St John Ogilvie Primary School

WOW! What amazing performers we have in P1. Our nativity on Wednesday was amazing! Everyone played their parts brilliantly and the singing was so loud. We are very proud of them all. Thank you to all our adults who came in to support us during our performances, we hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.

We attended mass on Thursday morning to sing some of our nativity songs to the congregation. They were full of praise for our wonderful singing.

Well done those in our class who made a nativity scene in a box, they are very impressive. Here are a small selection from our class.

We have started to do some Christmas crafts this week, we will not spoil our surprises and are all excited to bring them home next week to show you all we have made.

We have worked on the sounds u and d and have been learning to write these letters correctly and to use them when reading and writing words. Don’t forget to be practicing sound and high frequency flashcards at home to help with this also.

We all came to school a wee bit crazy today, everyone looked fab. I particularly loved Franek’s pilot/plane costume.

Well done to Dawid for winning the Hot Chocolate award this week.

We hope you all have a lovely weekend and we look forward to a fun festive filled week next week!

Dear Parents,

Here’s what we’ve been up to this week in P7A…

On Monday, we had technology, we had a competition for who can make the tallest tower out of spaghetti. On Thursday we then made the strongest bridges.

On Tuesday, we made little pop up cards for our buddies and we put little chocolates in them and we are looking forward to meeting up with them next week. We also did some Christmas vocabulary but in French!

On Wednesday, we got to watch a Christmas movie because our chairs were in the hall for the P1 nativity and we finished of our cards for our buddies.

On Thursday, we walked all the way to Eliburn Park where we got to walk around the reservoir and see the parts we will go to when we try orienteering there next year. But it was definitely worth the trip as we got 10 minutes to play at the park!

Finally on Friday, we had an online RE lesson with St. Margaret’s and started the new Sumdog competition. Then we had Fun Friday, some people were playing games and others were on their phones.

Have a great weekend!

PS our hot chocolate at home winner was Inaayah.

Hello families of P5B!  Here are our highlights this week as recorded by the Blue table:

Amelia and David have enjoyed the super ending to our class novel, ‘The Midnight Gang’.  There was lots of cheers for the happy ending.  It had been close to 500 pages!  We are excited to see what the new class vote reveals for our next one!

Flynn said the highlight of his week was when his group won Winning Group of the Week!  He picked slime from the treasure chest for his reward.

Olek and Scott have thought that PE with Mrs Lafferty this week has been great!  They have been preparing for their Christmas party by practising the dances and games.

Georgia and Sean have LOVED making tote bags for the Enterprise Showcase.  They have used fabric pens to write positive affirmations on them or drew animated figures.  We decided to design them so they could be used all year round.

Nicolas has also loved preparing centre pieces as his group’s Enterprise idea and carefully used the glue gun under adult supervision to attach real holly.

Alex said winning the hot chocolate for the Over and Above award was his highlight.  Well-deserved Alex!  Congratulations.

My highlight has been our Advent services.  It has been special to have gathered together as an Area (P4 and P5s together) to think about what Advent means to us and pray to God in song with our beautiful hymns.  This coming Monday, it will be P5B’s turn to lead the service.

I look forward to seeing you at 9.15am on Friday for our P5 Christmas Enterprise event.  The children have been working hard all term to prepare their sustainable decorations to sell to raise money for the charity, Mary’s Meals.  Please remember to bring lots of change as we have no card machine facilities or float (given we are a cashless school).  P5B items will range from 10p-£3.

This week will be the last week for homework for this term.

Thank you for your continued support.

Mrs Brown

Hi there Primary 3 families. We have had lots of fun this week in and out of the classroom and have had a chance to engage with lots of fun learning experiences.

We have had lots of fun adding this week, as well as look at descriptive writing, using the description bubble and trying our hardest to work out whether something is a noun, adjective or a verb. We even did a scavenger hunt to find and sort words into the correct columns.

We had fun building nests outdoors this week which related to our last WordBoost book ‘The Wild Girl’. We have been working really hard to prepare for our reconciliation this week. We learned all about forgiveness and that Jesus and God will always forgive us for our sins.

We started a new project for our ‘How things work’ topic, we have started designing a toy and working with our group to agree on ideas and draw what it will look like.

We have been counting coins and started using coins to count out different amounts and using different combinations of coins to make certain amounts.

I hope you all had a great week at school and enjoy your weekend!

Another very busy week in P1! First thing Monday morning all the p1s went out to the Outdoor Classroom which had turned into Santa’s Grotto.  Santa wasn’t there but we read a Christmas story and sang a Christmas song.  We have been practising very hard for our Nativity and on Friday we got to wear our costumes on the stage. It was very exciting!  Our teachers said we looked amazing.

We had our Christmas Dinner on Wednesday.  It was delicious.  In the afternoon we went to the blessing of the crib and we got to sing one of our songs from the Nativity.

On Monday we took part in our first Area Advent Service with all the p1s, P2s and P3s.  We listened to some readings and sang some hymns. Mrs Russell lit the first purple candle on the Advent Wreath. We also made our own Advent Wreath for the classroom and set up our Advent Calendar. We also have a book Advent Calendar to open.

We got to decorate our class Christmas tree.  We all worked together to decorate the tree and we think it looks lovely.

In Literacy, we have been learning the sounds ‘b’ and ‘h’. We have been reading words with these sounds and finding the pictures that matched. We made a butterfly craft for the sound ‘b’. In writing, we wrote a sentence about a winter hat and had to describe what it looked like. For our ERIC Time (Everyone Reading In Class) we sat beside the cosy warm fire it was very relaxing.

In Maths, we have been continuing our work on addition and looked at part part whole models and we are continuing to develop quick mental recall.  In Topic, we have been looking at toys from the past and present and we spoke about our favourite toy.   For Art, we read the story  Rudey’s Windy Christmas. We then followed the instructions to draw our own reindeers.

Learning Highlights:

Cerys ‘I liked listening to the story in Santa’s Grotto’

Tiara ‘I liked reading Rudey’s Windy Christmas’

Guhan Kumar ‘I liked drawing the reindeer’

Felix ‘I liked playing with the Lego’

Alfie ‘I liked making Rudey’

Lena ‘I liked making the butterfly’.

Well done to Ava our Hot Chocolate winner this week.

Today we got to wear red or green to school and bring a donation for the Food Bank.  Thank you very much for all your kind donations to the Foodbank! They will be very much appreciated and will help to make Christmas better to lots of people!

Have a wonderful weekend everyone and stay safe in the storm.

Dear Readers,

We hope you’re all very well.

At school things are getting more and more Christmassy and this week we have already had our yummy Christmas Lunch, which is always a joyful occasion! We got to dress our favourite Christmas clothes and had a very good day since Mrs Valente surprised us by showing us The Lorax – the film. Although we had to be on task to spot all the differences and similarities between the film and the book we still had time to enjoy ourselves a lot with all the jokes and sarcasm of the film! 🌳🌳🌳😂

Other highlights of the week were:

• Continuing ou Elsewhere Emporium, which is crazily interesting, and working on our spelling words from it.
• Continuing working on Word problems with addition, subtraction and multiplication.
• Working very hard on the timestables, from the 2s to the 10s and trying to know all of them.
• Continue our learning about Tsunamis and the impact they can have on the affected places.
• Researching and reporting back to class about Earthquakes, the different parts of the Earth, why do earthquakes happen, the Richter scale, how it works and the impact earthquakes can have on people and places affected. As there was an earthquake of 7.0 with a tsunami alert following it in California just yesterday, we have read the news about it and understood even better how serious the situation can be. Fortunately the tsunami alert was cancelled an hour later and nobody got hurt in the earthquake but we could see how things are in real life situations and found it very interesting.
• As we have been learning about the Discussion as a different type of text we had to plan our own discussion. It was not easy because Mrs Valente has chosen a really controversial topic : Should Zoos exist? We had the opportunity to watch 2 different clips where various experts in animals and animal welfare talked about the pros and cons and after that had to plan according to everything that we had found out about it. It was very interesting but a bit difficult for some.
• From Monday, we have been celebrating daily the season of Advent. We started by having a beautiful Advent Service in the upper area prepared by P7A and continued with our daily digital Advent calendar from where we get lovely readings, hymns and prayers to help us celebrate this important season. Our Altar is now dressed in purple to show that we are preparing and reflecting on how to be the best versions of ourselves.♥ We have also discussed the importance of the Advent wreath and what it symbolises, as well as the meaning of each of the candles in it.
• The week has ended with our usual spelling assessment and we hope to get great scores!
• The Crusty Crabs deserve congratulations for being the winning table of the week! Well done!🏆👏 Although we had 3 tables with the same score, the Cheese and the Coconuts have been left behind for being huge chatterboxes!! Always remember to be Ready, Respectful and Safe!
• Many congratulations to Alexa, our Hot Chocolate of the week for  being kind, helpful, caring and for her good work this week! Well done, Alexa!🥇🎉✨

That’s all for now, we say goodbye wishing everyone a happy and safe weekend!

P6B and Mrs Valente😘😘

P.S. Thank you very much for all your kind donations to the Foodbank! They will be very much appreciated and will help to make Christmas better to lots of people!😃🎄