St John Ogilvie Primary School

A very exciting week with lots of letters from the Dragon and the Giant.  We read the fairytales Jack and the Beanstalk and The Three Little Pigs.  We sequenced the story of Jack and the Beanstalk and completed a measuring task, a challenge the Giant set us.  we measured different sized beanstalks using beans.

For The Three Little Pigs we were given a challenge to make a house using marshmallows and cocktail sticks.  When we were finished the ‘wolf’ tried to blow them down.  We also completed a huff and puff challenge.  We had to huff and puff to blow different objects across the floor.  We retold the story of the 3 little pigs on the iPads.  We read an alternative 3 little pigs story from thevwolf’s perspective and voted which story we thought was that actually happened.  We wrote sentences about the 3 little pigs and we wrote a wanted poster for the wolf.

We designed a poster of what we think Fairyland is like.

We had Celtic Croft and we planned our ceilidh for next week.

We went litter picking and worked with a partner to pick rubbish and help keep our community clean and tidy.

Our learning highlights:

‘I liked the huff and puff challenge’ Joy, Emma, Aroush, Dawid, Cerys, Felix, Lena, William

‘I enjoyed Celtic Croft’ Emilio, Alfie

‘I enjoyed making the house challenge’ Tiara, Daniel, Guhan Kumar, Antos

’I enjoyed drawing what Fairyland looks like’ Franek

Well done to St Francis our House Winners this week.  Congratulations to Guhan Kumar our Hot Chocolate winner.

Have a lovely long weekend and we will see you all on Tuesday.

We had a short but busy and exciting week.

The Dragon visited us again this week and delivered a book ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’.  We read it as a class, and watched an animated version and acted out scenes in small groups.  Mrs Meikle was particularly impressed with Guhan Kumar and Williams impression of the giant.  Each group worked really well together.

The letter from the Dragon asked us to make some big leaves.  He said the bigger the leaves the more magical they were.  We went into the woods to look at leaves and their different shapes then enjoyed working outside painitng, chalking and colouring leaves.

We also started to make our own beanstalks, drawing a fantastic castle and making a fluffy cloud.

We have finished learning all our P1 sounds but continue to work on consolidating these to ensure we an recognise and use them independently.  This week we focused on ng and igh.  We used magnetic boards to build words using these sounds.

Today we had gym outside in the beautiful sunshine.

For outdoor learning today we went up to the Woodlands and tried to identify the different trees by looking at their leaves.  We also drew some of the leaves.
All classes in the Infant Area worked collaboratively to make a display in rememberance of Pope Francis and we spoke about the new pope, Pope Leo XIV.

Well done to Emma this weeks Hot Chocolate Winner and congratulations to Cerys our Reading Champion.

Our Learning Highlights this week:

‘I enjoyed doing tens and ones’ Cerys

‘I liked drawing the beanstalk’ Tiara

‘I liked playing in the Woodlands’ Kaya

‘I liked gym outside today’ Lena

‘I liked looking for leaves today’ Oskar

‘I liked drawing leaves’ Alfie

Have a wonderful weekend everyone and enjoy the beautiful weather.

Below is a brief overview of some of the learning experiences your child will have this term.  As always, we hope you find it helpful:

Hello P5B Families!

I hope you managed to enjoy some of the lovely sunshine we had this week.  I know we used the opportunity to go outside for our class novel and took refuge in the nice shade under a tree.

Here are our learning highlights from the Yellow Table:

Daniel really enjoyed a micro:bit lesson with Miss Smith about how smart technology can be used to help the environment.  This week, the children explored the sensors on the micro:bits and have incorporated some of these great ideas in to their Climate Smart models.  The models are almost finished now and the children will now focus the remainder of their time largely on preparing their presentations.

Aadhya liked playing outside in the sunshine.  After our class novel, we played ‘Duck, Duck, Goose’.  A favourite all around!

Georgia loved our class novel.  We have reached a VERY EXCITING part where there is a plan to bring an extinct animal back to life!  Some of the children enjoyed making daisy chains as they listened.

Rowan said he liked House Groups today.  The children will have a follow up activity on Teams so look out for this.

Alex continues to enjoy learning about Time with Mrs Morrison who takes us for maths once a week.

Anthony has been making progress with playing the recorder during music and has now mastered a tune called ‘Apples and Bananas’ he tells me.

Ksawery was quite engrossed in a lesson at the start of the week that related to materials needed to build a school.  The children were given a list of how much an item costs as well as its environmental impact.  Each group had a £2000 budget and the challenge was to spend this (or close to it) but to have the lowest environmental impact.  This activity involved much discussion e.g. “Should we buy metal desks that cost less but have a high environmental impact or wooden desks that cost more but have a low cost to the environment?”  Tricky decisions indeed!  This prompted a pupil wondering what our school budget was and he asked Mrs McKissack and found out.  This lesson helped the children to think about what materials they will select for their own pretend sustainable school and why.  A worthwhile lesson indeed!

My highlight was reading our novel under the shade outside.  The sun was shining and the birds were singing.  It was very restful.

Congratulations to Kasper, our Hot Chocolate winner this week.

I hope you all enjoy the long weekend and I will see you back on Wednesday.

Regards

Mrs Brown

Dear Parents,

Our Lead Learner for this week, Madeleine, is going to update you on what we were doing this week…

On Monday in PE P7a practiced doing long distance running for the event coming up. After PE we did spelling for literacy, then we did numeracy finishing off decimals. Then after lunch for ERIC the class read our class novel ‘A Monster Calls’ reading a chapter. For the rest of the afternoon we started to make posters about voting for the new Pope. We did our daily mile then lastly for IDL we are soon going to start a new topic about Japan.

On Tuesday we did a letter on the netbooks to our woodland friends then we carried on with our a monster calls book. And in the evening made our mini ovens and made s’mores. Also we did drama and we played some games.

On Wednesday, both P7 went to St Margaret’s high school to take part in a sports competition against other schools. And it was called the almond cup. We did a mix of things like tennis, football, javelin and wheelie races. and St. john Ogilvie got 3rd place!

On Thursday morning P7 did music with Mrs Morrison getting things ready for the graduation. For PE we did an activity game with Mrs Lafferty. After maths, in the afternoon for outdoor learning P7 went pond dipping. P7a went to the burn just near Eliburn, and finding some bugs/fish in the water, with our nets. P7 caught loads of fish then releasing them into the water, back into the wild. It was a fun time.

On Friday in the morning we are finishing our Pope Francis posters but then after that is House Groups. During house groups we are gonna be talking, about and doing an activity about hope. For maths we are gonna do timetables then lastly of our week we have Fun Friday, P7A had a fun and interesting week.

Madeleine.

Have a great Long-weekend,

Mr McGurn and P7A

Another great week in P1 and a very exciting one at that!

A letter appeared this week in our classroom from a Dragon looking for our help to rebuild Fairyland. We did fantastic writing to write back to the dragon and to thank us he left us some special castle books to keep all our Fairyland tasks in. We have a post box in the area where we can post our letters and pictures to Fairyland.

The dragon told us in his letter about living in a castle, we decided to learn about castles and their features. We drew our own castles and labelled their features.

This week we have also been revising sounds we have learned so far in P1, looked at capital letters and how to form them and also started to think about place value – how numbers are made up of tens and ones.

We hope you all have a fantastic long weekend.

Hello P5 Families,

I hope you had a lovely Easter holiday and enjoyed some of that lovely sunshine we had in the first week.  I believe it will return next week!  It was so lovely to see all of the children again and to welcome two new pupils, Olivia and Aadhya, who have settled well in to St John Ogilvie.

Here are our learning highlights from the Blue Table:

Flynn liked learning about the life of Pope Francis.  Some interesting facts about his life: he was one of 5 children, he was born Jorje Mario Bergoglio, he was the 266^th Pope and chose his name as he admired the life and work of St Francis of Assisi.

Ellie-May and Amelia both report that they are continuing to enjoy our class novel.  This week the children were excited to have it read by Mrs Lafferty’s PE student, Miss Howe.

Nathan liked playing  Rounders for PE.

Nicolas and Addison have LOVED making their sustainable school for the Climate Smart Award.  A big thank you to everyone who brought in recyclable materials for this project!  The models are starting to take shape now.  This will be our learning focus between now and the in-school judging on May 16^th.  The teamwork, enthusiasm and ideas from the children are AMAZING!  I am so proud of everyone for their contributions.

David enjoyed maths this week were we learned how to find the Area of irregular shapes.

Aaeryn-Leigh liked PE today with Miss Howe.

Olivia was introduced to the recorder this week with Mrs Morrison and has listed it as a favourite learning experience this week.  Olivia shared that she plays other instruments too including the ukulele!

My highlight was welcoming everyone back to school after our 2 week break.  I always miss the children terribly when we have a holiday.

Congratulations to David, our Hot Chocolate Award winner this week!

I hope you have a lovely weekend!

Mrs Brown