St John Ogilvie Primary School

We spent this week reflecting on the different childrens rights we have and how we know that we are getting them. e.g. in class we drink water and we can fill up our water bottles (article 24 a right to clean water) We also created posters to show the key things having rights gives us – LIFE, PROTECTION from harm,  PARTICIPATION (to join groups and share our opinions) and DEVELOPMENT (help to build our talents & skills as we grow up)

On Friday we had a fabulous collection across all classes for the local foodbank.

Layla also donated her preloved Halloween costumes. 

This week we have been practising our hockey skills, dribbling and passing. After the October break we will be building game skills before we take part in a hockey competition at the end of October.

Tomorrow is the final day for our Consecration to Jesus through Mary. Day 34with Bishop Keenan.

Thank you to everyone who has participated at home as well as in class. We will arrange a class mass when we come back from our holidays.

Have a great Holiday everyone. We will see you all on Tuesday, 17th of October.

This week we have been practising ordering numbers up to 10 and also up to 20. We used number cards to help us and completed a task on Seesaw. We played a game on the board where we had to put the caterpillar’s body back together by ordering the numbers.

Our new sound this week was ‘p’. We had to feed the panda with the pictures that started with ‘p’ and learned to write the letter correctly. We set up a pizza shop and we have been writing the orders and making pizzas for each other.

To finish our work on the 5 senses we made popcorn. We tasted 3 different types of popcorn to see which one we liked the best and then made a graph to display the results.  We also had a turn of the feely box and we were very good at guessing what was inside.

This week Ogilvie Bear visited Japan. We learned all about Bullet Trains and we were very impressed with how fast they went. We also designed a Kimono and Miss Stebbing was very impressed that we put lots of flowers on them just like the ones we saw in the pictures.

Some of our personal highlights this week are:

Peyton – I enjoyed playing with marble run.

Leah – I enjoyed drawing.

Alfie – I enjoyed playing in the pizza shop.

Lewis – I enjoyed playing with the blocks.

Bella – I enjoyed playing with my buddy.

Maksymilian – I enjoyed tasting the popcorn.

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

Hi Families of Primary 2

Ogilvie Bear was in Japan this week, exploring lots of wonderful sights. We learned all about life in Japan and made some beautiful blossom trees and Kimono’s.

In Literacy we learned all about singular and plural nouns and practised our common words. We continued to work on place value in numeracy and did some great counting on and back in 2’s, 5’s and 10’s.

Weekly Highlights

Faye, Lillian and Aarav – We loved making the blossom trees.

Rose and Connor – We liked making Kimono’s.

Enso – I loved learning about Japan. My favourite part was learning about bullet trains.

Huge congratulations to Connor our hot chocolate winner.

Have a lovely holiday!

Dear Parents,

Here’s an update on what we’ve been doing this week in P7A:

On Monday we started Handball in P.E and we had a prayer service to St. Vincent de Paul.

Tuesday we wrote an animal poem, and had a scavenger hunt maths edition.

On Wednesday we played real life problem solving (RLPS), handling data to seat people on a plane.

Thursday we watched ‘Skellig’ the movie because we finished reading the book.

Friday we enjoyed our drama on Frank Miller .

Here’s what some pupils thought on this week:

Aoife – I liked doing our new decade

David – I enjoyed doing math time problems

Filip – I liked health and well being

Nehal – I enjoyed doing drama

Joshua – I enjoyed playing cluedo

Inaya – I liked watching the movie Skellig and eating popcorn

Elizabete – I liked writing the poem about animals

Sylvia – I liked writing my story on Monday

Nilaya was this week’s Over and Above winner.

By Lead Learners Aoife and Adam.

Have a great holiday,

Mr McGurn and P7A.

This week, primary 4 have had a very busy week. In numeracy we have been learning how to estimate using interactive games on the smart board and using the whiteboard. We also started to have a look at adding 9 using the trick add 10 takeaway 1. Some of the the boys sat in the area doing their maths work on Thursday and had so much fun they stayed out there working whilst eating their snack, they said it was one of their top 10 days of primary school!

In literacy, the children have been writing the instructions for the Malteser traybake they made last week, we focussed on the ‘ea’ sound this week in our spelling, and have been reading our books some more. The children have been working really hard on using verbs and time conjunctions to enhance their instructional writing, some of the children even asked for their work to be photocopied so they can make it over the holidays!

For primary 4’s Scottish inventors topic, we have been learning how to research John Logie Baird and Alexander Fleming. We started to look at Steven Browns art, we coloured in our own McCoos, using line and colour to do this. The children even named them and came up with some very unique names!

Nicolas’ highlight of the week this week was making the McCoos, he enjoys art and liked using all of the different colours to create the shaggy hair.

Olek’s highlight of the week this week was everything! He had a great week at school this week.

Ksawery’s highlight of the week was sitting outside playing Sumdog during technology with our s4 helpers on work experience.

Scott’s highlight of the week was everything just the same as Olek! He thought the week was fab.

Ava’s highlight of the week this week was maths when we did our times tables, she loved watching everyone compete with each other to get the fastest time.

Our hot chocolate winner this week is Scott.

Our secret student winner this week is Jayden. Well done boys.

I hope you all have a fun and restful October week !

Hello P3A families,

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

Hasika has enjoyed learning about the Ancient Romans’ toilets and baths.  We learned that poor people who lived in the city would go to the toilet in a bucket that was then emptied from the windows to the ground below.  Anyone who was walking under the window at that time got a nasty surprise!  It then became the law that it could only happen at night.  The children were shocked to hear that this very thing happened in Edinburgh in the past!  We also looked at pictures of a bench with holes that was built over a stream.  The water washed the waste away.

Angel also liked learning about the Ancient Romans.  His favourite learning was about under floor heating in villas that belonged to the rich.  Hot air from a fire was pumped through tunnels under the villas.  We can thank the Ancient Romans for their contributions to early plumbing.

Aadya liked revising the ‘ar’ sound and opted to complete a follow up worksheet of matching sentences to pictures.

Olivia said she enjoyed handwriting.

Diana and Laura joined the other St Ninan House winners today to celebrate them earning the most house points.  They enjoyed a movie and snacks in the PE hall.

Vivien also enjoyed learning about the ‘ar’ sound and made some stars with playdoh.

My favourite part of the week was our discussion on what to turn our role-play area into.  The majority voted for a cinema.  Those that were involved researched the price online and decided to reduce it to attract people to their cinema.  They got busy making tickets and popcorn and laying out the chairs.  They were very creative with their ideas and did super teamwork.

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

I hope you all enjoy the October break and will see you back on Tuesday 17^th October.

Regards

Mrs Brown

Hello P3A families,

First of all I would like to say how proud I am of your wonderful children for their fantastic assembly today!  Every one of them have worked hard throughout all the stages of the process; planning right through to performing.  Thank you for coming along to support your child.  For those who were not able to join us, your child had a P6 friend to join them for the activities afterwards.

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

Tvisha loved displaying the fantastic pyramid she made for her Egyptians mini topic.  She confidently spoke of how she made it and answered any questions the children had afterwards.  Well done Tvisha!

Jack, like myself, said that the assembly was the best part of his week.  Jack had the final reading to do, which was the longest of all the readings.  He did himself proud.  Super job Jack!

Tadwia  liked our maths lesson on the importance of zero.  We have been exploring the value of larger numbers and what each digit represents.  The children have been reading and writing 3 digit numbers.  If we do not have zero in the correct place, it will be a different number!

Jiade enjoyed making Pharaoh death masks.  The children had to paint their mask in a pattern of blue and gold and glue a picture of their face on top.  We had some giggles as we took the pictures as the children tried not to smile.  This was a follow up of learning about Howard Carter’s discovery of King Tutankhamun’s tomb.

Zion said he liked the 3D shape hunt around the school and school grounds.  The children had to work in pairs to find objects of given 3D shapes and record them in a chart.

Grace liked our handwriting lesson where we grouped the formation of letters that began the same way.  This week we looked at letters that began with a curly c.  We discovered that a, o, d, g, and q all start this way so it is important we know how to form curly c correctly with the correct starting point and orientation.

I hope you all enjoyed the Sharing the Learning event this week.  It will be held again later in the year and of course you will get a chance to look at the jotters during Parent Consultations too.  After the October holiday, your child’s P2 jotters will be sent home.

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

Regards

Mrs Brown