St John Ogilvie Primary School

We are now in the final month of P1 and what another busy week we have had.

This week the Dragon sent us the story of ‘The Three Billy Goats Gruff’, we read the story together and the Dragon set us a challenge, we had to try and make a bridge using loose parts and junk materials for the goats to cross over.  We all successfully completed this task.  We also made Billy Goat and Troll masks.  We practised our sounds and completed some dictation sentences about the Billy Goat Gruff.

In maths we practised addition and subtraction and quick mental recall.  We also practised counting in 2s, 5s and 10s.

In Religion we listened to the story of Pentecost and learned how the disciples received the gift of the Holy Spirt.

In Gym we practised the activities we will complete on Sports Day.

Today we have our Fairyland Showcase Assembly.  It was a great success and our teachers were very proud of us.  It was great fun having a family member in school to complete Fairyland tasks with us.

After break time we received a letter from the Dragon to say well done on our amazing Assembly.  As a treat we got to watch the CBebbies Pantomime Hansel and Gretel and also got a bag of popcorn to eat.

We all had a wonderful week and everyone agreed our Assembly was the best part.

Well done to Sourya our Hot Chocolate Winner and Franek our Reading Champion.  Have a wonderful weekend everyone.

Happy Friday primary 3 and families!

This week has been great and fun-filled in primary 3. We started off our week with our literacy and we are continuing to practice our common words and reading our books. We started planning our dear future teacher letters by thinking about our goals for next year, highlighting our strengths and next steps for primary 4.

We have been focussing on fractions in numeracy and began to explore fractions of an amount. In beyond number, we have been looking at weight, focussing on heavier and lighter.

In health and well-being this week, we have began to think about transitioning to primary 4, we talked about some of the changes which will be happening, as well as things which will stay the same. We also had time to think about and write out our thoughts on what we are looking forward to and excited for in primary 4.

Topic has been really interesting this week, we got to look at the first moon landing and talked about what we would say if we were the first person to step foot on the moon. We designed our own rockets and then made our own planets with materials from the woodlands during outdoor learning.

We learned about Pentecost Sunday and what this celebration is for. We drew pictures of Jesus’ disciples after they had been blessed with the Holy Spirit by fire.

We had lots of fun practicing our sports day events with Primary 7 during PE and joining Miss Mushet’s class for music this week.

Well done to all of our winners this week.

Have a lovely weekend and I will see you all next week.

Miss Duddy

Dear Parents and Carers,

Primary 6 have been working hard on their House Captain speeches.  Some of the primary 7 captains came to our class and outlined what the role involved. They were really motivating and enthusiastic! They also gave us advice on what to include in our speeches!

On Ascension Thursday, some of our class attended mass at St Peters. Primary 6 learned why the day is so special and why it is important in the Catholic faith. Our class discussion was really interesting with lots of valuable contributions.

We have been designing tiles with pictures of wildlife for St John Ogilvie outdoor garden. Some of the designs look amazing!

We continued our peace and conflict topic. After a class discussion about the impact of current conflict in Ukraine, we created our own mind maps.

Our class novel still proves to be exciting and we are enjoying making predictions , discussing the meaning of difficult vocabulary and characters within the story.

Primary 6 continued to add detail to their peace and conflict posters which will be used for our class display!

During PE, we played rounders. Many of us did not know the rules so we had to learn them! It was great fun even on a windy day !!

In numeracy, we continued to learn more about equivalent fractions and some of us challenged ourselves with word problems.

Congratulations to Mason on being nominated for our hot chocolate award this week.

Have a super weekend !

Mrs Lea and P6A

This week the Friendly Dragon left us the Story of Hansel and Gretel. The dragon asked us to design a healthy lunchbox for them as they had been eating too many sweets. We learned all about the different food groups and foods we should have a lot of, some and only a little of. We drew lots of lovely food in the lunchboxes for Hansel and Gretel and shared our lunchboxes with the class.

We completed a sequencing of the story of Hansel and Gretel.

On Thursday, the Dragon asked us to teach Hansel and Gretel about keeping their teeth healthy. We discussed the importance of brushing our teeth correctly and we practised brushing on so model teeth.

The Dragon was impressed with our learning about healthy eating so it left us some fruit to taste. We enjoyed tasting raspberries, blueberries, melon, mango and pomegranate. Everyone had a different favourite fruit.

We have been practising for our Fairyland Assembly next week and we can’t wait to share our learning with our adults.

We joined up with P2/1 for our outdoor learning session today.  We used the bikes and scooters in the muga and played on the pirate ship.  We explored the loose parts and played tennis and skipping.

Here are some of our personal learning highlights this week:

Guhan Kumar ‘I enjoyed tasting fruit’

Tiara ‘I loved making the healthy lunchbox’

Antos ‘I liked outdoor learning and playing on the scooters’

Felix ‘I loved riding the bike’

Franek ‘I liked the bikes and tasting the fruit’

Arush ‘I liked climbing the pirate ship’

Daniel ‘My favourite fruit was melon, it was so good’

Kaya ‘I liked the blue berries and the bike’

Congratulations to Antos who is our Hot Chocolate winner this week. Have a lovely weekend everyone and hope you all stay dry.

What a fantastic two weeks in P3!

We have been working hard in our literacy focussing on common words again and practicing them using our active strategies! We are still flying through our books each week. We started recount writing last week, we planned our writing last week and did our written piece this week.

In numeracy we finished up our division last week by looking at the formal written method, and are now focussing on fractions. This week we have been focussing mainly on a half with a little bit of thirds and quarters too. Our beyond number as had a measure focus, last week we explored centimetres and meters and this week we measured objects and noted down sizes.

Outdoor learning over the last two weeks has been so much fun! We have been learning how to start a fire using a flint and steel. Lots of us managed to get a piece of cotton wool on fire but some of us didn’t manage it! Despite that we all tried super hard and gave it our best shot! On Monday, we had a visit from Rob with Kids Gone Wild and his lovely dog Jax. They led an outdoor learning session in the woodlands where we got to go on a rope swing and relax in hammocks.

Our space topic has been a big hit! We designed lots of planets and stars last week and this week we have been learning about the sun and moon.

We have been continuing to say a decade of the rosary in class over the last two weeks.  We designed a little card about a hope we have for the future for our Jubilee of Hope day and these are now on a shield which is displayed for everyone to see. We learned about the feast of the ascension and why we celebrate it.

Well done to all of our winners over the last 2 weeks.

Have a lovely weekend everyone! I will see you all on Monday.