St John Ogilvie Primary School

P3A have had an eventful Easter themed week with many RE lessons about Holy Week.  I hope the photographs below help to share some of the learning experiences the children had this week.

The highlight of our week was our fundraiser to conclude our learning about ‘Conservation of Wildlife’.  The children had previously voted for adopting a hawksbill turtle, one of the endangered animals they learned about this term.   The children sorted their coins and placed them on the corresponding turtle picture.  Through discussion, we decided to group the 1ps, 2ps and 5ps into tens to make it easier to find the total.  Thank you to our fantastic P7 helpers who supported the children to count the coins.  We made a whooping £39.07!  We look forward to our cuddly toy, certificate and updates throughout the year on the valuable work of the WWF, made possible through schemes such as adopting an animal.  We are glad to play a small part in taking care of God’s creatures.  We also know that being responsible citizens by recycling our rubbish and reusing paper can contribute to less plastic in the oceans and less trees (animal habitats) being cut down.  These small actions can help conserve our wildlife too.

I hope you all have a lovely Easter holiday.  I cannot believe we are going to be entering into our final term upon our return!

Mrs Brown

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Dear Readers,

We hope you are all doing very well.

The highlights of this week were:

• Our lessons with the Microbits during which we have learned how to use them, have programmed them on the laptops in MakeCode and have seen the Microbits doing what we wanted them to do! It was very exciting and all the boys and girls were super enthusiastic! We have made love hearts with the LEDs on the Microbit, have made our names appear in the LEDs and have used them to turn on a little lamp! We are now big Microbit fans and are looking forward to our next lessons!
• We’ve continued studying the Narrative through our Spiderwick Chronicles, which are absolutely addictive! When Mrs Valente says it’s time to stop, nobody wants to stop and all beg for more! P5A are loving the Spiderwick Chronicles! We have already learned about the importance of the setting’s description, the characters and the narrator and have done lots of work on each of these.
• We have had our New and always tricky Spelling Words and our Weekly Spelling Assessment, another one of our class’ favourites.
• Our Maths continued with multiplication sums of 1 by up to 5 digits and most boys and girls enjoy multiplication a lot by now! Well done!
• We have learned all about the requirements for our Eco School Models which will hopefully be started next week!
• The boys and girls went back to their Lenten promises and shared with the class how successful they were being at them. Also regarding sacrifice and self-control, we have asked one of the girls in our class, who follows the Muslim faith, to share with us her experience of fasting during Ramadan. The class have prepared several questions to which she kindly agreed to answer in order to make us all more aware of what she is going through. It was very interesting and a brilliant example of how people from different religions and beliefs can learn so much from one another.❤❤
• We would like to congratulate John for being the Hot Chocolate of last week!!!!!! Well done, John!!!! 👏👏👏🥇Always behaving and being kind to others!
• We would also like to congratulate Mia for being the Hot Chocolate of this week! It was lovely to see her positive attitude and great work throughout the week! well done, Mia!👏👏👏🥇
• After counting our kindness notes, we were super happy to see that most people had at least a couple of notes, which means our class is getting kinder by the day! Our Kindness Champions are: 1st 🥇👏❤- Ailsa, 2nd🥈👏👏❤ – Aaron and 3rd🥉👏👏❤ – Emily & Sophia! Super well done!!!!!Keep spreading the kindness!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
• Finally, many congratulations to our Table of the week, The Cursed Child! Well done! Super good work! Always tidy, organised and ( most of the times🤣) behaving!

That’s all for this week. Have a wonderful weekend!😀

P5A and Mrs Valente 😘😘

Hello families of P2

The Children have all worked super hard this week, learning lots of exciting things! We continued our work on plastic pollution in our Oceans. The children used their knowledge about this to create information leaflets, encouraging others to look after our Oceans.

We learner about the lifecycle of frogs, as some of the children spotted frogs in our playground. The children completed a reading comprehension activity all about frogs, producing excellent work.

In Literacy we learned three new sounds, ‘ir’, ‘er’ and ‘ur’.

In numeracy this week we did more work on missing numbers, in subtraction within 20 problems. We also used our knowledge of addition and subtraction to complete a code cracker challenge. The children loved this!

In art, we created beautiful clownfish and coral reefs. These are displayed in our classroom and area, making a lovely under the sea scene.

On Tuesday, Mrs Lafferty brought her beautiful baby in to visit us. We learned all about the needs of a baby and how to care for them.

Weekly Highlights

Olga – I liked making the clownfish and octopus.

Cameron and Aarav – We liked learning about plastic pollution in our Oceans.

Summer – I liked doing all of the Easter activities in the hall. It was so much fun!

Lillian – I liked me and Dineli working together on our plastic pollution leaflets. We took turns each. I did some writing then Dineli did some writing. I did some drawing then Dineli did some. We worked as a good team.

Aaron – I liked the addition and subtraction code breaker.

Filip – I liked learning about Octopus.

Rose – I liked showing my work to my parents.

Huge Congratulations to our hot chocolate winner, Layla and our reading champion, Olga. Awesome job girls!

Have a lovely weekend

In RE, we have been learning about Holy Week. We listened to the story of Palm Sunday and made our own palm leaves to wave. We also learned about the Last Supper and talked about how special Jesus was. We made some beautiful artwork of a cross to display in the area.

In Maths, we have been learning all about tally marks. We are very good at remembering what we need to do when we get to 5. We also practised our addition skills by playing a game on the Smartboard.

In Literacy, we learned about the sound ‘oo’. We are very confident at reading words and spelling words with this sound. We have also started to play a game where we have to read a caption and match it to a picture.

On Tuesday, we had two special visitors who came into our classroom to talk to us. Mrs Lafferty brought here baby in to talk about how to look after a baby. We loved seeing the baby and it was funny when she was making faces at us. We are very grateful to Mrs Lafferty for coming in and helping us with our learning.

For Topic, we learned about the lifecycle of a sea turtle and we had to cut and stick the pictures in the correct order.

During Outdoor Learning, we found an empty egg which we think has fallen from one of the trees. We even saw a squirrel running around when we were practising sitting at the fire pit.

On Friday, we set up a new activity in the tuff tray. We have to open plastic eggs and see which picture is inside and then we have to spell the word. We are very confident with this.

Some of our personal highlights this week are:

Sophia – I enjoyed doing the painting for the sunset.

Tyler F – I enjoyed choosing my own learning.

Lily – I enjoyed playing with the cups.

Posy – I enjoyed outdoor learning.

Maksymilian – I enjoyed playing with the marbles.

Congratulations to Tyler F who is our Hot Chocolate Winner this week and to Maja who is our Reading Champion.

Hi Parents/Families,

Due to all the excitement of our St Patrick’s Day party on Friday, we did not get a chance to complete our blog post of recording our week’s learning highlights.  Meanwhile, I hope you enjoy the photos below that have managed to capture some of those experiences.

Congratulations to our hot chocolate award winner, Angel.

Regards

Mrs Brown

Dear Readers,

We hope you are all well.

We are going to start by thanking all the parents and carers for coming once again to our school and for joining us for our Outdoor Assembly! It was lovely having you all here working collaboratively with your children, and being taught what to do by them!😂We have great pictures of absolutely amazing birds’ nests which made us all very proud. Having our own Woodlands is paramount for us to experience Outdoor learning and we are very grateful for that. It was really amazing sharing our experiences in the Woodlands with our families and carers!

Some of this week’s highlights were also linked to the preparation of the Assembly and to our Science Climate Smarter Project:

• Learning to identify different trees by the characteristics of their wood and shapes of their leaves. We have also been learning about the different types of wood and their uses: for building houses/other buildings, for flooring, for furniture, for pallets, for decking and fencing, etc. This will be very important when we start choosing the materials for our Climate Smarter Eco School Model, of course, so the children made lots of notes about this to use very soon.
• Working hard on reading aloud in order to audition for our roles in the Assembly, always focusing on being clear, loud and using expression. It’s important to say that around 90% of the pupils from our class have worked super hard learning how to read fluently the parts in order to audition for them. This was amazing for their learning and make us all proud of our friends’ effort!
• In Numeracy and Maths, we have started by revising the 2,3 and 4 times tables and their close relation to division and have then moved on to using them in our multiplication sums of one by up to five digits. It was very good and the children kept on asking for more. We will continue next week with the 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 times tables.
• As usual, we have had our weekly spelling assessment with the words learned this week and practised daily in class. Let’s see how good our scores are this week…😀
• In RE we have finished our learning on the Seven Sacraments and I hope your children can tell you all about them.😊

After having had new places to sit in class, we congratulate the Order of the Phoenix table for having won our weekly trophy! Well done, Order!👏👏👏🏆

We did not have time to award the Hot Chocolate of the week but will hopefully do it on Monday and will let you know about it next week.

Once again thank you very much for your participation on Friday and we wish all a great weekend and week ahead!

P5A and Mrs Valente 😘😘