St John Ogilvie Primary School

What a wonderful week we have had in P1a.

In Literacy, we have been learning about Beginning, Middle and End.  We have a little action we complete to show the beginning, middle or end.  We listened to sounds and we had to recall where the sound was.  We played guess the animal sound and again had to say where the animal was located.  We have also been practising our names remembering to use a capital letter just at the beginning.

This week we have been learning about the blue zone of regulation and looked at the words sad and tired.  We discussed what the words mean and strategies we could use if someone feels sad our tired, we drew a picture and our teacher scribed what we said about the picture.

We talked about the importance of families and created a beautiful piece of artwork showing our families.

This week we have been learning all about the numbers 2 and 3.  We are all working very hard on the formation of the numbers.  We also counted to 30 and backwards from 10.  We played and under the sea game where we had to count the under water creatures and press the correct answer.

In PE, we have been practising finding our own space.  We used our listening skills to play ‘Beans’.  We looked at different coloured circles to show us how to move or stop.  Green means go, amber means slow down, red means stop.  We also played ‘Duck, Duck, Goose’.

We are getting very good at blessing ourselves before and after prayers and we are listening well and trying to join in with our prayers.

Today we got to meet in our House Groups and work together on a task.  It was lovely meeting lots of new people from our school.

Here are some of our personal highlights this week:

Conall ‘I liked writing my name’

Willow ‘I liked writing the number 3’

Ini ‘I liked drawing my family’

Nathania ‘I liked playing outside’

Monika ‘I liked playing in the area’

Well done to Marley our Hot Chocolate winner this week.  Marley works very hard and always tries his best.  Congratulations to St Francis the winning house this week.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

Dear Parents and Carers.

This week we did lots of interesting and fun activities. In science and technology, we made marble runs. We had to demonstrate our run working and explain why specific features had been included. Our class topic is Japan and we learnt about all the different regions and what they are famous for. We created our own information posters using our notes from the video we watched. We also made sushi in class which was good fun!  House and Vice captains presented a task during house groups this week. Some of us were a little nervous but we all performed well!  Outdoor learning was interesting because we built dens, litter picked and created our own amazing recipes in the mud kitchen ! During maths we learnt how to draw our own grids and plot coordinates accurately. In literacy we developed our knowledge of the rules for making words plural, some of them were tricky! Our class continued to read our class novel ” Skellig” and answered a variety of questions based on the text.

Congratulations to Sophia who was nominated our hot chocolate winner for going “ over and above” this week!

Here are some of our learning highlights.

By Sophia and Ishaan

Reya and Leanna “ Creating the marble runs was exciting.”

Samanvi and Damian “ Making sushi in class was amazing!

Logan- ” I enjoyed outdoor learning.”

Ignacy and John.” Plotting coordinates on a grid was interesting.”

Ailsa and Ena. ” I enjoyed creating my imaginative story.”

Sophia ” presenting the house group information was enjoyable.”

Have a super weekend

Mrs Lea and Primary 7A

This week we have been learning all about the numbers 2 and 3. We used yellow paint to practise writing the number 3. It was great fun! We also played  a game on the Smartboard to practise recognising numbers to 20. We had to click on the correct number to send the helicopter to help the person.

In Literacy, we have been learning all about Beginning, Middle and End. We started by looking at the line on the farm for the animals to be fed and then at a bus stop with children waiting to board the bus. We then had to listen to three different sounds and say what sound was at the beginning, middle or end. For writing, we wrote about a strategy we could use if we are angry. The staff were very impressed with everyone who was trying to write their sentence.

In PE, we have been continuing our work on listening and following instructions. We played the corners game and the fruit game. Our listening skills in the hall have been excellent!

We talked about how important our families are and we created some artwork to show our families. We have also looked at angry and anxiety spot and linked these to our Zones of Regulation.

Here are some of our personal highlights this week:

Alfie – I enjoyed making the family pictures.

Alayha – I enjoyed playing in the area.

Grace – I enjoyed drawing.

Lincoln – I enjoyed writing the number three.

Tejasvi – I enjoyed playing in the house corner.

Aayat – I enjoyed playing in the ice cream shop.

Congratulations to Grace who is our Hot Chocolate Winner this week. She has been a kind and caring friend to people in our class.

Mrs Ross has spent some time with us this week. We talked about music notes and where they sit. We played a game to practice where the notes are. With Mrs Roy we talked about zones of regulation. In PE, Mrs Ross got us to do a of running and stretching!

We have started learning about the Victorians. We researched some information about Queen Victoria and her family.

Our Hot Chocolate winner this week is Amy because she doesn’t give up.

Great week everyone.

Hello families of P3!

This week’s update is brought to you by The Ferrets:

Ellie enjoyed House groups activities today.  The children separated into their different Houses and completed activities centred around the idea of ‘relationships’.

Eliza reports how she liked our Daily Mile each day.  After break time, the children in P3 walk around the playground 4 times.  This health initiative is to help foster a healthy lifestyle from a young age.

Izaan said the best part of his week has been learning about 2D shapes.  New shapes we focused on were pentagons, hexagons and octagons.  I gave the children little stories to help remember their names.  Ask your child if they can remember these stories.  Izaan thought the octagon was “really cool” as it had 8 sides like 8 legs of an octopus.  We discovered that each of these shapes had the same number of sides as vertices (pointy parts).

Sofia loved continuing to learn about Creation.  If your child wishes to rewatch the beautiful little video clip about this, click (or paste the link) here: Bible Story Series: Genesis The Creation of World

Matteo has continued to enjoy playing Benchball!  Super co-operation P3!

Vihaan has loved our learning so far about the Vikings.  He liked it when we looked at a real one in a museum in Oslo: The Collection – Museum of the Viking Age

Joseph’s highlight of the week was listening to our class novel, The Twits.  His favourite part was when the boys escaped from being stuck to the branch of the big dead tree.  They wiggled out of their trousers and ran away (Joseph was giggling at the pictures of their bums).

Tyler liked revising common words (reading and writing of them) from P2.

My highlight has been learning about the Viking longboats.  It was fantastic for the children to visualise the length of an actual boat.  The children have been eating up the facts about these boats and about the Viking burials.  We discussed what we would be buried with if we had of been Vikings.  The children said I would need to be buried with my laptop to be a teacher in the next life!  I wonder if I would have had wifi!

Congratulations to Viaan, our hot chocolate award winner this week!

I hope you all have a great weekend!

Mrs Brown

We have had a fantastic first full week of school! The staff have been so impressed by how quickly we are picking up the routines of the class.

This week in Literacy we have been learning all about same, different, loud and quiet. We enjoyed using the musical instruments to practise same but had even more fun using them to be loud! We worked well during group tasks to colour in the same items and then find the item that was different.

In Maths, we have been learning all about 0 and 1. We can write these using the correct formation and have been able to represent the numbers in different ways. We used ten frames to show the number and we are very quick at showing these numbers with our finger patterns.

In RE, we have been learning all of our Daily Prayers and we are becoming more confident in saying these together.

We have made our Class Charter and have thought carefully about how we can show we are Ready, Respectful and Safe. We have been keeping the classroom safe for everyone by tidying it up and we have earned some House Points for this.

In Health and Wellbeing, we learned about what to do when there is a fire. We lined up and walked out to the MUGA very sensibly. We have learned all about the Happy and Sadness spots and what zones they live in. For writing, we drew pictures about things that make us happy and told our sentence to the staff.

In PE, we have been learning to safely find a space in the hall and to listen to instructions. We enjoyed playing traffic lights, tunnel tig and the fruit game to help us practise these skills.

We met up with our Buddies for some reading time on Friday and enjoyed sharing the books with them.

Here are some of our personal highlights from this week:

Victoria – I enjoyed playing in the Ice Cream Shop.

Hanna – I enjoyed writing 0.

Carson – I enjoyed learning about Sadness Spot.

Ignacy – I enjoy playing with the marbles.

Oliver – I enjoyed running around at PE.

Freya – I enjoyed playing with the toys.

Miss Stebbing – It was lovely to meet some of the families at our Meet the Teacher event on Wednesday. I enjoyed seeing the excitement of all the children to show their families around our classroom.

Hello again P3 families.  This has been our first full week together and I think we are all starting to get used to our early mornings again.  This week, we hear from The Polar Bears:

Maks loved playing Benchball during PE.  He was chosen to stand on the bench and caught a ball from his team and won a point!  Super catching Maks!  The children are improving with their 3 different passes and remembering to not walk with the ball.

Oscar enjoyed ‘Meet the Teacher’ and showing his proud parents around our classroom and some of his work so far.  For those families unable to make it this time, please check your child’s homework bag for the information that was sent home.

Daisy liked listening to music from Treasure Island with Mrs Morrison during music leesons this week.

Vakashini said her highlight this week was making her little ‘mini me’ for our ‘We are children of God’ display.  She gave herself a beautfuil outfit and matching purse!

Dawid continued to enjoy listening to our class novel, The Twits.  The children worked in pairs to come up with a trick that Mr Twit could play on Mrs Twit to get revenge for putting worms in his spaghetti.  Dawid and his partner’s involved a bin!

Umaez said he loved playing Scrabble with me during ‘Choosing our own Learning’ time.  We both drew!

My highlight this week was meeting the parents and seeing how proud you all were of your child.

Congratulations to this week’s hot chocolate winner, Daisy!

Homework will begin week beginning 1^st September.  Please return the homework packs in the school bags each morning.  Thank you.

Below, as well as seeing some photographs of your child’s time in school this week, you will also find a brief overview of some of the learning for the term ahead.

We have had a busy and fun week getting into a routine with Miss Mushet and Mrs Ross. We have been

talking about emotions and the Zones of Regulation and we met Roger the routine rooster who reminds us to look after ourselves and have a routine to help us feel safe and prepared as well as help us get a good nights sleep.

We are practising place value with 2 and 3 digit numbers and we are trying to order and sort them

and find them on a number line. Mrs Ross enjoyed meeting some of our parents on Wednesday.

Have a great weekend everyone.

A big hello to all the families of P3!  What fantastic children you have!  We have had a lovely few days together, having fun and getting to know one another.  As each day passes, we will incorporate more and more learning.  This week we have been getting refamiliarized with school life; the routines and expectations of behaviour.  The layout of the classroom means that your child is in one of 3 table groups.  The names they chose for them are: The Red Pandas, The Polar Bears and The Ferrets.  Each week one of the table groups will share what they have enjoyed most about their week.  I hope you enjoy looking at the photographs together and discussing what you see and read.  This week we have The Red Pandas:

Daniel enjoyed learning about ‘The Feast of the Assumption’.  We learned that Mary ascended into Heaven and this is remembered each year on the 15^th August.  We learned about the meaning of the words of the Hail Mary prayer and next week we will learn actions to accompany the words.

Alex said he really enjoyed playing with the blocks during ‘Choosing our own Learning’ time.

Leighton liked the lesson with Skittles.  Depending on what colour the children chose, they had to answer a question before eating it.  The questions were either: What job would you like to do when you are older?   Who lives in your house/s? or Would you like to be a tiny horse or an enormous chicken?  Leighton thought she would like to be a tiny horse as she liked the idea of being really small.

Laaibah has enjoyed playing with some LOL dolls with her friends.

Viaan loved PE where the children have been practising the 3 different passes required for Benchball: chest pass, bounce pass and overhead pass.  We had a little practise of playing the game after developing these ball skills but will properly learn next week.

Danvith has loved listening to our class novel, The Twits.  So far, we have learned about one trick that Mrs Twit played on Mr Twit and afterwards we learned about the different parts of the eye and drew our eye.  Ask your child if they can remember the trick involving an eyeball!

Amelia liked colouring in and has been a frequent visitor to the craft area this week during ‘Choosing our own Learning’ time.

Maja enjoyed drawing Mr and Mrs Twit.  At first, the children listened to the character descriptions in the novel and using their imagination, they had to draw them.  Afterwards I revealed what they looked like to see if they were close.

Tyler F has loved playing Connect 4 with friends.

Nathan liked the feelings check-in each morning.

I look forward to seeing you all at Meet the Teacher next Wednesday after school.  Don’t worry if you cannot make it as I will send a copy of any slides home the following day.

Just a little reminder about labelling your child’s jumper and water bottle.  Thank you.

I hope you have a lovely weekend and manage to enjoy some of the lovely weather.

Mrs Brown