St John Ogilvie Primary School

What a great week we have had in P1.

We have been learning the ‘ou’ and ‘oi’ sound. All our children worked really hard to sound out and write words with these sounds. We have also been working on skimming and scanning a piece of writing to find specific topic words.

This week we have been learning all about babies, what they need and how we can care for them. We wrote fantastic sentences about this working on adding a connecting word. We loved having one of our P1 friends baby siblings come in to visit us. We all thought he was super cute and confidently asked questions and shared facts we have been learning. We have also been learning about the human lifecycle and can explain how we change as we get older.

In math our focus this week was on data handling. We learned how to conduct a survey and how to use tally marks. We made a bar graph for our favourite mini beast and for colours of eyes.

Outdoor learning this week we used viewfinders to look at the different views bugs and other creatures see and then we drew fabulous pictures.

Hello P5B Families!

Here are the learning highlights from your lovely children.  This week we have the Yellow table reporting:

Daniel loved the outdoor learning session with the therapy dog, Jax and his owner, Rob.  Rob did an informative lesson about how long it takes for rubbish to decompose.  The children had to guess first and stand behind the number of years they thought.  The purpose of this was for the children to realise how their decisions to recycle, positively affect the future of our planet.

Anthony enjoyed our St Patrick’s Day celebrations!  These included: drama, Irish dancing, Irish Corners and the best part……green mint choc-chip ice-cream!

Moeez and Ksawery have said they especially liked our Climate Smart learning this week when we made floating wind turbines and our very own batteries!  Ask you child how batteries link with frog legs?!?!?!??

Michael said the highlight of his week was telling a joke in the hall in front of the whole school.  Michael was our overall class winner and did a marvellous job of competing against fellow students.  We were so proud of him making it to the Finals.

Vinayakarthik liked PE with Mrs Lafferty where they played ‘Capture the Flag’.

Alex has loved maths this week.  We continued dividing 4 digit numbers with remainders and making links with quarters.

Nathan continues to enjoy the Big Lent Walk.

Rowan was interested in the learning about Word Down Syndrome Day which was today, 21st March.  The children had questions about how someone is born this way and listened to how they can care for our Down Syndrome friends and how we are all unique.  I also shared about how my little sister has special needs and the help and support she needs.  This lead to the children sharing what they need help with themselves.  It was a beautiful, inclusive lesson.

My highlight was this Down Syndrome lesson also.

Congratulations to our hot chocolate award winner, Rowan and our Reading Champ, Amelia!  Also, a big thank you to Nicolas who put together the photos below.

I hope you have a lovely weekend.  I believe we are going to have some bright, warmer days.

Dear Readers,

Welcome to our weekly post. We hope you have all had a good week.😃

These were the highlights of our week in Primary 6B:

• The work with decimal numbers by ordering them and also by learning how to add them. Some of us were a bit stressed out but ended up enjoying it a lot!
• Our weekly spelling words and spelling assessment, with more words from the Elsewhere Emporium which are super interesting and that we would very much like to start using in our writing.
• Continuing our Biodiversity work.
• Learning about St. Joseph’s day and the story of his life. We have reflected on his immense kindness for accepting what God asked of him and for being such a kind and caring father on Earth for Jesus.
• Finishing off our Prayer People after writing our own prayers and who they were for. They look so lovely!🥰
• Our first ever Voice Box Joke Competition which was beyond fun! Very well done to our Ishani M for her joke and the way she acted it out because it was amazing!👏👏👏✨😄
• Going to Mass today and reflecting on the story of Joseph ( the one from the Old Testament) and his colourful jacket, which, as Father Clement said, shows us that even the ones who have been abandoned feeling left out can turn out to be extremely important.
• Starting our Sumdog Competition! This is extremely important and we would like to ask parents and carers to please let all children go to Sumdog until the 27th of March! This is the national contest so children from the four nations are competing and being very good already!
• Our novel, the Otherwhere Emporium, is getting more and more interesting and we just want to know what’s going to happen next!😃
• We would like to congratulate our Hot Chocolate of last week for always being on task and ready to learn, well done Mr. Srihaun! You have been a star!👏🏆🥇✨
• Congratulations also to our Hot Chocolate of this week, our recently arrived Mr. Shiv, who has had an amazing week and has been setting a great example of how to follow our school rules of Ready, Respectful and Safe! Well done and once again welcome to our Class and to our School!👏🥇🏆✨
• Well done also to the children of the Scary Seas Table for winning the weekly prize! Super tidy and organised! Congratulations Zac, Renna, Mariam, Ishani S, Layla, Ishani M, Lyon and Aiden!👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏😃
• Congratulations also to Jonah, Jude and Zac for representing the school in a very competitive Football tournament which took place in Inveralmond High School today. We’re super proud of you!✨👏👏👏⚽⚽⚽
• Finally, many congratulations to Maeve for being the Reader of the Fortnite for the 2nd time in Primary 6! She’s always looking forward for a tiny bit of time to keep reading her interesting books! Well done!📚📚📚📚
• We would like to thank everyone who has brought their food donation to the Food Bank today for their generosity! ♥♥♥

That’s all for today, we say goodbye wishing you all a happy weekend with many opportunities to be with your loved ones doing nice things.

P6B and Mrs Valente😘😘

Dear Parents and Carers,

This week we have experienced lots of different learning activities. It has been a fun week!

We have continued to do our Big Lent Walk each day trying hard to work as a team! Today, many of us wore an Easter themed hat to school and brought in food items, which will be donated to the local food bank. Our class have been learning about the Holy Doors which will be opened in Rome and we made mini doorstops which we have placed on our altar. Here are some of our learning highlights:

Ailsa and Julia ” We really enjoyed starting to design our Biomes PowerPoint.”

Liam and Sam ” The badminton festival at Deans High School was amazing! ”

Ignacy and Damian ” We enjoyed making the doorstops for our altar.”

Liam and Lily” We enjoyed learning about St Joseph and why it is important to remember him.”

Pixie and Zofia” We enjoyed working in small group with Mrs Lea, to learn more about decimals.”

Congratulations to Ena , who is our reading champion for the next two weeks.

Congratulations to Mia, who was nominated our hot chocolate award for amazing work throughout the week.

Have a super weekend !

Mrs Lea and Primary 6A

Hello P5B Families,

Here are the learning highlights for this week as recorded by the Blue Table:

Addison and Amelia have said that the outdoor learning event was the best part of their week.  I know you will all agree that Addison read very well at the welcome in the hall. (Most of the children wanted to pick the outdoor learning event as the highlight of their week but I convinced them to pick another so our parents would know what else we got up to in P5B this week.)

Aaeryn-Leigh has been enjoying our daily Lenten walk as we try to walk enough steps to get us to Rome.  From next week, we will begin each walk with a special Lent prayer.  Our first walk was 20mins as we walked our daily 1KM but we have managed to get it down to 13 minutes!

Nicolas loved the lesson we had on how electricity can be created through the movement of water.  The children have been learning about damns and reservoirs and took part in a group hydropower challenge (see photos).

Flynn enjoyed eating the cake that Mrs McKissack kindly bought each class to celebrate the Feast of St John Ogilvie on March 10th.

Sean and David said the highlight of their week was their first recorder lesson with Mrs Morrison.

Haadiya has been enjoying our new class novel.  It is another David Walliams as voted for by the class and is called ‘The Ice Monster’.

Georgia and Ellie-May loved playing a new game that Mrs Brown saw online that helps bring the noise level of the class down after a busy day.  The children get to sit on their desks (which I think is why they love it) and toss a teddy around to others at the other side of the room.  If you miss, you are out, if you talk, you are out and if you fire it, you are out.  It has been a hit!

My highlight of course has to be our outdoor learning event.  The children were so proud to have their parents come to school and join in with their learning.  Well done to all the parents for braving the slack line!  There is a separate Blog post which has some super photos recorded.  See if you can spot yourself!

A big well done to Sean, our hot chocolate award winner this week!

Mrs Brown

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