St John Ogilvie Primary School

Dear Parents and Carers,

Primary 6 has been involved in lots of different activities for World Book week, It has been busy but great fun! Most of our lessons  have been based on the ” Lorax” by Dr Seuss.

Our class buddied up with P1/2 and had fun reading stories to them. Primary 6 loved doing this and are keen to do this regularly!!

In our reading comprehension activities, we learned about Dr Seuss and what inspired him to become a writer. Our spelling words were also taken from the Lorax book.

We had great fun completing our collaborative books throughout the week, it was interesting to see what each class had written in the previous chapter!

The reader leaders organised a competition where we had to design an alternative book cover for the Lorax.

The upper area offered different activities based on the Lorax, we experienced baking, art and drama. Each day we had a different teacher and that was good fun! We are have taken lots of photographs and are going to record them in a digital format to enter a competition!

Our class visited Primary 3 to help them design and create maths board games. We plan to help them again as it was really successful and enjoyable!

Congratulations to Sophia who was our hot chocolate winner this week!

Have a lovely weekend

Mrs Lea and Primary 6A

Hello families of P5B!

Here are our highlights this week as recorded by the Red table (due to absences, only 4 people were present to give their highlight so they have given two):

Matthais has enjoyed listening to the story ‘The Lorax’ in preparation for next week’s Book Week activities based on this story.  The children are excited to be visiting other classrooms each day for this themed learning.  He liked the part where the Lorax could not talk too much due to all the smog.  This story will lend well to our Climate Smart lessons due to the deforestation and pollution theme.  He also enjoyed contributing to a whole class ‘Kindness’ display as part of Anti Bullying Week and World Kindness Day on Wednesday.

Kacper has continued to love listening to our class novel ‘The Midnight Gang’.  We only read a chapter or two per day but hope to finish it during Book Week.  The chapter ‘Deep, Deep, Trouble’ has been his favourite so far.  He also recounts how continuing to work on Enterprise has been enjoyable for him.

Rowan has loved maths lessons this week that involved dividing up to 4 digit numbers by 10, 100 and 1000.  Some of those answers involved decimal points so we have been working on understanding their place value and understanding them as fractions.  He also shared that Word Boost Corners (a class favourite) has been the best part of his week.

Jayden said that the ‘World Kindness Day’ virtual assembly was his highlight.  We joined schools across the UK to learn together about what it means to show kindness.  We heard that if we are kind to one person, we are in fact potentially being kind to 125 people due to the ripple effect.  He also enjoyed making 3D shapes with nets of cuboids and cubes with Mrs Morrrison.

My highlight was the reaction the children had when I accidentally broke one of our table-top lamps!  I was showered with comments such as, “Don’t worry, it was just an accident” and such like.  This is a reflection of how nurturing and kind the children of P5B are.

Congratulations to our hot chocolate award winner Daniel and Michael, our Reading Champ!

Just a reminder that we have our ‘Sharing the Learning’ event on Thursday (2pm or 6pm).  This will be an opportunity for your child to proudly showcase their jotter work so far in the school year and have learning conversations with you about what they have being doing and what they are proud of.

Mrs Brown

Dear Readers,

We hope you are all well.

These weeks have not been easy for many of us because of the huge amount of different germs and viruses wandering around and attacking, not only our children but also most of our staff. Because of that, we have decided to post now the highlights from both weeks, so that you don’t miss out on some of the greatest things we have done in class!

Here are some of the highlights from both weeks:

• We have continued our Spelling, Reading and Reading Comprehension work on the Nowhere Emporium, which the whole class are crazy about and, due to many requests, have finished the book on Friday last week!✨🎉It was absolutely brilliant and we could not have been more excited about it! But, of course, as soon as Mrs Valente came back this Thursday, one of the first things she was asked about was: ‘ Are we going to read the next book, The Elsewhere Emporium’??? When??😂😂 So… We started reading it yesterday and it’s already getting super interesting!
• In Maths and Numeracy, we have been focussed on 2 and 3d shapes, their properties and nets and also to subtraction work. We have revised all our subtraction facts, discussed our best subtraction strategies and brainstormed all the words connected to subtraction that will give us clues of what to do when we see them in instructions or word problems. Of course we have also solved lots of up to 5 digits subtraction sums!
• The two listening comprehension tasks about our super interesting topic, one about Everyday life in Ancient Greece and the City states and the other one about The Legacy of Ancient Greece. By learning about these, we have understood even better how important the Ancient Greek civilisation was. Not everything was good, of course, but they did have lots of good ideas which are still being used by all of us today. Science, Mathematics and Architecture are examples of areas where they were pioneers and which still use their findings until today. We were all very sorry to finish our topic on The Ancient Greek civilisation but we are also happy that we have learned many important and interesting things about it and will be sure to continue wanting to learn more in the future!😊
• Our new Topic is Extreme Earth and we are also very excited about it! We have named all the things that we would like to learn about and have started by studying Volcanoes, something that seems to interest everyone! We have done our research in pairs and had to report back what we had found to answer to the questions Mrs. Valente had asked. It was super! This week, we have focussed on the artistic side of the volcanoes and, within groups, have made our own models with card and paper.
• We ended up this week with Free Writing Friday and a special focus on Anti Bullying Week 24, having discussed the definition of bullying, as well as what we can do in practical terms to prevent it from happening around us: in our school, groups and community. We know that people who are left out are more vulnerable to bullies so we thought that making sure nobody is being left out around us will be a good starting point. Making good choices regarding our own behaviour is also something very much needed. Finally, we spoke about the main types of bullying : verbal, physical and cyber and discussed how much cyber bullying has been affecting so many people’s Mental Health and how dangerous it is because it is hidden and most of the times people are ashamed to talk about it.
• It’s now time to congratulate our Hot Chocolates of the two weeks, Miss Mariam and Miss Ishani S for their kindness, respect and for always helping anyone who needs! Well done Mariam 🎉🥇👏😘and Well done Ishani S👏🎉🥇✨! We are all very proud of you!

That’s all for today, we say goodbye for now wishing you a wonderful weekend!♥♥♥♥

P6B and Mrs Valente😘😘

We have had a great week in primary 2, with lots of learning and lots of fun!

In literacy we learned the ‘ea’ sound and worked super hard reading and writing our common words. We continued our Dinosaur topic and enjoyed writing descriptive stories about the Diplodocus.

On Wednesday we went to Mass at St Peter’s Church. All of the children showed excellent behaviour throughout.

We created beautiful poppies in art, for remembrance day. The children were all very respectful during our 2 minute silence.

Weekly Highlights

Alfie and Ellie – We liked writing about Dinosaurs.

Daniel – I liked learning about money.

Alex – I really enjoy choosing my own learning. I love building!

Leighton -I liked having a partner for the scavenger hunt in the woodlands.

Huge Congratulations to Garvit, our hot chocolate winner and Ollie, our Reading Champion. Well done boys!

Have a lovely weekend!

Dear Parents,

Here’s an update of what we did this week in P7A by Lead Learners Vijval and Ayden…

Monday we learned about Rube Goldberg Machines, we used materials such as dominos, marble runs and string to make machines with more than one step.

On Tuesday we did drama in drama we did alibis where you had make a story up and people ask questions and the vote if you think they were innocent or guilty.

Wednesday we did mock court were people had to make an adjustments to initial writs and make some evidence.

Thursday we learned from  Mr McGurn how to use flint and steel and the fire triangle which consists of fuel, air and heat.

On Friday a visitor, Mr Murphy, from Mock Court came and told us more about mock court and some evidence we could use.

Have a great weekend,

Vijval, Ayden, P7 and Mr McGurn

PS Our hot chocolate at home winner this week was Xylie.

Welcome Families of P4A

P4A have been learning about lots of new things this week… We have been super busy!

This week we started off our new writing genre which is descriptive writing. Primary 4A have been learning the best ways to describe what we see, feel, smell,touch and hear whilst working a lot outdoors this week. We have been using our senses to help guide our writing and are very excited to continue this writing topic.

Tiwa- “I liked describing my friends and family when we did our starter task”

P4A have also created some beautiful art work related to our visit to the Riverside Museum last week. They are a very creative and talented class!

In Maths, P4A have continued to develop their money skills and addition and subtraction. P4A are showing a great understanding of the money that we have in our society. I hope that P4A can help their families if they are in the shops with their evolving skills.

This week is anti-bullying week and on Thursday pupils created some imovies, presentations and stop motion videos to showcase their learning. Everyone in our class shared some ways in which we can be good friends and always ensure that everyone in our class is included.

Alicja-“ I love working on the ipads and making fun things”

P4A have been looking at lots of countries across the world and have also completed some research tasks based on a country of their choice. Some pupils chose countries that they have relatives from/ they are from and therefore really enjoyed learning about the heritage.

Linda- “I really loved learning about Slovakia and creating a poster with lots of facts”

We have also began looking at Magical Castle and pupils have researched lots of castles across the world and the history behind them.

Next week is book week for the whole school, P4A have begun reading the Lorax in preparation for upcoming tasks.

I would just like to say a huge thank you to all of the wonderful families of P4A for their kindness and generosity. I had such a lovely birthday being in class on Thursday and had a very special day with the children. Thank you all for all of the lovely gifts, they are so special to me.

Our hot chocolate winner this week is Tiwa. Keep up the hard work!

Have a great weekend everyone! 🙂

Miss Maxwell

Pupil Highlights:

Julia: I enjoyed doing my self portrait for the new display in our classroom.

Kayla: I really liked enterprise preparation and enjoyed doing my HW.

Suhanth:  I liked summarising the passage on the Mysterious Forest.

Ruari: I enjoyed ERIC in class.

Ben: I enjoyed doing the summarising task with Miss Smith.

Rebekah:  I enjoyed doing the self portraits.

Babafola: I liked creating the powerpoints for the enterprise.

Paige: I enjoyed doing the self portrait and the powerpoint.

Ella: I enjoyed multiplying and dividing a decimal number by 10, 100, 1000.

Hot Chocolate Winner this week: Congratulations to Lucas Smith who has made his teacher so proud this week. He is being consistently trying his hardest to listen and complete difficulty numeracy work. It is lovely to see him take pride in his work and keep his desk so organised and tidy.