St John Ogilvie Primary School

We have had another great week in P1B. We are all getting used to our daily routines and continue to show how to be Ready, Respectful and Safe.

This week we have had tickly lips from all our fantastic learning of our first sound ‘m’. We have enjoyed learning to form a ‘m’ and thinking of words that begin and end with the ‘m’ sound.

Our focus this week has been on the numbers 3 and 4. We have been trying really hard to form these correctly and enjoyed watching the Numberblocks.

Ogilvie Bear shared with us things he can do and we came up with a sentence. We all did so well remembering a full stop. Next week we are going to try to write our own sentence about what we can do.

We all loved reading the story of ‘The Invisible String’ and talking about the people we love and care for. We were excited to colour in our hearts, one to keep in school and one to give to someone at home, so that we are always connected to them.

Scott: I liked making m in foam.

Kacper: I liked playing with Lego.

Matthias: I liked playing games with my friends.

Ella: I liked playing with the dragon.

Ksawery: I liked drawing.

Daniel: I liked playing with Lego.

Please look out next week for our new Virtual Classroom, which will be shared with you here on the school blog.

Have a lovely restful weekend!

We met Agent Grateful.

She told us that when we feel sad we can think of happy memories to make us feel better. (IS) We should always remember to be grateful for what we have. We drew who we were grateful for on a leaf (ED), and made a gratitude tree. We have used our sensory jar to help us remember is important for now and what we can deal with later.(ED)

On Monday, we had no rain and had some sun for our PE. (EM)

With Mrs Dickie we learnd about the green cog which is about how our body looks or feels with different emotions. (EM) Last week we thought of 15 emotion words for the orange cog and this week we thought of 40! (AS) Mrs Dickie used the characters from Inside Out and we learned about how they felt. (LM) She also read the story, Marvin gets mad. (EM)

We have been learning about different ways to add and find answers. (IS) We were learning to count different parts of numbers and put them together again. (JD) Partitioning. We also have been talking about doubles and halves. (AS)

We did some work with common words and reading with Mrs Garvin. (FF) We made spelling flowers with the common words. (FF)

We practised saying hola in Spanish.

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P3a have worked really hard this week. Trying to write in jotters and are using beautiful handwriting. Well done everyone. Congratulations to our first above and beyond winner.

Remember PE on Monday and Wednesday. Dark joggers or leggings, school t’shirt and school jumper too, please. No hoodies but a rainproof jack if possible and you can wear your trainers.

Have  a fabulous weekend.

House Captain Speeches: Many of us have been writing, editing and practising our speeches in the hope of being voted House Captain or Vice-Captain. We hope to find out the results on Monday.

Maths: We have been practising rounding numbers within 10s of millions and multiplying large numbers by multiples of 10, 100 & 1000.

Literacy: We’ve started two different class novels, Holes and The Explorer and we have been learning about past, present and future tenses.

Inter-disciplinary Learning (IDL)/Topic: Our Rainforests project is well underway and this week we have focused on de-forestation and habitats.  Hopefully we’ll be able to share some pieces of work with you soon.

Art: Our “stained-glass” windows are coming along well as are our rainforest plants and animal oil pastel pictures – photographs soon!

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

P7A, Mrs Craig & Mrs Morrison

This week in P2 we have had a great week of learning which we have all enjoyed.

We have been on a hunt round the classroom for the letter ‘h’ and we have been building fabulous structures with letters.

Jonah really enjoyed Free Writing Friday where he shared a fantastic story with the class in our Author’s Chair.

Hannah liked Arts and Crafts time where she painted a lovely abstract picture.

Sophia really enjoyed revising the ‘h’ sound.

Ignacy really liked counting in twos. He also enjoyed practicing adding using classroom objects.

It has been another busy week in P1B.  In Literacy we have been working on beginning, middle and end.  We looked at animals in a line waiting on the farmer and had to identify if they were at the beginning, in the middle or at the end of the line.  We also lined up and identified who was in what order.  The story this week was called ‘In My Heart’ it was a story about how our heart has lots of feelings and emotions.  We then coloured a heart to show how we were feeling.

This week we got to use our writing books.   We were so excited.   We did some wonderful writing about what we like and love.  We drew a picture and tried very hard to write our sentence.  Mrs Meikle and Mrs Russell are very proud of us.  They said we were “writing super stars”!

We have been introduced to some Number Zoo characters Penguin Number One and Ticklish Two (a swan) these characters have helped us learn how to form our numbers correctly.  We also looked at Number Block 1 and 2.

We looked at the months of the year and tried very hard to remember what month our birthday is in.  We then made a birthday class for our class birthdays.

We have been enjoying lots of play activities again this week.  The Marble Run and the Construction Toys have been very busy and lots of us have enjoyed role playing in the shop.

In gym we have been learning about spatial awareness we had to move forewords and backwards and side to side without bumping into our friends.

This week we shared our comments:

“I like playing and making new friends” Ella

I love school because I like everything” Scott

“I like doing pencil work” Flynn

“I like to do writing and drawing” Haadiya

“I like school” Ksawery

“I like drawing” Georgia

“I love playing with Buzz” Rowan

“I like school” Nicolas

Have a great weekend everyone and we look forward to seeing you again on Monday.  Keep safe.

Another busy week in Primary 6!

The children have been working hard and produced fantastic work they would like to share with you.

Literacy: They have been using adjectives to describe nouns. They have written descriptive sentences and identified the adjectives within their work. They also completed a spelling test at the end of the week.

Maths: This week we continued to work on addition and subtraction. We looked at a variety of different strategies and discussed what works best for each child. Charlotte liked using the ‘Column method’ to work out her answers and Taha liked using the ‘Blank number line’ method.

Art: We enjoyed creating self-portraits and learning about the proportions of the face. P6B enjoyed working as part of a team to create artwork together.

Health and well being: We completed our well being check-in online this week and we have been learning more about each of the SHANARRI indicators and what the look like in our lives by creating posters.

Take care and have a great weekend,

Mrs Roy and Mr Pentland!

Another great week of learning in P1A!

This week we have been learning about first, middle and end. We had to listen carefully and say where we heard the sound. We thought the naughty camel sound was very funny!

In maths we have been learning to write the numbers 0, 1 and 2. We have all been trying really hard to make sure we start at the right place. Every day we have practised counting to 20, starting at different numbers.

Miss Stebbing was very proud of us this week as we did some great writing. We were all able to say a fantastic sentence about something we liked then tried hard to write this in our jotters.

We have been enjoying lots of different activities to practice our skills. The magnetic tiles have been popular this week. Also, the creative zone has been busy. We have a new role play area, a pizza shop, where lots of orders were being placed. However, there were a few complaints about the pizzas taking taking a long time! We have given Miss Stebbing a list of things we would like to add to the shop.

Our book this week was ‘The Invisible String’. We have been missing our families when we are at school so this book has helped us to know that we are connected by a string made of love. We made 2 hearts, one for home and one for school. We know we can give our invisible string a tug to help us when we are missing our families. We brought the heart home today.

We added a few things to our emotions wall and learned about the emotion works orange and yellow cogs.

Have a great weekend everyone!

P1A and Miss Stebbing

Dear readers,

We hope you have had a fantastic week!

This week, in Maths and Numeracy we have been learning about ordering 4 and 5 digit numbers and we got some tricky exercises to work on!

We have been reading ‘Billionaire boy’ by David Walliams and got to do a summary of what we have read so far. We have also been answering questions about it. It is a tricky but interesting book with very difficult words and lots of hidden jokes. We have chosen as our word boost words from the book for this week the following words: dolefully, defiantly, suppress, protested and audition. Do you know what they mean?

Our writing session this week has been about describing and writing about our own ‘fantastic beasts’, which we also had to draw. We had to write four different paragraphs to do that and it was very interesting. One of the paragraphs included a description of their name, age, and gender. Our last paragraph was a conclusion which included our feelings about our own beast.

Most of us have now finished our beautiful  ‘All about ourselves swirls’ that tell people about our personality.

Because of our learning on the ‘Miracle of Fatima’, we followed a tutorial to create our own dancing suns and they turned out to be amazing!

Once again we have learned about the SHANARRI wheel and we have discussed how we feel about each one of the things in it: Safe, Healthy, Active, Nurtured, Achieving, Respected, Responsible and Included.

We have carried on doing our ‘Big Maths, Beat that’ which we have been doing since Primary 4 and we are really good at it!

We have also completed our spelling assessments and are hopeful that we are going to get really good results!

We watch ‘Newsround’ every day and Mrs Valente always asks us questions about it and gives us points or a recognition board sticky note when we get them right!

We hope you have had a good time reading about what we have learned in school and wish you a nice weekend!

❤ from Primary 5B