St John Ogilvie Primary School

This week James and Emma enjoyed learning some Spanish introductions and can say how they feel in Spanish.  Fantastico!!!

Halli and Jude knew their times on the clock this week when they were practising and can tell everyone when it is O’Clock and Half Past!

We have been practising our letters from the alphabet and Maja wrote them very neatly in her jotter.  We also learned about different types of sentences and used this to write about our favourite toys.   Amelia wrote about her kitten toy and told everyone how it looked and felt.

For RE we learned about Guardian Angels and decorated a beautiful prayer about Angels.

Everyone is enjoying listening to The Twits by Roald Dahl and Fatima and Dylan think that it is very funny.

We are looking forward to more learning next week!

P2/1 have had a great week!  It has gone in very fast!  Here are some of the highlights according to your lovely children:

Paige liked using soft pastels to recreate a piece of art work called ‘Kandinsky circles’.  We used our fingers to move the colour around.  More hand washing in P2/1 but a lovely colourful final piece.

DaisyDee liked it when she won a prize for having glued her work into her new jotter the neatest.

Rebekah loved playing Hide and Seek in the playground with her friends this week at playtime.

Aiden enjoyed learning how to say ‘I like’ and ‘I don’t like’ in Spanish with Paula the puppet who joins us for our Spanish lessons.  We heard how P2/1 like many fruit and vegetables as part of our learning about being healthy.  We were reminded that we do not bring any strawberry or kiwi fruits or flavours into school as it makes some of our SJO family very sick.

Mrs Devlin’s highlight this week was when we did our story writing.  We examined a picture and wrote what we could see.  I was so impressed with how much the children remembered – beginning  sentences with a capital letter, using finger spaces, resting letters on the line, using a full stop at the end of the sentences and of course listening for their sounds within words and writing them done.  I could not of been prouder.

We met Captain Calm. when we are worried or excited he tells us to take deep breaths. (FG) We have been learning about different emotions, we sorted them into nice and not nice emotions. (BM) We learned about the Orange Cog with Mrs Dickie. (EM)

We coloured a jar and used glitter to show when its all over the place there are lots of things to think about. But when it settles the important things stay at the top and the other things settle down for us to think about later.(AS)

We talked about Buddy Bots. There was an angry one called Rusty and a friendly one called Blip helped him be happy. (ED) Rusty felt great because he got energy when he helped the other bots. (LM)

We have been learning about the time. When the small hand is between numbers it means its half past. (LM)

We have done different writing. I enjoyed puting flicks on my letters. (FF) We also have fun with lego. (BD)

A great week altogether, exploring time and counting in sequences. Good work everyone.  Remember PE kit on Monday.

from Mrs Ross

This week in Primary 4B we got to go on the laptops and use them to help our learning. Some of us were able to go on to Prodigy. We made emoji’s and shared our feelings.

We learned spelling patterns and today we had our first spelling test. We have been doing Big Maths Beat That to get quicker at our mental maths. We also are doing a Magic Number Challenge every morning. The worst thing is we couldn’t go our to PE or Outdoor Learning on Tuesday because of Storm Francis. But on Thursday we had PE outside and are doing skipping to try to get fitter.

Dear Parent/Guardian,

Good morning everyone, hooray we have all completed one full week in Primary 4. This week I have been getting to know your lovely children some appear confident and happy, some are feeling a little anxious. Gradually, we have been easing back in to school life and learning new routines that will keep everyone as safe as possible.

Best days of the week so far appear to be Tuesday and Thursday as they have outdoor PE with Mrs Lafferty and Outdoor Learning in the afternoon with myself and a support assistant. Over the next few weeks we will be weeding the school garden area at the back of the school and bringing it back to life. It would be excellent if you could allow your child to bring in Wellington boots or old shoes which you don’t mind getting them muddy, they will bring them home each day as we can’t store them at school.

We are also making a great effort to get academic learning back at the appropriate level to build the learning confidence of all the children in our class. We have already carried out spelling, reading and maths assessments with a few more assessments to be carried out next week.

Primary 4 are hoping to set up homework through teams in the next few weeks but I want to build the children’s confidence using the system before we use it for homework purposes. By the end of August they will be in a reading group and their reading book will go home with them.  I am hoping over the next few weeks that the children will be able to post a weekly blog to let you all know their favourite learning activities and how they are feeling.

Thank you for sharing your lovely children with me this year, I hope they will have a wonderful learning adventure in Primary 4.

Mrs Miller

Welcome back to Primary 5A and their families !

The children have made a fantastic start to the year, adapting well to their new environment and quickly taking on board the school rules of being ” ready, respectful and safe!”

Art – Primary 5 A completed personality swirls using bright colours and intricate patterns. They chose various adjectives to describe their individual personalities.

Maths – We have been learning about place value and the value of individual digits in particular numbers. We have also been partitioning numbers. Primary 5 had a lot of fun completing their first ” Big Maths” challenge where they answered times tables questions in a set time.  The children will try to improve on their performance each week.

Writing– The children completed a piece of writing entitled ” All About Me” which described their strengths as a learner, hopes for Primary 5 and aspirations for the future!

Health and Wellbeing– Primary 5 have been participating in activities and class discussions based on the Health and Wellbeing Indicators of being safe, healthy, active, nurtured, achieving, respected, responsible and included.

I am very pleased with positive start that P5A has made. Watch this space next Friday afternoon for our learning highlights from the week beginning 24th August !

Mrs Lea

Dear parents, carers and friends:

We have finished our first week in Primary 5B and feel very proud of our hard but fun work!😃

Throughout this first full week we have had the opportunity to do a lot a work, from active spelling activities with our SHANARRI WORDS, (Safe, Healthy, Active, Nurtured, Achieving, Respectful, Responsible and Included) to our first piece of writing! We have also learned all about place value and had some tricky active challenges! One of the most important moments of our week was learning about the miracle of Fatima and all the boys and girls were astonished by how many thousands of people had been there to see it!

We have also had the opportunity to play ‘Hangman’ and ‘Guess who’s on the board?’ and that was very much fun for everyone!

The week ended with our classic ‘Big maths beat that’  and also with our first online Senior Assembly! It has been great being together again!🥳🥳🥳🥳

❤ to all and wishes of a great weekend followed by a wonderful new week!

Mrs Valente and P5B 😘😘

We have completed our first full week of school and Miss Stebbing is very proud of us all. We have settled into school really well and have learned our new routines quickly.

This week we have been focusing on our listening skills. We had to listen for sounds that were the same or different and also loud or quiet. This is something we can practice at home to help us get ready for learning our sounds.

Our book this week was The Colour Monster and we learned about lots of different feelings. We made a class colour monster where we all got to colour in a square to show how we were feeling. We had some yellow as we we were happy to be making friends and playing. Some blue because we felt a bit sad when we missed our families. Pink as we felt loved by our class. Green as we were learning about blowing bubbles to be calm. We also had black as we were a bit scared when there was a bear in one of the stories we heard.

In writing Ogilvie Bear brought us some of his favourite things. We wrote sentences for him using the word ‘likes’.

We have enjoyed continuing to explore the resources in the classroom and the most popular have been the monsters and beads to help our fine motor skills for writing, the car mat and the number blocks tray.

Today we enjoyed seeing ourselves on screen for our first virtual assembly with Mrs Egan. We also discussed how we show Ready, Respectful and Safe for our class charter.

Ella and Kyle are our first lead learners.  Next week they are going to watch for classmates who line up nicely, push in their chairs and who are kind to each other.

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

We have all had a great time in P1B this week. We have been getting used to daily routines and learning about our school rules.

We loved reading the story ‘The Colour Monster’ and learning about feelings. We used fantastic cutting skills to sort pictures into how they make us feel and coloured in a class Colour Monster to go on the wall.

Mrs Meikle and Mrs Russell have been very happy with our hard work with our number recognition and number ordering and we liked  making sentences about things Ogilvie bear likes or loves.

We have enjoyed play, particularly making models with Lego, making different marble runs and investigating different natural materials using magnifying glasses.

Scott: I love school!

Flynn: I like to draw.

Addison: The Colour Monster is so much fun.

Anthony: The yellow monster is happy.

Sean: I made a game show to win a prize.

A warm welcome back to our Primary 6 children and their families!

Primary 6 have had a wonderful start to the year. The children have adapted very well to the new rules and regulations and are doing a fantastic job being Ready, Respectful and Safe. They are enjoying being in the upper area and setting a great example for the younger children.

All about me: In order to get to know the children a bit better we asked the children to create ‘All about me’ t-shirts. The children shared their names, ages, favourite subjects, songs, animals and colours. We have now displayed these in our classroom.

Art: The children have shown their creativity by painting using the technique ‘Pointillism’ They used some of the work by the French artist Georges Seurat as inspiration for their own paintings.

R.E- We have been learning our new ‘Grace before meals’ and ‘Grace after meals’

Maths: The children have been working on Place Value and understanding how numbers are made up. They have also been working on their times tables and improving their speed and accuracy.

Have a fantastic weekend!

Mrs Roy & Mr Pentland