St John Ogilvie Primary School

Pupil Highlights:

Olivier: ‘ I like painting the sun yesterday as a spider .’

Joshua: ‘ I enjoyed dressing up today for Halloween.’

Sylvia: ‘ I like painting the sun as a spider yesterday and dressing up for Halloween.’

Adam: ‘ I like drawing our line graphs and bar charts.’

Marriyah: ‘ I liked using personification for writing our own poem ‘ The Classroom.’

Hello P2A families!

Here are the learning highlights of the week from the Blue Table:

John loved it when he was the first person whose name went up on our new class ‘Recognition Board’.  Even though his hands were full, he still managed to help another pupil pick up their belongings as they had hurt their hands.  So kind of you John!

Rebekah enjoyed our learning this week of words that had the ‘th’ sound.  She particularly liked ‘thunder’.

Ella loved playing ‘Hungry Hippos’ with the Numicon 10 pieces when the children had to find the answer to doubles and half questions.

Ollie liked to hear that our new topic is ‘Weather and the Water Cycle’.  The children let me know a whole host of things they wish to learn about the weather.  Ollie is excited to learn all about snow.

My highlight was seeing the children again after the holiday and my absence.  I had missed them a great deal.  I hope you all had a lovely week during the holiday.

We welcome a new pupil to our St John Ogilvie family, Babafola.  We hope he enjoys our time with us and makes lots of new friends!

We all came back to school on Tuesday after a nice holiday break. We started the day with spelling and grammar then we had a session to develop our thinking skills with Mrs McLaughlin by exploring clues in pictures then in the afternoon (after math) we created some simple winter sketches. We also discussed Children’s Rights – Article 16 – every child has the right to Privacy and what that means to us in our everyday life.

It is Black History Month and on Wednesday we discussed racism and investigated the life of Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. In the afternoon we created a collage of pictures showing our understanding of TRUST this is one of our important school values.

Friendship, TRUST, Respect, Happiness, Kindness, Teamwork and Self-Belief

On Thursday we wrote descriptive poems about imaginative things we would put in a Magic Box. This was a lot of fun choosing descriptive words. We learned some different mental math strategies for multiplication and division in the afternoon. This morning after completing our Big Maths and CLIC challenges, we had a great time mounting out Greek artwork to bring home and share with our families. We also finished our emotions fortune tellers which we will also bring home today.

Next week we will be starting our new topic Earth Heroes which is about Conservation and Sustainability.

It has been a short but very busy week in P1B.  The pupils enjoyed sharing their news of what they got up to over the October Holidays.

This week we have been learning the sound ‘a’ it is a black long stretchy sound.  It is a vowel and lives in Inky’s Vowel House.  We made alligators and coloured apples to help us remember the sound.

In Numeracy and Maths we revised 2D Shapes and looked at ordering numbers in to the correct order.  We also focused on our number formation to ensure we write our numbers correctly.

We have discussed what we would like to learn about our mini topic on Dinosaurs and we are very excited to get started.

I liked colouring in the apple (Sofia)

I liked learning about Dinosaurs (Lewis)

I liked playing with my friends (Olivia)

I liked playing with the animals with Lilly and Maja (Emily Ann)

I liked playing Bingo (Maja)

I liked to run and learn words (Amy)

I liked making the skeleton dinosaur (Evana)

I liked making the paper plate dinosaur (Ishaan)

I liked making alligators (Siya)

I liked playing with the Lego (Blair)

Wow – What a week!  It may have been a short week but we have had an exciting one full of experiences.

We have been working on performance poetry this week and everyone in the class has worked in a group to act or read poetry to the class.  We are now writing our own performance poems, using sounds we hear in everyday life and rhyme.

In maths, we revised how to lay out our column sums in our jotters and we all know the importance of making sure the numbers are in the correct columns.  We are excited to be working on exchanging numbers next week.

In class, we have been reading the novel “The Boy Who Grew Dragons” and have taken part in lots of activities relating to the story.   We have drawn dragon eyes, created our own dragons and written about them and drawn dragonfruits.  This week has been the most exciting as we tasted dragonfruit!  Everyone tasted it and most of us thought it was ok but it didn’t really have any taste to it.  The dragonfruit looked like a red egg with spikes and in our story dragons grow inside them.

We are all looking forward to more learning next week!

P4A

Pupil Highlights:

Olivier: I liked learning about Harriet Tubman.

Marriyah: I liked making the timeline of Harriet Tubman.

Josh N: I liked learning about the data handling and doing the bar chart.

Inaya: I liked doing Spanish.

Natalia: I liked doing the bar chart because it was fun to make.

Emily: I like doing the art task with Mrs Ogunro. We had to draw a tree with straight lines and then colour it in.

Ronan: I liked playing Wallie with Steven.

Sylvia: I liked doing Art with Mrs Ogunro.

Daisy: I liked doing the bar chart.

Hello special SJO families!

Here are the learning highlights of the week from the Yellow Table:

Ruari liked playing the Line Game during PE.

Paige enjoyed the football after school club on Thursday.

Aiden liked learning about the senses.

Kyle loved Spanish today with Mrs McKissack.  They completed addition sums in Spanish!

My highlight when I was in during Monday and Tuesday this week had to have been the beautiful autumn trees that the children created during Art as part of our thanking God for his beautiful creation at this time of year.

I hope you all enjoy the holiday and I will see you all back on Tuesday 19^th!

We have had a great week in P1B learning all about the letter and sound ‘p’. We thought of lots of things that begin and end in the sound ‘p’. We enjoyed making a penguin craft, colouring in pink pigs and making colourful parrots with feathers.

In math, we learned how to write the numbers 9 and 10. We also learned how 2D shapes make 3D shapes and investigated which shapes can roll, stack and slide. We enjoyed building towers with 3D shapes and made pictures with 2D shapes.

We also learned about ordering numbers to 10 and 20. We worked in pairs to order Numicon, ten frames and dot patterns. We then played a game where one person closed their eyes, while the other made a number disappear and they had to work out what number was missing. Mrs Meikle was very impressed with the different strategies we used to work out the answer.

We have also been learning some more about our senses, this week the sense of touch and taste. We read the story ‘The Incredible Book Eating Boy’ and wrote about things ‘I like to eat’. We had a tasting session to identify different types of tastes. Our favourite was sweet, sour made us all very giggly! We finished off the week by making popcorn, we used all our senses to investigate; what it looks and feels like before and after, what it sounds like when cooking and most importantly what it smells and tastes like.

For H&WB we made a recipe for a good friend and after reading ‘Enemy Pie’ we made a craft friendship pie.

P1B wish everyone a happy and safe October holiday!

Dear parents,

We have had a great week in Primary 6B. Here are some things we would like to share with you:

Literacy: We have been reading our class novel ‘Wonder’ together and focusing on the main characters. We learned how to use Pixton and created our own characters and comics, some of us even used these skills in our free writing.

Numeracy and Maths: Our focus this week was on multiplication and time. We have been learning to convert 12 hour time into 24 hour time.

R.E: We learned about St Francis of Assisi as his Feast day was 4th October. We liked that he was close to nature and cared for animals and the environment.

IDL/Art: We completed our research on ancient Greece and made fact files to show what we have learned. We also used a range of patterns to create our own Greek vases. Here are some below:

Fun Friday: We had fun learning how to follow instructions and create some pictures by following each step. We hope you like them!

Rights respecting school: Well done to Zak and Rebecca for being confident individuals and taking part in a group assessment to help achieve our silver award.

Over and above: Congratulations to Tanya for going over and above this week, well done!

Have a fantastic week,

Mrs Roy