St John Ogilvie Primary School

Hello families of P2

The Children have all worked super hard this week, learning lots of exciting things! We continued our work on plastic pollution in our Oceans. The children used their knowledge about this to create information leaflets, encouraging others to look after our Oceans.

We learner about the lifecycle of frogs, as some of the children spotted frogs in our playground. The children completed a reading comprehension activity all about frogs, producing excellent work.

In Literacy we learned three new sounds, ‘ir’, ‘er’ and ‘ur’.

In numeracy this week we did more work on missing numbers, in subtraction within 20 problems. We also used our knowledge of addition and subtraction to complete a code cracker challenge. The children loved this!

In art, we created beautiful clownfish and coral reefs. These are displayed in our classroom and area, making a lovely under the sea scene.

On Tuesday, Mrs Lafferty brought her beautiful baby in to visit us. We learned all about the needs of a baby and how to care for them.

Weekly Highlights

Olga – I liked making the clownfish and octopus.

Cameron and Aarav – We liked learning about plastic pollution in our Oceans.

Summer – I liked doing all of the Easter activities in the hall. It was so much fun!

Lillian – I liked me and Dineli working together on our plastic pollution leaflets. We took turns each. I did some writing then Dineli did some writing. I did some drawing then Dineli did some. We worked as a good team.

Aaron – I liked the addition and subtraction code breaker.

Filip – I liked learning about Octopus.

Rose – I liked showing my work to my parents.

Huge Congratulations to our hot chocolate winner, Layla and our reading champion, Olga. Awesome job girls!

Have a lovely weekend

In RE, we have been learning about Holy Week. We listened to the story of Palm Sunday and made our own palm leaves to wave. We also learned about the Last Supper and talked about how special Jesus was. We made some beautiful artwork of a cross to display in the area.

In Maths, we have been learning all about tally marks. We are very good at remembering what we need to do when we get to 5. We also practised our addition skills by playing a game on the Smartboard.

In Literacy, we learned about the sound ‘oo’. We are very confident at reading words and spelling words with this sound. We have also started to play a game where we have to read a caption and match it to a picture.

On Tuesday, we had two special visitors who came into our classroom to talk to us. Mrs Lafferty brought here baby in to talk about how to look after a baby. We loved seeing the baby and it was funny when she was making faces at us. We are very grateful to Mrs Lafferty for coming in and helping us with our learning.

For Topic, we learned about the lifecycle of a sea turtle and we had to cut and stick the pictures in the correct order.

During Outdoor Learning, we found an empty egg which we think has fallen from one of the trees. We even saw a squirrel running around when we were practising sitting at the fire pit.

On Friday, we set up a new activity in the tuff tray. We have to open plastic eggs and see which picture is inside and then we have to spell the word. We are very confident with this.

Some of our personal highlights this week are:

Sophia – I enjoyed doing the painting for the sunset.

Tyler F – I enjoyed choosing my own learning.

Lily – I enjoyed playing with the cups.

Posy – I enjoyed outdoor learning.

Maksymilian – I enjoyed playing with the marbles.

Congratulations to Tyler F who is our Hot Chocolate Winner this week and to Maja who is our Reading Champion.

Hi Parents/Families,

Due to all the excitement of our St Patrick’s Day party on Friday, we did not get a chance to complete our blog post of recording our week’s learning highlights.  Meanwhile, I hope you enjoy the photos below that have managed to capture some of those experiences.

Congratulations to our hot chocolate award winner, Angel.

Regards

Mrs Brown

Dear Readers,

We hope you are all well.

We are going to start by thanking all the parents and carers for coming once again to our school and for joining us for our Outdoor Assembly! It was lovely having you all here working collaboratively with your children, and being taught what to do by them!😂We have great pictures of absolutely amazing birds’ nests which made us all very proud. Having our own Woodlands is paramount for us to experience Outdoor learning and we are very grateful for that. It was really amazing sharing our experiences in the Woodlands with our families and carers!

Some of this week’s highlights were also linked to the preparation of the Assembly and to our Science Climate Smarter Project:

• Learning to identify different trees by the characteristics of their wood and shapes of their leaves. We have also been learning about the different types of wood and their uses: for building houses/other buildings, for flooring, for furniture, for pallets, for decking and fencing, etc. This will be very important when we start choosing the materials for our Climate Smarter Eco School Model, of course, so the children made lots of notes about this to use very soon.
• Working hard on reading aloud in order to audition for our roles in the Assembly, always focusing on being clear, loud and using expression. It’s important to say that around 90% of the pupils from our class have worked super hard learning how to read fluently the parts in order to audition for them. This was amazing for their learning and make us all proud of our friends’ effort!
• In Numeracy and Maths, we have started by revising the 2,3 and 4 times tables and their close relation to division and have then moved on to using them in our multiplication sums of one by up to five digits. It was very good and the children kept on asking for more. We will continue next week with the 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 times tables.
• As usual, we have had our weekly spelling assessment with the words learned this week and practised daily in class. Let’s see how good our scores are this week…😀
• In RE we have finished our learning on the Seven Sacraments and I hope your children can tell you all about them.😊

After having had new places to sit in class, we congratulate the Order of the Phoenix table for having won our weekly trophy! Well done, Order!👏👏👏🏆

We did not have time to award the Hot Chocolate of the week but will hopefully do it on Monday and will let you know about it next week.

Once again thank you very much for your participation on Friday and we wish all a great weekend and week ahead!

P5A and Mrs Valente 😘😘

This week we have been learning about jellyfish as part of our Under the Sea topic.  We made paper plate jellyfish and they are a very colourful addition to our display. In writing, we wrote an information report about jellyfish and we did very well.

In RE, we talked about prayer and how God always listens to us when we pray.

On Wednesday, we had a Judo session with a coach from Destination Judo. We got to wear Judo jackets and practise some judo moves.

In maths, we have been looking at graphs and answering questions about them. We were very confident in answering the questions given to us. We also looked at teen numbers and made these correctly with Numicon.

On Friday, we completed different activities for St Patrick’s Day. We learned some Irish Dancing with Mrs Carlyle and made leprechaun masks. We read the story How to Catch a Leprechaun and made traps in the classroom. When we got back from the hall, the leprechaun had left us gold coins but it was too quick for our traps!

Some of our personal highlights this week are:

Joseph _ i enjoyed making the jellyfish.

Eliza – I liked making gold coins.

Matteo – I liked making the traps.

Bella – I liked trying to catch the Leprechaun.

Alfie – I liked playing with the sea animal toys.

Vihaan – I liked playing with the marbles.

Congratulations to Sophia who is our Hot Chocolate winner this week.

Good Afternoon,

What a fabulous week we have had in Primary 2!

There has been lots of learning and lots of fun.

We continued with our topic, ‘Under the Sea’.  The children researched and wrote about Octopus this week.  We could not believe the standard of the writing they produced, it was amazing!  Today, we started to learn about pollution in our oceans and thought about what we can do to help reduce plastic pollution.  The children were very passionate about this and we will continue to learn about it next week.

On Thursday, Destination Judo came into to school to give the children a taster session.  All of the children took part with enthusiasm and their behaviour and attitude was excellent.

In Maths, we learned about ordinal numbers at the beginning of the week and measure at the end of the week.  We used a metre stick to decide if things were longer or shorter than a metre and recorded it on our worksheet.

Highlights of the Week:

Aarav – I liked learning about and making an Octopus.

Alexander – I enjoyed learning about plastic pollution in our oceans.  I am going to try to help make the ocean clean.

Summer Rose – I loved watching Mrs Carlisle doing Irish dancing and teaching us to do it too.

Lillian – I liked learning about Octopus, especially that they have 3 hearts and 9 brains.

Cameron – I liked measuring in Maths.  We had to see if things were longer or shorter than 1 metre.

Huge congratulation to our hot chocolate Friday winner this week, Enso!  Enso is always has been working very hard in school and produced an amazing piece of writing about Octopus.  We are very proud of you Enso!

Our Reading Champion is Aaron.  Aaron has been working very hard with his reading and has been reading lots for enjoyment!

Have a great weekend everyone!

Mrs Craig and Mrs Brand