St John Ogilvie Primary School

Dear Parents and Carers,

A short week last week but lots going on.

Aiden said about our STEM maths project, “This week it was rather interesting. We made ‘Mudmaps’, it was annoying but I enjoyed it very much.”

Paige reported, “Some of us did dooking for apples – we put our head into the water and Mr McGurn splashed us! We could eat the apples if we wanted to after catching them.”

“This week we went to the fire pit and we got to learn how to use the flint and steel to make a fire. I had lots of fun doing that, I even made a fire, well, Mr McGurn helped me but still I had lots of fun!” said Benita.

“I really enjoyed playing tennis this week in PE. I wasn’t very good though.” said Daniel.

No Hot Chocolate winner this short week.

Hello P3 Families,

With all the Halloween excitement on Friday, we forgot to talk about the highlights of our week!  I hope you enjoy the photos below of our Halloween fun-packed day and our walk for Road Safety Week:

Our new, revised, monthly homework will begin on Monday 10th November.  Please look out for this in your child’s homework bag.  Reading books will continue to be issued weekly.

Best wishes,

Mrs Brown

This week we have had a pumpkin themed week! We learned about the parts of a pumpkin and completed a Seesaw task to label the pumpkin correctly. We did a Science experiment to see if the small, medium and large pumpkins float or sink. We had to make a prediction and record the results. We were very excited to take part in this experiment. We also read the story Pumpkin Soup and talked about the characters. We loved cutting open the pumpkins and using our hands, spoons and forks to see what was inside. Lots of people thought the outside of the pumpkin was lovely but the inside was disgusting! We wrote a sentence to describe the pumpkins and used our new common word ‘is’.  We also used the whiteboard pens to decorate the pumpkins.

In Literacy, we have been learning the sound ‘i’. We had a reading task where we used torches to find the word behind the pumpkin picture and then we put a spider on the correct picture on our sheet. It was great fun!

In Maths, we have been learning about estimating and we had to make a sensible estimate on the number of pumpkin seeds on the board.

We all agreed the highlight of our week was our Halloween morning. We made necklaces and ghost puppets, took part in apple dooking and had fun dancing and playing the Halloween Corners Game in the hall with P1A and P2.

Congratulations to Tejasvi who is our Reading Champion for this fortnight. He has shown confidence in reading common words.

Dear Readers,

We hope you are all very well.

Here are this week’s highlights:

• Our new spelling ‘animal; words for the week, finding out where those animals come from, what they look like and practice the spelling of their names throughout the week. We also absolutely love the weekly spelling assessment and get all excited by it!
• The story of Our Lady of Fatima and her six apparitions in Portugal to Lucia, Francisco and Jacinta, three little shepherds, in 1917. Since the last apparition was exactly on the 13th of October, we celebrated its 108th anniversary by learning all about it. We were particularly amazed by the Miracle of the Sun and even got to draw it! They looked beautiful! 💕
• The Outdoor Session with Kids gone Wild where we have had the chance to try lots of new things in the woodlands, including a zip line and hammocks! It was really cool and we were there for the whole morning, having fun and being active!
• Football with Steve and his helpers where everyone has had the chance to play!
• Gardening in our school grounds, making them much nicer and organised!
• Learning all about angles, how to name them, how to use the protractor to measure them and how to classify them according to the different types of angles. We have also enjoyed our work on full turns, half turns, quarter turns and three quarter turns.
• Learning about Personification and how it is a tool to make our writing more interesting and fun.
• Praying a Decade of the Rosary every day, while thanking Our Lady for all the good things She gives us and asks Her Son Jesus to give us.
• Big Maths, Beat That was super exciting as well, especially because this week three of us went up another level! Well done Adya, Ksawery and Vinayakarthik!😊🥇
• Congratulations again to Adya for being a super duper sweet and caring Hot Chocolate of the week! Keep it up and continue being amazing!🥇😍
• Because today was the final day of the 1st Term, it was time to count our Harry Potter Houses Points and…………… Slytherin won with 90 points! Absolutely amazing! Congratulations to all Slytherins and keep up the fantastic work! But give other houses a chance to win as well, please!🤣All Slytherins won an exclusive Harry Potter foldable ruler to reward them for their great achievement and the Slytherin House flag was put over our classroom’s door for everyone to see!
• Finally, we really enjoyed dress down day and having the opportunity to wear our favourite clothes while we were at school!

Mrs Valente’s highlight of the week:

• Looking at Slytherin’s boys and girls happy faces while celebrating their victory!😍🏆
• Watching the way we all had fun playing together in the Woodlands and also how brave we were when trying to do new things we didn’t feel comfortable doing before! 😊

That’s all for now, we hope you have enjoyed reading our post and wish everyone a great holiday week!

P6B and Mrs Valente😘😘

What a busy week we have had in P1B!

We have been learning all about numbers to 20. There was a spider covering up the number and when we said the right answer the spider ran away! It was very funny.

In Literacy, we have been learning the ‘n’ sound. We have been using a spinner game to practice reading words and our letter formation.

In Science, we used all our senses and made popcorn. We then tasted different flavours and made a bar graph to show our favourite.

In PE, we had a football session. We played Hungry Hippos Football Style and we even got to steal footballs from the other goals.

In Art, we followed instructions to draw a pumpkin.

We have also been learning about Self Assessment. We had to choose our favourite piece of Literacy work from this term and put a photo on Seesaw. We then recorded a sentence about why we thought this was our best piece of work.

Here are some of our personal highlights from this week:

Grace – I enjoyed reading.

Niall – I enjoyed tasting popcorn.

Aayat – I enjoyed making the pumpkins.

Amelia- I enjoyed doing Literacy.

Hanna – I enjoyed reading a book.

Aria – I enjoyed doing the football at PE.

Congratulations to Alayha who is our Hot Chocolate Winner this week. She has been trying hard to write her numbers the correct way and showed confidence in saying the sounds.

Hello P3 families,

This is the last week of term.  I cannot believe how time is flying!  We have some very special memories since the start of term.

Here are our highlights this week from The Ferrets:

Matteo has loved having the St Margarets pupils with us this week (one per day).  They were here on work experience.  They were superstars and the children especially enjoyed hearing a story read to them each day.

Joseph has been enjoying our lessons so far on the Ancient Romans.  This will be a mini topic followed by a pupil choice one.  Thank you to everyone who has sent an Ancient Roman fact through Seesaw so far to start us off.

Izhaan’s highlight was football this week.  The children had an opportunity to develop their ball skills with a football coach.  I was so proud of their efforts and enthusiasm.  They gave it their all and most importantly, had fun.

Eliza enjoyed learning about speech bubbles this week and made up dialogue between a boy and girl about cake.  She used the picture clues to help her with what the speech bubbles would say.  Good work Eliza!

Navami has continued to enjoy Viking saga music with Mrs Morrison.

Ellie reported that she absolutely loves Mrs Roy so her learning with her has to be what she chose (celebrating our differences).

My highlight was listening to the facts sent in so far for Ancient Roman facts, especially Oscar’s, which made us giggle!  According to our historian, Oscar from P3, the Ancient Romans would use a sponge on the end of a stick to wipe their bottoms, after going to the toilet!  Then they would pass the sponge to the next person!  Thank you for that Oscar.  I am glad that particular element of history has remained in the past!

Congratulations to our hot chocolate winner this week, Maks.

I hope you all enjoy your break and I hope to see you all on Tuesday 28^th October.

Best wishes,

Mrs Brown

Dear Parents,

A busy week before the holidays with lots going on in P7B:

We have continued to prepare for the upcoming SNSAs  and take part in the MathsBURST STEM project from Glasgow Uni in maths.

We finished reading Kensuke’s Kingdom and very much enjoyed it and are looking forward to seeing the similarities and differences in the film. We will start our new book ‘Millions’ by Frank Cottrell-Boyce after the October break.

For IDL we were printing using paint and polystyrene – results were oaky but would have worked better with printing ink.

In PE we had a visiting coach take a football session where we worked very hard and did very well.

Paige said, ‘We did Football with Steven and he taught us how to do more cool tricks and we had a match.’

For outdoor learning we went to Deans Woods to continue building our Deans with found materials.

Twinnie said, ‘I think it is lovely to build dens and is really fun.’

We also did a bit of Food Technology as Mrs Dwane asked us to use up some resources.

Ishani M said, Baking cookies is super fun and eating them was even better. It was fun making them with my friends. They were super tasty.’

Our Hot Chocolate winner this week is Paige who really showed her kind and empathetic nature towards others.

Have a great October break,

Mr McGurn and P7B

What a wonderful week we’ve had in class!

This week’s highlight for the children was our outdoor learning session. We took a lovely walk to St. Peter’s where we gathered to say a Memorare and a Hail Mary. It was a peaceful and reflective moment, especially fitting for our Day of Prayer for Peace. The children showed such respect and calm during our visit, a beautiful reminder of how thoughtful they can be.

My own highlight this week has been continuing our work for Black History Month. We explored African-inspired patterns and began planning our own artwork inspired by these vibrant designs. The children already have so much knowledge and enthusiasm about this topic, and I can’t wait to see their creativity shine through in their finished pieces!

It was also lovely to meet so many families during our parent consultations. Thank you to everyone who was able to attend; it was wonderful to catch up, share how well the children have settled into the year, and talk about our plans ahead. Your support makes such a difference!

We’re looking forward to another exciting week of learning ahead!

At St. Peter’s

Collaborative work

A group’s own problem

collaborative work