St John Ogilvie Primary School

Dear Readers,

We hope you are all well.

The highlights of this week were:

• Continuing our research on Robert Burns, his family and work.
• In Maths, we have worked hard on division and although some of us are still finding it a bit difficult, we are getting better at it.
• We have started God’s Loving Plan and we have been exploring how God has a plan for each of us and how growing up and changing in many ways is part of that plan. It has been very enjoyable to see how much the majority of us have been contributing to various discussions regarding the various sub themes of God’s Loving Plan.
• Creating the cover and back cover for the Programme of our Burns Supper!😊
• Practising the songs for our Burns Supper!🎵🎶
• Practising for our Burns Supper!📣🎭
• In PE, we have done the Bleep tests and fitness tests and ended up being so, so, so, so very tired after both!🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️💪
• Fortunately, we have also managed to read our novel, the Elsewhere Emporium, which is getting more and more interesting by the minute!
• To finish the week we went to St. Peter’s Church and attended Mass, during which Father Clement asked everyone to be good friends to one another. It was a beautiful message and we discussed it in class after coming back to school.♥
• We would like to congratulate the first 2 Hot Chocolates of 2025, one form last week and the other one from this week, Miss Layla and Miss Leah! 🥇🥇✨✨👏👏Well done girls. you have been kind, caring and doing your job of keeping the classroom tidy brilliantly!
• Well done also to the Cheese table, the 1st ones to follow instructions and keep their working space nice and tidy!

That’s all for now! We wish everyone a great weekend and expect to see you all in our Burns Supper, on Thursday!😀

P6B and Mrs Valente😘😘

We have had a great and busy week this week. We have been discussing how people need family and friends so they don’t get lonely. We read through the Creation story to see how God created all the things that we need and that the world needs to continue to grow and be amazing. We talked about how its ok to rely on our friends for help and that its important to be grateful for our family.

We have started looking at reading and working out the time. It was really useful to have been practising our 5 tmes tables!

We are looking at and developing our money skills and have had lots of practice with subtraction to be able to work out costs and change.

As part of our writing we listened to Michael Morpurgo’s story ‘Coming Home’. We are exploring the different stages of the story. This is the short version that a supermarket used for an advert a few years ago.

We went to Mass today and the whole class was amazing. Fr Clement said we were all perfect.

Hot Choc at Home winners- 10th Jan – Blair  17th Jan – Safaa

We were sad to say goodbye to Safaa today but we know she will soon have lots of new friends at her new school.

Have a great weekend!

Hello families of P5B!

This is our 2^nd post of the week.  I hope you enjoyed the pictures from our school trip to Bannockburn on Tuesday.  Here are our highlights this week as recorded by the Red table:

Cohen has been enjoying maths this week.  He especially liked the lessons when we multiplied 4 digit numbers by 1 digit.  We discussed the importance of layout so that the correct answers would be placed in the correct place value column, otherwise we will get the wrong answer.

Olek reports also enjoying maths.  For World Logic Day (we had to celebrate it the following day due to our trip) we did some Sudoku puzzles.  We started off with 4 by 4 ones until the children grasped the idea then progressed to 6 by 6 and some children challenged themselves with 9 by 9!  Impressive work everyone!

Rowan, who is a lover of all things to do with the Scottish Wars of Independence, said that the trip to Bannockburn was his highlight.  His favourite part?  Sitting at the back of the bus!

Kacper liked the step by step instructional drawing of the polar bears that the class did.  This linked to our Free Writing Friday story about a polar bear which will in turn link to a near future information report we will examine about one.  They look amazing!

Scott recounts how the best part of his week was completing the Bleep Test with Mrs Lafferty.  He was proud of his results.

Moeez liked the French lesson with Miss Smith were they continued with their learning of greetings.

Matthias’ highlight was our lesson about Robert Burns.  We learned about his life, what inspired his poems and we examined one in detail called, ‘To a Mouse’.  A big thank you to our P6 helpers Matteo and Jude for helping us with this.  These boy confidently explained the meaning of the poem.  Afterwards we went to the woods to find inspiration in nature for poems we will write next week.  Matthias thought that the ‘True or False’ warm-up game about Burn’s life to be very enjoyable.  Some children took it in turns to read out statements and the class had to stand in the ‘True’ or ‘False’ side of the room.  We were DELIGHTED to hear that he wrote a poem about the Battle of Bannockburn!

My highlight was our RE lesson continuing on from last week about our conscience and asking for forgiveness.  We listened to the Bible story about Creation and Adam and Eve.  The children were astounded to learn that their actions in the Garden of Eden, when they ate the apple, led to sin and suffering entering the perfect world that God created for us.  We discussed being accountable for our sins (as Adam tried to blame Eve) and how we are forgiven through the death of Jesus on the cross.  We discussed again about examining our conscience and asking for forgiveness and asking God to help us try again to be better friends, better Christians, better sons and daughters…….This is the good news, that we will be forgiven and God remembers those sins no more.  We can start again, try again.  This was a very memorable and special lesson.

Congratulations to our hot chocolate award winner Vinayakarthik and Cohen, our Reading Champ!

We have has a fun week this week in P1, there has been lots going on.

Our highlight of the week was making our robots. Everyone had the chance to build a robot any size or shape that they liked. They did such an amazing job on them.

Continuing with the theme of robots, we learned about what an algorithm is and came up with our own set of commands to direct an animal to a specific place.

We wrote about a our bedtime routine, well done to our Star Writers – Alfie, Ronak, Emilio and Franek who used their sounds and knowledge of sentences so well to make super sentences.

In math this week we continued our learning on subtraction by counting out objects to find our starting number and then taking a number of objects away to find out the total that were left.

Today we celebrated 100 days of school! We were all very excited to arrive into school to a banner and streamers over the door. We started the day colouring in and cutting out our own ‘100 days smarter’ hat to wear and then had so much fun counting 100 cheerios to make a 100 day necklace. We are super proud of all our P1’s and so to celebrate 100 days, we had a 100 day snack.

Hello families of P2

We have had another fantastic week of learning in Primary 2.

Today we celebrated 100 days of learning in Primary 2! We worked in pairs to make 100, using our imagination to be as creative as we could. The children came up with fantastic ideas to show what 100 looks like. They used pictures, objects, movement and rhyme.

We had a super day on Thursday making our amazing Robots. The children all worked very hard and had great fun creating their own Robot.

We went to Mass at St Peter’s Church on Wednesday. All of the children displayed excellent behaviour throughout.

Weekly Highlights

Alfie and Matteo – We loved making the Robots.

Sophia – I liked getting my photo with my Robot.

Daniel – I liked making the 100 days pf P2 crowns.

Maya – I liked going to church.

Rose – I loved decorating my Robot.

Huge Congratulations to Amelia, our Reading Champion and Eliza our hot chocolate winner! Well Done girls!

Have a lovely weekends!

Dear Parents and Carers,

This week has been a particularly busy week for both P6 classes as they have been practising and rehearsing for our Burns’ Supper which will take place on Thursday 23rd January. We are all really looking forward to our Parents and carers coming to see our performance!

In topic we have been working in pairs to research Robert Burns and create amazing posters.

We have also been creating and designing programme covers, the best one from each class will appear on the actual programme!

In numeracy, our class has been investigating square numbers, square roots and products. We have all really enjoyed this!

Primary 6 have started their God’s Loving Plan programme and have participated in some interesting and beneficial discussions with each other. We are learning about how our body gradually changes throughout life.

Our class took part in the bleep test during our P.E lesson to improve our fitness levels.

Congratulations to Emily on being nominated our Hot Chocolate winner this week!

Have an amazing weekend!

Mrs Lea and Primary 6A

Pupil Highlights:

Babafola: I enjoyed going to the Battle of Banockburn National Trust Site. Why? Because it was interesting and we got to learn about history.

Asim: I enjoyed going to Banockburn because I liked learning what the knights, archers, spearmen wore. I really liked learning about the battle and holding replica weapons.

Julia: I liked doing R.E. with Mrs Brown.

Paige: I liked getting a shot of the instruments with Mrs Callaghan.

Congratulations to Babafola for winning Hot Chocolate this week. Your behaviour was outstaning on our school trip and your information report on Rosa Parks  I know will be outstanding.