St John Ogilvie Primary School

This week we have been have been discussing – Article 38 (Governments must not allow children under the age of 15 to take part in war or join the armed forces. Governments must do everything they can to protect and care for children affected by war and armed conflicts). As we prepare for Remembrance Day on the 11th of November. We discussed the impact of war on families and places that they live. We reflected on the importance of the poppy to remember those soldiers who died or were injured in wars.

As part of our RE lessons this week we explored the importance of Diwali to people of Hindu, Sikh and Jain religions. We made rangoli patterns and some of our pupils shared their experiences of celebrating Diwali in their homes and prayer centres.

In our Outdoor Learning we took part in a whole school litter pick as part of our school campaign to take care of our local environment.

We received a wonderful surprise this morning. Some one from the local Carmondean Community Council spotted us yesterday and send us this note in an email and a wonderful certificate. It is so nice to be noticed for the right reasons as we try to improve our local community environment.

Our writing we have been exploring logo’s and catch phrase slogans for our Enterprise Groups. We are using persuasive vocabulary to create posters for our first products we are making.

In math we have been learning more about Time, Money and Measuring different angles.

Our Science project explored different areas of Solar and Wind Energy. We had practical experiments to complete over the next few weeks.

Thank you to all the parents who came to visit this week. We hope to see everyone again on Friday, 15th of December for our Christmas Enterprise Show. Primary 5B hope that everyone has a great weekend.

This week we have been learning the sounds ‘o’ and ‘e’. We have been practising reading and writing three letter words and we have enjoyed playing games on the smartboard to help us. Some of us have also been writing words during our Choosing Our Own Learning time. In writing, we wrote a list of all the things we would take with us on a trip to space in a rocket. We had very interesting ideas of what we would take!

In maths, we have been learning all about the number bonds for 4 and 5. We can use our finger patterns to help us to make them and we have been good at identifying the ones that have been switched around.

In RE, we learned about Remembrance Day and watched a video about poppies. We made some special poppy artwork to be displayed in the hall on the Rights Respecting Schools wall.

On Tuesday, we went out with P2/1 to pick up the litter in the school playground. We were very excited to use the litter pickers and we were very good at taking turns with our partners. We didn’t find too much litter in the playground which made us very pleased.

Some of our personal highlights this week are:

Lewis – I enjoyed playing with the marble run.

Leah – I liked playing outside.

Maja – I liked playing with the rocket.

Joseph – I liked playing with the cubes.

Tyler T – I enjoyed playing in the area.

Matteo – I liked playing outside with the ice.

Peyton – I liked playing with the paper aeroplanes.

Bella – I liked going litter picking.

Alfie – I liked going to assembly.

Miss Stebbing – It was lovely to see all the P1 families this week for parent consultations and to share all the great learning and achievements of all the children.

Well done to Maksymilian who is our Hot Chocolate Award winner this week.

Hello P6A families,

We have had a great, productive week!

We have been continuing to develop our division skills and have made excellent progress! As well as practicing our sums, some of us chose to create division posters showing the steps involved, with the plan of using these to teach others. We also discussed our new writing genre, Response, and talked about creating food reviews for our new snack advertisements.

Pupil highlights:

– Inaayah – litter picking! I loved going out around the community and helping the environment.

– Lili – I enjoyed creating the 3D poppy art. We talked about our rights (article 38, protection from war) for Remembrance Day.

– Farrah – I liked making the division posters.

– Leo, Akshaj and Bentley – We loved creating the geodesic domes for the STEM project. We discussed the importance and strength of triangles in different structures.

Well done to Vijval for winning this weeks hot chocolate. They have been actively trying hard to demonstrate our rules, ready and respectful.

Have a great weekend!

Miss MacGregor (with the help from Inaayah).

Hello P3A families,

Here are this week’s highlights from the Yellow table:

Vivien loved the performance of Aladdin.  Mrs Carlye and Mrs Patterson joined in too!  Thank you PFA for this special treat!

Laura said the best part of our week was playing ‘Mummy Race’ with toilet rolls.  Children had to work together to dress the ‘mummy’ from toe to head.  Laura’s table won!

Diana loved pumpkin carving!  The class designed a pumpkin to give our carvers some ideas.  The children were invited to feel the slimy seeds and filling afterwards.

Riley liked playing Halloween Hat Toss!  The children had 6 hoops and had to aim and toss them to go around a witch’s hat.  It was good fun!

Olivia loved playing ‘Halloween Corners’ and was our class winner!  She won a funky Halloween beaker.

Angel enjoyed revisiting our lesson of designing a car of the future.  His had 13 wheels to go fast, had robot to drive it while you have a bath, it was made of glass, it flew and lots of buttons!  Sounds amazing Angel!

Aadya said she enjoyed our House Group activity on Friday.  The House Captains led the lesson which was all about our school values.  They did very well!

Linda loved our literacy lesson about onomatopoeia and got to use bright chalk pens to make a firework poem for our literacy wall.

My highlight was our Halloween Fun!  The children all looked so great dressed up and enjoyed all the fun activities planned.

Congratulations to Vivien, our hot chocolate award winner this week!

Regards

Mrs Brown

This week we have been learning the sounds ‘i’, ‘k’ and ‘ck. We have been making words with these sounds and trying to write them correctly. We have been reading ‘Goat and Donkey and the Noise Downstairs’ for our Wordboost story this week.  We learned some new Boost Words and we have been trying to listen for them in the story.

In maths, we have been learning about telling the time. We played What’s The Time Mr Wolf on the Smartboard to help us practise the o’clock times. We also made our own clocks to help us.

In Health and Wellbeing, we learned about ‘Stop, Drop and Roll’ to help us if our clothes go on fire. In writing, we made Bonfire Safety posters to display in the area. We used lots of sounds to write the words. We had lots of fun doing Halloween activities on Tuesday and we loved making paper ghost puppets. Mrs Carlyle made a special feely box and we thought she had put worms in it!

We have been learning about All Saints Day and All Soul’s Day in RE this week and on Wednesday some of our class went to St Peter’s Church for Mass. Everyone commented on how well behaved we were. In the afternoon we went into the hall to watch the Pantomime. It was the story of Aladdin and we all had great fun.

On Friday, we went to our House Groups and we completed some activities about our school values.

Some of our personal highlights this week are:

Joseph – I enjoyed playing with the little blocks.

Leah – I enjoyed playing outside.

Matteo – I enjoyed playing with the Lego.

Tyler T – I enjoyed playing with the marble run.

Peyton – I enjoyed playing with the marbles.

Miss Stebbing – I was very proud of the great illustrations everyone did on their Bonfire Safety Posters.

Well done to Daisy who is our Hot Chocolate Winner this week.

This week we began creating our first Enterprise Products. With good planning last week we were ready to start cutting, sawing and sewing. We celebrated the Feast of All Saints at mass on Wednesday Morning. It was a lovely service which we all enjoyed. We made a very good start on Monday and continued working on our products on Wednesday after morning break.

This week we have continued our learning through rights with more research into Black History Month. We created information files about well known black women. These women are famous sports women, politicians, tv presenters, scientists. We found out that they overcame discrimination, language barriers  and learning difficulties to become succesful in the work they are doing now as adults.  We discussed our own identity – Who a person is or feels they are. Some felt Scot/Irish, some felt Scots/English some felt Scots/Cornish. We recognised that everyone has ancestors – A person who was in someone’s family in the past that has helped shape their identity and culture.

Article 2 -The Convention applies to every child without discrimination, whatever their ethnicity, gender, religion, language, abilities or any other status, whatever they think or say, whatever their family background. Article 30 – Every child has the right to learn and use the language, customs and religion of their family, whether or not these are shared by the majority of the people in the country where they live.

Tuesday was very exciting, not just because it was Halloween and most of us came to school dressed up, but Mrs Morrison brought our recorders and we had our first practise. We are really keen to learn a Christmas tune for our Christmas Enterprise Show on the 15th of December.

We created lovely Halloween spooky house art using pastels and black paper.

On Thursday and Friday we explored Solar Power through a range of experiments.

This morning Primary 7 House Captains and Vice House Captains led our House Groups to review our School Values. They wanted to know which values our pupils thought were the most important for our school community. We love the things we value and we value the things we love. All the results will be collated and we will all be informed as soon as possible.

Hope everyone has a lovely weekend.