St John Ogilvie Primary School

Hello P3 families!  Here are our highlights this week from The Red Pandas:

Leighton has been enjoying our learning about Viking longhouses.  She thought the fact that they used animal horns for cups quite fascinating!

Amelia has continued to like playing benchball at PE.

Maja said the highlight of her week were the lessons on 2D shapes and she made a lovely picture of a house  using these shapes.

Laaibah loved our 3D shape learning.  Our new 3D shape learning in P3 is the square-based pyramid and triangular prism.  We explored the 2D links and how many faces, edges and vertices they have.  So far, we have made the square-based pyramid using it’s Net.

Tyler F also liked learning about 3D shapes.  We played a game called ‘Pass the Shape’ to some music.

Daniel has chosen our lesson on revising the ‘ai’ sound that is found in the middle of words as his favourite.  Next, we will be revising the ‘ay’ sound found at the end of words.

Viaan thought our lesson on question words was interesting.  Our theme was what animal we would like and had to think of different questions to ask someone if we did not know how to look after it.  Viaan  wanted a cat and his questions were: Who can feed a cat?  Where can you keep it safe?  Do you wash a cat? and Who will put it to sleep?  He remembered to use a question mark at the end of each written question.  Well done, Viaan!

Alex loved the lesson about The 10 Commandments and was able to recall many of them the next day.

Danvieth said his favourite learning was with Mrs Morrison were the children continued to listen and join in with the singing for ‘Treasure Island’.

Nathan said that the teamwork games during PE was his favourite part of the week.  The children got in to teams and it was a race to see who could pass the ball over and under in a pattern first.

My highlight was our lesson on the longhouses.  The children did their own research using nonfiction books.  We looked at Contents pages and located the longhouses from that information.  Mostly we looked at the pictures and there was a lot of rich discussion around what they saw.  Laaibah spotted that some of them were a triangular prism!  Well done, Laaibah!

Congratulations to Ollie, our hot chocolate award winner this week!

Unfortunately, Seesaw codes were unable to be printed this week after all (cyber attack implications) but we have our fingers crossed for next week.  Also, reading assessments for P3 should be finished by next week also, so the hope is for reading books to be able to go home as part of homework after the September weekend.

I hope you all enjoy your weekend!

Mrs Brown

What a fantastic week we have had in P1a.

We started to learn our first phonetic sound ‘n’ and had great fun making a monster craft and giving a monster a haircut. We all worked really hard on how to form the letter ‘m’ correctly.

In maths we continued to explore numbers thinking about ordering them, identifying before/after and trying to work out what numbers are missing. We have enjoyed not only counting in English but also in Spanish, so far up to 6.

We looked at the red zone of regulation this week, thinking of things that make us angry and also scared. We drew fantastic black line drawings to show this.

Friday is our outdoor learning day and today we looked at 2D shapes and tried to find them in our environment. Mrs Meikle was so impressed with how well we worked with our partners and we found so many 2D shapes. She let us get some playground toys out the shed, some of us were lucky to have a turn on the bikes and scooters.

We are looking forward to our weekend with our families and coming back to school on Monday all refreshed.

What a wonderful week we have had in P1a.

In Literacy, we have been learning about Beginning, Middle and End.  We have a little action we complete to show the beginning, middle or end.  We listened to sounds and we had to recall where the sound was.  We played guess the animal sound and again had to say where the animal was located.  We have also been practising our names remembering to use a capital letter just at the beginning.

This week we have been learning about the blue zone of regulation and looked at the words sad and tired.  We discussed what the words mean and strategies we could use if someone feels sad our tired, we drew a picture and our teacher scribed what we said about the picture.

We talked about the importance of families and created a beautiful piece of artwork showing our families.

This week we have been learning all about the numbers 2 and 3.  We are all working very hard on the formation of the numbers.  We also counted to 30 and backwards from 10.  We played and under the sea game where we had to count the under water creatures and press the correct answer.

In PE, we have been practising finding our own space.  We used our listening skills to play ‘Beans’.  We looked at different coloured circles to show us how to move or stop.  Green means go, amber means slow down, red means stop.  We also played ‘Duck, Duck, Goose’.

We are getting very good at blessing ourselves before and after prayers and we are listening well and trying to join in with our prayers.

Today we got to meet in our House Groups and work together on a task.  It was lovely meeting lots of new people from our school.

Here are some of our personal highlights this week:

Conall ‘I liked writing my name’

Willow ‘I liked writing the number 3’

Ini ‘I liked drawing my family’

Nathania ‘I liked playing outside’

Monika ‘I liked playing in the area’

Well done to Marley our Hot Chocolate winner this week.  Marley works very hard and always tries his best.  Congratulations to St Francis the winning house this week.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

Dear Parents and Carers.

This week we did lots of interesting and fun activities. In science and technology, we made marble runs. We had to demonstrate our run working and explain why specific features had been included. Our class topic is Japan and we learnt about all the different regions and what they are famous for. We created our own information posters using our notes from the video we watched. We also made sushi in class which was good fun!  House and Vice captains presented a task during house groups this week. Some of us were a little nervous but we all performed well!  Outdoor learning was interesting because we built dens, litter picked and created our own amazing recipes in the mud kitchen ! During maths we learnt how to draw our own grids and plot coordinates accurately. In literacy we developed our knowledge of the rules for making words plural, some of them were tricky! Our class continued to read our class novel ” Skellig” and answered a variety of questions based on the text.

Congratulations to Sophia who was nominated our hot chocolate winner for going “ over and above” this week!

Here are some of our learning highlights.

By Sophia and Ishaan

Reya and Leanna “ Creating the marble runs was exciting.”

Samanvi and Damian “ Making sushi in class was amazing!

Logan- ” I enjoyed outdoor learning.”

Ignacy and John.” Plotting coordinates on a grid was interesting.”

Ailsa and Ena. ” I enjoyed creating my imaginative story.”

Sophia ” presenting the house group information was enjoyable.”

Have a super weekend

Mrs Lea and Primary 7A

This week we have been learning all about the numbers 2 and 3. We used yellow paint to practise writing the number 3. It was great fun! We also played  a game on the Smartboard to practise recognising numbers to 20. We had to click on the correct number to send the helicopter to help the person.

In Literacy, we have been learning all about Beginning, Middle and End. We started by looking at the line on the farm for the animals to be fed and then at a bus stop with children waiting to board the bus. We then had to listen to three different sounds and say what sound was at the beginning, middle or end. For writing, we wrote about a strategy we could use if we are angry. The staff were very impressed with everyone who was trying to write their sentence.

In PE, we have been continuing our work on listening and following instructions. We played the corners game and the fruit game. Our listening skills in the hall have been excellent!

We talked about how important our families are and we created some artwork to show our families. We have also looked at angry and anxiety spot and linked these to our Zones of Regulation.

Here are some of our personal highlights this week:

Alfie – I enjoyed making the family pictures.

Alayha – I enjoyed playing in the area.

Grace – I enjoyed drawing.

Lincoln – I enjoyed writing the number three.

Tejasvi – I enjoyed playing in the house corner.

Aayat – I enjoyed playing in the ice cream shop.

Congratulations to Grace who is our Hot Chocolate Winner this week. She has been a kind and caring friend to people in our class.

Mrs Ross has spent some time with us this week. We talked about music notes and where they sit. We played a game to practice where the notes are. With Mrs Roy we talked about zones of regulation. In PE, Mrs Ross got us to do a of running and stretching!

We have started learning about the Victorians. We researched some information about Queen Victoria and her family.

Our Hot Chocolate winner this week is Amy because she doesn’t give up.

Great week everyone.

Hello families of P3!

This week’s update is brought to you by The Ferrets:

Ellie enjoyed House groups activities today.  The children separated into their different Houses and completed activities centred around the idea of ‘relationships’.

Eliza reports how she liked our Daily Mile each day.  After break time, the children in P3 walk around the playground 4 times.  This health initiative is to help foster a healthy lifestyle from a young age.

Izaan said the best part of his week has been learning about 2D shapes.  New shapes we focused on were pentagons, hexagons and octagons.  I gave the children little stories to help remember their names.  Ask your child if they can remember these stories.  Izaan thought the octagon was “really cool” as it had 8 sides like 8 legs of an octopus.  We discovered that each of these shapes had the same number of sides as vertices (pointy parts).

Sofia loved continuing to learn about Creation.  If your child wishes to rewatch the beautiful little video clip about this, click (or paste the link) here: Bible Story Series: Genesis The Creation of World

Matteo has continued to enjoy playing Benchball!  Super co-operation P3!

Vihaan has loved our learning so far about the Vikings.  He liked it when we looked at a real one in a museum in Oslo: The Collection – Museum of the Viking Age

Joseph’s highlight of the week was listening to our class novel, The Twits.  His favourite part was when the boys escaped from being stuck to the branch of the big dead tree.  They wiggled out of their trousers and ran away (Joseph was giggling at the pictures of their bums).

Tyler liked revising common words (reading and writing of them) from P2.

My highlight has been learning about the Viking longboats.  It was fantastic for the children to visualise the length of an actual boat.  The children have been eating up the facts about these boats and about the Viking burials.  We discussed what we would be buried with if we had of been Vikings.  The children said I would need to be buried with my laptop to be a teacher in the next life!  I wonder if I would have had wifi!

Congratulations to Viaan, our hot chocolate award winner this week!

I hope you all have a great weekend!

Mrs Brown

We have had a fantastic first full week of school! The staff have been so impressed by how quickly we are picking up the routines of the class.

This week in Literacy we have been learning all about same, different, loud and quiet. We enjoyed using the musical instruments to practise same but had even more fun using them to be loud! We worked well during group tasks to colour in the same items and then find the item that was different.

In Maths, we have been learning all about 0 and 1. We can write these using the correct formation and have been able to represent the numbers in different ways. We used ten frames to show the number and we are very quick at showing these numbers with our finger patterns.

In RE, we have been learning all of our Daily Prayers and we are becoming more confident in saying these together.

We have made our Class Charter and have thought carefully about how we can show we are Ready, Respectful and Safe. We have been keeping the classroom safe for everyone by tidying it up and we have earned some House Points for this.

In Health and Wellbeing, we learned about what to do when there is a fire. We lined up and walked out to the MUGA very sensibly. We have learned all about the Happy and Sadness spots and what zones they live in. For writing, we drew pictures about things that make us happy and told our sentence to the staff.

In PE, we have been learning to safely find a space in the hall and to listen to instructions. We enjoyed playing traffic lights, tunnel tig and the fruit game to help us practise these skills.

We met up with our Buddies for some reading time on Friday and enjoyed sharing the books with them.

Here are some of our personal highlights from this week:

Victoria – I enjoyed playing in the Ice Cream Shop.

Hanna – I enjoyed writing 0.

Carson – I enjoyed learning about Sadness Spot.

Ignacy – I enjoy playing with the marbles.

Oliver – I enjoyed running around at PE.

Freya – I enjoyed playing with the toys.

Miss Stebbing – It was lovely to meet some of the families at our Meet the Teacher event on Wednesday. I enjoyed seeing the excitement of all the children to show their families around our classroom.