St John Ogilvie Primary School

We wish all our families and friends a very Happy Christmas and we look foward to seeing you all again in the new year.  Thank you boys and girls for all your hard work everyday in class learning new things.  Look how far you have all come since starting school in August, our Awesome Ogilvies.  Thank you to our parents for all your support this year.  It is greatly appreciated.

Merry Christmas and have a restful holiday, Mrs Russell and Mrs Meikle

Wishing all of our special children and families a peaceful Christmas.  See you all in 2026!

Hello P3 families!  Here are this week’s highlights from The Polar Bears:

Maks has continued to enjoy Maths with addition within 100.  The children are growing in confidence understanding the concept of exchanging and carrying over.  Maks’ favourite subject is maths!

Danvith liked the religion lessons were we listened to passages in the Bible about an angel appearing to Joseph in his dreams.  We compared his character to that of King Herod’s.

Sophia enjoyed music with Mrs Morrison.

Vakashini has said that Scottish Country Dancing was the best part of her week!  We all look forward to our Christmas party this coming Monday where we will put our dancing skills to the test!

Oscar liked making cards for the non-teaching staff in the school.  This was Friday’s Mini Vinnie Advent suggestion on preparing for Christmas.

Daisy enjoyed designing a Christmas decoration for our whole school competition.  Congratulations to the winning entry from our class, Navami, who made a lovely wreathe with hanging star.  The children were tasked with the challenge of only using given materials supplied by Mrs McKisssack.  It was so lovely to see the creativity P3 had; all using the same materials but in different, creative ways.  We look forward to hearing who the winner was soon!

Umaez continued to enjoy our description writing this week.  We have finished the first draft and will now complete our final draft next week.  We hope to present them to the people we wrote about and I know they will love them!

My highlight was when Mrs McKissack came in and said how lovely our class singing was during the Advent service.  I felt very proud of the class.

There will be no new reading books handed out for the last week of term but those who have opted-in for homework, will continue with their spelling and maths.

Best wishes,

Mrs Brown

This week we have been very busy preparing for our Nativity. We had to practise being on the stage and moving round the hall. It was very exciting. We had our dress rehearsal for our siblings, buddies and nursery friends and we did so well. On Thursday, we had two performances for our families and we did an amazing job!

On Friday, we went to mass at St Peter’s. We then got to sing our Nativity songs for the parishioners and help to set up the Nativity Scene in the church. We got a special treat of juice and shortbread and it was delicious.

This week we read the book ‘Rudey’s Windy Christmas’. We thought it was very funny! Ask us all about the story. We had to listen and follow the instructions to draw our own reindeer and we got to colour the pictures in. We did a fantastic job of creating these.

We all agreed that our highlight of the week was taking part in the Nativity.

Congratulations to Victoria who is our Reading Champion this fortnight. She has shown confidence in trying to read cvc words.

Hello P2 families

We have been enjoying to start of Christmas celebrations this week by watching the fabulous P2 assembly, creating Christmas crafts and having our advent assembly which P2 did an amazing job reading and singing.

We were also very lucky to have Kids Gone Wild this week which we played with zip lips and slack lines!

We have been very busy this week!

P2 weekly highlights

I liked the advent service – Freddie

I liked Kids Gone Wild – Zac, Vivaan, Emilio, Dhawan, Lena, Zoe

I liked doing Big Maths Beat That – Hallie

I liked doing free writing – Alfie

I liked making our snow globes – Zenith

I liked handwriting – Felix

I liked outdoor learning – Guhan Kamar

Have a great weekend!

Hello P3 families!  I cannot believe we only have 2 weeks left of school before the Christmas holidays!  Here are this week’s learning highlights from The Red Pandas:

Maja enjoyed examining a descriptive piece of writing called ‘My Grandma’.  This is our last piece of writing from the genre.  We have planned a special piece of descriptive writing ourselves.  Be sure to read next week’s post when we reveal what it was about!

Viaan has continued to like our maths lesson on addition within 100 using the upstairs, downstair chimney method.  Next week we will progress to learning what to do if the answer to a column is greater than 9.

Laaibah said the learning highlight of her week was making information posters.  She chose to make hers about the beaver.  The instructional drawing made a super focal point in the middle of her poster.  Her layout serviced as an example of one that met the success criteria: name of animal included, picture of animal included, large font, spaced out facts (taken from last week’s note taking exercise), a Scottish flag (to show it is a Scottish wild animal) and colourful to make it eye catching.  Laaibah chose to do hers as part of a group.  Super teamwork ladies!

Nathan enjoyed watching Elf on Tuesday as part of a Christmas treat after the delicious Christmas lunch.  A big thank you to all the kitchen staff for this tasty lunch!

Amelia and Tyler T both report that Scottish country dancing was the best part of their week.  The children have grown so much in confidence since we started our lessons a couple of weeks ago.  We will be ready for when it is our party on Monday 15^th.

Alex and Dawid both agree that the outdoor learning session this week with Kids Gone Wild was thee best part of their week.  Thankfully the weather was on our side!  The children went to a local woodland and for a few hours, enjoyed playing!  I witnessed a lot of creative, imaginative play.  There was also den building with sticks, the zipline, slackline and chill time in the hammocks.  It was a FAB experience for all!

Danvith loved being the Kids Gone Wild teacher’s helper!  He helped her carry the equipment we needed and assisted her putting it up and taking it down.  Thank you Danvith!

My highlight was seeing the children work together on the zipline, supporting one another, encouraging one another, working co-operatively holding the ladder while their friend participated and then bringing the handle back up the zipline ready for the next person.  Wonderful!

Congratulations to Ollie, our hot chocolate winner this week.

I hope you all have a lovely weekend!

Mrs Brown

This week has been a very exciting week. We had our first Christmas lunch on Tuesday and it was delicious. We also got to try on our costumes for the Nativity and we were very excited. We also decorated baubles for our class Christmas Tree.

We have been taking it in turns to open the Advent Calendar. We have a picture one and a book one. We are very keen to get our turn to open it.

We have been practising our party dances and games in the hall with P1A.

We have been learning all about the sounds ‘h’ and ‘u’. We have been reading and writing words.

In Maths, we have been learning to add up different amounts of money. We are using lots of different strategies to get the answer. We have been trying to remember to write ‘p’ for pence and attempted to write the pound sign.

We enjoyed a visit from Mrs Roy with her new baby girl this week. We think she is so cute and tiny.

On Friday, we enjoyed getting together with the P2s and 3s for our Area Advent Service which was led by P3/2.

Here are some of our personal highlights:

Victoria – I enjoyed doing the Nativity songs.

Tejasvi – I enjoyed having Christmas Lunch.

Aria – I enjoyed wearing the costumes.

Aayat – I enjoyed decorating the Christmas Tree.

Alfie – I enjoyed doing handwriting.

Ignacy – I enjoyed drawing.

Congratulations to Lincoln who is our Hot Chocolate Winner this week. He has been trying hard to read and spell CVC words.

Dear Readers,

We hope you are all very well!

In Primary 6B our highlights for this week were:

• Spelling work and weekly spelling assessment, which we love!
• Big Maths, beat that! – we always get excited with the idea of doing it and also like dancing to its music!
• Scottish Dance – although some of us were being a bit funny about this at the beginning, most of us can now admit that we absolutely enjoy doing Scottish Dancing! It’s a lot of fun and David always comes to help when we’re not sure! The whole class have been having a great time and have already learned 3 different dances! Amazing!
• We have also been enjoying our Rotational Symmetry lessons and feel that it makes more sense to us and has become much easier as we continue learning about it!
• Watching P5s rehearsal for their big Enterprise Assembly and thinking back about how we felt last year when it was our turn to do it ourselves!
• Learning (again) about St Andrew’s life and understanding why he became one of the Patron Saints of Scotland! Although most of us have been learning about this from Primary 1, nobody seemed to remember so we did spend a generous amount of time working on it and double checking that all of us really understood who St. Andrew was and why he has been chosen to be our Saint. We also enjoyed the Irn-Bru and cookies that were given to us by the school!
• The 2 Hot Chocolates awarded today were from last week and this week, since last week we had a big group of children ‘borrowed’ by another teacher at the end of the day and couldn’t do it.        So, many, many congratulations to Anthony, for being kind and cleaning up after other children, even from different tables!🥇 Many congratulations as well to Aaeryn-Leigh for setting a great example of how to be in class and also for her patience as the End of line leader! It is not easy and sometimes she says exactly that!🥇
• Congratulations as well to David, Rowan and Kacper for having the Best Table of the week! they have been trying really hard to behave, listen and tidy up properly!🏆

Mrs Valente’s highlights of the week were:

• Watching us having fun while dancing! It’s very enjoyable to see!
• P6A’s Advent Service in the Area.
• All the times that we know how to listen and then create amazing work across the curriculum!

That’s all for now, we say goodbye wishing everyone a super weekend with love and peace!❤️❤️

Primary 6B and Mrs Valente 😘😘

We have been practising very hard for our Nativity and had a practise wearing our costumes.  We were all very excited and can’t wait to perform for you all next week.

On Tuesday we decorated our class Christmas tree.  We love how it turned out.  The same day we had our very first Christmas Lunch at St. John Ogilvie, we were very exctied and it tasted delicious.

This week we introduced the sounds h and u.  We did some word building and also dictation of simple sentences.

In Maths we worked on addition – we are all trying very hard and our teachers are proud of us.  We are working on quick mental recall

We recapped recognition of coins, worked on ordering them by value and then made amounts using 1p coins. Some of us even managed to make amounts using different coins.

Topic we learned about emergency vehicles and looked at what is inside each vehicle to help look after people in an emergency.

In Gym we practised dancing for our Christmas Party.

Today we had our area advent service, P3/2 led us in hymns and prayers and we lit the second purple candle on our advent wreath.

Learning Highlights:

Andy ‘I liked learning about emergency vehicles’

Marcel ‘I liked putting my costume on’

Monika ‘I liked wearing my costume’

Willow ‘I liked singing the Christmas song’

Zara ‘I liked practising the dancing for the Christmas party’

Mrs Russell ‘I loved watching you practise for the Nativity and grow in confidence’

Well done to St Teresa our winning house this week and congratulations to Aarya our Hot Chocolate winner.

Have a lovely weekend everyone!