St John Ogilvie Primary School

Hello families of P5B!

We have had a great first week back after the holidays.  It has been so lovely getting to know your wonderful children and I hope they have enjoyed their first week back to school as much as I have!  Each week one of the tables (there are 3) will share their highlights of the week.  Here are our highlights this week as recorded by the Yellow table:

Daniel said the best part of his week was playing ‘Clap, Snap’.  The children followed the instructions: ‘clap, snap, head, shoulders’ etc and then when the teacher said “cone”, they had to try and grab the cone that was in between them and their partner.  Whoever grabbed it first, won!

Alex  enjoyed ‘Choosing our own Learning Time’ and made an impressive 3D construct with construction straws.  Super teamwork guys!

Nathan’s highlight was playing Dodgeball with Mrs Lafferty.  Mrs Lafferty will have the children for PE on Fridays and I will have them on Wednesdays.

Ellie-May enjoyed the game were the children went into pairs and one person drew on their partner’s back, while the other person drew what they felt.  The pictures were then compared.   Afterwards, they moved on to writing words in the same way.  It was definitely a class favourite.

Vinayakarthik liked a game were the children had to give one another clues of a zoo animal they were thinking of and the class had to guess.  There were some very cryptic clues in this game!

Aayush loved playing with the marble run.  He and his friend made some complex runs!  Impressive guys!

Michael’s favourite activity was a game involving skittles.  Each child chose a skittle and then had to stand up when their colour was called and answer a question.  Michael’s colour was asked, “Would you rather be a tiny horse or an enormous chicken?”

Moeez  enjoyed a maths lesson this week were the children had to make as many number combinations as they could, first from 3 digit numbers and then 4 digit numbers.  They discovered that 6 combinations could be made each time using each digit at the start.  They also learned from Ksawery, the most effective strategy for recording these combinations.  Thank you Ksawery!

Ksawery loved music with Mrs Morrison, were the children were learning about bagpipes and found out that the world championship for bagpipes happens each year in Glasgow and some of SJO’s own past pupils are world champions!!!

My highlight has been hard to pick this week.  I think it has to be the RE lesson when we recapped on the Bible stories the children could recall from previous learning.  We talked about the importance of thinking of the meaning of the words of prayers we say.  The children examined the words of the Hail Mary prayer.  We had some interesting discussion about the meaning of, “…and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.”

Meet the Teacher

On Wednesday, it is Meet the Teacher day!  I look forward to welcoming you in to our classroom if you are free to attend.  Any information given out that afternoon will be sent home for those unable to attend.

Request

It would be super if the children could bring in recyclable materials from home now and again to keep our recyclables box topped up, as the children have enjoyed making things from these during ‘Choosing our own Learning Time’.  Also, we have a craft table that has bits and bobs on in for imaginative art creations.  Any donations throughout the year to keep this topped up would also be appreciated.  Some examples could be: feathers, pipe cleaners, sparkles, bubble wrap, ribbon etc.

Homework

Homework will not be given out for the first couple of weeks and will then be issued via Teams.  If you are having any difficulty logging on to Teams or accessing Teams, please let our office staff know.

Our blog will be updated over the weekend, so please keep an eye out for it and I hope you enjoy reading about some of the learning experiences your child had that week and enjoy looking at and discussing some of the photos!  Remember that a quick way to find P5B, is to use the filter on the right hand side of the screen.

I hope you have a great weekend!
Mrs Brown

A very warm welcome to all your families reading our school blog.

We had an amazing first week of school.  It was so lovely to welcome all our new P1s to our St John Ogilvie school family.  The children have been fantastic this week and everyone is settling in well and learning the routines of the class and getting to know each other.

This week we discussed what good listening is and we were able to show all the adults how well we can listen.  We made our Class Charter and spoke about how we can be Ready, Respectful and Safe.  We were introduced to Ready Rose, Respectful Raheem and Safe Sam.  We are going to work hard to follow their example.

We were very excited to have gym on Friday and meet Mrs Lafferty are gym teacher.  We also enjoyed listening to Mrs Broadley read us a story in Spanish and we learned some new words.

We loved choosing our own learning and our teachers were very impressed with how well we can tidy up when we hear the tidy song.

In RE we have been learning how to bless ourselves and listening to the daily prayers.  We are trying very hard to join in.

Today (Friday) we got to meet our P7 buddies we were very excited to met them and they were all very nice, we look forward to working with them throughout the year.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone and a well deserved rest.

We look forward to seeing you all again on Monday for lots of fun and learning.

Dear Readers,

Welcome to our very last post in P5A.

Next time you read our blog, we will be posting as the very new Primary 6A from the Upper Area of the school!

This has been another very busy week in Primary 5 and its highlights were the following:

• Designing our amazing folder to put in the pieces of super work which didn’t go in the jotters.
• Learning more about the Olympics and their History, including facts about ancient Greece.
• Reading comprehension about the Ancient and Modern Olympics.
• Learning about Chance and Probability, which the whole class have thoroughly enjoyed and found easy.
• Learning about the Solemnity of St. John the Baptist and understanding who he was and what he had done and ordering all the facts in the life of St. John the Baptist according to what had been learned.
• The Disco Dome which was a treat to all the children of the school and that all have enjoyed.
• Finally, learning about ancient Greece, its way of life and gods by watching Hercules, from Disney.

We say goodbye wishing everyone wonderful, safe and happy Summer Holidays filled with all the things you wish the most.

P5A and Mrs Valente 😘😘

Dear Readers,

We hope you are all very well!

There’s only one thing to be said about this week: Best Week Ever!😃🤩✨🎉

This was exactly what the children said throughout the week!😃

The super highlights were:

• Practising for Talent Show.
• Winning the final of the Middle Area Talent Show and getting to be chosen to represent P5 in the Talent Show Showcase!✨👏👏👏👏👏👏🥇🏆
• The trips to the Glasgow Science Centre and back to school, during which all laughed and sang the whole time! The class song ‘I am a mountain’ by Sam Ryder and ‘The wheels on the bus’ were the favourites!🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎵🎵🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼📣
• The visit itself to Glasgow Science Centre, of which we have absolutely enjoyed every minute.
• The Big Talent Show Showcase where the pupils belonging to the P5A Choir have been cheered and praised by all for their initiative, beautiful singing, drumming and gymnastics!
• Fun Day, which was SUPER! Our class were the luckiest of all, winning most of the prizes from Fun Day! Wow! 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
• Finally, many Congratulations to Mr Liam and Miss Ailsa for being the Hot Chocolates of the last two weeks and for showing everyone how to be Ready, Respectful and Safe!🥇🥇👏👏✨✨💕

That’s all for this week, we hope you have felt at home at least a tiny bit of the happiness that we all felt in school!

P5A and Mrs Valente 😘😘

Dear Readers,

We hope you are all well, in spite of the rainy sad weather.

Last week in P5A was very different from the usual because of many things and these were its highlights:

• We finished writing collaboratively our Recount and felt very much proud of our work!
• We have continued our practice in multiplication and division.
• Sports’ Day was the spotlight of the week and we would like to congratulate all children, parents, carers and staff for their incredible participation and support! Without all of you it would not have been such a great success!
• Still regarding Sports’ Day, many special Congratulations to the winning house: St. Columba! Well done!🥇👏🏆✨
• Regarding our topic The Olympics, we have learned all about where, when and how the Olympics have started, the gap between the Ancient Olympics and the Modern Olympics and also how these have been changing throughout the years. There is so much more to learn about this that we will need to keep working on it until the very end of Primary 5!
• Since the well known and loved by all Talent Show is going to take place this coming Thursday, we have been given time to organise ourselves in the groups we have chosen to prepare the acts we have chosen, hoping people will enjoy them as much as we do.
• Finally, we would like to congratulate the Chamber of Secrets Table for their great effort to keep everything organised and tidy during the week. Well done, Chamber!🏆👏

We say goodbye for now wishing all a wonderful and exciting week ahead, full of amazing and also different things!

P5A and Mrs  Valente 😘😘

Hello P3A families,

Here are this week’s highlights from blue table:

Grace was excited to meet her new teacher and loved discovering that she enjoys baking!

McPaul said the highlight of his week was football with Miss White.

Alicja and Chahiti both said they liked learning about the Olympics.  The children worked in partners to research a sport of their choice that is part of the 2024 Paris Olympics.  They have been gathering information that will then feed into an information poster.  The poster needs to include information on the history of that sport, the rules of the sport and also name some of the athletes that will be participating.  Alicja’s group and Chahiti’s group have chosen  ‘gymnastics’.  The children having been scanning a QR code that leads them to the following site: https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/sports

Angel loved learning about basketball (links with Olympics).  The children learned that in basketball, you dribble with your fingertips.  They tried drippling with both hands in turn and both looking at and away from the ball while traveling with it.  The also learned to manoeuvre the ball in a v shape.  This will help if they play the game with an opponent.  Next week they are going to learn how to shoot the ball in to the net.

Rory liked  writing a letter to his new teacher.  The letters included at least, their name, about their family, what they feel their strengths are and what they would like help with in P4.  They also asked the teacher questions.

Lead Learners were Caiden and Rory.  They had the important role of looking out for people who were demonstrating our school rules of being Ready, Respectful and Safe.  They also get to say something extra for the blog:

Caiden – “I liked measuring with a ruler.”

Rory – “I liked football with Miss White.”

My highlight was basketball.  The children listened well to the basketball coach on the big screen and then tried hard to follow his instructions.  Mrs Brown discovered she wasn’t too bad at playing herself when she was demonstrating how to take the ball off your opponent!

Congratulations to Hasika, our hot chocolate award winner this week.

It was great to have had the opportunity to have met with you lovely parents on Tuesday or Thursday night to discuss your marvellous children.  I cannot believe that we are nearing the end of our time together!

Regards

Mrs Brown

Dear Readers,

What a busy and exciting week we have all had!

These were just the highlights:

• In Literacy our focus this week was on the correct use of apostrophes, since the writing shows many of us still make mistakes while using them. We have had spelling words with apostrophes for most of us, oral work with apostrophes, written worksheets with apostrophes and our weekly spelling assessment with apostrophes as well! Let’s hope our use of apostrophes will improve a bit from now on!
• We continued working on the Recount, this time with the collective Recount of our Trip to St. Peter’s Church for Mass on Wednesday. We’re still half way because all of us are trying to participate and add details.
• In Maths, the week was all about multiplication and division again so we have done division of up to 4 digit numbers and many of us did that very well!
• We went to Mass on Wednesday morning with our friends from P5B and tried our best to understand and follow what Father Clement said.
• The 80th anniversary of D-Day was the perfect time to explain to all its importance within the Second World War effort and we were amazed to learn about how many people had been involved in its careful planning in many countries. This celebration has finished our Peace and War topic which will be followed by our last topic of P5: The Olympics.
• As we have had Parents’ evenings we have also had the chance to show off to the whole school community our Eco-School models which were all set in the Hall for people to take a look at. People said they looked amazing! 😀
• To finish off an already very exciting week, we have met our new teachers today and found out that we will have Mrs Lea to teach us in Primary 6.
• We have also found out about our new Houses for Primary 6 and although we don’t know their names yet, we have had the opportunity to choose our House Captains for the next session 2024/2025.

All very exciting!

• Finally, we congratulate our Half- Blood Prince table for winning again the prize for best table of the week! Well done!🏆👏👏👏👏

That’s all for today, we say goodbye for now wishing everyone a great weekend!

P5A and Mrs Valente

This week we have been practising our word building skills using games on the Smartboard. We are getting very confident in spelling words correctly.

In maths, we have continued to practise using greater than and less then but Miss Stebbing made it harder by putting adding sums on each side!

In topic, we learned all about the medals that are given out at the Olympic games and we designed our own medals for Paris 2024.

We have started to practise for our Assembly and we can’t wait to see all our grown ups there.

We had a very exciting Friday morning. We visited our new classrooms and met our new teachers. After break we listened to the P6 pupils doing their house captain speeches and got to vote for our favourite speech.

Some of our personal highlights this week are:

Leah – I enjoyed playing with my friends outside.

Joseph – I enjoyed doing PE.

Bella – I enjoyed going to see our new classroom.

Zuraib – I enjoyed playing outside.

Maja – I enjoyed tidying up.

Matteo – I enjoyed playing in my new classroom.

Rudhvick – I enjoyed playing with the cups.

Well done to Maja who is our Hot Chocolate Winner this week.