St John Ogilvie Primary School

Hello P3A families,

Here are this week’s highlights from blue table:

Grace was excited to meet her new teacher and loved discovering that she enjoys baking!

McPaul said the highlight of his week was football with Miss White.

Alicja and Chahiti both said they liked learning about the Olympics.  The children worked in partners to research a sport of their choice that is part of the 2024 Paris Olympics.  They have been gathering information that will then feed into an information poster.  The poster needs to include information on the history of that sport, the rules of the sport and also name some of the athletes that will be participating.  Alicja’s group and Chahiti’s group have chosen  ‘gymnastics’.  The children having been scanning a QR code that leads them to the following site: https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/sports

Angel loved learning about basketball (links with Olympics).  The children learned that in basketball, you dribble with your fingertips.  They tried drippling with both hands in turn and both looking at and away from the ball while traveling with it.  The also learned to manoeuvre the ball in a v shape.  This will help if they play the game with an opponent.  Next week they are going to learn how to shoot the ball in to the net.

Rory liked  writing a letter to his new teacher.  The letters included at least, their name, about their family, what they feel their strengths are and what they would like help with in P4.  They also asked the teacher questions.

Lead Learners were Caiden and Rory.  They had the important role of looking out for people who were demonstrating our school rules of being Ready, Respectful and Safe.  They also get to say something extra for the blog:

Caiden – “I liked measuring with a ruler.”

Rory – “I liked football with Miss White.”

My highlight was basketball.  The children listened well to the basketball coach on the big screen and then tried hard to follow his instructions.  Mrs Brown discovered she wasn’t too bad at playing herself when she was demonstrating how to take the ball off your opponent!

Congratulations to Hasika, our hot chocolate award winner this week.

It was great to have had the opportunity to have met with you lovely parents on Tuesday or Thursday night to discuss your marvellous children.  I cannot believe that we are nearing the end of our time together!

Regards

Mrs Brown

Dear Readers,

What a busy and exciting week we have all had!

These were just the highlights:

• In Literacy our focus this week was on the correct use of apostrophes, since the writing shows many of us still make mistakes while using them. We have had spelling words with apostrophes for most of us, oral work with apostrophes, written worksheets with apostrophes and our weekly spelling assessment with apostrophes as well! Let’s hope our use of apostrophes will improve a bit from now on!
• We continued working on the Recount, this time with the collective Recount of our Trip to St. Peter’s Church for Mass on Wednesday. We’re still half way because all of us are trying to participate and add details.
• In Maths, the week was all about multiplication and division again so we have done division of up to 4 digit numbers and many of us did that very well!
• We went to Mass on Wednesday morning with our friends from P5B and tried our best to understand and follow what Father Clement said.
• The 80th anniversary of D-Day was the perfect time to explain to all its importance within the Second World War effort and we were amazed to learn about how many people had been involved in its careful planning in many countries. This celebration has finished our Peace and War topic which will be followed by our last topic of P5: The Olympics.
• As we have had Parents’ evenings we have also had the chance to show off to the whole school community our Eco-School models which were all set in the Hall for people to take a look at. People said they looked amazing! 😀
• To finish off an already very exciting week, we have met our new teachers today and found out that we will have Mrs Lea to teach us in Primary 6.
• We have also found out about our new Houses for Primary 6 and although we don’t know their names yet, we have had the opportunity to choose our House Captains for the next session 2024/2025.

All very exciting!

• Finally, we congratulate our Half- Blood Prince table for winning again the prize for best table of the week! Well done!🏆👏👏👏👏

That’s all for today, we say goodbye for now wishing everyone a great weekend!

P5A and Mrs Valente

This week we have been practising our word building skills using games on the Smartboard. We are getting very confident in spelling words correctly.

In maths, we have continued to practise using greater than and less then but Miss Stebbing made it harder by putting adding sums on each side!

In topic, we learned all about the medals that are given out at the Olympic games and we designed our own medals for Paris 2024.

We have started to practise for our Assembly and we can’t wait to see all our grown ups there.

We had a very exciting Friday morning. We visited our new classrooms and met our new teachers. After break we listened to the P6 pupils doing their house captain speeches and got to vote for our favourite speech.

Some of our personal highlights this week are:

Leah – I enjoyed playing with my friends outside.

Joseph – I enjoyed doing PE.

Bella – I enjoyed going to see our new classroom.

Zuraib – I enjoyed playing outside.

Maja – I enjoyed tidying up.

Matteo – I enjoyed playing in my new classroom.

Rudhvick – I enjoyed playing with the cups.

Well done to Maja who is our Hot Chocolate Winner this week.

Dear Readers,

We hope you are all well.

Our highlights this week were:

• Revising the different types of words we already know including, nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs and pronouns.
• Learning about the different types of nouns and identifying them in different texts.
• Identifying verbs, adjectives and adverbs in different texts.
• Understanding what kinds of words are used the most when writing a recount.
• Continuing our work on division and multiplication sums.
• Continuing our work on 1 and 2 step word problems with perimeter and area.
• Our beautiful Art work for Mary, Our Mother, which will be up until the end of P5.
• Throughout the month of May, Month of Mary, we have learned about how Mary’s Meals have been helping children around the world and have felt very much touched by it. Day by day, we have learned about the amount of school meals they provide to children in each one of the countries they help.We have also learned about the contents of those meals and the economic and social situations of each one of those countries. Although sad and shocked by the terrible conditions most of those children live in, we felt that it was good to learn this, since it made us all much more grateful for what we have and the place we live in. Also, we started being Mary’s Meals BIG fans and now want to do as much as we can to help them! And we can happily say that our donations for Mary’s Meals on Friday have shown how much we care, since we managed to donate enough money to feed almost three children during a whole year! Just from P5A, Well done,P5A! Team work does make the dream work!🥰✨👏💕💕💕💕
• We have also had the opportunity to work on our STEM Curiosity Box challenges for which we have been given a sheet of instructions and the resources and have been told to complete the challenges within small groups chosen by us. It was quite fun!🤔
• Many congratulations to our Hot Chocolate from last week, Mr. Mason!!!!!!👏👏👏✨🥇Super well done! Mason is the first one to tidy up, likes to help others and always makes everyone smile.😃
• Congratulations as well to Miss Nell, our Hot Chocolate of the week, for being a super welcoming friend and helping our new Ena settling in to our class and for making her feel so happy!♥🥰👏🥇✨
• Well done to the Chamber of Secrets and the Half Blood Prince Tables for winning the Prize for best tables of the week!🏆🏆🥇🥇👏👏
• Regarding our amazing Eco-School models, here are some amazing pictures of the whole process, we hope you like them!

CLIMATE COCONUTS

PLANET WARRIORS

ENERGY SAVERS

CLIMATE RESOLUTION

ECO-FANTASTIC wJ

That’s all for now!

We wish you a wonderful week ahead!

P5A and Mrs Valente😘😘

Hello P3A families,

Here are this week’s highlights from the yellow table:

Riley liked building a football pitch out of blocks and then playing with a marble for a ball and finger players.

Ollie said the best part of his week was when we went around the school measuring. First we estimated.  Ollie enjoyed measuring a corridor the best and his estimation was very close for a radiator.  Good work Ollie!

Aadya loved Benchball.  During June, our PE will be linked to summer games and the Olympics.

Ethan liked Rounders and loves to record the results in tally marks.

Vivien said her highlight was music with Mrs Morrison.  The class watched  A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream on Cbeebies (https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b078jltg/a-midsummer-nights-dream)

Diana said she liked learning about the meaning of the words in The Confiteor Prayer.  P3A will be learning to say this prayer during the month of June and should then be able to participate in it during Mass.

Linda liked writing a non-fiction story called ‘The Surprise’ that she planned last week.  Her story is about how she was surprised in P1 when she found out her friend from nursery was going to be in her class in her new school!  That was a great surprise!   This super story included an ‘orientation’, ‘sequence of events’ and concluded with a ‘personal statement’; all the features of a recount.  Well done Linda.

Hasika loved completing an instructional drawing of 2 hands shaking. This was part of our learning about conflict resolution.

Laura enjoyed making a teamwork poster with Mrs Brand.

My highlight was the beautiful singing when we learned the hymn ‘Peace, Perfect Peace’ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj9A4klqbqY).

Congratulations to Rory, our hot chocolate award winner this week.

Lead Learners were Deveena and Hasika.  They had the important role of looking out for people who were demonstrating our school rules of being Ready, Respectful and Safe.  They also get to say something extra for the blog:

Deveena – “I liked saying the Rosary”

Hasika – “I liked making a dog’s house.”

Regards

Mrs Brown

Hello P3A families,

Here are this week’s highlights from the Red table:

Tvisha enjoyed handwriting this week were the children were joining h and a together.  They came up with lots of words when they may need to use these letters.  Well done P3A!  I hope to see them joined from now on in your writing.

Hafsah said the best part of her week was listening to the Word Boost story, ‘The Highway Rat’.  Her favourite word to learn about was ‘freedom’.  We discussed how the children have freedom each afternoon during ‘Choosing our own Learning’ time.

Deveena liked learning how the apostrophe can also be used to shorten two words such as can’t instead of can not.  Previously we had learned about it being used to show possession.

Zion was delighted to learn about the life cycle of a frog as his was the creature chosen to learn about life cycles in our class vote, after learning about the life cycle of a seed.  Please remember that you can post any photographs to Seesaw or the school office showing us how the plant your child took home is growing.

Jiade and Jack loved football outside with coach Steven.  Great ball skills everyone!

Twida and Caiden both said they enjoyed learning how to use the multiplication square to help them find answers during Maths.

My highlight was watching the children as they played football.  Even though the weather was miserable, everyone gave 100% and listened to the instructions well.

Congratulations to Tadiwa, our hot chocolate award winner this week.

Lead Learners were McPaul and Tadiwa.  They had the important role of looking out for people who were demonstrating our school rules of being Ready, Respectful and Safe.  They also get to say something extra for the blog:

McPaul – “I liked planning for our writing called ‘The Surprise’.  I had a surprise before and it was my little brother being born.” As part of our learning about recounts (writing in the past tense), the children heard a story about a boy who received a toy box as a surprise.  They then planned to write about a surprise they once had.  We will write about this next week and use our planning sheet to support us.

Tadiwa – “I liked making the feelings poster with Mrs Brand.”

Regards

Mrs Brown

Hello families,

The children had a packed short week.

Reesa “I liked measuring things in the classroom in cm and m”

Evana “I liked learning about turtles”

Lewis “I liked doing football in the rain”

Blair “I liked building a penguin habitat on Minecraft”

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