St John Ogilvie Primary School

Week Beginning 6.1.20

P1B highlights:

Jude – “I liked when we made goals for 2020.” The children learned that in the new year, people like to make promises to themselves to help them be a better person.  These are called ‘New Year Resolutions’.  We watched a clip on YouTube showing footballers scoring goals.  Sometimes they got the ball into the net and sometimes they didn’t but kept trying.  We then set our own goals and know to keep trying if we fail.  As we tried to score a goal in a basket, we shouted out our goal.  P1B had some super ideas!  We then wrote about them.  Good luck P1B trying to achieve your goals.  I know you can do!

Shelby – “I liked looking at the picture of Jude’s new little sister.”  Congratulations to Jude on becoming a big brother again!  Baby Martha made her entrance into the world over the Christmas holidays.  What a present!  She is beautiful and we wish Jude and his family and big Congratulations from P1B.

Amelia – Amelia told us that she liked playing with the baby dolls.  Amelia liked dressing and undressing them.  We will be learning how to take care of a baby in the Spring and fingers crossed will have a real life baby come to visit us!

Stefi – “I liked making boats.  Mine sunk.”  The children have been learning about the story of Noah’s Ark this week.  We followed this up with making our own boats.  We had origami paper boats, boats made from plastic bricks and boats made from plasticine.  Only the paper boats sailed.  We learned about something called ‘density’.  High density means it will sink and low density means it will float.

Mrs Devlin’s Highlight –  My highlight of the week was seeing the children again on Tuesday.  I believe they have all grown!  It was so nice to hear the goals they have set themselves for the year ahead!  I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and a peaceful New Year!

Happy New Year!

This week we have been learning about SHANARRI.  We had to draw a character for safe and healthy.  In maths we have been learning the 3 times table, we need to practise counting in 3s. We also did a maths treasure hunt to use a calendar.  For writing we thought about the gifts we would give to Jesus.  This morning we were at Mass with P1, P5 and P7.  Miss Stebbing was very proud of us as we showed excellent manners and we were very respectful.

Our personal learning highlights this week are

Daisy – I learned how to do the 3 times table.

Josh – I learned how to play Lions and Gazelles in PE.

Myles – I learned about times by 3.

Inaya – I learned how to play the Lion game in PE.

Aoife – I learned how to play Uno.

Connor – I learned about the 5 times table.

Joshua – I learned the weakest gazelle game, it was fun.

Ronan – I learned about living and non living and once living in Science.

Here are some photos of what P1B have been up to this last week of 2019 at school.  I wish you all a Happy Christmas and a peaceful new year!  See you in 2020!

This week Sparkle has left us lots of challenges.  She made a story on the Mighty Writer Board and we had to write it out in our trios and then record it on Chatterpix.  The next day she left us a detective activity where we had to solve clues using our maths skills to find out who had stolen the reindeer bells.  It was Neville the Naughty Elf (he was a toymaker).  Today she is practising her maths and concentrating on her times tables.  We have had a busy week with our Christmas lunch and making snowman pictures from a worm’s eye view.  We are reading the Christmasaurus by Tom Fletcher and it is a good book.

Here are some of our learning highlights from this week.

Aoife – I liked making the lanterns after we learned about Christmas in China.

Daisy – I learned how to do the worm’s eye view and about Christmas celebrations in China, France, Japan and Germany.

Olivier – I learned how to draw a snowman.

Patrick – I learned that in Japan a Buddhist monk named Hotei-osho acts as Santa.  Some people think he has eyes in the back of his head.

Marriyah – I learned that in Germany on 5th December children leave out their clean shoes and ST Nicholas fills them with sweets.

Joshua – I learned how to sign the Christmas songs.

Josh – I learned that some people in China don’t celebrate Christmas.

Miss Stebbing – I was proud of P3A when they were writing an imaginative story about an elf going on an adventure.  They tried their best to use adjectives and most people remembered capital letters and full stops.

This week in P3B we have been reading the Christmasaurus – the book that Buster the elf brought us as a gift. We have been making predictions about what we think might happen next. On Monday, we went to the pantomime, it was Snow White. During numeracy and maths we did some Christmas themed addition and subtraction and also sorted elves into a Carroll Diagram. We continued our Christmas Around the World topic and Aeryn told us all about Christmas and New Year in Japan. She brought in a fun traditional Japanese game that is played at New Year for us to play. We also made some Chinese lanterns after learning about Christmas in China. We wrote a story all about our elves going on an adventure. On Thursday we had our Christmas lunch, it was very yummy! On Friday morning we joined P3A to learn Christmas songs in sign language.

Our Learning Highlights:

“I enjoyed writing about my elf.” – Rabail

“I enjoyed Christmas lunch. There was music outside.” – Zephaniah

“I enjoyed when Aeryn told us about Christmas and New Year in Japan and the game that she brought in.” – Niamh

“We put elves into girl order, boy order, with a present, without a present. It was a Carroll Diagram” – Jayden

“I liked when Miss Brannan read the Christmasaurus book to us. William and the Christmasaurus meet together” – Naman

”I enjoyed the pantomime it was really funny and Miss Brannan had to go up and dance” – Reece

P1B have had an action packed week this week with starting with our Christmas Panto ‘Snow White’, our dress rehearsal on Tuesday and our shows on Wednesday afternoon and Thursday evening.  I know you were all so proud of your beautiful angels, snowflakes, shepherds, sheep, Wisemen, servants, camels, Mary, Joseph and not forgetting the donkey.  Thank you for all of your support with costumes and your attendance to help us celebrate the birth of our Lord.  We are looking forward to next week, our last week of 2019 were each day will be filled with sparkle: Christmas art, RE, parties and maybe a Christmas movie.