St John Ogilvie Primary School

Dear Parents,

Here’s what we were learning this week in Primary 7A:

On Monday for science we made salt crystals just by using salt and hot water, it was really fun!

On Tuesday we done mime for drama, the hard part was that we couldn’t speak so we had to make our meaning clear through actions. And after school there was the first St. Margaret’s transitions.

On Wednesday, we had a maths teacher from St Margaret’s teach us some maths and show us what to expect in High School.

We also did Mock court which is our topic. We had to do posters about our roles and what we do.

On Thursday we had outdoor learning, we played conkers and ate brambles and apples from the school woodlands.

On Friday we had a French online lesson from St. Margaret’s all about Halloween and we worked on data handling in maths.

Have a great weekend from

Francesca, Aarya, P7A and Mr McGurn

PS Ashlyn won the over and above hot chocolate this week so she’ll be Lead Learner next week.

Hello P7B families, it’s Fatima M and Veerica,  your weekly bloggers! 

 Our class has had a wonderful week as it was Mathematics Week Scotland, aka Maths Week Scotland. We have done loads of fun and engaging activities related to this. Here is a brief review of our week as a class: 

• We were looking at maths in nature and we did some animal symmetry! 

• As an activity for Maths Week Scotland, we made our own math tales about a shape, a number and this year’s mascot Finn Finity. 

• Another thing that we did as part of Maths Week Scotland, we did some fun math activities with P5A outside in the playground. 

• We dug deeper into the “why?” of shapes and had a look at “why?” the shapes that we see in everyday life are used in ways that make them incredibly convenient and strong. 

• As a stem activity that related to the “why?” of shapes, we created structures out of cocktail stick and little gems sweets that would withstand Miss MacGregor’s incredible anger toward our structures which meant she would hurl them toward the whiteboard and the tables to make sure they were strong enough. Veerica also ended up eating the rest of the sweets that were left and trust me when I say there were a lot of sweets… 

• We also had one of our weekly lessons from St. Margarets Academy and this time it was Halloween French Vocabulary. 

• In Spanish this week, we drew around the body of a human from our class and labeled the body parts in Spanish. 

• On Thursday, we as a class decided to take a breather and sit and read quietly for half an hour. We enjoyed the reading and felt ready to take on the rest of the day. 

• The last important thing we did this week was take part in the school football team tryouts, we will get informed who has made the team and who has not after the October break! Good luck everyone! 

That’s all for this week. Tune in next Friday for more highlights and enjoy your weekend everybody! 

Hello families of P5B!

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

Nicolas and Scot both enjoyed the lesson when they designed shields.  This was a follow up to learning about shields and armour used in historical wars.  The children applied their learning of what different symbols and colours meant in their shields.

Georgia and Flynn both loved our lessons as part of our Climate Smart award.  We learned that it is predicted, that oil will run out in 2050, gas in 2070 and coal by 2090!  At the moment, only ¼ of the energy that is created around the world is from renewable resources.  We need this figure to change to 100%!  Throughout P5, the children will be exploring this subject in great detail.  If your child wants to rewatch one of the learning videos from this week, they can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CwYGKV_3gw  Next week we will be learning about the harmful effects burning fossil fuels does to our world.

Anthony said the highlight of his week was completing his final draft of the newspaper article we have been planning, drafting and publishing over the last couple of weeks reporting on either The Maid of Norway’s death or King Alexander III’s death.  We are hoping to proudly show off these newspaper articles on Parent’s Evening so look out for these!

Olek has continued to love learning about the Stone of Destiny.

Amelia liked the lesson with Miss Smith about Zones of Regulation.

David enjoyed this week’s phonics lesson about double consonants and discovering the rule for when to use them in spelling.

Sean loved PE with Mr Pentland where the children played Dodgeball and Benchball.

My highlight was our Climate Smart lessons.  The children are enthusiastic learners. They engaged in some P6 maths (with the help of calculators) to work out the cost of various electrical items in the school.  Next week’s maths homework will link to this learning.  Please log in to Teams to access homework each week.  Thank you.

Congratulations to Jayden who was both this week’s hot chocolate award winner and Reading Champion!

The pictures below are some learning experiences from the last 2 weeks.  I did not create a blog post for last week given it was a short week.  I hope you enjoy them!

I hope you have a great weekend!

Mrs Brown

We have had a fantastic week in Primary 2, with lots of excellent learning taking place!

We continued to learn about our senses and the children wrote fantastic senses poems about their favourite things.

Our new sounds this week were ‘ch’ and ‘tch’.  We also looked at plurals and learned when we should add ‘s’ to a word and when we should add ‘es’.  Ask your child and see if they can remember!

In Maths, we continued to work on the numbers from 0 to 100.  We did some skip counting in 2’s and looked at the number before and after.  We also carried out some problem solving work in small groups.

We were scheduled for outdoor learning on Thursday, unfortunately due to the terrrible torrential rain we didn’t manage to get out.  It did clear up in the afternoon but many of the children did not have suitable outdoor shoes, therefore we decided to wait until next week.  It would be amazing if the children could try to bring waterproof shoes and jackets for then.  Here are a few pictures of us enjoying the outdoors over the past few weeks:

We made self portraits using materials we found in the woodlands:

Big congratulations to our hot chocolate winner this week, Posy!  Posy is always very well behaved, helps around the classroom and works very hard.

Our new reading champion is Maja!  Maja is a fantastic example to other children, reading quietly and sensibly during ERIC time and showing great enthusiasm for reading.

We hope you all have a great weekend!

Dear Parents,

Here’s what we got up to in P7A this week:

On Monday we were doing art in the style of Mondrian.

On Tuesday we did mime in drama in groups of three or four.

On Wednesday we split up into defenders and pursuers and we were getting ready for Mock Court. We also made delicious apple crumble.

On Thursday we went up to Dechmont Law to look for conkers.   

On Friday we were writing a plan for instructions on how to make an apple crumble.

Francesca was this week’s Over and Above winner and will be Lead Learner with Aarya next week.

Have a great weekend,

Julia and Emili and Primary 7A.