St John Ogilvie Primary School

Dear Parents,

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

We extended our knowledge on Japan by completing mapping tasks…

We had a design contest for our Christmas Window Display and we are working on preparing that now, pictures to follow…

Miss Gibson is our cluster IT Champion and she has been in SJO for the last two weeks, helping us learn about different uses of IT to develop our knowledge and undrstanding.  Here we were working on Scratch for coding and being shown how to use a green screen..

We had our second Advent Service as we prepare for Christmas, this week the theme was Peace…

Some of us, despite the weather, managed to take part in Funky Feet Friday where children were asked come to school wearing jazzy shoes/decorated shoes and to bring a donation for WL Foodbank.

We have been expanding our conversational French at the moment and were testing it out on each other here…

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

We are continuing with our class novel ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’ and Daily KM. Miss Gibson came to teach us some digital learning and we got some new non-fiction reading books to read. We learned about the island of Japan and got to label the map of Japan after that. We had a transition lesson with Miss O’Hare from St Margret’s Academy where we learned about Social Enterprise and had to write to the First Minister about a social issue that we researched ourselves.

Oskar and Lily

Have a great weekend everyone,

Mr McGurn & Primary 7B

Hello everyone,

It’s been a bit of a funny old week this week.  We’re missing all our class mates that are self-isolating but have also been very busy getting ready for Christmas.

Our Christmas window display is coming on well and we have decorated a tree and put up our lights.

Today we have watched a Teams meeting of Father Simon blessing the crib as we are in the first week of Advent.

We also made a family of origami foxes:

and we had a go at making some jumping frogs.  Some jump better than others! Here’s a wee video of them:

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Have a lovely weekend everyone!

Have a look at our Virtual Classroom. Here you will see the sounds, high frequency words and numbers we are working on in class.

It is very important that we practise these for 5-10 minutes every day.

1. Can you identify our learned sounds m, c, k, s, p, a, t, i, n, o, e and write the letters? Can you make any CVC words using these letters? e.g. c-a-t, p-i-t. How many can you make?

2. Make flashcards for our learned high frequency words. Can you read these and try to write them by yourself?

3. Can you write the numbers 0-10 using correct formation and in the right order? Post any photos of you carrying out this work.

Learning Highlights from P4a

Congratulations to Aoife for being Hot Chocolate at Home Winner. Your consistent contribution in class and kindness towards others makes your teachers proud of you every day.

Star Writers this week :    Emily, Myles, Ronan, Adam and Grant

Stars of the Day this week :   Patrick, Myles, Elizabete

Josh N – I like doing the racing in P.E .

Grant – I liked playing musical statues in P.E.

Aoife – I liked writing my sleeping spell for my cloak.

Adam – I liked doing the circuit work in Science.

Emily – I liked doing the board game in R.E.

Myles – I liked doing short writing especially putting capital letters for proper nouns.

Vanessa – I liked using the number line to subtract big numbers with Daisy.

Dear readers,

Apologies for being late, but I have been having some technical issues that will hopefully be sorted now.😊

We hope you are all very well and that you have had a good week.😃

Congratulations to our Hot Chocolate at home girl, for always setting an amazing example of good behaviour and hard work to our class:

Well done, Tanya!!!!!!👍🥇

We also congratulate Zak, Hanna and Liam for having shown how Ready, Respectful, Safe and helpful they are!

This week we have continued learning a lot about the Wars of Independence between Scotland and England and have done beautiful art work for our new class display. We would really like to show it to you but due to the technical issues, we have not been able to upload the pictures! We have also completed our second timelines about it and they are looking really good!

In Literacy, we have used for the first time the tool we had learned about last week, the Descriptive Bubble, to write sentences that describe a very famous and beautiful wave, the Wave of Kanagawa. Also in Literacy, we have learned about Similes and got to write our own sentences with similes, which was quite interesting.

In Maths, we have had a week full of multiplication, times tables and also money, since it is very important to know how to manage it very well!

As we will be continuing our intensive work with multiplication it would be great if you could practise your 2,3,4,5,6,7,8 tables up to times 10. Next week will hopefully finish off with our Big Maths, Beat That and also with our tables challenge and we would really like it if everyone knew theirs well! Practice, practice, practice is the recipe for perfection! And remember the strategies we have learned in class if you don’t know them to start off with: multiplication is repeated addition so we keep on adding and will get to our answer, it’s easy! Just takes practice, and hard work, of course! Also, no excuses! That should be independent work and you only need yourselves to do it! And to be true masters at it!

In P.E., Mrs Lafferty has, as always, been making sure we keep fit… and tired! 🤣🤣🤣

Mrs Morrison said that she has been having amazing demonstrations of good rhythm and seemed very proud of our class’ work!🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵

We have also spent the whole week practising our new spelling words and the results have been even better than last week, which is always very good to see! Once again, let’s wait to find out about this week’s score on Monday!😃

Every day we watch Newsround and after that, to demonstrate how good our listening skill are, we have to answer to questions from Mrs Valente, so that we can get points or Recognition board sticky notes when we get them right. This week we have learned a lot about the meaning of Thanksgiving in the USA and Mrs Valente was explaining a lot of what happened in the old days and why they started celebrating it.

We hope you have had a really nice time reading about some of the things we have done this week and also that you have a happy, peaceful and safe weekend!

Love from Primary 5B and Mrs Valente!❤❤❤

This week in P2A has been very busy. We have been learning about time and we made our own clocks. As our topic is Festivals and Celebrations, this week we have been looking at weddings. We learned about weddings in India and even created our own invitations during writing.
Miss Thomas’ magical moment was listening to the children’s fabulous stories during Free Writing Friday.
Have a great weekend everyone!

Digital learning

This week we have been learning about BeeBots. They are little robots. We used coding to tell them where to move. (FF, ML) We used a BeeBots app on the Ipad to play a coding game. (EM) We learned it was important to use the X button to cancel instructions before giving new ones. (FG) We used netbooks to play Sumdog. (ED)

Topic

We were learning about animals that come out at night. (VK) Nocturnal animals sleep during the day. (LM) Nocturnal animals are awake at night to catch their food. (EM) We did some research about some animals. (IS) We learned more about the Owl who is afraid of the dark and talked about his fears with Mrs Dickie. (BM) We learned that baby hedgehogs are called hoglets. (LM) and that they have 5000 to 7000 spines. (FF)

Literacy

Writing – We looked at a picture of Charlie Brown and Lucy and wrote about it. (ED)

We made a poster of all the position words we could think of to help our writing. (EM)

Numeracy

We have been learning to partition numbers to help us add or take away. (EM)

HWB

This week we met Panuk the Penguin. (OL) He told us about the importance of community.(AS) Community is important as we need people to keep us safe (ML), to help us be healthy (WK) and so we are not lonely (AS).

Hot Choc was won by Farrah this week.

A very busy week in P3A, lots of learning and sharing happening in class.

Well done everyone, have a lovely weekend.

Another great week in P1A and lots of hard work going on!

This week we have been learning a new sound, it is the sound ‘e’.  We learned to write the letter and we have been writing words with ‘e’.  We are getting really good at sounding out and blending the words.

We read the book ‘Robot Rumpus’ and then we drew our own helpful robot.  We had to write about our robot and say what it did.  We learned new word boost words, ask us what they are and what they mean.

In maths we have been making stories for 6, 7 and 8. On Thursday we played a game outside to help us practice our number stories.  Some of our classmates held up big Uno cards and when Miss Stebbing shouted out a sum we had to run to the right number.  We have also been learning about money.  Next week we are going to have a shop in our classroom.

This week we started to learn our songs for the Christmas Assembly.  We are not singing the songs we are doing sign language and we are going to act out a special version of the Nativity Story.  Miss Stebbing is very impressed with how well we can copy the signs.

Remember to post a photo of your Robot on Seesaw.  You will be talking to your classmates next week about your Robots so a photograph will help you.

Have a lovely weekend!

It’s been a technology filled week in Primary 7a!  The children have been focusing on improving their digital skills and our visitor Miss Gibson, very kindly worked with them on how to use One Note, which will be particularly helpful when they go to high school.  The children also had the opportunity to carry out some coding.  They thoroughly enjoyed it and we hope to build on these skills in the coming weeks.

Literacy

We completed our writing for the nature writing competition this week.  Mrs Craig has sent of our entries, so keep your fingers and toes crossed that we might have a winner from the class!  Although, all of the children worked so hard and produced such wonderful work, that they are all winners in our eyes.

Maths

We continued to work on perimeter and area, investigating the relationship between the two and finding the area and perimeter of compound shapes.  We also continued our work on multiplying and dividing decimals.

Here are a few pictures of us drawing and measuring compound shapes in the playground.

Topic

The children’s  Japan personal projects are progressing well and we look forward to hearing their presentations in the coming weeks.  They also spent some time comparing Japan and the UK, with a particular focus on cleanliness.

Lead Learners and Writers of the Week

We all could not believe it when our lead learners and our writers of the week were the same two people – Luke L and Dawid.  Both boys produced excellent pieces of writing and have worked hard to improve their writing skills.  They have also been doing a fantastic job of leading the class in their learning and helping them to meet the targets set.  We are only 6 marbles away from receiving our class reward so keep it up P7A!

Daily Mile

We continue to add up the miles for Father Simon’s challenge.  The children are really challenging themselves to improve and to beat their own record.

We hope you all have a happy and restful weekend and we look forward to seeing you all next week.

MrsCraig and Mrs Morrison