St John Ogilvie Primary School

Lots of super learning in P1B this week.

This week we learned the sounds oi and ou. We enjoyed carrying out activities such as formation in flour and making cloud books.

We have been practising our addition of double numbers and linked it to subtraction by looking at halving numbers.

We planted seeds to observe how seeds grow into plants and wrote instructions on how to plant a seed.

We also learned about the human life cycle and looked at similarities and differences between humans. We continued our learning of mini beasts and used ChatterPix to talk sentences about which mini beast we thought was the best.

This week we helped Mrs Russell celebrate St Patricks Day and made some fantastic hats.

We finished the week working with our P7 friends doing a Prayer Trail in the playground.

Good afternoon,

A great week of learning in Primary 6B! Here are some of our highlights:

Literacy: We started our week with a visit from Mrs Amatler and took part in a lesson on clarifying. We were able to use our skills in reading to clarify the meaning of some unusual words. We have also been learning about expositional/persuasive writing and have created our own word banks that we can use to help us in our writing.

Numeracy: We have used our knowledge of fractions, decimals and times tables to help us complete equations. We enjoyed working out what number the letters or shapes represented. We also took part in the West Lothian Sumdog competition and came 9th out of 142 classes that qualified! On Thursday we were also the daily winner and gained the highest score for that day. Mrs Roy was very impressed with the teamwork and motivation across both P6 classes!

IDL/Art: We completed our Loch Ness monsters by painting them and gluing them down ready to take home.

Positive recognition: On Friday our class got an extra break as we have been keeping our table in the lunch hall clean and tidy in order to show we are being safe and respectful towards others.

The rights of the child: We have completed our work on articles 2, 12 and 30 to show that we all have the same rights no matter what our beliefs are or where we come from and this should always be respected.

Over and above: Well done to our hot chocolate winner Olly!

Thank you for your continued support, Have a great weekend!

Mrs Roy

This week has been a very busy week in P1A.  We have been doing lots of work on our topic about living things.  We learned about the lifecycle of a butterfly and made a poster about this using different pasta.  We also discussed all the things that a baby needs and we have had a house corner with two dolls in the classroom to practise looking after them.  In writing, we have been learning about exposition texts and we have to try and persuade people.  We chose between a bee and a butterfly to say which one we thought was the best.  We used Chatterpix to record our sentences.  We also made our own bees during art and we had to use our cutting skills.

In maths we have been learning about estimating.  We have also started learning about the greater than and less than symbols.  We watched Numberblocks and saw Blockzilla who likes the biggest number.  We noticed its mouth had the greater than or less than symbol.

During Outdoor Learning we saw some daffodils growing.  We had to take some shelter in the gazebo when the rain got very heavy!  We played with the loose parts for a while and saw our buddies who had been in the Woodland tidying up the rubbish.  We are looking forward to going back up to the Woodland next week.

Some of our personal highlights this week are:

Chimamanda – I enjoyed playing with the babies in the house.

Caiden – I liked playing with the dinosaurs.

Vivien – I enjoyed colouring in at Creative Zone.

Diana – I enjoyed learning about butterflies.

Linda – I enjoyed learning about the lifecycles of things.

Zion – I enjoyed playing in Creative Zone.

Rory – I loved doing gymnastics at PE.

Exposition or Persuasive text

Dear Readers,

Here are our highlights for the week:

• In Literacy, we have learned everything about the structure, goal and language of a persuasive piece of writing and have practised writing one collaboratively about the importance of having a good breakfast. As it was team work and almost all of us have had an active part in writing it, we are attaching it to this post for you to see as well. We have also had our usual New spelling words, Word Boost and weekly spelling assessment, of course!
• In Maths, we have started working on the 4 times table and have also been revising our 2,3,5 and 10 ones. We have worked on data handling by making a bar graph, a tally chart and answering questions about the information displayed on both.  It was particularly interesting learning how to sort things into a Venn diagram and we managed very well!
• Our Topic, George’s Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl is very interesting and funny and we have tried to predict what it will be about just by looking at the front cover and back cover where we read the blurb!
• We have walked in the playground with love heart frames with the P7 pupils who took pictures of us thanking God for everything that was made by him and that is given to us everyday, including flowers, pets, worms and others.

It has been a lovely week in P3A and we hope you have enjoyed finding out about our weekly highlights!

P3A and Mrs Valente😘😘

Highlights of the Week – 14th March

Cartwheels during P.E

Victorian Workhouse Menus

Learning about how people lived in the workhouse – reading comprehension

Music – Watched Treasure Island and listened to the music

Reading the Bloom, discussing kindness and feelings, book and making paper flowers

Outdoor learning – following directions using the intercardinal compass points and using angles/degrees to describe the turns

Dear Parents,

Lots of learning in P7a this week starting on Monday with a visit from Mrs Amatler who gave us a wonderful literacy lesson on questioning.

Later that day we had a Well-being lesson from Miss Munroe from St. Margaret’s Academy as part of our transition to high school.

On Tuesday for IDL we compared temperatures of Scotland and The Amazon Rainforest and created line graphs to display the information.

Writing we have started a block on Persuasive/Exposition and picked a side and wrote about whether we believed there should be zoos or not.

Thursday saw the second of our Bikeability lessons and the feedback from pupils and instructors has been very positive.

Friday we had some drama for Fun Friday where the main theme was mime.

Have a great weekend,

Mr McGurn and P7a.

This week as part of our journey towards the Rights Respecting School Gold Award we discussed ways children could share their views and opinions. Primary 6 are beginning to think about becoming House Captain and how they will be able to find out the views and opinions of the other children in our school. They are also beginning to think about being Buddies to the new Primary 1 pupils who will join our school in August.

Literacy – We are working on developing a wider range of persuasive vocabulary and how to write persuasive posters, leaflets, opinion writing.

Math – We have been working on finding percentage of amounts (a useful life skill when buying things in a sale) We are going to be continuing this for the next two weeks. This week we also took place in the West Lothian Sumdog Competition and I am very proud to say that Primary 6B were Thursday Daily Winners and Primary 6A were runners up in second position. All of the children in Primary 6A exceeded their own expectations as when we joined the competition we were sitting in 48th position.

On Wednesday we had some Outdoor Learning and went for a short walk looking for signs of Spring.

The children recorded seeing flowers beginning to bloom, budding on trees, insects and a squirrel (which quickly ran away). Unfortunately they also saw lots of dropped litter, glass, abandoned shopping trolleys and dog mess.

Hope everyone stays well and we have a great week of learning next week.

Dear Families

Literacy

We have continued to read our class novel, George’s Marvellous Medicine. We made our own marvellous medicine recipes and designed the bottles, remembering to create warnings on the label! We even linked this to a science lesson, where we were testing out if vinegar or water mix with oil.

We have begun a focus on persuasive writing (also called exposition). We have been planning to write a persuasive writing piece about why we should wear school uniform. We have created the series of arguments we will use in our final writing next week.

Numeracy

We have been working on our 4 times table this week.

We were revising our knowledge of money and coins. We were working out the coins needed for certain amounts.

We discovered that you can reveal a shield when you put some of the new coins together.

Pupil Highlights

Mariam – I enjoyed the science experiment, finding out if oil and vinegar mix.

Szymon – I liked working with the Primary 7. We took part in a prayer day activity finding God’s creations in the playground. I was with my sister.

Paige – I liked finding out about the shield.

Layla – I enjoyed doing the George’s Marvellous Medicine bottles, or should I say Layla’s Marvellous Medicine.

Markuss – I liked Free Writing Friday.