St John Ogilvie Primary School

Dear Readers,

As always, we hope you have all had a great week!😃

The highlights of our week were:

• The new spelling words and today’s spelling assessment! Let’s see how well we’ve done!
• Our new maths sums in the morning to wake up our brains!
• Ash Wednesday, at the beginning of the season of Lent, one of the two most important times of the year for Catholics around the world. As every year, we have learned that Lent is a very special time for reflection in our own lives and how to become better people of God. We are going to try Praying more, donating more and giving up on some things that we really enjoy during this time and will offer all our sacrifices for all our sins.
• Mass on Ash Wednesday, when we received the ashes from Father Clement or Mrs McKissack to remind us that we should take this time to think about our life and the way we are living it.
• Big Yellow Thursday was amazing! Everyone made an effort to bring something yellow and we learned that we were doing that to raise awareness of people who live with liver problems, and therefore look yellowish. As we found out that we have a little hero with this kind of problem in our Nursery, we asked and asked and we actually got him to visit us! His name is Wesley and he is simply Adorable! He was in our class talking to all of us, high fiving us and blowing us kisses! We loved him and have been keeping him in our daily prayers ever since we heard about him! 😘♥ We have also donated a huge amount of money for the charity that has been helping him and his family and felt very proud of ourselves for that!
• We continued working with decimal numbers but will need to keep going with these since some people still find it a bit challenging.
• Some of us have also done a super interesting reading comprehension on Fungi while others have done one on Biodiversity. Both seemed a bit tricky so we had to go over them again since this topic can be hard to understand.
• Our Big Lenten Walk has been happening since Wednesday and will keep going until the Easter and, as always, we are being a tiny bit competitive about it!
• Congratulations to our Hot Chocolate of the Week, Miss Paige, for always being there for all of us, willing to help with anything needed! Well done, Paige! 🥇🏆✨👏
• Congratulations as well for the Superior Table, which has indeed been superior this time and has won the weekly prize! Well done to Shelby, Szymon, Maeve, Markuss, Jonah, Emily, Jude, Srihaun, Tweenie and Benita.🏆🥇✨👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏😃

That’s all for today, we wish you all a fantastic weekend and say goodbye for now!

P6B and Mrs Valente😘😘

Dear Parents and Carers,

We have been learning all about decimals this week! Our class has been revising our knowledge  of decimal place value. We have also been comparing and ordering decimals numbers, some of us found this tricky!

Our reading comprehension was based on biodiversity and ecosystems. We used strategies to find the correct information in the passage.

During R.E we learned about Ramadan and Eid, we all found it very interesting.

On Thursday, most of us wore something yellow and raised money for the Children’s Liver Disease Foundation. It was also world book day, so we visited our buddies in Primary 1.  We helped them complete their scavenger hunt and had fun participating in a Kahoot with them! Our class watched an author event with Ross Mackenzie, based on the Otherwhere Emporium. Afterwards we created our own magical shop with floor plan and shop front.

Every day we have been participating in our Big Lent Walk  and as a school hoping to walk 2000km!

Congratulations to Mason on being our Hot Chocolate winner this week.

Have a super weekend !

Mrs Lea and Primary 6A

Good afternoon all primary 3 families, here are our highlights for this week!

Spelling this week has been focussed on the soft g sound and our common words. We have been doing lots of reading in class with Miss Duddy and Mrs Garvin and we are making great progress! We wrote a final draft of our information reports and what a great job everyone did! The children even self-assessed their work based on our targets.

Numeracy this week has been focussed on multiplication, we have been solving one and two-step word problems and finding the link between the 2 and 4 times tables. After much talking and investigating, we realised the 4 times table is DOUBLE the 2 times table. Some of us even made links between the 4 and 8 and the 3 and 6 table doing this method! Well Done! We have continued to learn about time, this week focussing on digital clocks, reading digital times and filling in our own digital clocks with the times shown.

This week our RE focus has been Lent and the liturgical calendar, a massive well done to everyone on Wednesday, you were all wonderful at mass and Miss Mushet gave me glowing feedback from those who stayed in school. We have been out walking every day this week to get to Rome before the end of lent and the children are very enthusiastic!

Well done to our Hot chocolate and reading champion winner this week!

I hope you have a lovely weekend!

Miss Duddy

Dear Readers,

It has been a very busy week with Parents Appointments on Tuesday and Thursday and it has been great to have so many Parents and carers coming to find out about how we have been doing in class!😃

The highlights of the week were:

• Our Big surprise spelling assessment, on which most of us did very well, although we had no idea it was coming!✨
• Our Big surprise Maths Assessment, on which the majority of us did well but lots of us seemed to have forgotten about things that we have learned in P6😮! Mrs Valente wasn’t very happy about this so we had an extra focus on Maths throughout the week.
• Revision of the four operations over and over again: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
• Focus on Word Problems, since many of us seem to find it a bit hard to understand what exactly is being asked.
• Finishing our research about our chosen animal for the Information report.
• Writing our Information report about our chosen animal by following the correct structure of Title, General Statement, Description and Evaluation.
• Continuing our work in Biodiversity and learning about many different words related to it.
• In our Pope Francis Faith Award, we have learned about the 1st Gift of the Holy Spirit, the gift of Knowledge and of how it helps us to learn about God and to pass on that knowledge to others. We will continue working on this next week.
• We congratulate and sadly say goodbye to Mr Daniel A, who will need to go to a different school. We all agreed that he deserved the Hot Chocolate of the week for always being a good friend, for being such a valuable member of our class and also for his cheeky smile!😃👏👏🥇We will miss you a lot, Daniel!😥
• Finally, we would also like to congratulate the Scary Seas Table and say that Aiden, Lyon, Ishani M, Layla, Zac, Renna, Mariam and Ishani S. have been absolute✨at keeping their table and the space around it organised and tidy! Well done, again! Team work makes the dream work!🥇🏆♥

We say goodbye for now wishing you all a happy weekend filled with lovely things!

P6B and Mrs Valente 😘😘

Hello P5B Families!

It was so lovely to have seen you at the consultations this week.  I hope you enjoyed looking at your child’s work and hearing an update on the progress they are making in P5.

Here are the learning highlights for this week from the Yellow Table:

Cohen and Olek loved using the sweets, Nerds, to help them with their division sums.  The different colours helped them to physically see the exchanges taking place when there were remainders.  The best part?  Eating them of course!

Moeez and Matthias enjoyed playing Counting Cowboys to practise their mental maths.

Jayden said the highlight of his week was going to Mass.

Scott enjoyed playing Rounders with me at PE.

Kacper loved basketball skills with Mrs Lafferty at PE.

Ella’s highlight was Free Writing Friday.  She wrote an story called ‘Hop Into The Universe Dandy’.  I am looking forward to reading this when it is finished and finding out if she met the challenge of adding any of this week’s Word Boost words.

My highlight was our learning about Edinburgh in the 18th Century with the development of the New Town.  A city full of rich history!

A big congratulations to Haadiya, our Hot Chocolate award winner this week and a big thank you to Anthony for compiling this week’s photos of the Blog.

I hope you have a good weekend!

Mrs Brown

Hello families of P2

We have had a very busy week in Primary 2, with lots of super learning and fun! We are loving our new topic, learning all about mini beasts. On Thursday we had a mini beast search in the woodlands. We were excited to find centipedes and snails.

In maths we learned to tell half past times and began work on repeated addition.  We learned how to add 2 repeatedly and made the link to multiplication. We learned two new sounds in literacy, ‘er’ and ‘ear’ and manged to spell lots of words using these sounds.

We are learning to write Information Reports in writing. We have leaned how to structure these correctly and know how to do research to find out information to write about. This week we wrote about Puppies.

In RE we learned about Jesus’ life as a child. We learned that his family are called ‘The Holy Family’ and made beautiful pictures of Mary, Joseph and Jesus.

Weekly Highlights

Leighton – I liked topic, learning about mini beasts.

Sophia – I liked learning to tell half past times.

Maja – I loved learning about Puppies.

Rudhvick – I liked learning repeated addition.

Ellie and Rose – We liked writing about Puppies.

Oscar – I loved finding mini beasts in the woodlands. I found snails and centipedes.

Edward – I like Minecraft during ICT with Mr Pentland.

Huge Congratulations to Rose, our hot chocolate winner and Laaibah, our reading champion. Well done girls, keep up the amazing work!

Have a lovely weekend!