St John Ogilvie Primary School

We’ve had another great week in Primary 2!

We started our dinosaur topic and the children have been very excited about it.  This week we were learning about the Stegosaurus.  We were very impressed by the fantastic descriptions of a Stegosaurus that the children produced in their writing lesson.

In Maths, we continued to work on addition within 30 and we also started to explore money.  The children were learning about the different coins we use and their value.

During outdoor learning, the children worked as part of a team to make an animal shelter to help small animals during the winter months.

Learning Highlights:

Alexander – I was really interested in learning and writing about the Stegosaurus dinosaur.

Rudhvick – I liked learning about money and different coins.

Alfie – I enjoyed adding numbers together.

Leighton – I loved building animal shelters in the woodlands.

Ethan – I loved going to football club.

Ellie – I enjoyed doing Scratch on the Ipads.

Big congratulations to our hot chocolate winner Ollie!  Ollie has been working very hard in class.  He has been following our classroom rules and has been very kind and respectful towards others.

Dear Parents,

Here’s Olivia and Lucy with an update on this week’s learning in P7A…

On Monday we had literacy, we were making poems about Autumn.

On Tuesday we had French, with Mr McGurn, we learned how to count up to 30 in French and days of the week.

On Wednesday we got to see the maths teacher from St Margaret’s.

On Thursday we had PE with 2 new University students, we played netball with them. We had outdoor learning where we collected some firewood for future lessons and we learned about using hammers and nails with Mrs Dwane.

On Friday HWB, we had an online music lesson with a St. Margaret’s music teacher and we learned a lot about percussion.

Thank you,

Olivia and Lucy.

Have a great weekend,

Mr McGurn and P7A

PS Vijval won Hot Chocolate at home as our Over and Above winner.

We have had another great week of learning in P1.

In Math, we have continued learning number stories working on the stories of 8 and 9. It is money week this week so we used 1p coins in our adding calculations and we counted 1p coins to find out how much money items cost. We set up a class shop, which has been very popular.

Dawid – I love shopping.

Guhan Kumar – I liked selling things.

In Literacy, we learned the k and ck sound and used these sounds to build words. We wrote a fantastic sentence in writing and remembered we needed a capital letter and full stop at the end. We enjoyed listening to the story Leaf Man and then went into the woods and made our own leaf man.

Alfie – We went into the woods today.

Lena – It was fun making a leaf man.

This week for topic we learned about fossils, particularly dinosaur fossils. We learned about the role of a Paleontologist and had lots of fun in class digging for dinosaurs, making our own dinosaur fossil and building a dinosaur.

Ava – I liked making dinosaurs.

Arush – I liked playing with dinosaurs.

We enjoyed learning about Guy Fawkes night and we made our own fireworks pictures.

St Francis were house winners this week and enjoyed an extra playtime. We also enjoyed choosing our own learning in the area.

Tiara – I enjoyed 2 play times.

Felix – I liked playing with babies.

We hope everyone has a fantastic weekend.

Attached is our termly overview. An exciting term with our class trip, the wonderful topic of The Magic Castle and other seasonal celebrations of Diwali, Remembrance day, All Saints Day, St Andrews Day and Advent.

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Hello families of P5B!

Here are our highlights this week as recorded by the Blue table:

Sean and Nicolas both enjoyed playing Halloween musical statues.

Georgia and Addison both liked decorating little oranges to look like spooky pumpkins!

Anthony and Flynn both said the best parts of their week were the 2 times they went to mass.  On Wednesday the children received certificates at the church to acknowledge the Child Consecration journey they had participated in.  On Friday, Catholic children attended the holy day of obligation, All Saints Day mass.

Scott liked the talk from the fire service about how to keep safe near fireworks.

Olek loved playing Word Boost Corners and won!

Ava said her learning highlight was a lesson about the Day of the Dead with Mrs Broadley.

David enjoyed continuing his learning about the Scottish Wars of Independence.  The children had an introduction to the Battle of Falkirk with Mrs Broadley and will continue to learn more about this next week.

My highlight was when a group of Polish children, sang Happy Birthday in Polish to me!  It was very special.  Thank you boys!

Congratulations to our Michael our hot chocolate award winner and Addison, our reading champion!

Mrs Brown