St John Ogilvie Primary School

Welcome back , boys and girls! 😃

We hope you have had a great Summer holiday, although things have been quite different to what they usually are.

Mrs Lea is really looking forward to meeting her new class and Mrs Valente is also looking forward to seeing you all again.

When we come back to school, it is important that we remember how to be Ready, Respectful and Safe so your task for today will be to write a few sentences describing what each word means to you and illustrate this with your amazing drawings!

If you are able to complete this work, it would be great if you could bring it with you to the class, so that it can be shared with others. Please complete the task on a piece of A4 or A5 paper.

Don’t worry if you are unable to complete this task since we understand that your families/carers may have other plans for your final day of the holidays.😊

Mrs Lea and Mrs Valente

Hello Primary 6,

We are all very excited to see you back in school tomorrow and we hope you have enjoyed lots of family time over the summer break.

Health & Wellbeing:

Today, we would like you to start thinking about our school rules before we see you on Thursday.  Can you think about how Ready, Respectful and Safe are going to look like in Primary 6?  What your new responsibilities might be and how you are going to show how you are ready to take on new challenges and fulfil your potential.

Make sure you come in with at least two ideas for each of Ready, Respectful, Safe (a few folk might have the same ideas) and we will use these ideas in class on Thursday. If you would like to, you can create a picture or poster, an acrostic poem or rhyme or a slogan to help us during our discussions.

Maths:

Most of you probably haven’t spent much time thinking about your times tables over the summer holidays.  Go over your tables and ask someone (an adult or older brother or sister or a friend) to give you a quick quiz if they have time.

Literacy:

Can you have a look through your books at home and choose one you’d like to take in to school as your ERIC (Everybody Reading In Class) book for the first week or so.  We will have books in class but these will not be able to be taken out of the room for the time being.

Enjoy your Wednesday and we look forward to seeing you all on Thursday.

Mrs Morrison, Mr Pentland & Mrs Roy

Good Morning P7 and welcome back, nearly. We will see you tomorrow and are really looking forward to meeting you and getting to know all of the wonderful things that you are capable of.  In preparation for that we have some tasks for you to complete at home today.

Firstly, we will need to create our Class Charters, to keep up with our Rights Respecting Schools approach.  You don’t have to write anything down for this task but come to school tomorrow with some ideas for each of these areas.  We apply three rules across the school: READY, RESPECTFUL, SAFE but what would that mean in our classrooms specifically? Think of the UN Rights of a child, how we interact with each other and how we can make our class a place for learning.  Try and have 2 or 3 ideas for each area you can share in class as other pupils might come up with the same ideas.

Because you haven’t been in school for a while, your times tables might be a bit rusty!  The times tables are one of the best tools you have in maths and knowing them is one of the biggest helps out there.  Identify 3 of the times tables that you know you need to work on.

https://www.timestables.co.uk/

This site has lots of games and tips on learning your tables and has them already written out for you.  Write down your 3 choices of tables three times each. Recite them out loud three times each and then ask someone to test you on them.  Don’t worry if you get some wrong, learning the tables takes time and repetition.

Finally, your literacy task is to find a book that you’ll be happy to read at ERIC times for the next two weeks.  It can be a new book or an old favourite of yours, it can be fiction or non-fiction but make sure it will last you this week and next.  Read the first chapter and we’ll ask a few of you to share your books with the class and why you picked it.

Really looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow,

Mr McGurn and Mrs Craig.

Primary 7,

It has been an absolute pleasure working with you this year.  I am sorry that we didn’t get

to do so many of the usual P7 activities in our last term of primary school but I do

remember all the many fun and enjoyable times we did have. Enjoy your time off but make

sure you are ready to learn and get stuck in when you start high school.  I always love it

when former pupils pop into the school to say hello and let me know how they are getting

on so I hope to see you all again.

Good luck and may St. John Ogilvie always guide you safely home.

Mr McGurn

Good morning everyone,

Drum roll please…… without further a do after many technical hitches and losing all of the videos I bring you today the highlight videos from your Virtual Sports Fortnight.  I once again cannot thank you all enough for taking part and showing your enthusiasm throughout.  I hope you all enjoyed it as much I did.  You have all made me a very proud and happy PE teacher! #AWESOMEOGILVIES

St Andrews

St Columba

St Cuthbert

St Filan

St Kentigern

St Margaret

St Ninian

St John Ogilvie (Staff)

I hope you all enjoy!

Mrs Lafferty

Good Morning Everyone,

Well this is certainly not the end of the school year any of us could have ever expected or predicted.  I just want to take this time to express how proud I am of you all.  You have gone from face to face learning to online learning very quickly and have all taken to it like a duck to water.  I have really enjoyed seeing your fun family adventures and hearing about all the exciting ways you have been keeping active throughout these tough times.

I hope you all continue to stay active over the Summer holidays with your families and I cannot wait to see all of your happy smiling faces after a very well deserved break.

Keep being awesome #AWESOMEOGILVIES

Stay safe,

Love

Mrs Lafferty

Have a lovely summer everyone!

Message from Mrs Callaghan