St John Ogilvie Primary School

Dear Readers,

We hope you are all very well.

What a fantastic week it has been! Book week is always lots of fun and this one was simply brilliant!😃

The whole school worked on the book The Lorax by Dr. Seuss and learned, according to their age and level, great things about the book and its author.

Our highlights were:

• Spelling words from The Lorax.
• Art activities about The Lorax : draw along the Lorax and Frame your own Truffula trees.
• Dramatisation of the story of The Lorax.
• Baking Truffulas.
•  One, two and three steps word problems.
• Daily collaborative stories, where every class had to write a chapter for a different book every day as a whole class. We can’t wait to read those books!😂📚
• Reading to our new Reading Buddies from P2 who visited our classroom and were delighted to have us reading for and with them.
• Watching the brilliant Axel Scheffler, the Gruffalo’s creator, explaining how he works  with Julia Donaldson in the illustration of her books and helping us to understand the whole process of publishing a book.🐗 He also explained why he prefers to draw fictional  creatures and said that he has been an illustrator since he was in his twenties. The children considered this Author’s live edition extremely interesting and said that they had learned a lot with it!
• Creating our own alternative covers for The Lorax, having in mind what we have learned the book is about : Deforestation, the environment and protection of Nature.🏔🌳
• Learning again about St. Margaret, the Patroness Saint of Scotland, her life and how she became so much loved by people here.
• We also had parents and carers visiting for Share the Learning and it’s always enjoyable to show them a sample of our work.😀
• To add to the fun and make it different, each afternoon the children got to go to one of the other Upper Area’s classroom to have a lesson with Mrs Lea, Miss McGregor and Mr McGurn about The Lorax as well.

Unfortunately we didn’t have enough time to choose the Hot Chocolate of this week but will let you know next week about both!🥰

That’s all for now! We wish you all a great weekend and hope you’ll all be safe in this cold and maybe snowy weather!🌨❄

P6B and Mrs Valente😘😘

Good afternoon friends and families! 😁

P5B has had a fantastic book week.📖 This has been very fun and we have got a lot done! We completed lots of activities based on the Lorax!

Pupil Highlights:

Ksuwery: “I loved dragonistics”

Nathan: “I liked making my own data cards”

We used the game dragonistics this week to learn about statistical data! We sorted these into data groups and bar graphs. Then we used the data to battle! It was very fun!

Daniel: “I liked making videos with different animations”

Olek: “I loved everything especially making videos and posters”

We used adobe express this week and loved it! We made posters, videos, infographics and even used the power of AI to create weird and wonderful images!

Matthias: “I liked helping Mr Pentland in the classroom”

Rowan: “I liked showing Mr Pentland where things are in our room”

We all helped Mr Pentland this week and it was very appreciated! Thank you for a lively and lovely week.

Scott: “I liked Kahoot and getting on the leaderboard!”

Ava: “I liked kahoots”

During the share the learning event Mr Pentland hosted multiple kahoots! We were  in teams! Everyone got very excited and some people got very ahead of themselves – naming their team “the winners” before the game even began! It’s fair to say everyone wanted to prove them wrong however they did extremely well! Well done 👏. You earned your title! As did many others. We had a lot of fun, although my head still hurts!

Over and Above:

A huge well done to Anthony! You had a brilliant week, you were very kind, helpful, respectful and demonstrated our school values consistently!

Pupil Highlights:

Joe: I liked making the Truffla Trees out of cotton for book week.

John: I liked teaming up with the primary threes to read with them.

Ella: I liked  going to different classes for book week activities.

Julia: I liked using a protractor to measure different angles.

Lucas O: I liked reading The Lorax, because it is a very good book.

Kayla: I enjoyed doing the Who am I literacy task in the morning.

Kailin: I liked reading with the primary threes that came to our class.

P5A have LOVED the Lorax this Week.  We wrote fantastic summaries of the stories and created our own literal and inferential questions.

Hot Chocolate Winner this week: Congratulations to Ruari who is not only a kind, gentle and caring boy, but a hard working and responsible pupil. Miss Smith is so proud of you for making such progress in your reading at home and in the class. Well done Ruari !

This week is Scottish Book Week and we have had such a fun time reading books and doing activities linked to them.

At the start of the week we read ‘The Quickest Bedtime Story Ever’. We thought about and discussed our bed time routines, we also designed a pair of new pyjamas and a teddy bear. We also looked at time, things that happen during the day/night and completed a sorting activity.

Tiara – I liked the book.

Cerys – I made my pyjamas rainbow and flowers.

We also Read 10 Dogs, which is all about the number 10. We completed a math addition dog activity and looked at how to look after a dog.

Cerys – My dog Poppy howls when she gets scared.

Daniel – I like singing 10 little sausages.

We watched an illustrator on the smartboard, who taught us how to draw the Gruffalo.  It was so much fun and they were all so good Mrs Russell put them on the wall. We also read a book with the P6’s.

The final book we read this week was The Eyebrows of Doom, it was a really funny book and we all laughed when the seagull pooped on everyone’s head. We designed our own eyebrows and made our version of the front cover. We also made predictions about what might happen next, drawing a picture in your crystal ball. There are lots of rhyming words in the story, we worked in small groups to try and find which words rhymed. We also designed our perfect ice cream cone and worked out how much it would cost us, paying for it with the correct coins.

Alfie – I liked when Mrs Meikle said seacow instead of seagull when she was reading the story and we all laughed.

We discussed how we can stop germs from spreading and did a fun experiment using germs (glitter). We learned how to properly wash our hands to make sure we don’t spread germs.

Ava – I liked getting glitter on my hands.

We also really enjoyed making up our own stories using story prompts, some of the stories were very funny, such as a clown jumping on a trampoline and he jumped so high he ended up in space.

We look forward to sharing our learning with our adults on Wednesday.

Dear Parents and Carers,

Primary 6 has been involved in lots of different activities for World Book week, It has been busy but great fun! Most of our lessons  have been based on the ” Lorax” by Dr Seuss.

Our class buddied up with P1/2 and had fun reading stories to them. Primary 6 loved doing this and are keen to do this regularly!!

In our reading comprehension activities, we learned about Dr Seuss and what inspired him to become a writer. Our spelling words were also taken from the Lorax book.

We had great fun completing our collaborative books throughout the week, it was interesting to see what each class had written in the previous chapter!

The reader leaders organised a competition where we had to design an alternative book cover for the Lorax.

The upper area offered different activities based on the Lorax, we experienced baking, art and drama. Each day we had a different teacher and that was good fun! We are have taken lots of photographs and are going to record them in a digital format to enter a competition!

Our class visited Primary 3 to help them design and create maths board games. We plan to help them again as it was really successful and enjoyable!

Congratulations to Sophia who was our hot chocolate winner this week!

Have a lovely weekend

Mrs Lea and Primary 6A

Hello families of P5B!

Here are our highlights this week as recorded by the Red table (due to absences, only 4 people were present to give their highlight so they have given two):

Matthais has enjoyed listening to the story ‘The Lorax’ in preparation for next week’s Book Week activities based on this story.  The children are excited to be visiting other classrooms each day for this themed learning.  He liked the part where the Lorax could not talk too much due to all the smog.  This story will lend well to our Climate Smart lessons due to the deforestation and pollution theme.  He also enjoyed contributing to a whole class ‘Kindness’ display as part of Anti Bullying Week and World Kindness Day on Wednesday.

Kacper has continued to love listening to our class novel ‘The Midnight Gang’.  We only read a chapter or two per day but hope to finish it during Book Week.  The chapter ‘Deep, Deep, Trouble’ has been his favourite so far.  He also recounts how continuing to work on Enterprise has been enjoyable for him.

Rowan has loved maths lessons this week that involved dividing up to 4 digit numbers by 10, 100 and 1000.  Some of those answers involved decimal points so we have been working on understanding their place value and understanding them as fractions.  He also shared that Word Boost Corners (a class favourite) has been the best part of his week.

Jayden said that the ‘World Kindness Day’ virtual assembly was his highlight.  We joined schools across the UK to learn together about what it means to show kindness.  We heard that if we are kind to one person, we are in fact potentially being kind to 125 people due to the ripple effect.  He also enjoyed making 3D shapes with nets of cuboids and cubes with Mrs Morrrison.

My highlight was the reaction the children had when I accidentally broke one of our table-top lamps!  I was showered with comments such as, “Don’t worry, it was just an accident” and such like.  This is a reflection of how nurturing and kind the children of P5B are.

Congratulations to our hot chocolate award winner Daniel and Michael, our Reading Champ!

Just a reminder that we have our ‘Sharing the Learning’ event on Thursday (2pm or 6pm).  This will be an opportunity for your child to proudly showcase their jotter work so far in the school year and have learning conversations with you about what they have being doing and what they are proud of.

Mrs Brown