern of blue and gold and glue a picture of their face on top.  We had some giggles as we took the pictures as the children tried not to smile.  This was a follow up of learning about Howard Carter’s discovery of King Tutankhamun’s tomb.

Zion said he liked the 3D shape hunt around the school and school grounds.  The children had to work in pairs to find objects of given 3D shapes and record them in a chart.

Grace liked our handwriting lesson where we grouped the formation of letters that began the same way.  This week we looked at letters that began with a curly c.  We discovered that a, o, d, g, and q all start this way so it is important we know how to form curly c correctly with the correct starting point and orientation.

I hope you all enjoyed the Sharing the Learning event this week.  It will be held again later in the year and of course you will get a chance to look at the jotters during Parent Consultations too.  After the October holiday, your child’s P2 jotters will be sent home.

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

Regards

Mrs Brown

This week Ogilvie Bear has been in Spain and Italy.  We have discovered where these countries are on a map, looked at their flag design, researched what they like to eat and learned some words from the language they speak.

In Literacy, we wrote senses poems all about Autumn.  We went outside for a walk around the school grounds to see what we could see, hear and feel in Autumn.  The children then used this information to write their poems.  We focused on using adjectives to make our writing more detailed and interesting to the reader.  Here are a few fantastic examples:

In Maths and Numeracy, we continued to look at place value with Mrs Brand.  We completed lots of symmetry activities with Mrs Craig, including making symmetrical patterns with Hama beads, painting symmetrical pictures and using loose parts to make symmetrical designs.

Huge congratulation to our hot chocolate Friday winner this week, Owen!  Owen has been working extremely hard, always ensuring that his work is presented beautifully and being kind and helpful towards others.

Have a great weekend everyone!

This week we have been learning the sound ‘s’. We made our own snakes and had to cut them out very carefully. In writing, we wrote a sentence using the starter ‘I can’ and we tried our best to include any sounds that we have learned. We started our new Word Boost Book, Home Sweet Hamish, and we were very good at remembering the words. We listened carefully to hear the words when we were reading the story.

In maths, we have been learning about repeating patterns. We made our own repeating patterns using the penguins and to colour in our snakes. We also learned about 3D shapes and played a game where one of the shapes was covered up and we had to guess which one it was. We sorted the shapes into ones that rolled and stacked. We tried to balance as many of the shapes as we could on top of each other.

This week Ogilvie Bear visited Spain and Italy. We learned how to do some Flamenco dancing and about Pablo Picasso. We made a drawing of the Leaning Tower of Pisa and put our photos next to it so it looked like we were holding them up.

In RE, we learned the hymn Praise Him.

On Friday, we spent some time with out buddies playing in the classroom and the area.

Well done to Sophia who is this week’s Hot Chocolate at Home winner!

Some of our personal highlights this week are:

I liked playing outside.

Matteo – I liked playing with the buddies.

Peyton – I liked playing with the playdough.

Lewis – I like drawing.

Bella – I liked learning the letters.

Maksymilian – I liked to play.

Link to Article 28 and 31

This week we discussed how important it was for everyone to have their own name, nationality and registration so that we exist legally and can make sure we have all of our rights. Article 7 & 8. We learned to sing out our names “Loud & Proud” and shared some information about ourself in our jotters.  As part of Scotland Math Week we took part in the West Lothian Sumdog competition. We learned that we are good at math.

On Wednesday we had a visit from Mr Drummond from Bathgate who gave us a great demonstration of how to play the bagpipes. Some of us were very keen and will hopefully be accepted to learn how to play the chanter in weekly lessons at school.

For our topic we have been very busy completing factfiles on key figures in the Scottish Wars of Independence. We made our heraldic shields. Next week we hope to get outside and practice using our shields as a shield wall and using long poles to create a schiltron like the armies of William Wallace and Robert the Bruce.

On Thursday it was our Sharing the Learning afternoon but we still managed to plant Swiss Chard and Pumkin seeds. We also had a tidy up outside with weeding and planting.

On Monday and Thursday we practised our Hockey Skills. We were informed that Primary 5 pupils across the cluster were asked to take part in a Hockey Competition. We have some experience with hockey as Mrs Lafferty taught us some skills last year and we hope to polish up on those skills and develop game skills with our team mates.

The Links to Consecration of Jesus through Mary – Day 27 Saturday and Day 28 Sundays sessions with Bishop Keenan can be found below.

Consecration to  Jesus through Mary – Day 27 

Consecration to Jesus through Mary – Day 28

Dear Parents,

Here’s and update on what P7 have been up to this week in our learning journey:

This week was a very exciting week we did lots of things such as we met our buddies, we played conkers,

we did free choice writing, we did a maths scavenger hunt and lots more.

These are a few of the thing that some of the students enjoyed doing this week…

Grant- I was being a confidant individual I showed it by winning the conker battle.

Adam- I was being a successful learner I showed it by writing a 427 word long free choice story.

Josh- I was being a effective contributor  I showed this by me and Joshua completing the maths Scavenger Hunt and we finished in 22mins and 19 seconds.

By Lead Learner Sam.

Have a great weekend,

Mr McGurn & P7A.

Hi P6A families,

We have had a busy week looking at all things maths for Maths Week.

Firstly, we all worked together fantastically as a team to climb up the leader board for the SumDog Competition – we went from 2000th place to 40th! Just as normal, we have been doing our daily Number Talks challenge, Fluent in 5 and we have enjoyed sharing our strategies with each other for all of the questions. To round up our place value topic, we played a partitioning game with dice.

We have been super busy planning, creating and playing our own maths board games. There are some pictures below of the groups the got finished!

Have a lovely weekend,

Miss MacGregor and P6A 🙂