St John Ogilvie Primary School

In literacy, we have been learning about first, middle and last. We had to listen carefully to the instruments and play the correct one. The activity we enjoyed the most was jumping in the hoops when Miss Stebbing called out first, middle or last.  In writing, we made a talking sentence about how we would help people when they are sad. Our black pen drawings were very good.

In maths, we have been counting forwards and backwards to 20 and we learned about subitising. We also have been learning to write 2 and 3 the correct way. We tried very hard to follow the rhymes we learned.

With Mrs Robson, we learned about the story of the feeding of the five thousand and did some super colouring in.

This week we learned about the Little Spot of Sadness. We learned how to help people when they are sad and what we can do when we feel sad. Ask us about the blue and green dots on our hands.

We had great fun during our Outdoor Learning session with the P1B.

Some of our personal highlights this week are:

Oliver – My favourite thing to learn was numbers.

Lillian – My favourite thing to do was playing with my buddy.

Alexander – I liked making lots of things with the paper.

Aarav – I liked making the train tracks with my friends.

Connor – My favourite thing was playing out in the playground.

Vasilisa – I love playing with my friends.

Miss Stebbing – I am very proud of P1A because they have been getting organised very quickly in the morning and at home time all by themselves.  I also loved hearing all their sentences during writing time.

Congratulations to Olga who was our Hot Choc Winner this week.

This week we were learning art and drawing lines to make shapes. We were counting numbers and place value.

In PE we were playing a game called bulldogs and then did passing with the hockey sticks and balls. We played lots of TAG.

In music we learned new notes, a crochet, a rest that is one beat but is silent. We sang really well together.

We met the Buddy Bots. They told us about Buddy Bots and Bully Bots. Basically told us how to be buddies. Also how to be kind. If you are kind then you have a full battery or lots of energy but a bully bot zaps energy from others and loses energy when its mean.

Football Clubs started this week and 5 of our class attended it.

The hot chocolate winner for trying hard and being READY to learn was:  JOHN.

Have a lovely weekend.

Next week we will be finding out how to get on TEAMS through GLOW so we can do some homework. We will also start bringing a book home to share. But need to remember to return it on Thursday!

Monday – We got homework for the first time in P5B. It was exciting.

Tuesday – We enjoyed Science and History. We learned King Alexander III of Scotland.

We made factfiles for some planets and we drew the Solar System using pastels.

Wednesday – We loved PE learning about Basketball skills. One person would do a bounce throw and the other person did a chest pass. In Music we learning songs and pirates.

We learned about Article 42 – Everyone should learn about the Rights of the Child to make sure everyone gets their rights because it is important. We finished our Class Charter and put it on the wall after we all signed it and Mrs Miller too.

Thursday – Outdoor Learning we did more tidying and collected sticks to make 3D shape models and some people saw a frog on the path.

Friday –  We chose new lead learners. They are Joy and Niylah. Our Hot chocolate person is Fatima K.

We finished off some artwork and learned a Spanish greeting song.

Thats all from Jessica and Maja

Hello P2B families!

P2B have been settling back in to school very well.

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

Evana said the best part of her week was maths.  This week the children have been learning not only to read larger numbers up to 100 but also to understand their value.  Each child chose a number from the 10s column of the 100 square to explore with numicon pieces.  Evana chose the number 30.  She knows that 30 means 3 groups of 10.

Karina enjoyed our time in the woodland.  We revised how to keep safe in the woods and had some free play.

Reesa loved playing ‘Corners’ as a way to revises our Word Boost words.  Congratulations to Aaron, our winner!

Sofia said she loved playing with the shells.  This week we revised the ‘sh’ sound.  She could hear the sea by putting one to her ear!

TJ’s highlight was our Word Boost story ‘The Storm’.  His favourite word was ‘gale’.

Lilly also enjoyed ‘The Storm’ as the best part of her week.  We took beanbags out to the playground and hurled them across the grass!

Blair liked dinnertime this week.  His favourite food was a burger.

Mrs Devlin’s highlight was ‘Meet and Greet’ as part of our morning routine.  I have never played as many ‘Rock, Paper, Scissors’ games in my life!  The children can chose to ‘smile’, ‘hug’, ‘wave’, ‘foot tap’, ‘Rock, Paper, Scissors’ or ‘elbow bump’ when they come in in the morning to greet their teacher.  What a lovely way to start the day!

Congratulations to Siya, our Hot Chocolate award winner this week who we also sadly say goodbye to as she is moving school.  We wish her luck at this exciting time.  She will always be part of our St John Ogilvie family.

I hope you all have a great weekend!

We have completed our first full week together as Primary 3B!

This week we used a variety of media to create ‘ourselves’ which will serve as part of our school values display. The children were able to use wool, felt, and other sensory resources to create their person. Children engaged in more art this week by making their ‘name bee’. This will include their photograph and will be displayed on our classroom door, to ensure that everyone knows who we are!

During P.E we explored different ways of moving our bodies.

In Spanish, we have been practising our greetings ‘los saludos’. We learned ‘Como estas’ and various responses, such as; bien, muy bien, mal, mas o menos and super bien!

As part of Religious Education we learned and studied ‘The Lord’s Prayer’. The children listened to a song and consolidated their learning by completing a comprehension.

During Maths, we enjoyed participating in games involving addition.

We worked together as a class to produce a set of ‘Class Rules’. These were underpinned by our school rules ‘Ready, Respectful and Safe’.

As part of our work on Right Respecting Schools we discussed our rights as children. We focused on ‘Needs and Wants’ and what is required for us to lead healthy, safe and happy lives.

We enjoyed ‘Free Write Friday’ and tried to expand our vocabulary by including some of this weeks boost words; vast, popular, mumble, repeat, occasion and local.

Well Done to Olek, who is our first Hot Chocolate Award Winner!

Well Done to table ‘Uno’ (1) for being our star table this week and winning 19 class pebbles!

Have a lovely weekend!

Mrs Broadley x

What a great week we have had in P1B. We have settled in brilliantly to school routines and have enjoyed exploring our new classroom through play.

Cameron – I liked Go-noodle.

JJ – I like doing dough disco.

This week we have been practising our counting, recognition of numbers and formation of numbers.

We have been learning the vocabulary same and different using instruments and pictures of animals. We also drew some fabulous black ink pictures to help us during ‘Talking Sentences’.

Martyna – I liked to draw pictures.

Luca – I liked the crocodile story. The crocodile was like a monster.

This week we were learning all about the feeling ‘Love’, identifying all the people we love in our families and things we love to do.

Rose – I liked learning about love.

The end of our first full week has come so quick! We have truly shown the awesome ogilvies we are! Especially Olivier, who has went above and beyond to be ready, respectful and safe! He even got the hot chocolate at home award! He has shown active listening, been kind to adults and children around the school, pushed in his chair and tidied after himself! But most importantly has reflected when he needed a reminder! Well done! He has told us all this week about his interest in cars, which has been great to hear and see many different pictures!

P6A’s Learning Highlights

-Grant enjoyed his work rounding in numeracy!

-Ronan also enjoyed numeracy this week, learning different Roman numerals .

-Adam enjoyed learning about the four capacities and making great information posters.

-Joshua enjoyed discussing the well-being indicators and learning about his and other children’s rights.

-Aoife enjoyed learning about and creating posters about the describing bubble to support our writing!

We all wish Amelia happy birthday today and daisy tomorrow! We hope you have a very special day! We loved dancing around and singing happy birthday today!

Thank you for such a fantastic week P6! Have a lovely weekend. I will see you all on Monday!

some photo highlights of our week!

Well done to Primary 4B for having had a great two weeks back at school!  We have completed a wide range of activities during this time and the children have particularly enjoyed creating a self-portrait, a poem tree and a Children’s rights poster, as well as expressing themselves during Free Writing Friday.  Their maths lessons on place value (including practising the 10 times table) have also been a highlight from this week.

Stefi: I liked making the posters about children’s rights.

Layla: I liked doing the self-portraits because it is interesting to learn about different artists.

Matteo: I really liked doing the Back To School and The Zoo reading comprehension because it’s really fun and it keeps your mind on it and keeps you focused.

Daisy Dee: I liked doing the self-portraits and it was really fun to show other people what you liked because they might like it too.  Also, when we do art, I really like it because you can show your art skills and use your own ideas.

Aiden:  I like being able to do maths outside the classroom and reading The Witches.

Our Hot Chocolate at home winner this week is Jude. He is a role model and is always ready, respectful and safe.  Well done Jude.

Please note, on a Tuesday and Thursday P4B pupils are asked to come wearing PE kit with school sweater/cardigan.

I hope everyone has a great weekend!  I’ll look forward to seeing everyone again on Monday.

Mrs Brown

We’ve had a great second week in Primary 6B! Everyone has settled in well and we are all looking forward to the year ahead.

This week, we revised our knowledge of Place Value and Rounding and Miss MacGregor was very impressed with all the work that was produced. We have been enjoying our daily Number Talks challenges – Fluent in Five. It’s great that so many of us want to share our strategies and show everyone how we solved the problems.

In Literacy, we developed our understanding of description by creating a class Describing Bubble. After, we used this to create character description paragraphs and then picked a friend a try and draw the character based on what we had written. This was a lot of fun, and it made some of us remember how important it is to include as much detail as possible in our writing!

We finished our Class Charter – after having fantastic conservations about how to link this to our rights and responsibilities. We also looked at what it means to be a Successful Learner, Responsible Citizen, Effective Contributor and Confident Individual.

Our first hot chocolate winner of P6 was Alex – well done Alex, and keep up the good work!

Have a lovely weekend everyone,

Miss MacGregor