St John Ogilvie Primary School

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.

We have had a super week in P2A. Here are some of our learning highlights.

Mason loved practicing his spelling words.

Sam liked everything!

Jemima enjoyed helping other people.

Sophia loved Funky Hair Friday.

Ailsa liked everyone getting into the Christmas Spirit.

Miss Thomas’ magical moment was creating our Christmas window display with the children.

Have a fab weekend everyone!

Stars of the day : Ronan, Vanessa, Marriyah, Adam

Star Writers : Samyuktha, Adam, Daisy, Natalia, Sylvia, Sam

Ronan – I liked having to tell the time when the clock was ticking.

Daisy – I liked changing the present tense verbs to the past in Short Writing.

Olivier – I liked learning to tell the time minutes past.

Joshua – I liked writing instructions for how to tell the time minutes past.

Adam – I liked doing my time poster when you had to write the steps for telling the time.

Aoife – I liked learning how to make a powerpoint on the laptops.

Elizabete – I liked learning how to tell the time minutes past.

Grant –  I liked finishing Madagascar as part of our class reward.

Sylvia –

Emily – I like making the NSPCC fortune tellers and making our number line strategy for subtraction.

Sam – I liked reading a newspaper article when a boy got his head stuck in a home made cat scratcher.

Patrick – I liked reading a newspaper article about a 49 year old fairy liquid bottle that had got washed up on the shore.

Grant – I liked reading the newspaper article about the owl who had made himself at home in somebody’s house.

Natalia – I liked doing the fortune teller.