St John Ogilvie Primary School

We have had a very busy but very short week in Primary 4b!

We have continued learning hockey in PE.  We played a match and some of us improved our goal skills.

Today, we went to different classes and met up in our house groups.  We were talking about bullying to keep everybody safe.

In maths, we continued with our rounding work.  We found rounding to the nearest 100 a bit more complicated but we persevered and we got there in the end!  We are now really confident at rounding to the nearest 10 and 100.

In literacy, we looked at the structure of procedures.  We know they are made up of a title, goal, materials and steps.  We also learned about nouns and adjectives and Mrs Brown was very impressed with how quickly and confidently we found nouns and adjectives in the example procedure text.  We also drew some cute hedgehogs to go with our Hedgehog stories from last week in writing.  We used our active listening skills to follow instructions really carefully and then we added in our own ideas at the end if we wanted to.

Some highlights from this week:

Leah: I enjoyed highlighting nouns and adjectives in literacy.

Jonah, Markuss and Zac (… and everybody!): I enjoyed doing hockey.  Zac is very p

roud of himself for scoring.

Aiden: I enjoyed drawing the hedgehogs and learning about nouns and adjectives.

Ishani S: I liked learning about rounding.

Ishani M: I enjoyed our reading comprehension (How to catch a star).

Mrs Lafferty announced that we have a hockey festival on Thursday of next week.  Jude in particular is very excited about this!

We got a special book about Queen Elizabeth yesterday and it tells us about some of the things that happened during her time on the throne. Also, we have got special card design forms to make cards for Christmas or other special occasions. We have to bring them back by Thursday.  Reading books also need to be back by next Thursday please.  We also need to remember to do our homework please!

Our hot chocolate winner this week is Mariam for her brilliantly helpful attitude and class, for being a great friend and for always trying her hardest.  Well done!

Have a lovely weekend everybody!

Mrs Brown

After 2 days of rest this week we have worked hard. We have been learning about clocks and telling the time. We also have played hockey in PE. We practised how to play a proper hockey game. So we have only used one ball.

In music we have been learning about semi quaver, crochet, dotted crochet and we sang some songs together.

In RE we learned about the new commandment from Jesus. To love one another as I have loved you.

Today we went to other classes in the school for House Groups. we talked about types of bullying and bullies and what to do if we are bullied.

We went for a 10 min run/walk with P7 on Wednesday. We got a special book about Queen Elizabeth and some of the things that happened during her time as Queen. Also we have got special card design forms to make cards for Christmas or other special occasions. We have to bring them back by Thursday.

Next week we are going to try to learn how to crochet. Mrs Ross has showed us.  Next week we are going to a hockey festival.

The week we learned the letter and sound ‘k’. We learned to write ‘k’.  We made kites.

We made butterflies because we were learning about symmetry. We know both sides need to be the same.

Victoria – I liked making butterflies.

We learned about the sense of sight. We made our own glasses and played a drawing game on our heads.

JJ – I liked making glasses

We went into the woods for outdoor learning. We also looked for shapes in the sky.

Connor – I liked outdoor learning.

Cameron – I liked climbing the trees.

Owen – I liked the fairy houses.

We also played with P1A and explored their classroom.

Khaleesi – I liked playing with my friends

Last week we planted daffodil bulbs around the school grounds to improve the environment and attract bees and insects. In our procedural writing we wrote down the instructions of where and how we should plant bulbs. On Thursday when we were in the woods we created a peace path amongst the trees by creating clay peace signs for people to follow. In math we have been rounding and estimating as well as investigating the properties of 3D shapes.

When we came back to school on Wednesday it was International Peace Day. Many articles of the CRC related to this theme but the activities link, in particular, to the following articles:  Article 38 – Governments must not allow children under the age of 15 to take part in war or join the armed forces. Governments must do everything they can to protect and care for children affected by war and armed conflict. Article 39 – Children who have experienced neglect, abuse, exploitation, torture or who are victims of war must receive special support to help them recover their health, dignity, self-respect and social life. We had an interesting class discussion about Peace then we wrote PEACE acrostic poems.

Yesterday we investigated some important events in the life of William Wallace as part of our learning about the Scottish Wars of Independence. In the afternoon in RE we investigated the lives of Saint Margaret and Saint David. For our outdoor learning we planted more bulbs and in the woods we carried out different math challenges.

Today – We had our first House Group meeting since 2019. We all took part in planning to update our positive behaviour policy in school. After break we had a school assembly with Mrs McLaughlin and Mrs Callaghan. We chose new lead learners. They are Maja and Dylan. Our Hot chocolate person is Leon. We worked in partners to practise our French numbers. We hope everyone has a great weekend and we will see our classmates on Monday.

Hello P2B families!

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

Lewis liked making animal 3D shapes.  The children could choose from a cube lion, a hippo pyramid, a cheetah cuboid or an elephant cone.  Everyone did a super job as some of the shapes were quite fiddly to cut and stick.  Those who have not made theirs yet will make them upon our return.

Evana loved our Word Boost story, ‘Tabby McTat’ and her favourite word was ‘linger’.  The children had great fun joining in singing and playing their imaginary guitars like Fred, when he sang, “Me, you and the old guitar…”  Here is a link to the story in case your child would like to listen to it again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_4e_BnEdbI

Amariah-Grace said the learning highlight of her week was when she put the body of the caterpillar in the correct alphabetical order.  Well done Amariah-Grace, you remembered to use your alphabet song to help you!

Safaa liked going on the bikes during out door learning when the children played with loose parts.

Mrs Devlin’s highlight was of course meeting the parents who could join us for ‘Meet the Teacher’.  It was so nice to have you finally back into our school after all this time and I look forward to welcoming you all again.

I hope you all have a great long weekend!

Hello everyone!

This week P5A have enjoyed another action packed week! We have been busy learning about King John Balliol and his contributions towards the Scottish Wars of Independence and Miss Ventisei was so impressed with the children’s highly knowledgeable and informed discussion surrounding life as a King in 1292 versus 2022! Miss Ventisei was also really proud of the quality of P5A’s writing this week- we were using our experience of baking an apple crumble to write a procedure! Well done P5A!  The children also loved learning about angles and 2D shapes with Mrs McLaughlin and were able to apply their knowledge to various real-life situations throughout the week .

Another highlight of the week was outdoor learning; we were planting daffodil bulbs in the school garden and working hard to find and clear all of the litter in the playground! It was wonderful to hear how passionate the children were about taking care of our environment.

Our focus for Health and Wellbeing this week was centred around the wellbeing indicator of Nurtured. We discussed collaboratively what this means to us and created some whole-class mindmaps to brainstorm ideas of what being nurtured feels like, sounds like and looks like. The children also voiced some fantastic ideas as to how pupils and adults can help to nurture each other in and around the school.

Wednesday was also a special day in P5A as we welcomed our families into our classroom for the Meet the Teacher event! Thank you so much to everyone who came along, it was lovely to meet everyone and share some of our upcoming learning.

Here is a copy of our learning for this term.

Thank you for another great week P5A! Have a lovely long weekend and see you all on Wednesday!

This week we have been learning about the letter ‘c’. We also learned the word ‘can’. We wrote the letter ‘c’ using yellow pen and we drew pictures of words that have ‘c’ as the first sound.  In writing, we helped to write a sentence using ‘can’. We wrote about all the things that Ogilvie Bear can do.

We have been learning to take care of the toys and to work together with our friends. We know it is important to look after our friends.

This week we read the story about The Little Spot of Anger. We learned how to calm down when we are angry. We have to tap our fingers and breathe deeply.

In Maths, we have been learning about repeating patterns. We made our own patterns using the penguins and we completed a task on Seesaw where we had to finish the pattern.  We have been writing number 6 and 7 this week. We have tried very hard to write them the correct way.

During PE, we were learning to throw the ball, bounce the ball and pass the ball to our friend. Mrs Lafferty was very pleased with us.

Some of our personal highlights this week are

Eve – I liked bouncing the ball.

Harald – I enjoyed PE.

Kacper – I enjoyed PE.

Vendash – I liked learning about Ready Rosie and playing with my friends.

Olga – I enjoyed playing with my friends.

Tiya – I enjoyed colouring in the balloons that had ‘can’ written in them.

Miss Stebbing

Another fantastic week in P1A with everyone working hard on the ‘c’ sound and the word ‘can’. I was very impressed with everyone’s efforts to write ‘can’ in their own sentences. It was lovely to meet so many parents and carers at the Meet the Teacher evening.

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In Primary 4B, we have been learning more about Children’s Rights and how this links to the wellbeing indicators (SHANARRI) and our school rules (Ready Respectful and Safe).  We have been working really hard to be more respectful towards each other and we have identified specific ways in which we can achieve this.  We are making great progress in the classroom and are now going to continue working on being more respectful during break and lunchtime too. We are also learning about different emotions and are building the vocabulary to describe different feelings to others.  We enjoyed working in pairs to consider why people may feel different emotions.  We were great at acting out these different emotions too!

In maths, we have shown a really good understanding of number lines and the rounding rules to be able to round to the nearest 10 and 100.  We really enjoy doing Big Maths Beat That! as well and are improving our rapid recall of number bonds.

In literacy, we have been working on the ll spelling rule and continued with our reading comprehension work.  Our handwriting skills are also coming on well and we really enjoy completing tasks to improve these.  We have applied our understanding of capital letters and punctuation by writing and editing a story about a hedgehog.  Mrs Brown has been extremely impressed with our stories!  We are now moving on to learning about procedures (instructions for how to do something or how to get somewhere).  We enjoyed thinking about where we find procedural texts in real life.

Here are some of our classmate’s highlights from this week:

Jude enjoyed rounding in maths, especially to the nearest 100.

Jonah liked doing hockey in PE and rounding to the nearest 10.

Emily, Zac and Ishani enjoyed completing artwork in Health and Wellbeing.

Stefi enjoyed writing her hedgehog story.

We have asked for homework books to be brought in next Wednesday and reading books for next Thursday please.  Teams information has been handed out now and homework can be uploaded there instead of handwritten in the homework book if preferred.

Have a lovely long weekend everybody and I look forward to seeing you again on Wednesday.

Mrs Brown

This week we looked at several information reports and began to develop our note taking skills in preparation for our research into Scotland through the decades.

Congratulations to Riya, our Hot Chocolate Winner this week for becoming more confident in class and contributing such considered opinions when describing the purpose of an information report.

Our last two hot chocolate winners since we have been back at school have been Zac and Hannah for being being outstanding contributors and responsible young adults.

Pupil Highlights:

Alex: This week we were taking notes and on Monday we took notes on Newsround. Using our notes we put them in sentences to make them our own and then we made our own power points.

Anthony: We made posters about bullying and we discussed types of bullying and how it can affect the victim.

Kieran: We decorated photos of ourselves for our classroom door. We also looked at several information reports and what they are.

Debbie: We identified the structure, audience and purpose of an information report.

Hello P2B families!

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

Ollie really enjoyed going on a bug hunt in the woodlands and looking at them under a magnifying glass.  The class listened to a story from the Tweenies who went bug hunting, so they decided they wanted to go bug hunting too!  Up to the woods we went and searched under rocks and logs and under the wet leaves.  We found slugs, spiders, earwigs among others.  Mrs Devlin caught some (reluctantly) and if we chose to, examined them more closely.

Ishann loved being chosen for this week’s Lead Learner!  He has the important job of setting a target for the class to work on (something we could improve upon) of which Ishaan and his co-Lead Leader chose, ‘listening better on the carpet’.  Lead Learners also tell visitors what we are learning and they help give out the dinner tickets – a very responsible set of tasks!

Maya said the favourite part of her week was the Spanish lesson where we learned how to respond to the register in the mornings.  If we are present, then we say ‘Presente’ and if someone is off, we say ‘Ausente’.  One way we remember how to say ‘Ausente’ is by starting of saying ‘aaawwwwwhhhhhh’ because we are sad that person is not with us today, then we finish with ‘sente’.

Musa liked playing with the marble run this week during ‘Choosing our own Learning’ time.  He demonstrated super creativity in his construction!  Well done Musa!

Mrs Devlin’s highlight this week was the response the children had to a story we read about a whale that had died due to pollution.  This lesson grew arms and legs as the children endeavoured to make posters to put around the school to remind everyone to recycle.  They did super teamwork as they worked in teams.  We practised folding a crisp packet so it is less likely to be carried in the wind and end up in our oceans.  We also looked at some images of landfill sites and beaches filled with rubbish people did not take home and plastic bottles floating in the sea.  We saw a turtle about to eat a plastic bag and we saw a dead whale lying on a beach.  All very sad and all very preventable.  P2B will be helping to take care of God’s beautiful world!

Congratulations to Amariah-Grace, our Hot Chocolate award winner this week!