St John Ogilvie Primary School

Dear Parents and Carers,

Primary 6 have been working hard this week! In Literacy, we learned about the Easter Story and discussed alternative words for those in the passage and why the author had chosen particular words.

In Numeracy, we continued to learn about decimals using subtraction. We shared our strategies for solving mental calculations.  On Monday our class went up to the woodlands and used flints to make a sparks ! We are looking forward to toasting marshmallows on the fire at the end of term! Other groups did outdoor weaving using ribbon and some people made dens for woodland animals. We all enjoyed it!

In art we continued to learn about perspective and used water colour to complete the aquarium. A group of us lead stations of the cross in the P5 Classes as part of our Pope Francis Faith Award.

Ameya, Zofia, Nell, Julia, Hamnah, Baibua and Bailey organised an Easter egg hunt for the P1 children and  they crocheted chicks for them, they looked amazing!! I think the P1  children appreciated all their hard work!

Congratulations to Nell who is our reading champion this week!

Congratulations to Samanvi who was nominated as our Hot Chocolate winner this week for amazing behaviour and work!

Have a lovely holiday !

Mrs Lea and Primary 6A

Hello families of P4a, this week we have lots of exciting things to share with you.

On Monday we enjoyed our NYCOS music lesson. We are really enjoying this time and learning new rhythms and sounds.

Aadya said: “ NYCOS is really fun because it is a fun way to learn about music by playing games”

Throughout this week P4a have completed their SNSA assessments and have worked very hard to do so. Pupils completed a numeracy, writing and reading assessment.

On Wednesday this week we went a walk through the community and to our local Morrison’s. Here, pupils were recognising the energy and power that surrounds us in our society as we have been learning all about this throughout our new IDL topic.  We even bought some ice lollies as it was a lovely hot day!

Caiden said: “I liked going to the shop with my friends and enjoyed the ice lollies too”

On Thursday we went a walk to Dechmont Law. Here, the pupils learned a lot about the UFO sighting at Dechmont in 1979 and were able to investigate this further when we came back to class. Pupils enjoyed walking up the hill at Dechmont and exploring the woodland area.

Grace said: “I had so much fun when we had our picnic and spending time with everyone in my class outside of school”

Jack said: “I liked learning about the UFO sighting and reading about it at the park on the plaque, it is very spooky”

Laura said “I liked doing the research about it in class when we came back and learning about the facts behind it”

On Friday pupils enjoyed an Easter egg hunt in our class and had great fun!

Mrs Ross from P4B brought her very own Easter bunny into school on Friday and lots of us got to see him and hold him, it was so cute!

Diana said “I really liked petting the bunny and it was super cute! Its name was Domino”

P4A pupils that are making their First Communion have their books home to complete over the holidays.

Our hot chocolate winner this week is Jack! – Well done Jack

I hope that you all have a wonderful break P4! I am so proud of all of your hard work this term. I will see you all in 2 weeks for our final term!! Can you believe it?!

Miss Maxwell 🙂

Happy Friday to all the P3 families! What a fun-filled two weeks we have had.

Over the last 2 weeks we have been learning lots of spelling sounds and patterns and been practicing all of our common words! We have been writing narrative writing stories and they have all been awesome! This week we planned our new stories which we all came up with ourselves, we will be writing these after the holidays! We had some great ideas and everyone was very creative.

We have had lots of fun with our numeracy, going outside and learning in the sun last week as well as playing multiplication board games and working in groups and independently doing sums.

Our topic ‘conservation of wildlife’ has been so much fun so far. We have been learning about different wildlife and their habitats, what it means if an animal is ‘endangered’ and which animals fall into the ‘endangered’ list. We have been thinking about the threats to wildlife and what we can do to help protect the wildlife in our local area. As a part of this, we decided to go litter picking around our school grounds to help create a clean and tidy environment for wildlife to live in. We took a lovely walk around the local area and even ventured down to the river to take a look and spot some wildlife, we seen beautiful flowers blooming and lots of creatures including bugs, birds, ducks bees and more! We have also spent some time crafting our own wildlife habitats and these were made out of anything we wanted! This included lego, cardboard, paper and craft materials and meant we had a large range of 2D and 3D creations!

In our RE we have been learning about lent and the story of Jesus on Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday. We have been learning how to make the sign of the cross properly and what this means.

We had an awesome joke competition two weeks ago in our school and classroom. There were lots of funny jokes and myself and Mrs Garvin had a tough time choosing the winner! We ended up having 2 winners and one of them represented our class in front of the whole school! They did awesome and I thought our joke was definitely the funniest (although I may be biased)!

Well done to everyone last week who created an Easter bonnet and brought it in, we had lots of awesome bonnets in our classroom and everyone did an amazing job!

Well done to all of our winners over the last 2 weeks!

I hope you all have a lovely weekend,

Miss Duddy.

A very happy Mother’s Day to all our SJO mums. A very special message from our P7 Campers who are away from their Mums today.