St John Ogilvie Primary School

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

Hello everyone! Miss Ventisei and P5A have had a wonderful second week back at school! Everyone has settled into our new classroom really well and we are looking forward to the year ahead. This week we have been revising our knowledge of place value and rounding in maths- the children particularly enjoyed the maths games and ‘play dough place value’! We also paid a visit to the school woodland this week where we have been working really hard to clear and weed the area. Our class favourite moments of the week include:

• Playing football in the MUGA at playtime
• Playing basketball during P.E. with Mrs Lafferty
• Engaging with lots of fun games and activities during numeracy
• Reading our class novel (Wonder by Rj Palacio)
• Visiting the solar system through a virtual tour (Miss Ventisei also loved this!)

Over the next few months we will be visiting the woodland area for outdoor learning every Thursday afternoon. If possible, it would be helpful if your child could bring some wellies/boots and old, warm clothes to wear outdoors on this day.

This week we have been learning how to write the numbers 0 and 1. We wrote these in our new maths jotters.

We have been discussing how we can be Ready, Respectful and Safe. We have met Ready Rosie, Respectful Raheem and Safe Sam.  We are remembering to use kind hands and feet and kind voices.

We read ‘A Little Spot of Happiness’ and learned about how important it is to make people happy. We made a talking sentence about when we feel happy and drew the picture using black pen.

We have been learning about all the rules during Choosing Our Own Learning and we are  experts at tidying up!

On Tuesday we had assembly with Mrs McKissack.  She was talking about our school rules and our school values. We got special stickers because we listened very well for a long time.

Our personal highlights this week are:

Vedansh – I enjoyed colouring in my candle for the birthday display and seeing my buddy.

Eve – I enjoyed playing with my buddies.

Oliver – I enjoyed playing with the wooden roads.

Lillian – I enjoyed playing with my buddy and making lots of new friends.

Aarav – I enjoyed playing with the straws.  I built a house with Vedansh.

Miss Stebbing – This week I have loved seeing everyone try their best to write their numbers and to draw fantastic pictures about what makes them happy. I am also very impressed with all the Responsible Readers during ERIC time.

Congratulations to Alexander who was our hot chocolate at home winner this week.

Dear Parents,

A busy first full week in Primary 7A and everyone is well settled into the new routines and more importantly happy.

Lots of learning going on across the curriculum with Topic lessons on ‘Scotland through the Decades’, French greetings, reading and getting our photos taken with our buddies, Literacy and Maths Assessments, reading our class novel ‘Millions’ by Frank Cottrell Boyce, drama, PE and music!

My personal highlight of the week has been seeing and hearing how wonderful P7A are at using manners. They are incredibly polite and understand the importance of treating each other with respect. Well done P7 and, of course, their parents!

P7 have a few highlights too:

Millan, Alessio and Jack said, “I enjoyed acting in drama class.”

“I liked mental maths,” says Monty.

Lily reports that, “I enjoyed going up to the woodlands and making clay faces.”

Zahra, Junaid and Tanvi all said, ” I really enjoyed meeting my buddy and playing with them.”

Some Woodland Art using clay and found materials.

Using own devices during Fun Friday, reward time for good behaviour and hard work, was a very popular choice.

Next week will be board games!

Have a Great Weekend!

Mr McGurn & P7A

Mrs Ross is very happy to be in P4A with us. She says we are an amazing class.

It’s been a busy week.

We were learning maths and place value and digits in a number. I think it was fun.

In PE, we were playing hockey. We learned that we have to keep the ball close to the stick and the stick close to the ground otherwise you might hit someone. We should always use the flat side not the curved side of the stick.

With Mrs Morrison we learned what a beam quaver, quaver and crotchet are for music.

We have been writing sentences. Trying to remember full stops, finger spaces and capital letters to start. It is important to read over our sentences.

We listened to some instructions to draw some really cool ice creams.

We have had 2 birthdays this week and we are sad to say goodbye to one of our friends who is moving and we wish her lots of luck and fun in her new school.

Our Hot Chocolate at home winner this week is Anshika. She is a good friend and respectful to others in the class.

Pupil Highlights:

Anthony: I liked doing my NFER Numeracy assessment because it was challenging.

Hannah: I liked sorting out the rights of a child into either a basic need, safe from harm and the right to express yourself. I enjoyed doing this task because it was interesting.

Zak: I enjoyed helping my teacher with the labels of the classroom.

Sam: I enjoyed helping the Primary ones and twos in the lunch hall.

Olly: It was fun being outside playing football with my class.

Hanna: I enjoyed meeting my buddy for the first time.

Riya: I enjoyed painting outside.

Connor: I enjoyed making an object out of clay.

Rupert: I enjoyed making a power point to show my teacher the subjects I want to learn in primary seven.

Tim: I enjoyed drawing what active listening looks like in P7B.

A very warm welcome to our St John Ogilvie School Blog and P1B page.

The children have settled really well in to school life and are already Awesome Ogilvies.  We are very proud of all of them.

We went on a tour of the school and were very excited to see what are Buddies classroom looked like.

On Friday we got to have a meet up with our Buddies and spend time playing and getting to know them.

P1B Gym will take place every Tuesday and Thursday.  Children can come to school wearing jogging bottoms, polo shirt and school jumper.  They can also wear foot ware suitable for gym.

We hope you have a great weekend and look forward to a busy week ahead of lots of fun, laughter and learning as we continue to make new friends in P1B.

Here is a small selection of photos showing our learning this week.