St John Ogilvie Primary School

Hello P7B families, it’s Fatima M and Veerica,  your weekly bloggers! 

This week P7B had a lot of fun due to Halloween dress up day! 

• Halloween – A lot of us dressed up and we had a lot of fun playing Halloween themed games and some games of capture the flag outside in the MUGA. 

• This Thursday onwards, the house and vice captains of each house have to count all the points, and the winning house gets a double break. This week the winning house was St. Peters! It was very close as St. Francis had 655 points; St. Teresa had 650 points, and St. Peters had 656 points. 

• We also started our new class novel on Monday, Millions by Frank Cottrell- Boyce and Fatima M is being incredibly useless by sitting and drawing Gojo on the whiteboard. 

• Thursday was also Diwali! We did nothing for it as we were incredibly occupied with All Saints Day posters for today.  

• This week on Wednesday, we did some patterns with a teacher from St. Margarets Academy. We looked at Factorial Numbers and learned how to use them. 

• Finally, during the week we created Halloween and Autumnal poems that are still in progress. 

That’s all for this week and we hope you tune in next Friday for more info! Enjoy your weekend! 

What an exciting week we have had this week with Halloween.

This week we read the story Room on the Broom. We discussed the animals in the story and then wrote fantastic sentences on what animals we saw on the witches broom. We are focusing on writing a sentence with a capital letter, finger spacing and a full stop. We also thought about and drew 3 things we would put in our own spell.

Arush – I liked the story.

Cerys – I wrote a good sentence.

We have been learning the sound ‘i’ this week and enjoyed making iguanas. We used magnetic letters to build CVC words with the middle vowel ‘i’.

Guhan – tin and tip

In math we continue to learn about addition to 10. This week we focused on the story of 6 and 7.

Tiara – 5 and 2

Alfie – You can reverse them, 2 and 5.

We had a visit from our P7 buddies. We worked together to make a handprint Halloween craft, either a ghost, pumpkin or Frankenstein, it was fun. We also had the opportunity to play with our buddies in the area.

Ava – I made a ghost.

We all really enjoyed coming to school on Thursday dressed in our Halloween costumes. We spent the afternoon doing joint learning with P2 and P3. We had lots of fun dancing to Halloween songs, playing bingo, doing a scavenger hunt, making a craft and dooking for apples.

William – I got an apple.

We hope everyone has a lovely weekend.

Hello families of P5B!

I hope you all had a restful October Holiday.  It was so lovely to see the children again after our break.  A few of them have sprouted up!  Here are our highlights this week as recorded by the Red table (due to a few absences at the red table, each child shared 2 learning highlights this week):

Rowan loved to hear about our new topic called Enterprise!  He also enjoyed PE outdoors where we practised our ball shooting skills (the children were amazed to see Mrs Brown score!) and played some co-operative games, as well as something called The Line Game (the children taught me this favourite of theirs that they play with Mrs Lafftery).

Kasper enjoyed recounting The Battle of Sterling Bridge through the medium of a comic.  Once the colouring is finished, P5 will now have created their own newspaper and comic book about The Scottish Wars of Independence!  The children were tasked to show the clever strategies used by William Wallace and Andrew Moray that led to Scotland’s victory.  He also liked researching some autumn art ideas for our next art lesson.

Cohen loved listening to ‘Home’, a song he sang in the talent show in the past (a memorable performance with some great dance moves if memory serves me correct) and handball during PE on Friday.  The children are preparing for an upcoming handball festival.

Jayden has been enjoying our mindfulness breathing exercises that we started this week.  We do them each morning, after break and after lunch to help us regulate and get us reading for our learning ahead.  He also liked to hear about our new topic.

My highlight was our lovely Autumn walk.  Both P5 classes enjoyed collecting leaves and seeds and then later used Google Lens to identify them.  We discovered that the tress on the way down to Eliburn Park from our school, consist of Maple, Oak, Beech and Pine trees.  Over the weekend and next week for an optional homework task, the children are invited to collect some leaves from trees near their home.  We hope to find some from Birch, Horse Chestnut, Larch, Rowan, Spruce and Sycamore trees.

Congratulations to Ella, our hot chocolate award winner!

I hope you enjoy the weekend.  The first 2 pic collage photos below are from the week before the holidays.

Mrs Brown

We had a great week back after our October holidays.

This week we looked at the sound ‘n’, we worked on formation of n and the sound it makes.  We recalled things that begin with n and also worked on sorting pictures that begin or end with the sound ‘n’.  We also completed some word building of cvc words with magnetic boards.

In maths we looked at dot patterns for 3,  4 and 5, what patterns the children could see and then they had to circle them to show facts of 3, 4 and 5.  We also looked at addition within 5.

We started our new topic Dinosaurs, we discussed what we already knew a

bout them and what we wanted to learn.   We looked at when dinosaurs were alive and where they lived.  We also looked at dinosaurs and their names.

In writing we built a simple sentence. We introduced the writing targets and we will try and remember to include these in our written.  Capital letter, finger spaces and a full stop at the end of our sentence.

We listened to the story ‘Christopher Pumpkin’ and then we drew our own pumpkin and wrote a sentence about it.  In Art we created our own Pumpkin Patch by using different coloured paper.  Our finished pumpkins looked amazing and are displayed proudly outside our classroom.

We read the story ‘Pumpkin Soup’ and we got to help carve real pumpkins and explore them. We completed an activity related to it in our Literacy jotter.

In Religion we listened to the ‘Hail Mary’ prayer and know that Mary was Jesus’ mother.

Today we had our Outdoor Learning session.  We gathered autumn leaves and created hedgehog and leaf pictures.  We also used cutters to create shapes and patterns on the leaves.

We also had the chance to play on the scooters and bicycles and enjoy the loose play equipment.

Have a lovely weekend everyone and enjoy the Halloween Disco if you are going.

Babafola and Nathan: We loved reading Anthony Brown’s Into the Forest  because it is easy for kids to read and there are lots of stories in this book.

John: I enjoyed finishing off our No Poverty Posters this week.

Ruari: I enjoyed picking leaves on our walk so that we could use google lense to identify which tree they belonged to.

Aiden: I enjoyed playing handball for P.E because we got to play against each other and against our friends.

Julia: I enjoyed creating my own questions about Into the Forest.

Ella: I enjoyed talking about what a successful learner is.

Everyone is excited to use team work for the enterprise project. – Aiden

Congratulations to Nathan who is our Hot Chocolate Winner this week.  Your teacher is so proud of you for reading so much at home and it was fantastic to see you enjoy reading Into the Forest in class.  It has been one of the best moments of primary five so far for Miss Smith.

Dear Parents,

On Tuesday at drama the class plated a game called alibies where two students went out the room to think of an alibi while the rest of us were police officers and prepared questions to ask to see if they were lying. We really enjoyed it and want to play again.

On Wednesday we did a presentation of the mock court project. We were explaining what we had been doing in last couples of weeks. After the assembly our parents came to our class rooms to earn bonus points for our project.

On Thursday we visited  a farm about to learn about grain, bees, about cutting the trees and using it for sustainable fuel, and how bees make pizza! There was a contest for guessing the weight of a tractor with logs, which weighed 11540 and I(Vijval) was only 53 kilograms off!

On Friday we started the day by looking at Ted Hughes poems. Next we wrote a recount writing plan about the farm after that we learned history about Christmas Day 1914 in WW1 in an online history lesson from St. Margaret’s Academy. Finally we had fun Friday and then we went home.

Have a great weekend from Leo, Vijval, P7A and Mr McGurn

PS This week’s hot chocolate winner was Emily Drummond