St John Ogilvie Primary School

Dear Parents and Carers,

We have had a busy week in Primary 7!

During numeracy and maths, we have continued to learn about place value and coordinates. For writing, we have been creating information reports, based on Japan’s traditions and cultures. We also worked in pairs using an atlas, to plot the major cities in Japan.

During outdoor learning we used the slack line, zip wire and hammocks! Rob also showed us how climb trees safely, always having three points in contact! It was great fun! We are all looking forward to our session next week!

We continued to read our class novel ” Skellig” and answered literal questions based on the text. Our class have been learning French and this week we concentrated on colours!

Some of our class took part in the cross country championships on Thursday. Everybody did amazingly well with Ailsa and Jude winning first place overall!

Congratulations to Mason on being nominated for our hot chocolate award this week.

By Baibua and Hamnah

Ameya and Zofia-  ” Outdoor Learning was great fun!”

Ben and Sam ” We enjoyed writing information reports based on Japan.”

Hamnah and Pixie ” Answering the reading comprehension questions on our class novel was interesting.”

Sophia and Mason ” We really enjoyed competing in the cross country event.”

Ishaan and Liam ” Plotting the major cities in Japan using an atlas was good fun.”

Have a super weekend

Mrs Lea and P7A

This week has been a busy week in Primary 1B. We have started learning sounds and have learned all about the letter ‘m’. We have been using red pencils to write the letter, sorting pictures to show the m sound at the beginning or the end and also listening carefully to hear the sound in words. At the art table we could make a mouse picture using the letter shape and this was a very popular activity. For writing, we wrote a sentence about what makes us sad and everyone was able to write our common word for this week which was ‘I’.

In maths, we have been learning about numbers 4 and 5. We have been using Rekenreks to represent the numbers and we were showing confidence in using one push to show the correct number of beads. We have also been developing our subitising skills using ten frames.

For science, we have started to learn all about the five senses. We started with our sense of touch this week.  Ask us what part of the body we use for our sense of touch. We had to use our sense of touch to identify items hidden inside balloons and this was really fun. We also looked at different textures and made a picture to sort different materials by their texture.

This week we started our Outdoor Learning sessions. We were working in the Woodland this week and we used our sense of touch to find different textures in the Woodland. We also learned all about Sticky Boots, ask us what we need to do for this. We then had some time to explore the Woodland.

Here are some of our personal highlights:

Mikayla – I have enjoyed drawing and helping my friends.

Amelia – I enjoyed doing ‘m’.

Niall – I enjoyed doing the hand task.

Irha – I enjoyed doing writing.

Aria – I enjoyed drawing.

Eloran – I enjoyed doing the hand task.

Congratulations to this week’s Hot Chocolate Winner who is Aria. She has been working very hard on her literacy tasks and has been a fantastic friend to others.

Hello P3 families!  Here are our highlights this week from The Red Pandas:

Leighton has been enjoying our learning about Viking longhouses.  She thought the fact that they used animal horns for cups quite fascinating!

Amelia has continued to like playing benchball at PE.

Maja said the highlight of her week were the lessons on 2D shapes and she made a lovely picture of a house  using these shapes.

Laaibah loved our 3D shape learning.  Our new 3D shape learning in P3 is the square-based pyramid and triangular prism.  We explored the 2D links and how many faces, edges and vertices they have.  So far, we have made the square-based pyramid using it’s Net.

Tyler F also liked learning about 3D shapes.  We played a game called ‘Pass the Shape’ to some music.

Daniel has chosen our lesson on revising the ‘ai’ sound that is found in the middle of words as his favourite.  Next, we will be revising the ‘ay’ sound found at the end of words.

Viaan thought our lesson on question words was interesting.  Our theme was what animal we would like and had to think of different questions to ask someone if we did not know how to look after it.  Viaan  wanted a cat and his questions were: Who can feed a cat?  Where can you keep it safe?  Do you wash a cat? and Who will put it to sleep?  He remembered to use a question mark at the end of each written question.  Well done, Viaan!

Alex loved the lesson about The 10 Commandments and was able to recall many of them the next day.

Danvieth said his favourite learning was with Mrs Morrison were the children continued to listen and join in with the singing for ‘Treasure Island’.

Nathan said that the teamwork games during PE was his favourite part of the week.  The children got in to teams and it was a race to see who could pass the ball over and under in a pattern first.

My highlight was our lesson on the longhouses.  The children did their own research using nonfiction books.  We looked at Contents pages and located the longhouses from that information.  Mostly we looked at the pictures and there was a lot of rich discussion around what they saw.  Laaibah spotted that some of them were a triangular prism!  Well done, Laaibah!

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

Unfortunately, Seesaw codes were unable to be printed this week after all (cyber attack implications) but we have our fingers crossed for next week.  Also, reading assessments for P3 should be finished by next week also, so the hope is for reading books to be able to go home as part of homework after the September weekend.

I hope you all enjoy your weekend!

Mrs Brown

What a fantastic week we have had in P1a.

We started to learn our first phonetic sound ‘n’ and had great fun making a monster craft and giving a monster a haircut. We all worked really hard on how to form the letter ‘m’ correctly.

In maths we continued to explore numbers thinking about ordering them, identifying before/after and trying to work out what numbers are missing. We have enjoyed not only counting in English but also in Spanish, so far up to 6.

We looked at the red zone of regulation this week, thinking of things that make us angry and also scared. We drew fantastic black line drawings to show this.

Friday is our outdoor learning day and today we looked at 2D shapes and tried to find them in our environment. Mrs Meikle was so impressed with how well we worked with our partners and we found so many 2D shapes. She let us get some playground toys out the shed, some of us were lucky to have a turn on the bikes and scooters.

We are looking forward to our weekend with our families and coming back to school on Monday all refreshed.

What a wonderful week we have had in P1a.

In Literacy, we have been learning about Beginning, Middle and End.  We have a little action we complete to show the beginning, middle or end.  We listened to sounds and we had to recall where the sound was.  We played guess the animal sound and again had to say where the animal was located.  We have also been practising our names remembering to use a capital letter just at the beginning.

This week we have been learning about the blue zone of regulation and looked at the words sad and tired.  We discussed what the words mean and strategies we could use if someone feels sad our tired, we drew a picture and our teacher scribed what we said about the picture.

We talked about the importance of families and created a beautiful piece of artwork showing our families.

This week we have been learning all about the numbers 2 and 3.  We are all working very hard on the formation of the numbers.  We also counted to 30 and backwards from 10.  We played and under the sea game where we had to count the under water creatures and press the correct answer.

In PE, we have been practising finding our own space.  We used our listening skills to play ‘Beans’.  We looked at different coloured circles to show us how to move or stop.  Green means go, amber means slow down, red means stop.  We also played ‘Duck, Duck, Goose’.

We are getting very good at blessing ourselves before and after prayers and we are listening well and trying to join in with our prayers.

Today we got to meet in our House Groups and work together on a task.  It was lovely meeting lots of new people from our school.

Here are some of our personal highlights this week:

Conall ‘I liked writing my name’

Willow ‘I liked writing the number 3’

Ini ‘I liked drawing my family’

Nathania ‘I liked playing outside’

Monika ‘I liked playing in the area’

Well done to Marley our Hot Chocolate winner this week.  Marley works very hard and always tries his best.  Congratulations to St Francis the winning house this week.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

Dear Parents and Carers.

This week we did lots of interesting and fun activities. In science and technology, we made marble runs. We had to demonstrate our run working and explain why specific features had been included. Our class topic is Japan and we learnt about all the different regions and what they are famous for. We created our own information posters using our notes from the video we watched. We also made sushi in class which was good fun!  House and Vice captains presented a task during house groups this week. Some of us were a little nervous but we all performed well!  Outdoor learning was interesting because we built dens, litter picked and created our own amazing recipes in the mud kitchen ! During maths we learnt how to draw our own grids and plot coordinates accurately. In literacy we developed our knowledge of the rules for making words plural, some of them were tricky! Our class continued to read our class novel ” Skellig” and answered a variety of questions based on the text.

Congratulations to Sophia who was nominated our hot chocolate winner for going “ over and above” this week!

Here are some of our learning highlights.

By Sophia and Ishaan

Reya and Leanna “ Creating the marble runs was exciting.”

Samanvi and Damian “ Making sushi in class was amazing!

Logan- ” I enjoyed outdoor learning.”

Ignacy and John.” Plotting coordinates on a grid was interesting.”

Ailsa and Ena. ” I enjoyed creating my imaginative story.”

Sophia ” presenting the house group information was enjoyable.”

Have a super weekend

Mrs Lea and Primary 7A

This week we have been learning all about the numbers 2 and 3. We used yellow paint to practise writing the number 3. It was great fun! We also played  a game on the Smartboard to practise recognising numbers to 20. We had to click on the correct number to send the helicopter to help the person.

In Literacy, we have been learning all about Beginning, Middle and End. We started by looking at the line on the farm for the animals to be fed and then at a bus stop with children waiting to board the bus. We then had to listen to three different sounds and say what sound was at the beginning, middle or end. For writing, we wrote about a strategy we could use if we are angry. The staff were very impressed with everyone who was trying to write their sentence.

In PE, we have been continuing our work on listening and following instructions. We played the corners game and the fruit game. Our listening skills in the hall have been excellent!

We talked about how important our families are and we created some artwork to show our families. We have also looked at angry and anxiety spot and linked these to our Zones of Regulation.

Here are some of our personal highlights this week:

Alfie – I enjoyed making the family pictures.

Alayha – I enjoyed playing in the area.

Grace – I enjoyed drawing.

Lincoln – I enjoyed writing the number three.

Tejasvi – I enjoyed playing in the house corner.

Aayat – I enjoyed playing in the ice cream shop.

Congratulations to Grace who is our Hot Chocolate Winner this week. She has been a kind and caring friend to people in our class.

Mrs Ross has spent some time with us this week. We talked about music notes and where they sit. We played a game to practice where the notes are. With Mrs Roy we talked about zones of regulation. In PE, Mrs Ross got us to do a of running and stretching!

We have started learning about the Victorians. We researched some information about Queen Victoria and her family.

Our Hot Chocolate winner this week is Amy because she doesn’t give up.

Great week everyone.