{"id":23890,"date":"2026-09-24T21:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T21:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stjohnogilvieprimary\/?p=23890"},"modified":"2026-09-24T21:49:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T21:49:03","slug":"learning-highlights-primary-7b-24-9-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stjohnogilvieprimary\/2026\/09\/24\/learning-highlights-primary-7b-24-9-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning Highlights Primary 7B 24.9.26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Parents and Carers,<\/p>\n<p>Primary 7 have had a productive week!<\/p>\n<p>We have been learning to write imaginative stories\u00a0 based on a &#8220;mystery&#8221; theme. We have tried to include an interesting &#8221; twist &#8221; in our writing! During spelling, we have been learning about rules for tricky plurals. We also learnt about well known similes and enjoyed making our own examples.<\/p>\n<p>During numeracy, we have been exploring mixed numbers and improper fractions. We continued to practise our &#8220;rock&#8221; tables. We investigated different types of triangles, including scalene, equilateral and isosceles. Our class entered the West Lothian sumdog competition and are trying to answer a variety of questions accurately. Currently, we are in first position in our school!<\/p>\n<p>Primary 7 worked collaboratively to take on the challenge of building a spaghetti tower, we used glue guns to join the spaghetti and explored how to make the structure strong.<\/p>\n<p>During outdoor learning, we worked in teams to make dens using wood and natural resources.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-23891\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/stjohnogilvieprimary\/uploads\/sites\/6314\/2026\/09\/24214525\/tower-photo-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"201\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Have a super weekend!<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Lea and Primary 7B<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Parents and Carers, Primary 7 have had a productive week! We have been learning to write imaginative stories\u00a0 based on a &#8220;mystery&#8221; theme. We have tried to include an interesting &#8221; twist &#8221; in our writing! During spelling, we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stjohnogilvieprimary\/2026\/09\/24\/learning-highlights-primary-7b-24-9-26\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-primary-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stjohnogilvieprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stjohnogilvieprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stjohnogilvieprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stjohnogilvieprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stjohnogilvieprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stjohnogilvieprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23892,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stjohnogilvieprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23890\/revisions\/23892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stjohnogilvieprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stjohnogilvieprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stjohnogilvieprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}