St John Ogilvie Primary School

Pupil Highlights:

Inaya:  I liked making notes with Vanessa for our presentation which will be ‘ How did the First World War Start?’

Olivier: I liked helping with their weaving because if people are stuck I could help them.

Joshua D: I like playing Kahoot Marvel edition with Adam

Daisy: I enjoyed going over time and playing kahoot.

Adam: I liked watching the ted talks to help us with our presentations.

Josh N: I liked doing relay races in P.E and I also liked doing the Topic HW, it helped me learn what a primary source and what a secondary source is

Emily: I liked making notes with Amelia about WW1 instead of writing long sentences so that we can use them for our presentation.

Aoife: I enjoyed doing our fractions assessment so Miss Smith could find out where we are in our learning in this.

Ronan: I liked watching the Martin Luther speech ‘ I have a Dream’ because it was motivational and inspirational.

Congratulations to the hot chocolate winner this week who is Olivier who has been trying tremendously hard in all areas of his learning. We are all so proud of him. Well done Olivier

Ishaan – We learned about the time.

Amariah-Grace – I liked using the clock.

 

Safaa- We have been learning about The Three Little Pigs.

Amy – I liked drawing Fairyland.

Ciara – I liked looking after the baby dragon.

Reesa – I have liked writing sentences about The 3 Little Pigs.

Maja – I liked building the pigs houses.

Aaron – I liked learning about animals.

Evana – I like doing the huff and puff experiment.

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Evana – I liked making and playing in the castle.

Amy – I liked playing kings and queens in the castle.

 

Ishaan – We were learning about fractions.

Olivia – I liked making pizzas.

Sofia – We learned half and quarter.

Siya – We used skittles to make fractions.

Theo – I liked eating skittles.

This week we have been reading the 3 Little Pigs for the Dragon. We have a 3 Little Pigs building site and we have been building houses with bricks, sticks and straws. Some people have been pretending to be the Big Bad Wolf and they try to blow the houses down! In writing, we wrote the story of the 3 Little Pigs. We are getting very good at remembering full stops.

In Maths, we ordered the pictures from the Little Pigs story from smallest to the biggest. It was tricky to fit them all on the paper but we tried our hardest. We have also been practising our subtraction sums and we are remembering to count back.

On Wednesday we did a Huff and Puff Challenge. We had to blow different objects across the classroom. The peg, the marble and the pencil were the hardest. The balloon and the ping pong ball were easier. We were puffed out at the end!

In Spanish we revised all the things we have been learning over this year. We got to sing our favourite song which is all colours.

Some of our personal highlights this week are:

Caleb – I enjoyed playing in the Lego and I liked playing in the building site.

Zion – I liked playing in the building site.

Rory – I liked playing with the Lego.

Jack – I like playing with the Buddies.

Diana – I liked playing with everything.

Angel – I liked doing everything.

Vivien – I liked playing at outdoor learning.

Hello P2A families!

Here are our learning highlights according to the Yellow and Blue Table:

Aiden G’s highlight was baking bread.  We have been learning about farming in Scotland.  The children listened to the story of ‘The Little Red Hen’ to learn about the different stages bread goes through from farm to fork. Aiden thought this was the best part of his week, especially the chocolate spread topping!

Pola enjoyed our Word Boost story, ‘Pig’s Prize’ and her favourite Word Boost word was ‘prod’.

Ruari said he enjoyed our whole class Narrative writing piece called, ‘Big Teddy, Little Teddy’  In this particular story, the two teddies were squashed in a toy box but then moved over to give each other enough space.  One of the features of a Narrative, is a ‘Complication’ (problem), followed by a Resolution (solution).  The children then proceeded to write their own Narrative, called ‘Big Dog, Little Dog’.  Ask your child if they can remember what their Complication and Resolution was.

Rebekah enjoyed feeling real wheat as part of our learning about baking bread.

Ollie loved the game where each child had to make a list of correctly spelled words from a list of random letters.  Ollie made 7 words.  Well done Ollie!

Ella said the best part of her week was when we acted out ‘Little Red Hen’.  She played the part of the Lazy Dog.

Eva enjoyed story writing for ‘Big Dog, Little Dog’, as described above.

Paige enjoyed measuring out and adding yeast to the ingredients for making bread.  We learned that this ingredient makes the bread rise.

Kyle enjoyed the lesson about food packaging.  We compared packaging of different loaves and discovered that bright colours, different styles of font and pictures help make packaging unique. We then designed our own packaging.  Kyle’s bread company was called ‘Life of Bread’.  I would buy it!

My highlight was when we prayed a Decade of the Rosary together.  We know that May is the month where we think about and pray to Mary more.  The children made a lovely bouquet of flowers for our May Altar with Mrs Dickie.

Congratulations to Ollie, our Hot Chocolate award winner for this week!

We had a super week in P1B.  This week the Dragon left us a letter with a basket and red cloak.  He wanted us to read the fairytale  story Little Red Riding Hood.  We were all very excited.  We made a get well soon card for Granny.  Chose what food to put in a basket to send to Granny to make her feel better.  We spoke about healthy and unhealthy foods and sometimes having a little treat.  Granny was so delighted with all our hard work she asked the Dragon to send us ingredients to make ourselves a Jam Sandwich.  We were able to discuss how to make the sandwich step by step and then we made our own one.  It was delicious.  We then sequenced pictures showing how to make the sandwich.

In writing we focused on descriptive writing and looked at different characters from the story and described them using talking sentences.  Then we wrote a descriptive piece about the Big Bad Wolf.  We used lots of fantastic describing words and remembered to use a capital letter, finger spaces and a full stop.  Our teachers are very proud of how well we are working.

This week in Numeracy and Maths we have been practising counting in 2s and 1os.  We listen to songs and join in singing.  It is really fun.  We have looked at o’clock and can identify the hands on the clock face and know where the numbers go.  We made our own clock using paper plates.  We also looked at fractions halves and quarters.  When we made our jam sandwich we cut it into halves and then quarters.

In Heath and Well Being this week we had a great discussion on things that are safe or unsafe to eat or drink.  Mrs Russell was very impressed how grown up we are and we know never to touch medicines or cleaning products and where they should be stored.  We sorted everyday items into safe or unsafe to handle.

This week we started to build a Castle in our classroom.  We used big boxes to get the shape of the castle and we painted it.  We will continue to work on this and decorate the inside.

Dear Parents,

On Monday we had Mrs Laftery for P.E and we played dodgeball and some fun games.

On Tuesday we had Mrs Morrison for music where we sang two songs so that we can warm up for graduation.

On Wednesday we had story writing and we had to base it on a World War II child’s evacuation day.

On Thursday we had out door learning and we did orienteering with the maps and then used them for a game of hide and seek.

On Friday for maths we had Sumdog as there’s a competition.

Have a great weekend,

Lead Learners Lauren and Maria and Primary 7a.

This week we have been exploring RRSA Article 6 (life, survival and development): Every child has the right to life. Governments must do all they can to ensure that children survive and  develop totheir full potential. This has been very interesting for the children to reflect on how much they have changed, grown and developed since they started school in Primary 1. As they are preparing to become buddies they have been thinking about things they couldn’t do then and now take for granted. Next week they will begin making the videos for their House Captain Speeches. Rehearsals in class have been very good.

We have been investigating coordinates. Plotting points on a map and a grid.

We have had a great week planting, weeding and clearing up some areas around the school grounds. All the children in P6A have worked cooperatively, negotiating tasks and improving their outdoor environment. Hopefully the weather will be good next week.

Pupil Highlights:

Ronan: I enjoyed doing my colouring in this week.

Elizabete: I liked learning about WW1 because it was interesting looking at primary and secondary sources.

Adam: I liked playing rounders.

Josh N: I liked doing the shot put in P.E.

Olivier: I liked making a start on making a newspaper about the assassination of Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand.

Sam: I liked making up the times tables to the songs.