St John Ogilvie Primary School

Dear Parents and Carers,

Primary 6 have been working hard on their House Captain speeches.  Some of the primary 7 captains came to our class and outlined what the role involved. They were really motivating and enthusiastic! They also gave us advice on what to include in our speeches!

On Ascension Thursday, some of our class attended mass at St Peters. Primary 6 learned why the day is so special and why it is important in the Catholic faith. Our class discussion was really interesting with lots of valuable contributions.

We have been designing tiles with pictures of wildlife for St John Ogilvie outdoor garden. Some of the designs look amazing!

We continued our peace and conflict topic. After a class discussion about the impact of current conflict in Ukraine, we created our own mind maps.

Our class novel still proves to be exciting and we are enjoying making predictions , discussing the meaning of difficult vocabulary and characters within the story.

Primary 6 continued to add detail to their peace and conflict posters which will be used for our class display!

During PE, we played rounders. Many of us did not know the rules so we had to learn them! It was great fun even on a windy day !!

In numeracy, we continued to learn more about equivalent fractions and some of us challenged ourselves with word problems.

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

Have a super weekend !

Mrs Lea and P6A

This week the Friendly Dragon left us the Story of Hansel and Gretel. The dragon asked us to design a healthy lunchbox for them as they had been eating too many sweets. We learned all about the different food groups and foods we should have a lot of, some and only a little of. We drew lots of lovely food in the lunchboxes for Hansel and Gretel and shared our lunchboxes with the class.

We completed a sequencing of the story of Hansel and Gretel.

On Thursday, the Dragon asked us to teach Hansel and Gretel about keeping their teeth healthy. We discussed the importance of brushing our teeth correctly and we practised brushing on so model teeth.

The Dragon was impressed with our learning about healthy eating so it left us some fruit to taste. We enjoyed tasting raspberries, blueberries, melon, mango and pomegranate. Everyone had a different favourite fruit.

We have been practising for our Fairyland Assembly next week and we can’t wait to share our learning with our adults.

We joined up with P2/1 for our outdoor learning session today.  We used the bikes and scooters in the muga and played on the pirate ship.  We explored the loose parts and played tennis and skipping.

Here are some of our personal learning highlights this week:

Guhan Kumar ‘I enjoyed tasting fruit’

Tiara ‘I loved making the healthy lunchbox’

Antos ‘I liked outdoor learning and playing on the scooters’

Felix ‘I loved riding the bike’

Franek ‘I liked the bikes and tasting the fruit’

Arush ‘I liked climbing the pirate ship’

Daniel ‘My favourite fruit was melon, it was so good’

Kaya ‘I liked the blue berries and the bike’

Congratulations to Antos who is our Hot Chocolate winner this week. Have a lovely weekend everyone and hope you all stay dry.

What a fantastic two weeks in P3!

We have been working hard in our literacy focussing on common words again and practicing them using our active strategies! We are still flying through our books each week. We started recount writing last week, we planned our writing last week and did our written piece this week.

In numeracy we finished up our division last week by looking at the formal written method, and are now focussing on fractions. This week we have been focussing mainly on a half with a little bit of thirds and quarters too. Our beyond number as had a measure focus, last week we explored centimetres and meters and this week we measured objects and noted down sizes.

Outdoor learning over the last two weeks has been so much fun! We have been learning how to start a fire using a flint and steel. Lots of us managed to get a piece of cotton wool on fire but some of us didn’t manage it! Despite that we all tried super hard and gave it our best shot! On Monday, we had a visit from Rob with Kids Gone Wild and his lovely dog Jax. They led an outdoor learning session in the woodlands where we got to go on a rope swing and relax in hammocks.

Our space topic has been a big hit! We designed lots of planets and stars last week and this week we have been learning about the sun and moon.

We have been continuing to say a decade of the rosary in class over the last two weeks.  We designed a little card about a hope we have for the future for our Jubilee of Hope day and these are now on a shield which is displayed for everyone to see. We learned about the feast of the ascension and why we celebrate it.

Well done to all of our winners over the last 2 weeks.

Have a lovely weekend everyone! I will see you all on Monday.

Dear Readers,

The highlights of the week were as follows:

• Spelling work as before, together with weekly spelling assessment.
• Various Reading comprehension activities with discussion of the topics and written answers to differentiated questions.
• Finishing off own narratives following what had been taught about the structure and purpose of a narrative and also using the setting and character descriptions created in the previous weeks.
• Learning about Roman Numerals to over a 1000, attempting to write different numbers using the 7 Roman Numeral symbols and converting Roman numerals into base 10 numbers.
• Working on fractions of an amount and starting to work on fractions of a number, learning which will continue in the next weeks.
• The Story of Our Lady of Fatima including the apparitions, the Miracle of the Sun and the Three Little Shepherds – Lucia, Francisco and Jacinta.
• Continue working of Pope Francis Faith Award.
• Learning all the different steps for the election of a new Pope and making posters about this complex process for the walls of the Upper Area of the school.
• We would like to congratulate the Hot Chocolate of the last 3 weeks, Maeve, Matteo and Ishani M for setting a great example of responsibility, kindness and respect! Well done Maeve, Matteo and Ishani! 👏👏👏🥇🥇🥇✨✨✨
• Well done as well to The Points Monitors table, who won the weekly award! Super duper good job!👏👏👏👏🏆✨

We say goodbye wishing everyone a great week ahead!

P6B and Mrs Valente😘😘

Dear Parents,

This week we have had a range of learning in maths, looking at integers, angles, time and graphing weather as part of our IDL on Japan.

We had a big focus on HWB Mental Health as it was Mental Health Awareness week and P7 had to supply the display in the hall.

Our confirmation group continue our progress to becoming full members of the church soon by looking at the fruits of the Holy Spirit whilst in other RME lessons we have learned hymns and prayers to Mary in the Month of May.

Writing has been transitional writing for our Yearbook and we are doing the best we can with current IT restrictions. reading has been Non-fiction based.

We continue to work towards the Woodlands Trust Schools Platinum Award and on Thursday we were in Deans Wood, creating interesting trails to lead others around. (There are photos but the iPad says they are too large, even a collage)

Max was our Hot Chocolate at home winner this week.

Have a great long weekend,

Mr McGurn and P7A