St John Ogilvie Primary School

What a busy week we have had!

This week we celebrated Book Week.  We had the opportunity to write our own stories working with P2B and P3B.  Each day we took turns to write a different part of the story and we even got to draw the pictures.  Every day we read two books from Epic Books and we had to vote for our favourite.  Today we found out the over all winning story was ‘The Ninjabread Man’.

We completed a mini project on the story ‘Bloom’ written by Anne Booth.  It was a lovely story about showing kindness to others and using kind words.  We drew pictures of flowers.  We made a class bar chart of our favourite flower in P1B (which was a rose) and we created our own ‘Grass Head’.  We gave our grass head a name and whispered kind words to it hoping that it will start to grow and flourish soon. We made bookmarks for our Buddies in Primary 7 and we received bookmarks from them today.  We made cards for our family to say ‘Thank You’ for all they do for us.

We brought our favourite book to school and showed off the wooden spoons we were given to create a character from a book.

On Thursday we celebrated St John Ogilvie Feast Day.  We learned about the life of John Ogilvie and we also shared in a whole school mass through Teams with Father Simon.  We loved learning the hymn ‘Lay your hands’ and Mrs Russell was very proud of us.

Today we got to wear our own clothes to school and we brought our loose change in to donate to SCIAF.  We filled lots of maps of Malawi with all our coins.

We were so excited to receive a cup cake and juice today as part of our Feast Day Celebrations.  They tasted delicious.  Thank you Mrs McKissack.

Congratulations to Sofia who was our Hot Chocolate Winner, Lilly who was our first Reading Champion and the Green Table who had the most table points this week.

Have a lovely weekend everyone and we look forward to another busy and exciting week to come.

Good afternoon to all of our families,

It has been a busy and fun week for Primary 6B, who have really enjoyed participating in all the World Book Day activities! We really enjoyed writing our collaborative stories as a whole class and designing illustrations to  go with our stories. We also enjoyed the ”Bloom” story by Anne Booth. We completed story boards show the key points and produced art work based on the story. We particularly liked creating bookmarks for Primary 2 and were very impressed with the bookmarks they made for us! Thank you Primary 2.

Here are also some of our wooden spoons transformed into different characters.

On Friday we presented our stations of the cross assembly to Primary 5 and Primary 7.

We also enjoyed making our coppers go as far as a mile and we hope they make a big difference to the lives of others.

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Well done to our reading champion Hanna who took part in all world book week activities with enthusiasm! Also, well done to Tim who has worked well both in class and at home on all learning tasks this week and has earned hot chocolate at home.

Have a great weekend,

Mrs Roy

This week we have been celebrating our SJO Book Week.  The children have been involved in lots of activities to try to promote and encourage reading.  This has included a whole school book project on the book ‘Bloom’, a collaborative writing project where we worked together to write a new chapter for a book each day and also making bookmarks for another class in our school.

Some of the children made book characters using spoons, here are a few examples:

On Thursday we celebrated the feast day of Saint John Ogilvie.  We learned all about his life and took part in a lovely online mass with Fr Simon.  Then on Friday, we received a very special treat of a cupcake and some juice to celebrate!

On Friday we brought lots of loose change to school for SCIAF.  We brought so many pennies, we managed to cover 6 maps of Malawi!

Here are some of our highlights this week:

Millie – Making a book mark for another class for world book day

Jonah – Doing activities relating to the book Bloom.  I liked making the flower pictures.

Aiden – Choosing the EPIC book winner.

Mia – Getting a treat for SJO feast day!

Matteo – learning the 4 times table.

Paige – Learning about bar charts and Venn diagrams

Have a great weekend,

Primary 3B

We have had a fantastic week.  Mrs Ross was with us on Monday and we began our collaborative story with her.  We had great ideas and made a creative start.   All week we have been working with P5, P6 and P7 to create books and can’t wait to read them all next week.   Eilidh said “this was the best part of the week.  I liked sharing my ideas and think the stories are going to be amazing!”

We have also enjoyed the story ‘Bloom’ by Anne Booth.  The story is all about a little girl, a flower and a grumpy old man.  It helped us to understand the impact of positive words and how they can help us to grow and ‘bloom’.  We are making a bloom garden for the area display and Max particularly enjoyed making the flowers and Fahad liked making the bugs and beasties for the garden.

Farrah said one of the best things this week was seeing the spoons that people had turned into characters from their favourite stories.  They were all fantastic!

Here are a selection of them.

In Spanish, we have been learning about ‘ma familia’ and are getting really good at being able to say the names of our family members.  To practice writing them we played a game of ‘100 Puntos’ and Francesca said this was her highlight of this week.  “I really enjoyed it because it was fun but we were practicing our Spanish at the same time!”

Callie enjoyed exploring Rangoli Patterns with Miss MacGregor while Mrs Callaghan worked with the boys and girls who are receiving First Holy Communion this year.

We have also been learning more about lent and the story of Jesus in the desert.

The highlight of the week was our celebration of St John Ogilvie’s feast day.  We had a beautiful mass on Thursday and on Friday we were given cupcakes and juice from Mrs McKissack and Mrs McLaughlin.  What a fantastic treat!

The first of our Reading Champions is ….   Madeleine.  Well done keep up your excellent effort with reading.

Our hot chocolate winner this week for his hard work and effort all week is …..    Leo!  Fantastic effort Leo – we are all proud of you!

This week in Primary 5 we have been working with P4-7 to write some super collaborative stories, it was great to read what classes before us had written and how we could move the stories forward.

We have also been making mind maps to show which parts of our super personalities will help us get our dream jobs when we are older.

On Thursday it was the Feast of Saint John Ogilvie, we learned all about his life working as a Jesuit and then we were lucky to join the whole school for a virtual celebratory mass led by Father Simon.

Aoife – I liked making postcards for people in my class.

Grant – I liked getting to watch a movie on our Fun Day

Olivier – I liked making the compliment cards.

Vanessa – I liked getting to make a bookmark for somebody in Primary 3

Natalia – I liked doing the posters, the peace signs and the bookmarks.

Mrs McLaughlin felt very lucky to spend 2 days in Primary 5 and her highlight is how hard the class have worked, and what great ideas they came up with when talking about our skills. During mass they were extremely respectful listening to the Word of God and joining n with mass responses.

This week our hot chocolate winner is Daisy for her super contribution to our class discussions.

All of the pupils have had fantastic learning experiences this week linked to our Book Week. Thank you to Mrs Callaghan and Miss Stebbing for creating these wonderful experiences.

Each day this week our class has contributed to four different collaborative stories with P4A, P5A and P7A. These stories are very imaginative and entertaining. We also took part in reading sessions voting everyday for our favourite book.

We also reaad ‘Bloom’ by Anne Booth which has inspired our artwork this week. We created a city brought to Bloom by the kindness of the people living there. We dissected different types of flowers (Roses, Crocus, Lilies and Tulips) and labelled the various parts of each flower for Science. We also conducted an experiment with coloured food dye to see how long it takes for water to spread through a plant. We will update you next week with the results.

This week we have been working on multiplication and division in class.

We celebrated the feast of St John Ogilvie mass with Father Simon. Followed by cakes and juice today. We contributed to the mile of pennies laid in the Muga, all money collected will be sent to SCIAF. We were excited and proud to lead whole school assembly (with P6B) – praying The Stations of the Cross.

We are looking forward to another exciting week, next week as we look to develop our Persuasive Language as we start preparing for our House Captain Speeches in May.

This week we have been celebrating SJO Book week.  As part of a whole school reading project we read the book ‘Bloom’ by Anne Booth.  We drew our own flowers using oil pastels, sorted flowers in a Venn diagram, made compliment flowers and ordered flowers from the smallest to the tallest.  We also wrote our own books with P2A and P3A.  Each day we wrote a different part of the story.  On Thursday we got to read the whole book that we had started.  These will be published soon.

On Thursday we celebrated the feast day of St John Ogilvie.  We learned a bit about his life and we joined in with Mass over Teams with Fr Simon.  Miss Stebbing was very proud of how well we listened and how respectful we all were.

During outdoor learning we had all of the loose parts out.  There were tyres, wooden planks, wooden bricks and tarpaulins.  We built a house.  Some of us enjoyed playing at the pirate ship.  We also had a visit to the nursery garden to look at the buds on the trees.

On Friday we brought lots of pennies into school.  We managed to fill 9 maps of Malawi!  We also had a special treat for our school feast day.

Some of our personal highlights are:

Diana – I enjoyed creative zone.

Vivien – I enjoyed learning about colouring inside the lines.

Chimamanda – I enjoyed colouring in the super hero glasses.

Aadya – I enjoyed making stuff in creative zone.

Ollie – I enjoyed playing schools.

Laura – I enjoyed learning everything.

Caleb – I enjoyed creative zone.

Linda – I enjoyed building the house at outdoor learning.

A really fun week this week in P7B!

Numeracy

we had a packed week this week during numeracy. We looked at measurement and fractions this week and revisited multiplying decimals. We had fun working together during problem solving and looking at the wording of questions; exploring the difference between the terms of and off in numeracy.

Literacy

this week we continued researching and working on our digital skills to support our literacy learning. The children have been using and actioning peer feedback and the standard of work is improving greatly. We reviewed this week representations in film and media and discussed what it means to be represented. We learned a lot about Lent this week; exploring shrove Tuesday, Ash Wednesday and what lent means.

IDL

we continued our work on the rainforest this week. We have produced amazing reports and fact files on different rainforests, Columbia and Brazil.

Pupil voice

Alex and Szymon “I enjoyed STEM this week. Working as a team to create structures to save cars with wool and string from falling off the table”

Kuba “I liked working with Ms Bett to look at cooking Brazilian fudge balls”

Sara “I liked making colour parrots for topic art”

Mark “I liked writing prayers for the people of Ukrain”

Xander “I liked researching and writing for the information reports”

Charlotte “I like health and wellbeing  this week, making origami butterflies to symbolise love and hope”

Shining Star 

well done Alex for going over and above this week!