St John Ogilvie Primary School

Dear Parents and Carers,

Here’s a quick update on what’s been happening in Primary 7 this week:

On Monday we continued our comprehension work on our class novel Kensuke’s Kingdom – we now have only one chapter to finish in the book. The bus has been confirmed for our cinema trip on the 17th of November and details will be sent out nearer the time.

We have been continuing the STEM maths lessons and working hard on this new approach to our learning.

Aiden said, “STEM made us learn in a different way and I really enjoyed it.”

We went to Deans Woods for our Outdoor Learning this week, using found materials to build dens. We will have two momre sessions to get them completed.

“I enjoyed outdoor learning, it was very fun.” Matteo

We met our Buddies in the school woodlands on Friday to see how sfae they are at being at the firepit and then we had some free time to play.

Benita said, “Today we played with our buddies in our woodlands. It was very fun. Me and my friend Ashley and our buddies played hide and seek.”

Hot Chocolate winner this week was too hard to pick so I picked two!

Both Twinnie and Matteo demonstrated outstanding kindness and empathy and both received the prize for Over and Above behaviour.

Have a wonderful weekend,

Mr McGurn and P7B

Class highlights:

Aadya- I enjoyed drawing vertical and horizontal images in our symmetry work.

Chaihiti – I enjoyed writing my instructions How to Make My Dad’s Byrani.

Vivien: I enjoyed going to the Spidy Park because we could just chill and move our bodies.

Angel: I enjoyed Literacy, especially our spelling tasks.

Skyler: I enjoyed learning about Queen Victoria and I loved how I could draw her and Abeeha did the facts with Allah.

Hasika: I enjoyed doing our Queen Victoria Posters.

Deveena: I enjoyed doing Capture the Flag in P.E this week.

Caiden: I liked doing maths this week.

Grace: I enjoyed doing dictation with Miss Smith this week.

Hi P5B parents,

Class highlights:

• Reesa, Sofia, Amariah-Grace and Karina – creating Victorian posters for topic work. We developed teamwork skills to create an information poster about Queen Victoria.
• Evana and Ishaan – showed resilience during Place Value activity to show how we multiply and divide by 10, 100 and 1,000.
• Amy, Mahathi, Iha, Ollie, Blair and Lewis – for P.E. we started to play games of handball and demonstrated the rules of the game well.

Teacher highlight:

• When the class focussed really well to discuss their feelings about the four capacities of learning and the wellbeing indicators. We were very honest about what we’re proud about and our targets going forward.

Well done to Evana this week, who achieved the hot chocolate. Evana showed fantastic resielence during her maths this week and admitted that she struggled at first but kept trying and was proud of herself for getting there in the end. Miss MacGregor definitely agrees and is very proud of her!

Dear Readers,

We really hope you have had an amazing week and that the weekend will be lovely as well!😊

The Highlights of our week were:

• The Airport and plane drawing which we found very much fun!
• PE with the students from St. Margaret’s High School.
• Big Maths, Beat That!
• The learning about the compass, the cardinal points and how to locate something using them.
• Topic, where we have been continuing our work on the Airport of the Future.
• Fairtrade Posters for Fairtrade Fortnight.
• Learning about how to Pray the Rosary to celebrate the beginning of the second month of Mary.
• Our Harry Potter novel which is getting more and more interesting!
• Our new spelling words and the work we have done to learn them well.
• Describing characters, to improve our narrative writing.
• The weekly spelling assessment.
• The subtraction with decimal numbers.
• Music with Mrs. Morrison, where we have been learning about McBeth.

Mrs Valente’s highlight of the week was the airport and plane drawing, because we had to do it together, waiting for one another and also because they all look fantastic!😍

Many congratulations to our Hot Chocolate of the Week, Miss Amelia, for her super participation in class discussions and for her willingness to answer to many questions throughout the week! We were all very proud of her! Well done, Amelia!🥇

Many congratulations also to the winners of the Table of the week prize, who kept being amazing and tidying up beautifully every day! Well done, Moeez, Rowan, David, Scott, Matthias, Kacper, Olek and Alex!🏆

We say goodbye for now, hoping you have enjoyed reading our blog!

P6B and Mrs Valente😘😘

Hello P3 families!  Silly Mrs Brown has forgotten to take home the list of highlights from The Red Pandas!  My apologies Red Pandas!  Here are some of the learning experiences your child had this week:

It is Fair Trade Fortnight.  Mrs Roy has been teaching the children about what this means.  Our class went to Morrisons to see if we could see the logo on some of the food there.  We bumped in to Daniel’s dad there!  (I hope you remembered Daniel’s dilute!)  We also bought ingredients to make Fair Trade lemonade.  The children loved making and drinking this so much that they want me to put the recipe on Seesaw.  So, look out for this on Monday.  We plan to write about the steps for making it next week.

We used the Fairtrade bananas for our maths and made an array of our choice before eating them.  We hope to encourage our families to buy food with the Fairtrade logo if possible.  This will help poor farmers receive a fair price for their crops.

The children wrote lovely Acrostic poems all about Autumn.  Some worked independently and some in pairs.  To begin with, we had a class example, and in teams, we came up with as many words or sentences that started with the letters: L, E, A, F.  The option of getting support from a dictionary was available.  Next week we will create some beautiful Autumn art pieces.

We have also been learning about the meaning of the words from the Our Father prayer.  The children know that they are talking to God when they pray, so it’s important to understand what they are saying.

For PE, we have been practising our ball skills.  Two P5 helpers demonstrated bouncing with different hands while stationary and walking and how to bounce the ball under your leg.  Thank you to Oscar for being our photographer during PE this week.

My highlight was making our lemonade.  The room was filled with a fresh lemon aroma for the rest of the afternoon.

Congratulations to Joseph for being our Hot Chocolate award winner this week and to Viaan, who was our winner last week.

We welcome a new pupil to our St John Ogilvie family, Navami.  I hope she feels very welcome.

I am looking forward to having the opportunity to meet you all again next week for our parent consultations on Tuesday or Thursday.

I hope you have a great weekend, despite the storm.

Mrs Brown

Happy Friday P4b families, 

As autumn leaves start to fall, the pupils have been rising to new learning adventures! 

In literacy, we had a focus on “sp” and “spr” words, with an introduction on Monday and practicing our knowledge on Tuesday with different stations. This week we had our first practice with “Tuesday Literacy Stations” which went super well! In writing, continuing on with a procedural focus, we made leaflets with instructions on how to use our own inventions we designed. For reading skills, we all worked on predictions of our groups text. 

In numeracy, we have been looking at rounding to the nearest 10 with three-digit numbers and have introduced rounding to the nearest 100 today. For beyond number, we have continued on with 3d shapes and exploring the ones we created last week, identifying the number of faces, vertices and edges. 

The star of the show was our topic work this week, where the inventions we have been planning and designing has come to life with lots of glue, paint and glitter! Thank you for the donations of resources that can upcycled!  This led us very nicely into a focus of recycling in health and wellbeing (and continuing fairtrade fortnight with Mrs Roy).  We linked our outdoor learning with photography and art, taking out iPads to take photos of objects with different perspectives: birds eye view, eye level, worm eye view, wide view and close up. We then came back into the class and showcased this on a poster. We had our first opportunity of learning how to use the bible respectfully, then identifying and reading the biblical references given. 

Pupil Highlights: 

Our final matches of basketball 

Introduction to hockey in PE 

Building thinking classrooms in maths looking at rounding 

Buying more items from “Miss Mushet Mania” to add to their desk pet domes 

Miss Mushet’s Highlight:

 Learning how to crochet thanks to this weeks hot chocolate winner Mohitha!

Have a lovely weekend!

In Literacy, we have been learning the a sound. We have started reading and building words which was very exciting. In writing, we used our sounds to write the words I am a super star.

In Maths, we have been learning about 3D shapes and we can name most of them. We also learned about block graphs and linked this with our work on Fairtrade.

In Science, we learned about our sense of taste. We tasted some Fairtrade Chocolate and made a graph with P1A to show which was our favourite.

In PE, we had to move like different animals and then we played a game where we had to put the eggs (beanbags) in the nests. It was fun!

In RE, we have been learning the Hail Mary Prayer.

Here are some of our personal highlights this week:

Eloran – I enjoyed learning about taste.

Niall – I enjoyed tasting chocolate.

Hanna – I enjoyed playing with the leaves.

Aria – I enjoyed tasting the chocolate.

Freya – I enjoyed drawing.

Oliver – I enjoyed tasting the chocolate.

Congratulations to Aayat who is this week’s Hot Chocolate winner. She has been trying hard to write her sounds and has been working well with others.

Dear Parents and Carers,

Here is an update on the last week in P7B…

We are nearing the end of our class novel Kensuke’s Kingdom which we are using for comprehension tasks and discussion. We have been enjoying the book and Benita even asked to read ahead to the last chapter “because it’s just so interesting and fun.” The school is lucky enough to have secured free places to watch the film (for free) at the Odeon Cinema on the 17th November so we have that to look forward too. Details will follow from the office nearer the time.

In Maths we have started a new pilot programme from The University of Glasgow called MathsBURST which promises to increase ability in spatial reasoning, computational thinking and overall maths skills. Jonah said he liked working with a partner and using the blocks. Alexa found it interesting and also enjoyed the teamwork aspect, seeing if they could follow her verbal instructions.

We had our first visit this school year to St, Peter’s for mass. It was a lovely and prayerful service by Father Kevin where the children participated respectfully and looked very impressive in their school uniforms. All members of staff received compliments from the parishioners on how well behaved and well-turned out the P7s were. Zac said, “We were very respectful at mass.”  Jude said it was nice that everyone was listening carefully during mass.” Layla said, “Mass was laid out a bit diffently but Father Kevin explained everything clearly and supported us through it.”

This week’s Hot Chocolate at Home winner was…. Renna for going over and above with her outstanding maths jotter work.

Have a great weekend,

Mr McGurn and P7B