St John Ogilvie Primary School

Hello P3 families!  Silly Mrs Brown has forgotten to take home the list of highlights from The Red Pandas!  My apologies Red Pandas!  Here are some of the learning experiences your child had this week:

It is Fair Trade Fortnight.  Mrs Roy has been teaching the children about what this means.  Our class went to Morrisons to see if we could see the logo on some of the food there.  We bumped in to Daniel’s dad there!  (I hope you remembered Daniel’s dilute!)  We also bought ingredients to make Fair Trade lemonade.  The children loved making and drinking this so much that they want me to put the recipe on Seesaw.  So, look out for this on Monday.  We plan to write about the steps for making it next week.

We used the Fairtrade bananas for our maths and made an array of our choice before eating them.  We hope to encourage our families to buy food with the Fairtrade logo if possible.  This will help poor farmers receive a fair price for their crops.

The children wrote lovely Acrostic poems all about Autumn.  Some worked independently and some in pairs.  To begin with, we had a class example, and in teams, we came up with as many words or sentences that started with the letters: L, E, A, F.  The option of getting support from a dictionary was available.  Next week we will create some beautiful Autumn art pieces.

We have also been learning about the meaning of the words from the Our Father prayer.  The children know that they are talking to God when they pray, so it’s important to understand what they are saying.

For PE, we have been practising our ball skills.  Two P5 helpers demonstrated bouncing with different hands while stationary and walking and how to bounce the ball under your leg.  Thank you to Oscar for being our photographer during PE this week.

My highlight was making our lemonade.  The room was filled with a fresh lemon aroma for the rest of the afternoon.

Congratulations to Joseph for being our Hot Chocolate award winner this week and to Viaan, who was our winner last week.

We welcome a new pupil to our St John Ogilvie family, Navami.  I hope she feels very welcome.

I am looking forward to having the opportunity to meet you all again next week for our parent consultations on Tuesday or Thursday.

I hope you have a great weekend, despite the storm.

Mrs Brown

Happy Friday P4b families, 

As autumn leaves start to fall, the pupils have been rising to new learning adventures! 

In literacy, we had a focus on “sp” and “spr” words, with an introduction on Monday and practicing our knowledge on Tuesday with different stations. This week we had our first practice with “Tuesday Literacy Stations” which went super well! In writing, continuing on with a procedural focus, we made leaflets with instructions on how to use our own inventions we designed. For reading skills, we all worked on predictions of our groups text. 

In numeracy, we have been looking at rounding to the nearest 10 with three-digit numbers and have introduced rounding to the nearest 100 today. For beyond number, we have continued on with 3d shapes and exploring the ones we created last week, identifying the number of faces, vertices and edges. 

The star of the show was our topic work this week, where the inventions we have been planning and designing has come to life with lots of glue, paint and glitter! Thank you for the donations of resources that can upcycled!  This led us very nicely into a focus of recycling in health and wellbeing (and continuing fairtrade fortnight with Mrs Roy).  We linked our outdoor learning with photography and art, taking out iPads to take photos of objects with different perspectives: birds eye view, eye level, worm eye view, wide view and close up. We then came back into the class and showcased this on a poster. We had our first opportunity of learning how to use the bible respectfully, then identifying and reading the biblical references given. 

Pupil Highlights: 

Our final matches of basketball 

Introduction to hockey in PE 

Building thinking classrooms in maths looking at rounding 

Buying more items from “Miss Mushet Mania” to add to their desk pet domes 

Miss Mushet’s Highlight:

 Learning how to crochet thanks to this weeks hot chocolate winner Mohitha!

Have a lovely weekend!

In Literacy, we have been learning the a sound. We have started reading and building words which was very exciting. In writing, we used our sounds to write the words I am a super star.

In Maths, we have been learning about 3D shapes and we can name most of them. We also learned about block graphs and linked this with our work on Fairtrade.

In Science, we learned about our sense of taste. We tasted some Fairtrade Chocolate and made a graph with P1A to show which was our favourite.

In PE, we had to move like different animals and then we played a game where we had to put the eggs (beanbags) in the nests. It was fun!

In RE, we have been learning the Hail Mary Prayer.

Here are some of our personal highlights this week:

Eloran – I enjoyed learning about taste.

Niall – I enjoyed tasting chocolate.

Hanna – I enjoyed playing with the leaves.

Aria – I enjoyed tasting the chocolate.

Freya – I enjoyed drawing.

Oliver – I enjoyed tasting the chocolate.

Congratulations to Aayat who is this week’s Hot Chocolate winner. She has been trying hard to write her sounds and has been working well with others.

Dear Parents and Carers,

Here is an update on the last week in P7B…

We are nearing the end of our class novel Kensuke’s Kingdom which we are using for comprehension tasks and discussion. We have been enjoying the book and Benita even asked to read ahead to the last chapter “because it’s just so interesting and fun.” The school is lucky enough to have secured free places to watch the film (for free) at the Odeon Cinema on the 17th November so we have that to look forward too. Details will follow from the office nearer the time.

In Maths we have started a new pilot programme from The University of Glasgow called MathsBURST which promises to increase ability in spatial reasoning, computational thinking and overall maths skills. Jonah said he liked working with a partner and using the blocks. Alexa found it interesting and also enjoyed the teamwork aspect, seeing if they could follow her verbal instructions.

We had our first visit this school year to St, Peter’s for mass. It was a lovely and prayerful service by Father Kevin where the children participated respectfully and looked very impressive in their school uniforms. All members of staff received compliments from the parishioners on how well behaved and well-turned out the P7s were. Zac said, “We were very respectful at mass.”  Jude said it was nice that everyone was listening carefully during mass.” Layla said, “Mass was laid out a bit diffently but Father Kevin explained everything clearly and supported us through it.”

This week’s Hot Chocolate at Home winner was…. Renna for going over and above with her outstanding maths jotter work.

Have a great weekend,

Mr McGurn and P7B

This week in Literacy we have been learning the sound ‘a’, how to say it and how to write it.  We thought of things that begin with a.  In writing we wrote about yourselves.

In maths we learned number 11 and 12, how to form them and how many tens and ones they have.  We also practised ordering numbers within 10.  The number before, after and in-between.

Health and Well Being we learned about Fair Trade and giving the farmers a fair price for their product. We can now identify the Fair Trade  We looked at our sense of taste and we tasted Fair Trade chocolate.  White chocolate was the most popular in our class.

Our Learning  Highlights this week:

Willow ‘tasting the fair trade chocolate’

Inioluwa ‘I liked learning how to write 11’

Arire ‘I liked going to the playground with our buddies’

Andy ‘I liked practising my name’

Flo ‘I liked picking the leaves for outdoor learning’

Zahra ‘I liked making the leaf picture’

India ‘I liked writing m’.

Mrs Russell ‘I loved Outdoor learning and collecting all the leaves.  You all made fabulous pictures with the leaves, they were amazing’

Well done to Zarran, our Hot Chocolate winner this week.

Have a lovely weekend everyone, keep safe and take care.

Dear Readers:

We hope you are all well.

This week has been shorter but we have still worked very hard! Here are the highlights chosen by us:

• Art and Craft activity about Vikings’ axes and throwing them in the Woodlands. This was an amazing collaboration between P3 and P6B. We helped them to build their axes on Tuesday and on Wednesday we all went to the woodlands to throw them and see how far they would go! It was lovely to see the way children worked together, helping each other and celebrating their achievement! Super! Everyone loved this! 😍
• Writing session, where we had to write a narrative about a Rescue in the mountains, based on the model given of a Rescue at sea. Lots of inspiration!😊
• Gardening – Our school’s garden is looking nicer and nicer thanks to our huge efforts and we feel very proud of our work to make our school even better! After removing thousands of weeds, we have even managed to start planting some new bulbs to bloom when Springtime arrives!🌿🌱
• PE – we have been enjoying the presence of St. Margaret’s Sports Leaders to teach us football on Tuesdays and Thursdays! It’s been a lot of fun and we are going to miss them when they are gone, which will be from the 8th of  October.⚽⚽⚽🙁
• The Upper Area Religious Service we had about St. Vincent de Paul and what we have learned about his life. Very surprised to find out that he changed into a kind, caring and selfless person after having been so selfish for such a long time. As the children said “People can change!”❤️
• House Groups are always an opportunity to meet other children from school and since we are P6 we get to look after the younger ones and have been brilliant at that!😍
• French  – We had a really interesting lesson where we had to apply our knowledge of the numbers up to 50 to solve maths sums! Super!😊
• To celebrate Fairtrade Fortnight we started our amazing posters and are looking forward to having them ready!🍌🍫
• St. Peter’s children loved their double break for having won this week! Well done!🥇
• Well done to our Hot Chocolate of the week, Vinayakarthik! Super duper good behaviour, always ready to learn and always ready to help! 🏆🥇
• Another well done goes to Addison, our Reader Champion of the fortnight! 📚Just don’t forget to close the books when it is lesson time!😊
• Last but not least, congratulations to The winning Table of the week for going over and above with cleanliness, tidiness and for trying to improve their behaviour! Super Sean, Super Adya, Super Anthony and Super Aadhya!🏆🥇🥇🥇🥇

That’s all for this week, we say goodbye wishing everyone a great week ahead!

P6B and Mrs Valente 😘😘

Hello P3 families!  Here are our highlights this week from The Ferrets:

Eliza enjoyed House Groups this week.  Each child joined the rest of the school and broke up in to their House Group (St Peter, St Francis or St Teresa).  This time, the groups were thinking about the different ways brains work and what can support us to learn i.e. some children identified that fidget toys help them to stay focused, some liked pictures to accompany instructions etc.  We discussed what an inclusive classroom looks like and what more could your teacher do to support you.

Sophia liked our phonics lesson this week, focusing on the long i sound.

Matteo said the learning he enjoyed most this week was when we finished our story writing of recounting the Viking myth of how Odin created the world.  We talked about the Describing Bubble and had the challenge of including as many describing words as we could.  The children did very well!

Ollie and Ellie have both picked our class novel, Thorfinn the Nicest Viking.  We heard how in the past, carrier pigeons used to carry messages from one place to another.  The children have expressed an interest in learning more about this.

Izhaan and Tyler T loved making Viking axes with our P6 helpers from Mrs Valente’s class and throwing them in the woods to practise their aim.

Joseph said his highlight was our nature walk where we collected moss, twigs, leaves and pebbles for the bug hotels that some of us made for taking care of God’s creation.

Vihaan loved it when we made our bug hotels and bird feeders.  I was so impressed with the creativity the class showed that we invited Mrs McLaughlin to see them before they went home.  She too was very impressed!  A big thank you to our pupil support worker, Mrs Garvin who was a big help supporting us.

My highlight matches Matteos!  Well done everyone for your efforts in story writing this week!  I am sure your parents are going to be impressed when they read it at our upcoming Parent Consultations.

A big congratulations to Oscar for being this fortnight’s Reading Champ!

I hope you are all enjoying the weekend, despite the rain.

Mrs Brown

Another week of fabulous learning from P1A.

We continued our learning about our senses by focusing on smell. We had so much fun smelling different scents and trying to guess what they were. We listened to the story Pirate Pete and his Smelly Feet, discussing what happened at the beginning, in the middle and at the end, and sequenced pictures.

This story fitted in perfectly with our sound of the week ‘p’. We learned how to write p, thought of lots of words beginning with ‘p’ and focused on our cutting skills to make crafts for pigs, penguins and peacocks. We loved becoming pirates in P.E and playing lots of games thinking about using space and moving different ways.

In maths we continued practising formation of numbers and different ways to make numbers. We also recapped our learning on 2D shape, making a fantastic shape monster before learning about 3D shapes. We investigated whether 3D shapes could roll, slide and stack and also used playdough and cocktail sticks to make our own 3D shapes.

A highlight for most this week was walking to the local park with our buddies for outdoor learning. It was lots of fun.

This week we have been taking part in Maths Week Scotland. We read the book ’10 Dogs’ and used sausages (not real ones!) to make the bonds of 10. The next day we read the book ‘The Perfect Fit’ and learned all about 2D shapes. We made our own shape monsters which was really fun.

In PE, we became Pirates and we had to run and pick up the treasure and put it in the correct treasure chest. We then had to run between the sharks (cones) and not get gobbled up!

In Literacy, we have been learning the sound ‘p’. We were able to think of lots of different things beginning with p and we have been practising writing the letter using the correct formation. We listened to the story of ‘Pirate Pete and his Smelly Feet’. We then had to order the pictures correctly to show the beginning, middle and end of the story.

We have been learning all about our sense of smell in Science. We discussed things we could and could not smell. Then we used the Silly Scent Pens to find scents that we liked or did not like. Miss Stebbing then told us what the scents were. There was one pen that was cheese scented! It was disgusting.

We spent some time with our Buddies on Thursday morning. We walked up to the park and had great fun exploring. We made sure that we didn’t lose any of the P7 Buddies and they all came back to school safely.

Here are some of our personal highlights from this week:

Aayat – I enjoyed making the shape monsters.

Lincoln – I enjoyed learning about the letter ‘p’.

Ignacy – I enjoyed playing with the blocks.

Grace – I enjoyed doing smelling in Science.

Victoria – I enjoyed smelling the pens.

Hanna – I enjoyed learning the common words.

Congratulations to Eloran who is our Hot Chocolate winner this week. He has been using all the Boost Words and trying hard to write letters correctly.

Our Reading Champion this fortnight is Hanna. She has been trying hard to read books during ERIC time.