St John Ogilvie Primary School

This week we have been celebrating Book Week Scotland. We all got a special Book Bug Bag and we have been doing lots of different activities linked to each book.

For Holey Moley, we had to match the rhyming words and we designed our own Mole Hotels. We also made pictures of trees using green triangles that matched the pictures in the book.

For One Goose Two Moose, we measured how tall we were with ice creams and even designed our own dream ice cream. We had the Ice Cream Olympics during PE and we had great fun. On Thursday we went for a walk to Morrisons with P1A and we bought ice cream.

For My Pet Star, we drew our own pet and wrote a sentence. We had some very creative ideas, including a pet rainbow and a piranha. We talked about the importance of sleep and designed our own pyjamas. We also talked about day and night and sorted different routines.

Throughout the week we have been reading in lots of different places. We went to the staffroom, our buddies’ classroom and Mrs McKissack’s office. We also got to spend some time reading with our P5 Reading Buddies.

On Friday, it was lovely to have our families in for our Book Week Assembly. We had lots of fun decorating a star, making moose antlers and going on a rhyming word hunt.

The highlight of Book Week was getting to eat our ice cream!

Congratulations to Oliver, who is our Hot Chocolate Winner. He has been listening and following instructions well and did a fantastic piece of writing.

What a fantastic week he have had.  This week we celebrated Book Week Scotland we were so excited to find two boxes covered in shiny silver paper on Monday morning.  We opened them to find our P1 Book Bags.  This week we have completed lots of activities related to the books.

‘Holey Moley’ we looked at rhyming words and we completed rhyming activities.  We drew triangle trees to represent the forest.

‘My Pet Star’ – we discussed how the star felt, we looked at our bedtime routines and also the difference between day and night.

‘One Goose Two Moose’ – we mearured our height using ice cream cones, we went to Morrisons to buy ice cream and we practised the Green Cross Code.  We sorted safe and unsafe places to cross the road.  We started to look at coins and had to choose the right coins to pay for ice creams.  We also tried to make our own ice cream.

On Tuesday we had our outdoor session in Deans Woods with Kids Go Wild.  We have a great morning were we went on a zip line, slack line and also got to use hammocks.  We played in dens and also had free play time.  It was cold but we had a great time.

Today our families came to our P1 Book Week Scotland Assembly and helped us complete tasks related to our Book Bug books.  We had lots of fun and after playtime we got to eat the delicious ice cream we bought in the shop.

Our Weekly Highlights:

Flo ‘I enjoyed going to Morrisons’

Conall ‘I loved eating the ice cream’

Ini ‘I loved getting my Book Bag’

Marley ‘ I loved the hammocks’

Marcel ‘I liked playing in the dens’

Mrs Russell – ‘I loved watching you all grow in confidence and try new things in our Outdoor Session this week.  I was so proud of you all’.

Well done to St Francis House group our winners this week and congratulations to Ini our Hot Chocolate winner!

Hello P2 families

We have had a great book week with our two books Barbara Throws a Wobbler and The Ballard of cactus Joe which we have really enjoyed.

With our first book we discussed how we may feel when we have a wobble. We created our own squishy toys.

We discussed how we feel when we have a wobble and created a survey as a class.

We then created our own wobblers.

With our second book we read it with our reading buddies.

We made hats for ourselves just like Cactus Joe.

We created our own cactus which we went on a hunt for!

We have had a lovely week with all the activities using our new books.

Our hot choc champion this week is Guhan Kamar, well done for working so hard and always helping friends.

Dear Parents,

Here are some pupil highlights of this week’s learning:

Leah said, “We drew huge display pictures of Prospero and Caliban from our Shakespeare play ‘The Tempest’.

“This week is Book Week Scotland and our class have been reading ‘The Tempest’. Some of the class are performing the play. The acting was pretty good and they had lots of props,” said Benita.

Paige said, ” At PE we all wee all played tennis with the nets set. We all had very good fun.”

“This week we went in the woodlands with the P3/2 class and we read books as part of Book Week. It was cold but really fun,” said Leah.

Our Over and Above Winner this week is…

Amelia!

Have a great weekend,

Mr McGurn and Primary 7B

Dear Parents and Carers,

Primary 7 have had a productive week! We have started to revise for our SNSA assessments and have been working on fractions and how to simplify them using the highest common factor.  In literacy, we continued with our discussion writing based on the rainforests. We designed anti- bullying posters using colourful graphics and appropriate slogans for health and wellbeing and linked our work to the relevant children’s rights articles. Our class took a trip to the UFO site at  Dechmont Law. We researched the case and learnt that even after many years, it still remains one of the most important UFO encounters in the world !  During topic lessons, we used atlases to highlight the areas of the world where rainforests exist and appreciated how quickly they are diminishing!!   Here are some of our learning highlights:

” Outdoor Learning was fun!”  Logan

” We enjoyed our transition visit to the High School.” Pixie and Sophia

” Creating our rainforest posters was enjoyable.” Ameya and Zofia

” Learning about the grid method in multiplication was interesting.” Hamnah

” Creating our anti bullying poster and learning about the articles was fun!” Ishaan

Congratulations to Mason on being our reading champion for the next two weeks!

Congratulations to  Ailsa on being nominated for our hot chocolate award this week!

Have a super weekend.

Mrs Lea and Primary 7A

Hello P3 families! Here are this week’s learning highlights from Polar Bears:

Vakashini has loved learning about how to take care of our pets.  We discovered that pets need the care that we need too!  They need somewhere to live, sleep, eat, drink, exercise, be able to play, receive health care if sick etc.  Thank you to everyone so far who has sent in a photograph of their pet.

Danvith liked making cards for our parents during RE to thank them for the love they show to us and telling them we will try harder to make better choices at home.

Oscar LOVED our lesson on tree identification.  We were wondering if we had a sycamore in our school woods (linked to our learning about Zacchaeus).  We used Google Lens and discovered we had a range of trees (see photos below) but not a sycamore.

Sophia liked our learning Anti-Bullying Week.  The children made little mini superheroes with Miss Hunter to help those being bullied.

Daisy enjoyed our learning about the importance of not spreading germs in this season of colds and flus.  The children know to cough and sneeze into their elbow and the correct step to wash their hands thoroughly.  We played ‘Pass the glitter’ and watched how black pepper (representing germs) moved away from soap.

My highlight was our learning about Remembrance Day.  The children sang a beautiful song and made poppies in an Ancient Roman mosaic style with some P6 friends.

Congratulations to our hot chocolate award winner this week, Maya.

Just a little reminder that we have our Sharing the Learning whole school event on Thursday 20th November either between 2-3pm or 6-7pm.  We hope you can make it.