St John Ogilvie Primary School

Dear readers,

We hope you have had a very good week!

Firstly , congratulations to our Hot Chocolate at home,  Julia, and to our winners of the Weekly note home, Olly, Alex and Tim! They have all been stars and we are all very proud of them! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🥇🥇🥇🥇🥳🥳🥳🥳

We had our Mini tables contest on Friday and most people got double points, which shows how much effort they have put into knowing their tables within less than 5 seconds! It was quite impressive!👍👍👍

We have done lots of different art work for our windows to have them ready and beautiful for the whole school’s challenge but can’t send any pictures yet since it is supposed to be a secret and we do not want to have spies…🤣🤣🤣

Our reading comprehension was about the First Nativity and everyone did really well!😃👏

Our writing session was also the planning, using the descriptive bubble, of the story of the Nativity and many of us contributed with great ideas!🎄

We are now very close to finishing off our Wars of Independence topic and some of us have been doing their own research when they go home to learn even more about the subject and share what they have found out with the rest of the class. Well done!😃👍

In PE we have done a super fun Christmas Quiz because the weather didn’t allow us to go outside so we have stayed and have enjoyed ourselves!😂😂😂

The focus of our maths is still multiplication and we have been multiplying by 10, 100 and 1000.

To make sure that we are all getting really better at our spelling, we have completed our big spelling assessments of the end of term as well as our weekly ones.

All the boys and girls are getting very excited about Christmas and the coming holidays and it is getting harder and harder to stay focused when thinking about Santa coming! Ho! Ho! Ho!🎅🎅🎅🎅

Anyway, these are only some of the many things we have done and we hope you have enjoyed reading about them!

Have a wonderful rest of weekend and stay safe!😃

Love from Primary 5B and Mrs Valente❤

This week we have new Christmas activities and we have been playing with the wooden reindeer.  We found a Christmas jigsaw and it is fun to play with it.  We have baubles with letters and we have to use them to make words.  This week we wrote a letter to Santa but not about what we would like for Christmas.  We had to tell him about what we like to do in school.

Yesterday we have been learning about making stories for 10.  We managed to fill the whole smartboard with sums.

This week Sparkle has been writing her sounds, she put up the Christmas tree and got stuck up the top and then she used our mini me’s as reindeer.

We finished recording our Christmas Assembly for the other classes in the school.  We were very good at doing our sign language for our songs.  We are looking forward to Monday to show the rest of the school.

Today we have Crazy Christmas Hair.

We finished our Socks for Santa Christmas Window.  In Art we made some Christmas Baubles and our Reindeer.  During this week we have read lots of books.  Our favourite was ‘Rudey’s Windy Christmas’ ask us to tell you what happened in the story.  It is a very funny story!

We have lots of stars on our Advent Calendar and we have new story books from our Reading Advent Calendar.

Some of our personal highlights this week are:

Ruari – I liked playing in the shop.

Aiden G – I liked when it was Crazy Hair Day.

Minny – I liked playing in the shop.

Eva – I liked playing outside.

Isabel – I liked playing shop.

Julia – I like to play with Zosia and Minny.

Zosia – I like to play with Ella.

Pola – I liked doing play outside.

This has been yet another very busy week in P1B.  We recorded our parts for our Christmas Assembly and recorded us signing our Christmas songs.  Mrs Meikle and Mrs Russell said we have been real super stars.

We have been consolidating our learning of sounds. We have been ensuring we are forming them correctly and have been using our sounds to blend CVC words. We have also been practising to read and write our high frequency words. Please remember to access our Virtual Classroom to practise learned sounds and high frequency words.

We have been looking at number stories for 9 and 10 and Mrs Meikle and Mrs Russell are very impressed with how well we are doing.

We have enjoyed completing some Christmas art this week.  We designed our own elf portrait and a Christmas door decoration.  We also made snowmen out of straws

This week we lit our second candle on our Advent wreath.

We have enjoyed our Christmas inspired maths and writing area counting parcels and making up sums within 10.  Writing letters to Santa, writing Christmas cards and designing Christmas jumpers.

Today (Friday) it was Funky Hair we all got the chance to be creative with our hair and also make a donation to the Food Bank.  Thank you everyone who contributed to this worthy cause.  Check out your See Saw page to see your child’s photo.

I liked making my elf- Nicolas

I liked making my snowman – Kacper

I liked playing with the Christmas maths – Scott

I liked writing my letter to Santa – Aaeryn-Leigh

I liked everything – Haadiya

One week left to go it is going to be another exciting week ahead.

Have a lovely weekend everyone and we look forward to seeing you all next week for more learning and Christmas activities.

A great week of learning in Primary 6!

Lead learners: Luke.C and Lena were our lead learners this week and have been great role models for their class. Together they have set 3 targets for everyone to work on and have also awarded points to children they have noticed being ready, respectful and safe.

Literacy: This week we have been learning about synonyms and antonyms and we were able to use the thesauruses to find synonyms for a range of words. We could also identify the antonym for the synonym in a sentence.

Maths: We have been working on improper fractions and mixed numbers. We also worked with a partner to plan a Christmas party using fractions and percentages. We worked out the best options to save money and used maths in a real life situation.

R.E: Advent we have been continuing to learn about advent and created our advent candles for the Alter.

Writing: We have been continuing to learn about expository writing. Our theme this week was “Should children wear school uniform?” We produced excellent reasons to explain why this is important but also why it may not be.

Art: We created the Grinch pictures using oil pastels.

Digital learning: We had lots of fun taking part in Kahoot quizzes.

Funky Hair Friday: Very impressive hair in primary 6a and generous donations to the foodbank. Many thanks to everyone that contributed!

Have a great weekend,

Mrs Roy

Dear Parents,

Here’s an update for this week’s learning in P7B:

This week we have been writing balanced arguments.  We looked at an example on ‘Should Dogs Be On Leads in Parks?’ and highlighted useful language, phrases, connectives and openers which could be used in our own writing.  Our topic was ‘Are the School Holidays Too Long?’ We came up with arguments for both sides of the issue but you’ll not be surprised to find out that in our conclusions, our own opinion is that they are NOT too long.

We have finished our Christmas Window Display, it was designed by Elias and Brooklyn, voted for by P7B and we all had a hand in bring it to life, we hope you like it?

We had our third Advent Service as we prepare for Christmas where the pink candle is lit. Pink is the colour for Joy, which was this week’s theme.

We expanded our French conversations by now being able to ask and answer if we have any brother or sisters and next week we’ll add where we live.

Here are our Funky Hair pupils who helped us with donations to a foodbank.

Now we’ll hear an update from this week’s Lead Learners:

We really enjoyed playing Jacques a dit in French which is Simon says. It helps us learn colours and classroom objects and instructions.  We had to try and make our Christmas Window Display a bit darker as the tint in the glass made some of our work too hard to see.

Mereecia and Umar

Hot Chocolate at Home winner : Olivier

Stars of the week: Sylvia, Sam, Daisy, Emily and Amelia

Star Writers : Aoife, Caleb,  Josh,  Elizabete, Olivier

Daisy –  I enjoyed taking part in Crazy Hair Day.

Elizabete – I liked writing the instructions for minutes to.

Josh N – I liked making the wreaths for Advent.

Aoife – I liked doing the minutes past task and we had to draw the correct hands for the time.

Sylvia – I liked doing Crazy Hair Day.

Adam – I liked doing guided reading making up my own questions for Play Sports.

Joshua – I liked doing Short Writing where we had to choose where or were.

Samyuktha – I liked making the paper chains.

Myles – I liked doing Short Writing.

Marriyah – I liked highlighting the nouns, adjectives and personal pronouns .

It’s been a strange old week in Primary 7A, with only some of our class in school and the rest still learning at home.  It has been brilliant to see such a high level of engagement from many of the children who have been completing learning tasks online and also joining the rest of the class for our daily catch ups.  The children in school have been equally busy with their learning and have been absolute super stars!

In Maths this week we started some work on calculating the volume of cubes and cuboids.  We will return to this once we have all of the children back in class.  We also attempted to carry out at a Christmas Maths Quiz on teams, there were a few technical difficulties but we got there in the end.

In writing this week, we created a seasonal postcard.  The children had to create a Christmas scene and then describe it in detail.  The standard of descriptive writing has really improved over recent months, particularly the use of similes and metaphors in their writing.

In Art, the children in school have been busy trying to complete our classroom window display in time for the big reveal next week.  We have been incredibly impressed by the standard of work they have produced.  Here are a few pictures (yes, the children really did do these by themselves).  Aren’t they amazing?!

Finally, today was crazy hair day.  Here are a few examples of our crazy hair!

We hope you all have a fantastic weekend and we will see the children next week for the last week of term.

Mrs Craig and Mrs Morrison

This week we continued to make progress in our maths learning. Our two fantastic lead learners set a super example to everyone on how to be Ready, Respectful and Safe at school. They have been encouraging everyone to try their best and to show kindness and respect others in the class, in the playground and in the Dinner Hall. We have continued to earn points as all the adults could easily see how ready, respectful and safe we were.

This week was the second week of Advent so we have talked about Peace and love. Our big highlight was that several of our pupils made the Sacrament of Reconciliation for the first time on Wednesday when Father Simon came in to school.

Highlights of the week :Drawing our version of Hogwarts at night (some of us even had a flying Harry Potter flying his broomstick), We also used chalks and oil pastels to draw Christmas trees. We were finding out about the structure of a newspaper story. Most of us were able to write a newspaper report and Harry, Ron and Hermoine taking part in one of their challenges. Mrs Miller is still reading out compliments about someone in the class from the advent train. It has been fun waiting to hear what someone else likes about us but it has also been fun listening to the compliments for other children. It has_ really nice to hear compliments about each other. Crazy hair day, some of us looked amazing with our crazy hair, hats, plates, cakes, snowmen, reindeer, crazy colours. It was fun seeing our friends look so different.

Next Week : On Wednesday we are having a whole day dedicated to Harry Potter. Finishing our wands, pictures but mainly watching Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. Thank you to every parent for agreeing to let us watch this movie at school with our friends. We will be having toffee popcorn, chocolate and sugar free juice. 🙂

Hope everyone has a lovely weekend stay safe and healthy. 🙂

With the wetter weather could children bring in indoor shoes to wear? These indoor shoes will be kept in the classroom. Thank you.