St John Ogilvie Primary School

Dear Readers,

We hope you are all very well!

This has been a very different week so our highlights will also be very different from what they usually are!

• The story of the life of our patron Saint, Saint John Ogilvie and the miracle that he performed in John Fagan, through the intercession of God. We were all amazed at the fact that St. John Ogilvie had risked everything for his faith and became big admirers of him.  ♥ The whole of Monday was dedicated to our Patron saint and we even had Mass in school, which was lovely!
• Our trip to Dynamic Earth with P6A was amazing! We loved everything about it and have learned so much about the Earth, biodiversity, the different biomes and many other interesting things! The workshop on natural disasters and natural hazards was also great and reminded us of the difference between both. As we had learned a lot about earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes and hurricanes we were quite good in the activities and even managed to teach the teacher some things we still remembered about the 2004 tsunami!😃
• Our badminton festival, which was a great opportunity for us to get to know and/or practise this fun sport! We really enjoyed all the different stations and many of us came wanting to join a badminton after school club!
• Music with Mrs Morrison, who was back with our class and feeling much better, thankfully!
• Spanish with Mrs Broadley who was also back and feeling better!
• Our spelling words this week were very different and directly linked to what was going to happen during the week. Let’s see how well we’ve done since we didn’t have much time to practise!
• Today we have had our spelling assessment, continued our Magical Shops and dedicated the rest of the school day to Pray and learn about Colombia, the country being helped by SCIAF WEE BOX’ s Lent appeal this year. We are very sorry for what Colombians go through every day and hope that our donations can help them to become more independent and live better lives.🥰
• We  congratulate the Flying Pancakes Table, who won this week. Although they had only 2 points at the beginning of the day, they worked really, really hard following the rules and tidying up beautifully! Well done to Matteo, Khael, Daniel, Ashley, Amelia, Alexa and Millie!👏👏👏👏👏👏👏✨🥇🏆
• The Hot Chocolate will be announced next week because we ran out of time today, sorry!

That’s all for now, we say goodbye wishing everyone a super happy weekend!

P6B and Mrs Valente😘😘

Pupil Highlights

Kayla: I enjoyed the outdoor assembly because we got to spend time with our parents.

Zosia: I liked doing the multi step word problems and marking our work with Miss Smith.

Julia: My highlight was doing the tenement houses.

Chiji: My highlight was Friday because my mum got to come and I worked well with Ruari and Ben.

Ben: My highlight was maths this week as I understand how to subtract four digits across the zero.

Congratulations to Hot Chocolate Winner this week – Olivier ! Your teacher is so proud of you for becoming more confident in class.

Hello all Primary 3 families, this week we have had a wonderful time in primary 3.

This week, we have been looking at narrative writing for the first time. We were able to break down the structure of our writing and we had fun coming up with a plan for our first narrative writing piece as a class. We have been doing lots of reading and spelling activities using our sound of the week and some common words.

In numeracy, we had a fun time trying out our array method and having some challenging questions during our Building Thinking Classrooms session. Next week we will be moving on to do the formal written method and will be looking at multiplying 2-digit numbers.

We started our new topic this week which is ‘conservation of wildlife’. During this week we have had a chat about what wildlife is and have drawn pictures of our favourite animals. We learned about different habitats and places the animals can live like the Rainforest and the Ocean.

During RE this week, we learned about SCIAF and what our day of prayer is for and the people in Columbia SCIAF are trying to help. We also read the bible story from the Last Supper and the Garden of Gethsemane. We have been trying super hard with our Big Lent Walk and the children have already walked 250km! They are doing fab and loving it!

Well done to our hot chocolate winner and secret student winner!

I hope you all have a lovely weekend 🙂

Miss Duddy

What a busy week we have had in P1.

We started to learn digraph sounds, which can be a wee bit tricky as its when 2 letters make a sound e.g. ee in feet and ai in chair. We worked with magnetic letter boards to sound out, listen to sounds and build words and then draw them.  We used our ‘ai’ sound to write facts about a snail, Mrs Meikle was very impressed with our writing as lots of us remembered to try and use the connecting word ‘and’.

We have been learning all about snails this week for our Living Things topic. We enjoyed making a snail craft. We also looked at the butterfly life cycle, which we made out of pasta.

We looked at symmetry this week in math and made a symmetrical butterfly using paint. We had lots of fun learning to count in 2s and 10s, we really like it when we can shout the numbers really loud.

We enjoyed exploring new toys in the area.

Hello P5B families!

Here are our learning highlights this week according to the Red Table:

Ella has been enjoying The Big Lent Walk.  Each day, each class aims to walk at least 1KM over the course of Lent.  Collectively as a school, we hope to cover enough distance (2000KM) that it will be the same distance to Rome!

Scott loved Pancake Tuesday.  We used this as an opportunity to introduce fractions.  The children have been learning about division.  Due to starting with dividing by 2 and then 4 (in P5 we divide 4 digit numbers) we cut them into halves and quarters.  They enjoyed the various spreads.  We had lime, apricot, honey and raspberry jam.

Moeez thought that our division maths work was the highlight of the week.  We looked at the chimney and bus stop method.  Our division sums involved remainders.  The children made Times Tables posters and brought them home to get tested in the hope to have quick mental recall.  Next week we will look at committing the 4 Times Tables to memory and dividing 4 digit numbers by the number 4.

Olek loved our outdoor learning.  The children practised the skills needed for an activity they will do with their parents next week at our Outdoor Learning Event (invite sent home this week) only the locations and recordings will  different on the actual day than the ones they had/made during their practise.

Matthias and Jayden thought the highlight of their week was World Book Day when we worked with our reading buddy class, P3/2 to plan a story that we are going to write and illustrate together over the coming weeks.  The children were very patient and supportive of our younger friends.  I was very proud of them.  Good teamwork everyone!

Kacper and Cohen loved PE with Mrs Lafferty this week.  They played Dodgeball, one of their favourite sports.

The highlight of my week was our Ash Wednesday service where the sacramental children attended a service at St Peter’s Church.  We look forward to our feast day mass this coming Monday (in school) to celebrate the life of St John Ogilvie, our school’s namesake.

Congratulations to our hot chocolate award winner for this week, Flynn and a big thank you to Georgia for putting together the photographs below for this week’s blog.

I hope you have a super weekend and I look forward to seeing you at our P5 Outdoor Learning Event next Friday, 14th March at 9am sharp.  Remember to dress for wet weather conditions.

Mrs Brown

Dear Readers,

As always, we hope you have all had a great week!😃

The highlights of our week were:

• The new spelling words and today’s spelling assessment! Let’s see how well we’ve done!
• Our new maths sums in the morning to wake up our brains!
• Ash Wednesday, at the beginning of the season of Lent, one of the two most important times of the year for Catholics around the world. As every year, we have learned that Lent is a very special time for reflection in our own lives and how to become better people of God. We are going to try Praying more, donating more and giving up on some things that we really enjoy during this time and will offer all our sacrifices for all our sins.
• Mass on Ash Wednesday, when we received the ashes from Father Clement or Mrs McKissack to remind us that we should take this time to think about our life and the way we are living it.
• Big Yellow Thursday was amazing! Everyone made an effort to bring something yellow and we learned that we were doing that to raise awareness of people who live with liver problems, and therefore look yellowish. As we found out that we have a little hero with this kind of problem in our Nursery, we asked and asked and we actually got him to visit us! His name is Wesley and he is simply Adorable! He was in our class talking to all of us, high fiving us and blowing us kisses! We loved him and have been keeping him in our daily prayers ever since we heard about him! 😘♥ We have also donated a huge amount of money for the charity that has been helping him and his family and felt very proud of ourselves for that!
• We continued working with decimal numbers but will need to keep going with these since some people still find it a bit challenging.
• Some of us have also done a super interesting reading comprehension on Fungi while others have done one on Biodiversity. Both seemed a bit tricky so we had to go over them again since this topic can be hard to understand.
• Our Big Lenten Walk has been happening since Wednesday and will keep going until the Easter and, as always, we are being a tiny bit competitive about it!
• Congratulations to our Hot Chocolate of the Week, Miss Paige, for always being there for all of us, willing to help with anything needed! Well done, Paige! 🥇🏆✨👏
• Congratulations as well for the Superior Table, which has indeed been superior this time and has won the weekly prize! Well done to Shelby, Szymon, Maeve, Markuss, Jonah, Emily, Jude, Srihaun, Tweenie and Benita.🏆🥇✨👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏😃

That’s all for today, we wish you all a fantastic weekend and say goodbye for now!

P6B and Mrs Valente😘😘