St John Ogilvie Primary School

Pupil Highlights:

Aoife: I liked adding and taking away 10, 100 and a 1000 from numbers in the tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands.

Inaya: I liked using the number line to help me add 100 to a number.

Adam: I liked levelling up with Myles in Prodigy.

Marriyah: I liked doing Spanish with Miss Holder.

Olivier: I liked drawing the fruits and writing the names of the fruits in Spanish.

Grant: I liked coming to school for Dress Down Friday.

Natalia: I liked doing Spanish with Miss Holder.

Sylvia: I liked doing Prodigy and using the drumsticks in Music.

Josh N: I liked taking part in the COP26 vote.

Vanessa: I liked drumming in music with Mrs Morrison.

Myles: I liked drawing new pictures in my free drawing jotter.

Elizabete: I liked adding 1s, 10s and 100s to three digit numbers.

Hello special SJO families!

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

Ollie loved making tie dye socks as part of our learning about when our grandparents were young.  This week we explored fashion from the 1960s and 1970s.

Izaan liked using the ‘Chatterpix’ app today to take a selfie and record himself reading his Free Writing Friday story.  Our challenge today was to include the Word Boost word ‘rescue’ in our story.  We had a whole host of plots ranging from a cow that needed rescued, as an evil fairy threw it in a river, to Izann’s story that involved a cat wearing classes that got stuck up a tree!  Well done P2A authors!

Lucas enjoyed learning about the fashion when his grandparents were young.  There was lots of giggling in P2A as the children saw images of young people wearing flares, long collared shirts, bright, bold patterns and headbands.

Ella loved it when she won a prize for the person who had stuck their work in the straightest!

Rebekah enjoyed Spanish this week where we linked it with our learning about the shapes, ‘pentagon, hexagon and octagon’.  The children completed a listening activity where they had to colour a certain number of shapes – all instructions in Spanish!

My highlight was today when we watched the famous duo ‘Torvill and Dean’ ice-skating.  This followed a story we heard about a shy rabbit who wasn’t too sure if she could ice skate.  We watched a 1978 performance of theirs (in keeping with our 1970s thematic learning) and proceeded to imagine we were ice skaters and “skated” around the room very gracefully like Torvill and Dean!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPIRAEMSA-U&t=179s

I hope you all enjoy the long weekend.  See you on Wednesday!

Mrs Devlin

Welcome to P7B!

A great week of learning P7B this week! During our reflection we told Mr Pentland our highlights:

Hesham and Szymon loved numeracy this week, looking at number and place value! We explored different ways of thinking when it comes to subtraction, doing our calculations from left to right! We did great! We have also been doing great work on estimating and rounding and looking at inverse operations to estimate and check solutions.

Vivaan and Sara loved science with Mrs Miller, learning all about Micro Organisms! We started a germ experiment with bread and we are excited to keep an eye on this next week and fill in our record sheet!

Rory and Vihaan enjoyed learning about Scotland this week! We learned some fun facts about Scotland and drew our own fantastic maps (we did not include all 790 islands – although we were keen to try!). We will be looking at Scotland for our topic and the influence of the past on the present and future! We were also excited to start our novel ‘The Desperate Journey’ – we are looking forward to reading on with this.

We were lucky to have Father Simon visit our class this week during RE. We had great conversations with him! He was very impressed with our job advertisements for Alter Servers; we had to read fact files and highlight important information to create informative, persuasive advertisements! Well done P7B!

Lucas and Kuba enjoyed learning more about the Global Goals this week, especially as we count down to COP26 and build our interactive classroom displays.

Alex and Lewis enjoyed continuing work on narrative during literacy, reviewing the structure and language features and applying it to our own writing. Our classroom went into ‘red alert’ (not to worry, it was just a drill) and the children came up with great narratives to what this could have been! We are looking forward to building on this next week.

We continued our amazing metacognition work this week – thinking about our thinking. We looked at our ‘HOTs’ and created amazing thinking hats with questions to support our learning across the curriculum!

We are excited to start our new daily themes next week:

• Motivation Monday
• Teamwork Tuesday
• Wellbeing Wednesday
• Technology Thursday
• Friday For Future

Thank you all for another great week! I hope you all have an amazing long weekend and get some rest! I can’t wait to see you all on Wednesday (Wellbeing Wednesday)!

Mr Pentland

Hello,

P2b have had a very exciting week – we have started our new topic – When our Grandparents Were Young. We have been focusing this week on 70s fashion and made our own tie dye socks!

Addison, Haadiya, Vinayakarthik and Ksawery all said that making tie dye socks was their favourite activity this week. They enjoyed seeing pictures of the fashion from the 70s and also designing their own outfits on the iPads.

Anthony enjoyed our Spanish listening task – he had to listen for the Spanish number that Miss Lawrence shouted out and the Spanish colour, then quickly find the correct coloured pencil and colour in the correct number of shapes. It was really fun.

Scott liked learning about the Bible and colouring in a picture because he just loves colouring.

Ismaeel’s favourite activity was the hundred square colouring in, he had to listen for the number then colour it in, then find the number before and colouring that in too.

My favourite activity this week  is PE, the children were practicing different skills with balls, rackets and bean bags – They were really impressive!

Have a lovely long weekend and I look forward to seeing you all on Wednesday 🙂

“We have been practicing how to join v to another letter in our handwriting” Emily

“We have been writing procedures” Callie “Procedure is another word for instructions” Bentley “A procedure is also following directions on a map” Akshaj

“We have been learning how to make totals to 1000” Aarya “I liked doing the ultimate challenge” Leo

“We have also been looking at digital clock times and counting in 5 minutes” Francesca

“We’ve been learning how to do an assignment on Teams” Max “we had to log into Glow and go into Teams” Tyler

“We can count to 30 in Spanish!” Francesca

“We are having fun skipping in PE” Dawid

“Inventor of the week is Alexander Fleming who found Penicillin” Julia & Nikola

We look forward to our days off on Monday and Tuesday but have a special challenge to find different procedures at home or when we are out and about.  If we find one we can take a photograph and either email it to Mrs Callaghan or try uploading it to our Team!

Pupils Highlights:

Sam: I enjoyed making bridges on Thursday afternoon.

Joshua : I liked getting my instrument on Tuesday.

Caleb: I liked  showing how a 5 digit number could be shown canonical and non-canonical.

Myles: I liked making fortune tellers for my business called Fortune Flies.

Daisy: I liked acting out the words in word boost.

Aoife: I liked selling my bracelets that I make and I going to make one for Miss Smith.

Natalia: I liked making our Article of the Week display sign with Vanessa.

Josh N: I liked when our new pupil arrived at school.

Grant: I liked getting my instrument.

Sylvia: I liked practising my instrument at home.

Marriyah: I liked writing our procedure writing How to Make  a Magic Potion.

Inaya: I liked writing instructions How to Make a Pancake.

Olivier: I liked writing the definitions of the word boost words in my jotter.

This week in P1B we have been learning the sound and letter ‘c’. We made crowns and caterpillars (Evana).

We have been learning all about symmetry, when both sides of something are the same (TJ). We used paint to make butterflies (Emily-Ann).

We listened to the story ‘The Train Ride’. We drew a picture of ourself in the window, it showed our reflection (Blair). We learned the new word ‘see’ and wrote it in a sentence.

We enjoyed enjoyed exploring the woodlands.

Sofia – I liked finding birds.

Maja – I liked the opticians.