St John Ogilvie Primary School

Dear Readers,

We hope you have had a great week!

In P3A we have had another busy week and the highlights were:

• Our Reading comprehension and fact file on mice.
• The Spelling wordsearches that we enjoy so much!
• All the new learning on our new topic of The Vikings as well as the questions we asked an would like to find the answers to.
• Ordering numbers up to 100.
• Revising how to tell the time – o’clock and half past – and getting ready to introduce quarter past and quarter to.
• Understanding how trees are turned into our very much needed and used paper and how by saving it we can consequently help saving trees and our planet.🌍
• Our weekly spelling assessment and Free Writing Friday.

We would like to congratulate Kyle, our Hot Chocolate of the week, and thank him for being such an amazing example of someone who follows our class and school rules of being Ready, Respectful and Safe! Well done, Kyle!😃👍🥇👏👏👏👏

Our new lovely 1st, 2nd and 3rd kindness champions of the fortnight, with 6, 5 and 4 kindness notes for acts of kindness in school are Zosia, John and Ben and we are so very proud of them!😍💗💗💗🥇🥈🥉Super! Keep it up and let kindness rule the world!

That is all for now!

We hope you have enjoyed reading and wish you an amazing weekend with your loved ones!😘😘😘😘

Mrs Valente and P3A

Hello P5A families!

We have had yet another fantastic week in P5. We have been busy revising our knowledge of odd and even numbers in numeracy and continued with our class novel, Wonder. We have also been learning all about the solar system and the movement of planets- ask us about how we remember the order of planets closest to the sun! Our biggest project this week was baking our very own apple and plum crumble! We picked the fruit from the garden ourselves, cut and prepared the fruit and finally made the crumble. We also helped Miss Ventisei to measure and weigh out all of the ingredients we would need- Eilidh even wrote a shopping list! We enjoyed every step and were very excited to eat it on Friday morning!  Here are some of our favourite moments of the week:

Fahad: “I really loved maths this week!”

Lili: “My favourite moment of the week was baking the crumble!”

Weronika: “I loved EATING the crumble!”

Dawid: ” I loved learning all about the solar system this week.”

Eilidh: “I loved P.E. this week!”

Callie: “My favourite part of the week was designing our own crosses during R.E”

Our Hot Chocolate Friday winner for this week was Callie who demonstrated our school values of Ready, Respectful and Safe all week. We are all so proud of you Callie, well done!

We also managed to get lots and lots of names on our recognition board this week! Our focus for the week was on our school value of Respect. Well done P5A, Miss Ventisei is so proud of you all!

Miss Ventisei is also very much looking forward to welcoming all of our parents and families to the Meet the Teacher evening on Wednesday this coming week.

Here are some class pictures taken this week!

Have a lovely weekend! 🙂

Monday – We made some space art and included the first letter of our first name.

Tuesday – We used ipads and netbooks to research facts about Edward I of England. He wanted to rule Scotland when Alexander III died.

Wednesday – We had assembly in the morning with Mrs McLaughlin.

We learned about Article 12 – Children and young people don’t have as much power as adults. They can’t vote, and they don’t have as much money. But Article 12 says we have the human right to have opinions and for these opinions to be heard and taken seriously. At school we share our ideas and opinions in class about our learning. We shared our ideas about ways to protect our planet.  We went outside and collected apples and plums to make crumble.

Thursday – Today we made apple crumble and ate it hot with ice cream. It was great fun. We wrote out the recipe in our writing lesson. In the afternoon we were finding out more information about planets in our Solar System.

Friday –  We chose new lead learners. They are Fatima K and Luke. Our Hot chocolate person is Emma. We worked in partners to practise our French Greetings. Maja shared her medal with the class. Congratulations and well done Maja.  Have a great weekend everyone

Hi Families of P2A

We have had another super week. Lots of hard work, awesome learning and fun!

Our Highlights:

Linda – I loved writing my story about a cat in a box.

Hasika – I liked I-pad time.

Chahiti – My favourite thing was block play. I made a bed for the house.

Angel – I made a cool helicopter with Lego.

Caleb – I was focussing really hard in numeracy then I learned hard work. I can do 10 more than and 10 less than numbers to 100.

Huge Congratulations to Diana, our Hot Chocolate Winner!

Here is a short termly overview of our learning:

Have a great weekend!

Dear Parents,

Here’s an update on what we’ve been doing in P7A this week.

In Literacy we have continued our work on information reports and our class novel Millions.

For Numeracy we have been working on place value and Maths has been time which was problem solving a murder mystery!

We have continued to research Scotland through the decades and are currently working through the 70’s.

We took a walk up to Deans Woods on Wednesday on a conker hunt. We did find quite a few but they were mostly too small and not quite ready yet. We will venture out to Dechmont Law in a few weeks to get some better ones so we can have a game of conkers.

As part of a STEM afternoon we were engineering Da Vinci bridges using lollipop sticks – it was quite challenging but interesting.

This week we had board games for Fun Friday and it was a popular choice.

A word from our Table of the Week winners:

“I enjoyed playing board games for Fun Friday,” said Katie.

I enjoyed drama because we got to think of roles and it was funny,” says Bettina and Lily.

“I enjoyed playing Cludeo and doing drama,” said Zahra.

Our Hot Chocolate at Home winner this week was…

Tanvi. Congratulations! She will be taking over the role of Lead Learner next week.

Have a Great Weekend,

Mr McGurn and P7A

What a great week we have had in P1B.

We have been learning all about the sound and letter ‘m’ and our word of the week ‘I’. We did talking sentences about things we like, many of us managing to write I and m in our writing activity.
Khaleesi – I like to go to the park.

Aaron – I like to play football with Grandpa.

Bradley – I liked the marshmallows.

We have been continuing our learning on pattern, looking not only at number patterns but those made with shapes and colours etc. Lots of us made and continued our own patterns during play.

Enso- I liked making a pattern.

This week we learned about the emotion sadness and talked about strategies we can use when we or someone else is feeling sad.

During outdoor learning lots of us were using our imaginations and we saw bridges being built and boats being rowed.

Owen – I’m going to row to Germany

This week we have been learning all about the ‘m’ sound. We have been making ‘m’ using marshmallows and writing it in our jotters.  We also had a game where we had to feed the monkey pictures of items that started with ‘m’.  In writing, we learned to write the word ‘I’ and we wrote a sentence about what we loved.

In maths, we have been learning to write the numbers 4 and 5. We made 5 using the loose parts in the classroom, it was great fun!  We have also started to learn about identifying numbers before and after. We got to use the fly swat to hit the correct numbers.

This week we made our own friendship soup.  We got to put the different ingredients that we knew made a good friend. These included being kind, helping others, sharing and telling an adult if something happened to our friends. We also read the story of A Little Spot of Love and drew pictures on a big heart to show how we can grow a love spot.

We have started to use Seesaw in class to show our learning and we learned how to log in on the iPads. We know it is important to sign out when we are finished.

Some of our personal highlights this week are:

Harald – I liked playing with the trains.

Olga – I liked drawing outside.

Lillian – I liked doing my ‘m’ sound.

Aarav – I liked building houses with the straws.

Vasilisa – I liked drawing.

Vedansh – I liked playing with the Numberblocks.

Miss Stebbing – I was very impressed by all the great writing this week and how everyone tried their best to write ‘I’ and the letter ‘m’.  I also enjoyed being served lots of different food and smoothies during Choosing Our Own Learning time!

Well done to this week’s hot chocolate winner who is Tiya.

Another week over! We are having a lot of fun!

Joshua liked numeracy this week, working with numbers to 100,000!

Olivier enjoyed the collaborative art activity this week where the children had to work as a team to create something great!

Amelia liked creating and using the zones of regulation check-in this week!

Aoife liked the new ideas we had for our classroom and the change of layout to create our ‘resource resort’. A place for collaboration, challenge and innovation.

Josh liked learning about the 6 thinking hats, the brain and metacognition.

Hot chocolate at home: Emily! Well done, you really did go above and beyond this week in everything you did.

See below for some photo highlights and our term 1 overview.

Have a lovely weekend, see you on Monday!

Mr Pentland

Forward Plan overview p6

Hello P2B families!

Here are the learning highlights of the week from the Yellow Table:

Aaron said that the best part of his week was hearing the Word Boost story ‘Goat, Donkey and the Noise Downstairs’.  He liked learning about the meaning of ‘fierce’ and ‘dash’.

Emily-Ann loved our shape lesson and enjoyed building shapes using connecting straws.

Amy liked drawing on the smartboard during ‘Choosing our own learning’ time.

Georgia Rose said her highlight was PE with Mrs Lafferty where they played Musical Statues.

Ciara also recounts the shape lesson as her favourite.

Mrs Devlin’s highlight was our RE lesson about home time prayer when we say to God, “Thank you for my family and all the friends you give me to me”.   We drew our family last week and this week we drew our friends and what we enjoy playing with them.

Congratulations to Amy, our Hot Chocolate award winner this week!

I hope you all have a great weekend!

Here is a brief overview of our learning for Term 1: