St John Ogilvie Primary School

What a great final week of term we have had!

We started the week learning a new sound ‘t’. We had lots of fun doing activities based on The Tiger that came to Tea. We also enjoyed playing the sound splat game, where we had to find the correct sounds to build a CVC word.

Alfie – We traced a tree and a teapot.

Tiara – We made a tiger mask.

In math we have continued looking at numbers beyond 10, ensuring we are writing tens numbers the correct way round.

We had the best trip on Wednesday to the Lyceum to watch ‘The Baddies’. We were all very excited on the bus into Edinburgh, spotting diggers and trams. Then we all sat beautifully and watched the show. At the end some of us were up dancing and waving our arms in the air.

Myra – I liked the witch.

Abdul Bari – I liked the cat.

Lena – It was a good show.

After the theatre we jumped back on the bus up to the National Museum of Scotland. We had our lunch before heading into the museum where we spotted a big Chinese dragon, a massive elephant and the bones of a t-rex dinosaur. By the end of the trip we were all exhausted but we had a great time.

Felix – We saw a t-rex.

Tiara – I saw an elephant and a tiger.

Myra – I saw a shark

We finished the week with football for p.e. It was lots of fun.

We hope everyone has a fantastic holiday week and we will see you all again soon.

Hello families of P5B!

Here are our highlights this week as recorded by the Yellow table:

Michael and Daniel both report that the football session on Friday with Lothian Football Academy was the highlight of their week.

Moeez and Ksawery have continued to enjoy designing their shields and justifying their choice of colours and symbols used.  Both boys have incorporated symbols from the country where they or their family were born.  Fantastic, well thought out work boys!

Kacper and Aayush have then enjoyed making their 3D shields now that their designs are finished.  The children can use paint or a medium of their choice to transfer their design across.

Ellie-May and Vinayakarthik have been excited to continue our learning about what happened next in history for The Scottish Wars of Independence.  They learned that now John Balliol has been stripped of his title, a man called William Wallace has now risen up, gathered supporters and continued the fight for independence.  Two main battles took place, The Battle of Stirling Bridge (England defeated) and The Battle of Falkirk (Scotland defeated).  Next week we will learn about the tactics employed by both sides that lead to their victory.

Ella has absolutely loved the escape rooms tasks this week as part of the celebration of Maths Week Scotland.  Each day the children got in to their groups and had to work together to solve clues that helped them escape from rooms in Lochdonia Manor!  It was a race against time!  Once a group won, the rooms where locked and the competition could not progress.  A big well done to the daily winners.  The teams that won were the ones who were focused, helped one another out and concentrated well.  It was so much fun!  Thank you to Mr Pentland and the Numeracy team at SJO who helped create and source such engaging tasks for the pupils!

My highlight was the escape rooms.  The children persevered and creatively worked through the challenges.  Their enthusiasm was infectious!

Congratulations to Ksawery who was our hot chocolate award winner.

I am looking forward to the opportunity to meet you next week at Parents Evening and discuss your special children.  I hope to see you then.  Have a great weekend!

Mrs Brown

This week we have been learning the ‘a’ sound we made alligators and practised writing and saying the sound.  We sorted apples from biggest to smallest.

To prepare for going on our trip next week we read the story ‘The Baddies’ we wrote which character we like best and drew a picture of it.  We also made our own story maps.

In maths we continued our mental counting and we did some subitising.  We looked at the numbers 11, 12, 13 and 14 how they are formed and the quantity of each.

In Spanish we played a number game spin the wheel and say the number in Spanish.

We learned about our sense of smell and used smelly pens to decide if we liked or disliked the smell of them.  We discussed things that smell nice and not nice.

As part of World of Work we learned about the job of a dentist.  We had to show how to brush our teeth using an interactive games and we got our own brand new toothbrush and toothpaste.

We learned about the job of a careers advisor and also a nurse.  We got to play with some equipment and look at PPE. Today we learned about the Tesco distribution centre in Livingston and how it supplies all the Tesco shops in Scotland.  We all got a free Tesco pen.

Lothian Football Academy were in school this week and we were very lucky to have football today for Gym we got to play football with a coach and learn some football skills.  We also had the opportunity to read outside as part of our Outdoor learning.  We had lots of fun and found the sounds and common words we are working on in the books.

Our Weekly Highlights:

Ava ‘I liked playing football’

Felix  ‘liked playing with the toys’

Tiara ‘I liked playing football’

Daniel ‘I liked learning about Tesco and the jobs they do there’.

Lena ‘ I liked making the alligator’

Arush ‘I liked sorting the apples’

Well done to our Hot Chocolate winner this week Antosh.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.