St John Ogilvie Primary School

Dear Parents and Carers,

Please click on the link to have a look at Primary 6A and B Learning overview for Term 1.

Overview Term 1 P6SDQ

Thank you.

Mrs Lea and Mrs Valente

Hello families of P5B!

Here are our highlights this week as recorded by the Yellow table:

Moseez and Daniel liked playing dodge ball during PE with Mr Pentland.

Ksawery and Nathan loved their session with ‘Destination Judo’.  Information leaflets of classes (with free trails) where sent home.

Alex has been enjoying mindfulness colouring in during Choosing Our Own Learning time.

Aayush said the highlight of his week was playing ‘Number Nap’.  This game can be used for any learning context but we used it to revise P4 learning of Time.

Ella liked our lesson on Prediction with Inference.  The children had 2 book covers to examine and using the clues on the cover, had to guess what the story may have been about.  The 2 titles we looked at were, ‘Peaceful Private’ and ‘Northern Lights’.  It was interesting to hear the different conclusions that were reached and why.  The ‘why’ was important.  The children had to put in to words why they came up with those conclusions.

Aaeryn-Leigh liked our lessons on procedure writing.  We started off examining writing of this genre and making observations on the layout.  We then wrote a procedure piece together as a class followed up with the children deciding upon and writing their own piece.  The use of a thesaurus was encouraged to up level vocabulary.  Mrs Brown was impressed with how one replaced replaced ‘dig a hole in the soil’ with ‘hallow out some soil’ (Nicolas) and how another used one of our Word Boost words(Addison). P5 will be working hard his year to up level the vocabulary in their writing.

Michael has continued to enjoy listening to our class novel.

My highlight was the Destination Judo session.  It was great to see the children work together to complete the different sequence of movements as well as having good fun!

Congratulations to our hot chocolate award winner, Aayush!

I hope you enjoy the weekend.

Just a reminder that next week is a short week, with the children finishing up on Thursday at 3.20pm and returning on Wednesday.

Mrs Brown

Dear Readers,

Once again, welcome to our Blog!😀😀

As usual, this week was full of interesting things and these were just its highlights:

• The new spelling words, which have been chosen from our addictive novel ‘Nowhere Emporium’ have been practised throughout the week and, as a result, today’s spelling assessment scores were absolutely brilliant! 👏👏👏Well done, P6B!
• Revisiting the Narrative, its structure and identifying the different parts of the text ‘Rescue at Sea’.
• Our Reading Comprehension about the ‘Nowhere Emporium’, where most have demonstrated how on task they have been and how much they have been managing to ‘read between the lines’.
• In Numeracy and Maths, we have ordered numbers up to 7 digits, converted numbers up to 7 digits into their expanded form and converted numbers from their expanded form into their standard form. It was amazing to see how much children have enjoyed being more and more challenged. After, we went on to revisit the symbols for less than, greater than and equal to and have used them to compare numbers up to 7 digits as well. At the end of the week we have also had the opportunity to get our number skills tested on Prodigy through fun games and challenges.
• In RE, we have continued learning about the Book of Exodus, the meaning of Passover and what do Jewish people do to celebrate it. This included learning about the Seder and what is included in the Seder Plate. In our school we are always happy to find out about other religions’ traditions!😍
• Our new topic is Ancient Greece and we can’t wait to start working hard on it to find out as much as we possibly can. From what we have already watched, we’re sure it will be very interesting!
• The week ended with Free Writing Friday and many children have asked to share their writing with the class, which is always great!
• Last but not least, we would like to congratulate our Hot Chocolate of the Week for always following the school rules of Ready, Respectful and Safe! Well done, Renna, you are a ✨and a super good example to follow! 🏆👏😀

This is all for now, we say goodbye wishing all a happy weekend!

P6B and Mrs Valente 😘😘

Hi everyone,  we have had another busy and fun filled week in P1.

In Literacy we have been learning our first sound m.  It is a long, stretchy, red coloured sound and we use our lips to make it.  We made m using chalks and whiteboards  and markers and we also practised forming it in rice.  We are able to recall lots of words that begin with m.  We used our cutting skills to cut out a monster and piece him together and today we designed and drew our own monsters.  Mrs Russell was very impressed with the detail in our drawings.

In Maths and Numeracy we have been looking at the numbers 4 and 5, what they look like as a quantity and as a number and we practised forming the numbers 0 to 5.  We have been exploring 3D shapes learning their names and trying to identify some in the environment.  We made some amazing structures with the shapes. We are continuing to enjoy counting forwards and backwards and we use a 100 square to help us look at the numbers as we count.  We are also enjoying using the Promethean Board to play maths games.

This week we have been learning about our senses and the sense of touch.  We had to feel different objects inside of balloons and try to work out what the object was and match it to the correct pictures.

We also learned different words to describe the feel of things and completed a hand activity.

In Religion we are continuing to learn our school prayers and we also discussed our talents and gifts.

In Spanish we played a game we had to listen to the colour in Spanish and jump on to a circle that colour.  We also used our listening skills to colour parts of a dog red, blue, green and yellow in Spanish.

Weekly Highlights:

Myra ‘I liked when Mr Pentland read us a story’

Tiara ‘I liked tidying up’

Cerys ‘I liked colouring the Teddy Bear’

Daniel and Guhan Kumar ‘We liked everything’

Alfie and William ‘We liked playing with then Marble Run’

Well done to this weeks Hot Chocolate winner Emilio.  We are very proud of you.

Hello to our P4A families!

We have had a super week of hard work and of course lots of fun too.

Throughout this week we focused on our new genre of writing which is procedure writing. P4A shared great step by step writing pieces about how they make popcorn. Some of the great work is displayed below.

Primary 4A also had the opportunity to trial our new Better Thinking Classrooms approach, which promotes the children to problem solve, think, communicate and work in a pair or trio to complete the problem.

Laura said that this task “really made her brain work” which we love to hear as she tried so hard to complete the question.

Ethan used his mental maths and knowledge of multiplication to help him battle the problem.

Alicja also worked very hard by trying lots of different ways to answer the question until she reached her correct answer.

Our hot chocolate winner of this week goes to Bodhini- she always tries her very best and is a super friend to everyone in the class. Well done Bodhini!

P4A have shown great engagement with their topic, Scottish Inventors and we look forward to welcoming you all to our assembly in the coming weeks.

Another great week, Well done P4A 🙂

Miss Maxwell