St John Ogilvie Primary School

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 🙂

P3 had a FANTASTIC day at the sports festival at Deans High today.  They joined other P3 classes from neighbouring schools and rotated around 6 different activities : rugby, handball, relay, hockey, football and beat the goalie.  Thank you to everyone for giving 100% effort!  You made your school very proud.  I have a feeling the children will sleep soundly tonight! 😴💪🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️⚽️🏈🏒⛹️‍♀️

We have had a busy and quick week. After everyone had a lovely rest on the long weekend. We made and talked about 3D shapes on Wednesday. We have been continuing our Consecration Journey in class and have the weekend stories on our TEAMS. We started writing a short story on the laptops to practise our typing and WORD skills. We managed to save to our own GLOW drives.

Our topic this term is the Scottish Wars of Independence – we have been talking about some of the main figures in this time and used our number knowledge skills to work out values on timeline and then linked the date to an event that happened. We are looking forward to learning more.

We had an assembly today when we tried to think about the qualities and talents that we have that we can call our super powers and they are what make us superheroes.

This week we have also had lots of chat revising numbers and discussing digits and their place value!

Have a great weekend everyone and congratulations to John who won the Hot Chocolate at home this week.

This week we have been learning the sound ‘c’. We played a game where we had to feed the cat words that began with ‘c’ and we had great fun!

In maths, we have been learning to write the numbers 8 and 9. We have also been making the numbers in the ten frames and using our finger patterns. We enjoyed playing a game on the smartboard to help us with our finger patterns.

This week Ogilvie Bear was visiting France. We made flags and learned about the Tour De France. We also decorated cycling jerseys. We enjoyed learning about the Eiffel Tower and we completed a dot to dot worksheet with a picture of it.

On Friday, we went to assembly and learned about being a superhero. Then we spent some time outside with our buddies.

Here are some of our personal highlights this week:

Bella – I liked playing with the buddies.

Matteo – I liked playing with my buddy.

Tyler T – I liked playing with the cars.

Lewis – I liked playing with Ollie.

Joseph – I liked choosing our own learning.

Leah – I liked playing the cat game.

Miss Stebbing – I was very proud of how well everyone sat in assembly and had fantastic manners by waiting their turn to answer questions.

Well done to Matteo who is our Hot Chocolate at Home winner this week.

Hello, this is Aarya and Francesca doing this weeks blog.

Topic – P6A have been busy making posters and presentations.Our topic is ancient civilisations.   There are seven groups 

Ancient China (Francesca) Group 1 – this was one of the most interesting civilisations in history.

Ancient Greece (Lili) Group 2 – They made a living with bakers.

Stone Age (Eilidh) Group 3 –  The Stone Age started in 30,000 BC.

Ancient Rome (Aarya) Group 4 – Ancient Rome has 7 nicknames.

Vikings (Farrah) Group 5 – The popular words that we use now are the words vikings made.

Ancient Greece (Emily) Group 6 – They wore robes.

Ancient Japan (Nikola) Group 7 – Samuri only wore there katana on the left side

 Class Highlights-

Aksaj – I enjoyed doing dodgeball in PE last week.

Emily – I enjoyed playing with the p3b’s, it was really fun! We helped them as well with maths and research.

Eilidh – I loved taking part in the drama act where we get a certain line or speech to say.

Max – I enjoyed dancing and teaching the p3bs.

Inaayah – I loved doing place value for maths.

Well done to Emili for winning hot chocolate this week. She was very ready and respectful.

Have a good weekend,

P6A

It has been a very short week. On Wednesday we wrote ‘This is Me’ poems to describe ourselves. We displayed them on our Literacy Wall because we are very proud of them.

On Thursday we completed our William Wallace portraits. Each one of them is unique to the artist who drew and painted them.

Today one of our pupils shared her achievement of being player of the year.

We are looking forward to a busy week full of learning next week.

Hello P3A families,

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

Rory has enjoyed the preparation for our upcoming assembly on the 29^th   (date shared in newsletter).  It is all about friendship.  The children have been working hard to write the script themselves, produce the artwork and create dance moves to our songs.  Rory met the challenge of writing 8 sentences about what friendship looks like.  These ideas will feed into our script.

Caleb liked writing ‘oa’ words in oatmeal.  This week we have been learning about spelling patterns that make the long vowel o sound.  These are: oa, ow and o_e.

Alicja said she loved playing ‘Shape Corners’ as part of our learning about 3D shapes.  Congratulations to our 2 winners who managed to stay in the game until the very end!

Ollie has been enjoying our learning about the Ten Commandments.  He is part of the group who will make them on stone for our assembly.

My highlight was the discussion we had following a story about a little boy who was worried.  The children shared some of their worries and myself and the class gave the children some advice.

We welcome our new pupil, Ethan and hope he feels very welcome.

Regards

Mrs Brown