St John Ogilvie Primary School

Hi P5B families!

We have reached the last week of term already!  I cannot believe we are heading towards our Easter holidays and then one more term to go!  Time is flying indeed.

P5 will soon be starting to build their sustainable school model for their Climate Smart Award (if you recall, information was given about this fantastic learning opportunity during ‘Meet the Teacher’ at the start of the year).  Can I request that you speak to your child over the holidays about what recyclable materials (preferably but not exclusively) they would like to use for their model and for them to bring them in upon our return.  That would be a really big help.  The school model will be on a board with the dimensions of 60cm by 60cm.  They need materials to represent the walls, roof, grass, soil, woodland, wind turbines, playground benches etc.

Here are a few photos of some of the learning that took place this week in class (apologies but I forgot to take the notes home of what the children enjoyed this week).

My highlight was the lesson on fire lighting.  It was great to see the perseverance of the children and the end result of this resilience!  Well done Primary 5!

I hope you all enjoy Mother’s Day this Sunday.  P5 may have something special waiting for you.

Mrs Brown

What a fantastic week we have had in Primary 2!

A lot of the week has been spent getting ready for our assembly next Wednesday.  The children are doing an amazing job and we really hope to see as many people there are possible.

The theme for our assembly is Spring and we have been learing all about the changes that take place during this season.  The children have written fantastic acrostic poems about Spring, they made some beautiful Spring pictures and designed their very own Easter eggs.  Here are a few examples:

Our Hot Choc winner this week  was Lewis!  This was extremely well deserved as Lewis has been working extremely hard in class and is always ready, respectful and safe.  Well done Lewis!

We wish you all a fantastic weekend and we hope all the Mum’s have a lovely Mother’s Day on Sunday!

What a great week we have had in P1.

We have been learning the ‘ou’ and ‘oi’ sound. All our children worked really hard to sound out and write words with these sounds. We have also been working on skimming and scanning a piece of writing to find specific topic words.

This week we have been learning all about babies, what they need and how we can care for them. We wrote fantastic sentences about this working on adding a connecting word. We loved having one of our P1 friends baby siblings come in to visit us. We all thought he was super cute and confidently asked questions and shared facts we have been learning. We have also been learning about the human lifecycle and can explain how we change as we get older.

In math our focus this week was on data handling. We learned how to conduct a survey and how to use tally marks. We made a bar graph for our favourite mini beast and for colours of eyes.

Outdoor learning this week we used viewfinders to look at the different views bugs and other creatures see and then we drew fabulous pictures.

Hello P5B Families!

Here are the learning highlights from your lovely children.  This week we have the Yellow table reporting:

Daniel loved the outdoor learning session with the therapy dog, Jax and his owner, Rob.  Rob did an informative lesson about how long it takes for rubbish to decompose.  The children had to guess first and stand behind the number of years they thought.  The purpose of this was for the children to realise how their decisions to recycle, positively affect the future of our planet.

Anthony enjoyed our St Patrick’s Day celebrations!  These included: drama, Irish dancing, Irish Corners and the best part……green mint choc-chip ice-cream!

Moeez and Ksawery have said they especially liked our Climate Smart learning this week when we made floating wind turbines and our very own batteries!  Ask you child how batteries link with frog legs?!?!?!??

Michael said the highlight of his week was telling a joke in the hall in front of the whole school.  Michael was our overall class winner and did a marvellous job of competing against fellow students.  We were so proud of him making it to the Finals.

Vinayakarthik liked PE with Mrs Lafferty where they played ‘Capture the Flag’.

Alex has loved maths this week.  We continued dividing 4 digit numbers with remainders and making links with quarters.

Nathan continues to enjoy the Big Lent Walk.

Rowan was interested in the learning about Word Down Syndrome Day which was today, 21st March.  The children had questions about how someone is born this way and listened to how they can care for our Down Syndrome friends and how we are all unique.  I also shared about how my little sister has special needs and the help and support she needs.  This lead to the children sharing what they need help with themselves.  It was a beautiful, inclusive lesson.

My highlight was this Down Syndrome lesson also.

Congratulations to our hot chocolate award winner, Rowan and our Reading Champ, Amelia!  Also, a big thank you to Nicolas who put together the photos below.

I hope you have a lovely weekend.  I believe we are going to have some bright, warmer days.

Dear Readers,

Welcome to our weekly post. We hope you have all had a good week.😃

These were the highlights of our week in Primary 6B:

• The work with decimal numbers by ordering them and also by learning how to add them. Some of us were a bit stressed out but ended up enjoying it a lot!
• Our weekly spelling words and spelling assessment, with more words from the Elsewhere Emporium which are super interesting and that we would very much like to start using in our writing.
• Continuing our Biodiversity work.
• Learning about St. Joseph’s day and the story of his life. We have reflected on his immense kindness for accepting what God asked of him and for being such a kind and caring father on Earth for Jesus.
• Finishing off our Prayer People after writing our own prayers and who they were for. They look so lovely!🥰
• Our first ever Voice Box Joke Competition which was beyond fun! Very well done to our Ishani M for her joke and the way she acted it out because it was amazing!👏👏👏✨😄
• Going to Mass today and reflecting on the story of Joseph ( the one from the Old Testament) and his colourful jacket, which, as Father Clement said, shows us that even the ones who have been abandoned feeling left out can turn out to be extremely important.
• Starting our Sumdog Competition! This is extremely important and we would like to ask parents and carers to please let all children go to Sumdog until the 27th of March! This is the national contest so children from the four nations are competing and being very good already!
• Our novel, the Otherwhere Emporium, is getting more and more interesting and we just want to know what’s going to happen next!😃
• We would like to congratulate our Hot Chocolate of last week for always being on task and ready to learn, well done Mr. Srihaun! You have been a star!👏🏆🥇✨
• Congratulations also to our Hot Chocolate of this week, our recently arrived Mr. Shiv, who has had an amazing week and has been setting a great example of how to follow our school rules of Ready, Respectful and Safe! Well done and once again welcome to our Class and to our School!👏🥇🏆✨
• Well done also to the children of the Scary Seas Table for winning the weekly prize! Super tidy and organised! Congratulations Zac, Renna, Mariam, Ishani S, Layla, Ishani M, Lyon and Aiden!👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏😃
• Congratulations also to Jonah, Jude and Zac for representing the school in a very competitive Football tournament which took place in Inveralmond High School today. We’re super proud of you!✨👏👏👏⚽⚽⚽
• Finally, many congratulations to Maeve for being the Reader of the Fortnite for the 2nd time in Primary 6! She’s always looking forward for a tiny bit of time to keep reading her interesting books! Well done!📚📚📚📚
• We would like to thank everyone who has brought their food donation to the Food Bank today for their generosity! ♥♥♥

That’s all for today, we say goodbye wishing you all a happy weekend with many opportunities to be with your loved ones doing nice things.

P6B and Mrs Valente😘😘