St John Ogilvie Primary School

Hello P5B Families!

I hope you managed to enjoy some of the lovely sunshine we had this week.  I know we used the opportunity to go outside for our class novel and took refuge in the nice shade under a tree.

Here are our learning highlights from the Yellow Table:

Daniel really enjoyed a micro:bit lesson with Miss Smith about how smart technology can be used to help the environment.  This week, the children explored the sensors on the micro:bits and have incorporated some of these great ideas in to their Climate Smart models.  The models are almost finished now and the children will now focus the remainder of their time largely on preparing their presentations.

Aadhya liked playing outside in the sunshine.  After our class novel, we played ‘Duck, Duck, Goose’.  A favourite all around!

Georgia loved our class novel.  We have reached a VERY EXCITING part where there is a plan to bring an extinct animal back to life!  Some of the children enjoyed making daisy chains as they listened.

Rowan said he liked House Groups today.  The children will have a follow up activity on Teams so look out for this.

Alex continues to enjoy learning about Time with Mrs Morrison who takes us for maths once a week.

Anthony has been making progress with playing the recorder during music and has now mastered a tune called ‘Apples and Bananas’ he tells me.

Ksawery was quite engrossed in a lesson at the start of the week that related to materials needed to build a school.  The children were given a list of how much an item costs as well as its environmental impact.  Each group had a £2000 budget and the challenge was to spend this (or close to it) but to have the lowest environmental impact.  This activity involved much discussion e.g. “Should we buy metal desks that cost less but have a high environmental impact or wooden desks that cost more but have a low cost to the environment?”  Tricky decisions indeed!  This prompted a pupil wondering what our school budget was and he asked Mrs McKissack and found out.  This lesson helped the children to think about what materials they will select for their own pretend sustainable school and why.  A worthwhile lesson indeed!

My highlight was reading our novel under the shade outside.  The sun was shining and the birds were singing.  It was very restful.

Congratulations to Kasper, our Hot Chocolate winner this week.

I hope you all enjoy the long weekend and I will see you back on Wednesday.

Regards

Mrs Brown

Dear Parents,

Our Lead Learner for this week, Madeleine, is going to update you on what we were doing this week…

On Monday in PE P7a practiced doing long distance running for the event coming up. After PE we did spelling for literacy, then we did numeracy finishing off decimals. Then after lunch for ERIC the class read our class novel ‘A Monster Calls’ reading a chapter. For the rest of the afternoon we started to make posters about voting for the new Pope. We did our daily mile then lastly for IDL we are soon going to start a new topic about Japan.

On Tuesday we did a letter on the netbooks to our woodland friends then we carried on with our a monster calls book. And in the evening made our mini ovens and made s’mores. Also we did drama and we played some games.

On Wednesday, both P7 went to St Margaret’s high school to take part in a sports competition against other schools. And it was called the almond cup. We did a mix of things like tennis, football, javelin and wheelie races. and St. john Ogilvie got 3rd place!

On Thursday morning P7 did music with Mrs Morrison getting things ready for the graduation. For PE we did an activity game with Mrs Lafferty. After maths, in the afternoon for outdoor learning P7 went pond dipping. P7a went to the burn just near Eliburn, and finding some bugs/fish in the water, with our nets. P7 caught loads of fish then releasing them into the water, back into the wild. It was a fun time.

On Friday in the morning we are finishing our Pope Francis posters but then after that is House Groups. During house groups we are gonna be talking, about and doing an activity about hope. For maths we are gonna do timetables then lastly of our week we have Fun Friday, P7A had a fun and interesting week.

Madeleine.

Have a great Long-weekend,

Mr McGurn and P7A

Another great week in P1 and a very exciting one at that!

A letter appeared this week in our classroom from a Dragon looking for our help to rebuild Fairyland. We did fantastic writing to write back to the dragon and to thank us he left us some special castle books to keep all our Fairyland tasks in. We have a post box in the area where we can post our letters and pictures to Fairyland.

The dragon told us in his letter about living in a castle, we decided to learn about castles and their features. We drew our own castles and labelled their features.

This week we have also been revising sounds we have learned so far in P1, looked at capital letters and how to form them and also started to think about place value – how numbers are made up of tens and ones.

We hope you all have a fantastic long weekend.

Hello P5 Families,

I hope you had a lovely Easter holiday and enjoyed some of that lovely sunshine we had in the first week.  I believe it will return next week!  It was so lovely to see all of the children again and to welcome two new pupils, Olivia and Aadhya, who have settled well in to St John Ogilvie.

Here are our learning highlights from the Blue Table:

Flynn liked learning about the life of Pope Francis.  Some interesting facts about his life: he was one of 5 children, he was born Jorje Mario Bergoglio, he was the 266^th Pope and chose his name as he admired the life and work of St Francis of Assisi.

Ellie-May and Amelia both report that they are continuing to enjoy our class novel.  This week the children were excited to have it read by Mrs Lafferty’s PE student, Miss Howe.

Nathan liked playing  Rounders for PE.

Nicolas and Addison have LOVED making their sustainable school for the Climate Smart Award.  A big thank you to everyone who brought in recyclable materials for this project!  The models are starting to take shape now.  This will be our learning focus between now and the in-school judging on May 16^th.  The teamwork, enthusiasm and ideas from the children are AMAZING!  I am so proud of everyone for their contributions.

David enjoyed maths this week were we learned how to find the Area of irregular shapes.

Aaeryn-Leigh liked PE today with Miss Howe.

Olivia was introduced to the recorder this week with Mrs Morrison and has listed it as a favourite learning experience this week.  Olivia shared that she plays other instruments too including the ukulele!

My highlight was welcoming everyone back to school after our 2 week break.  I always miss the children terribly when we have a holiday.

Congratulations to David, our Hot Chocolate Award winner this week!

I hope you have a lovely weekend!

Mrs Brown

What a fun-filled first week back we have had!

We have been having lots of fun whilst doing some great learning this week. We are also very lucky to have had a new pupil who joined us in P3 this week and has settled into the class really well. Thank you all for being so welcoming!

For literacy this week, we revisited our books from before the holidays as it was a short week and will be back to our regularly scheduled reading next week! We learned about paragraphs which we will be using next week in our final week of narrative writing, we will be trying to include paragraphs in our stories! We made posters for some of our word boost words from throughout the year.

We revisited multiplication for a final time before moving on to division next week, we did a short recap of arrays and played some fun multiplication games.

We went to the woodlands and had lots of fun playing in the woods for our outdoor learning this week. We also did some hot-seating as a fun drama activity, we pretended to be characters from the book ‘The Gruffalo’ and it was quite popular amongst the children! It was lovely to see everyone having fun.

We have been working on our teamwork this week, we worked in groups to do a general knowledge quiz where we all worked together to get the right answers. We also had a chance to play capture the flag, we worked in our teams to come up with a tactic that would help us to win!

Well done to this weeks Hot Chocolate winner!

I hope you all have a lovely weekend!

Miss Duddy

Welcome back everyone, we were so glad to see each other after our Easter Holidays and had lots of news to share.

This week we have been learning the sounds igh and ng.  We have also been practising all the sounds taught so far and our common words.

Tuesday was Earth Day, we read books about helping to look after the earth and had discussions about what we can do in our homes and schools to play our part to look after the earth.  We then wrote our ideas down for writing.  We made a paper plate craft and added these to our writing to make a display in our area.

We looked at the importance of recycling and sorted household items into the different coloured bins.  We watched a clip about recycling and where our rubbish goes to.

In Maths we looked at numbers to 30 recognising and writing the numbers.  We looked at tens and ones and how many tens and ones were in different numbers.

In Religion we discussed Jesus rising from the death on Easter Sunday and we made an empty tomb craft to show Jesus had risen.  We have also been thinking about Pope Francis may he rest in peace and learning the Eternal Rest Prayer.

Today we went up to the Woodlands for outdoor learning we used the materials of the woodlands to create pictures on paper.  We didn’t stick them down and when we were finished we returned the natural materials to the woodland floor.  We also litter picked as part of Earth Day and to help look after our planet.

Some of our personal highlights for the week are:

Emma ‘I am proud of my writing’

Cerys ‘ I am getting better with my counting’

Oskar ‘I liked learning new songs with Celtic Croft’

Franek ‘I liked learning about recycling’

Tiara ‘I liked learning about tens and ones’

Guhan Kumar ‘I liked making the Earth Day craft’.

Antosh ‘I liked playing in the woodlands’

Well done to   our Hot Chocolate Winner Dawid and Congratulations to Guhan Kumar our Reading Champion.

Have a lovely weekend everyone and a well-deserved rest after our first week back to school.

Hi Families of P2

We have had a fantastic last week of term. The children were amazing performing their assembly. Well done everyone, we are very proud of you all!

The children had great fun taking part in lots of Easter activities, including crafts, baking and an Easter egg hunt.

We wish everyone a lovely Easter break and well deserved rest!

Happy Friday to all primary 3 families!

I hope you all had a lovely week this week. We were very busy this week in primary 3.

We started the week off on Monday with lots of spelling and fun maths outdoors!

On Tuesday we were lucky enough to go to Deans High School for our multisports festival, what a great day we had. The sun was shining and we had lots of fun.

On Wednesday we went for a lovely walk in the sun and enjoyed our day seeing different kinds of wildlife, we even got a chance to have a look in the reservoir at Eliburn park. We seen lots of lovely animals and some of us even seen some animals we had never seen before! To round off our conservation of wildlife topic we watched the animals in Edinburgh Zoo on a live stream! Unfortunately the lions and koalas never made an appearance but we got to see a sleepy tiger, some giraffes and penguins.

On Thursday we had a fun day and got a chance to play a new game called capture the flag and learned the end of the Easter story. The children made and hid eggs then wrote clues to find them, they sent me on a hunt to look for them.

Today we enjoyed a morning of making Easter crafts and watching team Scotland playing in the Transplant European Football Championship! We learned about what a transplant is and how this can help save someone’s life. The kids all cheered on team Scotland who were playing Spain!

You can also have a look at the children’s great habitat creations from last week!

Well done to this weeks Hot Chocolate winner, table point winners and reading champion!

I hope you all enjoy your much deserved two weeks off.

Miss Duddy

We have had a super busy and fun week in Primary One.

On Monday we had an outdoor learning session Kids Gone Wild with Rob and his therapy dog Jax.  We got to play sticky boots and we walked along a slack line.  It was very wobbly and we had to use our balance to help us stay up right.  Mrs Russell was very proud and impressed with us all for walking across the line and being so brave.

In Religion this week we learned about Holy Week, we made palm leaves and acted out the Palm Sunday story.  We also heard about what happened on Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday.

In Literacy, we have been learning the ‘igh’ and ‘ng’ sounds and revising our common words and all sounds taught.

As part of our Health and Well Being and a follow up to our baby visit last week Mrs Carlyle brought in a doll that is the same weight as a real baby. We got to hold it and practise holding a baby correctly. We all really enjoyed holding the doll and giving it cuddles.

We have been making lots of Easter crafts and we particularly enjoyed making Easter nest cakes and baskets. We also made Bunny Ear Headbands and hopped around like bunnies.

This week we brought home our little sunflowers to look after at home.  We know they need sunlight and water.

For Outdoor Learning today, we had an Easter Egg Scavenger Hunt and we wore our bunny ear headbands to complete this.  We had lots of fun finding all the pictures.

We made Easter Gifts for our Buddies and they gave us all a lovely Easter basket with eggs.  Our Reading Buddies in P6 organised a special Easter Egg Hunt for us in the area. They had made beautiful crochet chicks for us.

Today we took our door stops home with a wee message to let our families know about them.  We had them on our class altar and now we will take them home to display at home.

Our weekly highlights:

Daniel ‘I loved the slack line’

Cerys ‘I liked making buddy cards’

Tiara ‘ I liked seeing the dog’

Emilio ‘I liked when I found the egg and the chick with p6

Alfie ‘I liked palying in the woods’

Oskar ‘I liked to play in the playground finding the pictures’

Felix ‘I liked drawing’.

Well done to Tiara our Hot Chocolate winner and to Antosh our Reading Champion for this fortnight.

We wish everyone a wonderful holiday with your family and Friends. Hopefully the weather stays nice and the sun continues to shine.