St John Ogilvie Primary School

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

Dear parents, we’re glad to be back and during this week we’ve been working hard and doing lots of fun activities.

Daily KM/Mile

Since our our return to school we have been out every morning at 10 am to complete the Daily Kilometre.  We are out whatever the weather so please remember to remind us to always bring a coat suitable for the Scottish weather. 4 laps of the playground is equal to 1 Km and 6 is equal to a mile.  The ‘New Usain Bolts’ of 7B, Brooklyn, Elias, Sasha, Adrian, Xavi and Finlay have even manged to sometimes complete 8 laps – 2 Kilometres.

Topic and Art

Our topic this term is The Rainforest and we have been learning about where in the world you find Rainforests and completing exciting art tasks for our display.

French

We’ve been playing new fun games to learn our French numbers and conversation topics – there have been many laughs at the Ca va? game.

Oskar

“I’m happy to be back at school with my friends!”

Numeracy

We like using the Qwizdom remotes as part of our mental maths lessons. They mean that everyone can answer all the questions, they are fun and easy to use. Elias likes trying to be the fastest to answer correctly.

P.E.

P.E. is now always outdoors unless the rain is far too heavy so remembering a waterproof jacket and to come to school in outdoor P.E. kit on Tuesdays and Thursdays is a must.  At the moment we are focusing on rules of different sports.

Neil

“I like Mr McGurn’s funny/weird jokes.”  (Thanks Neil, I think!)

And Finally…

We’re all delighted to be back at school and learning new things.  We are adjusting well to the new way of doing things and showing a positive approach to things.  Next week we will be giving our House Captain speeches and holding the elections via Teams.  Anyone who wishes to be a HC or HVC should bring in their speech by next Wednesday for the election on Friday.

Enjoy your weekend,

Mr McGurn & Primary 7B.

Miss Smith and Mrs Broadley are so proud of their class for settling into new routines and working so hard this week.  We are particularly proud of how well the pupils were able to describe what each well being indicator looked and felt like to them.

Highlights

Josh N: I really enjoyed doing our morning starter where we had to describe which type of teacher we would be using four adjectives.

Ronan: I am really enjoying our class novel ‘The Boy at the Back of the Class’

Emily: I have liked  using the vowel house to help us use the correct spelling either in the middle or end of a word.

Primary 7a have been very busy with lots of learning taking place this week.  Here are a few of the children’s highlights:

Andrew said he enjoyed learning about the different layers of the Rainforest and Keedie liked finding out about the different animals that live in each layer.  The children should also be able to tell you where in the world you will find rainforests.

Temi has enjoyed making our class ‘compassionate and connected’ tree display.  This shows how we can support each other when things ‘shake our branches’ and who we can turn to, if we need to.

Everyone had fun playing outdoor games yesterday afternoon.  Israel’s favourite part was playing the game ‘Splat’.

Viktoria has enjoyed being creative in art and particularly liked making oil pastel animals.

Zuzanna liked hearing the entries in our class ‘Book of Kindness’.  We are pleased to report, that many of the children have been nominated for being kind this week.

Amelia has enjoyed challenging herself in Maths, where we have been learning about place value to 1,000,000 and multiplying large numbers by tens.

Today is Sarah and Israel’s birthday.  We also have Viktoria’s birthday on Sunday and Luke L’s on Monday.  We hope they all have a lovely time celebrating their special day!

Mrs Craig, Mrs Morrison and Primary 7A x