St John Ogilvie Primary School

On Monday we practised our Spelling and continued to develop a wider range of connectives in our sentences. We also practised our party dances with both Primary 5 classes. In the afternoon we had a small advent service and created our own advent wreaths to take home. Then we continued making our Christmas Gifts.

On Tuesday, we discussed Article 2 and 23, What are Visible disabilities – Invisible disabilities (mental/emotional) How can we help people to feel included in our school? We discussed how we help to make children feel included in our school that have different types of disabilities.

In our math lessons, this week, we practised buying and selling goods. We had a rehearsal for our Christmas Enterprise Show on the 15th of December. Our singing was beautiful and we are getting more excited to perform for our families. In the afternoon we completed our Hydropower Challenges. Some of us managed to create electrical charge from our makeshift turbines.

On Wednesday we designed invitations to our Christmas Enterprise Show which we brought home to share with our family and friends. In Science we looked at ways to build and store electricity we created a simple battery which lit up our LED bulbs and created good electrical charges for us to record on our Digimeters.

On Thursday we read in our reading groups and developed our comprehension. Then we had more rehearsals for our show and continued to make our products. We only have a week to go and we need to finish them soon.

On Friday we took part in the P4 Advent Service, led by P4B, it was very prayerful and the singing was lovely. We then joined in the Blessing of the Crib on Teams (the whole school doesn’t fit into our hall).

We completed some of our Science worksheets for the advantages and disadvantages of Renewalble Energy. Another very busy week in P5B.  We hope everyone has a lovely weekend and we look forward to seeing everyone next Friday.

Dear Parents,

Here’s an update on this week in Primary 7A at St. John Ogilvie:

We continue to work hard on learning our lines and songs for the P7 production and had rehearsals on Monday and Friday of this week – the stage is now up and we are getting close to being ready and showing ourselves as effective contributors and confident individuals.

On Wednesday the second group went for a visit to St. Margaret’s Academy as part of the transition programme and the pupil reviews on return were all very positive. Later that afternoon, a group of pupils also worked on 3rd Level Algebra with a SMA Maths teacher who reported the group as successful learners.

Wednesday was also our Christmas lunch and everyone had a nice time and we watched A Muppet’s Christmas Carol to let our lunch settle and since our production is based on the Dickens’ classic.

Thursday was our trip to Hopetoun House which was a marvellous experience, we learned lots about the Victorian era in which Scrooge was set. There were many, many compliments from the staff on the behaviour and attitude of our group and the y proved to also be responsible citizens by taking our snack and lunch rubbish home as Hopetoun have a strict recycling policy.

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On Friday P7B led our Area Advent Service in the Upper area and we were blessed to have Father Clement come into the school for the Blessing of the Crib. It was a lovely service even with all the technical issues.

Our Over & Above winner this week was Emily who takes home the hot chocolate and Natalia was this fortnight’s Reading Champion who took home a nice certificate.

Pupil Comments:

Joshua says, ‘I went on the roof at Hopetoun House and the other group didn’t get to.’

Aoife says, ‘I liked the Blessing of the Crib service with Father Clement.’

Have a great weekend,

Mr McGurn and P7A

Dear Readers,

We hope you are all well.

The highlights of our learning this week were the following:

• Our now very well known spelling/Rights Respecting words universal, inherent, inalienable, indivisible and unconditional, their meanings and their importance to describe what children’s rights are.
• Our addition and subtraction work with money.
• Understanding the story of the life of St Andrew and why he has been chosen to be, together with St. Margaret of Scotland, one of the patron saints of Scotland.
• Hydropower and its great potential as a renewable energy source.
• Practising our Scottish Dances and also our beautiful singing.
• The beginning of Advent with our 1st Advent Service in the Middle Area.

We wish you a very good weekend,

P5A and Mrs Valente😘

Hello P3A families,

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

Grace liked learning about Advent and making a paper plate wreathe.  The children learned the meaning behind each of the coloured candles and will watch them being lit each Sunday at mass during Advent.

Abeeha enjoyed taking part in the House Groups this morning where the children worked with others from their House throughout the school to make a postcard that showed how they receive their rights at St John Ogilvie.

Tvisha loved the maths warm up game ‘Counting Cowboys’.  This week as Mrs Brown surprised the children by filling the pistols with water!  You could hear the screams of excitement all over the school!

Tadiwa continued to enjoy bench ball during PE.

Caiden has been enjoying making the art that went up on the school’s door design Christmas competition.  We made a winter woods.  Watch this space!  #P3Atowin!

Jiade said the highlight of his week was practising the dances for our Christmas party!  His favourite was ‘Chu Chu Ua’

Zion liked learning about St Andrew and eating the shortbread and drinking iron bru that Mrs McKissack kindly bought for the children.  They also learned a song that Mrs Brown’s choir sang last week with some old scots language called ‘Coorie in’.  There was much giggling about the word ‘bahookie’ (meaning ‘your bottom’).

My highlight was the singing.  Beautiful!

Congratulations to Caiden, our hot chocolate award winner this week and to Laura, our Reading Champion!

I cannot believe that we are now into December!  3 more weeks of school until we celebrate the birth of Christ and a certain man in a red coat visits!

Regards

Mrs Brown

Another Great week P3!

We have had a busy week this week. St. Andrew’s Day and The first day of December, discussing advent.

Lilly, “I liked designing the Christmas door”

Sofia, “I like improving in my numeracy”

Evana, “I liked doing reading and showing my pupil powers”

Safaa, “I liked art this week and technology”

Theo, “I liked using sumdog”

Amariah-Grace, “I liked St. Andrew’s day and learning about Scotland”

Lewis, “I liked learning our party dances in the hall”

Ishaan, “I liked describing my Pixton character”

We met with our house groups this week! We discussed our rights and created great postcards of our rights at SJO.

Well done P3!

Huge well done to Evana for getting hot chocolate! You have really been ready, respectful and safe all week.

Have a lovely weekend!

Fantastic week of learning.

Lilly, ” I liked making my avatar”

Ishaan, “I liked creating my superhero and talking about my pupil-powers”

Evana, “I liked talking about my rights and telling Mrs McKissack that one of my pupil powers is using rights to help my learning”

Reesa, “I liked doing a description”

Musa, “I liked working in a group and putting transport on a timeline”

Great week P3 well done! 😀

Dear P6A families,

Our learning highlights from this week:

– creating illuminated letters for RE art. We have been exploring the life and work of St. Columba and after investigating his work and designs from the Bible, we gave these designs a go ourselves! Beautiful detail and patterns (some pictures attached below).

– We recapped our understanding about the parts of a circle and how to calculate the diameter and radius. After, we used compasses to create different circular patterns (some designs below).

– We have been exploring and discussing our pupil powers – what makes a good, successful learner – and designed some avatars, displaying our own powers.

– We wrote a response review about our dynamic earth trip for writing, following the structure and targets.

Well done to Jacob to for winning the hot chocolate this week. Jacob showed great resilience during maths – he kept on trying to work out how to use the compass and didn’t give up, resulting in him creating a great picture.

This week we have been learning the sounds ‘g’ and ‘d’. We have been using the magnetic letters to make lots of words and we even read a whole sentence. In writing, we wrote the sentence The socks are on the mat. We used our writing targets to make sure our sentences were correct. We put a pink tick if we had completed the target and a green tick if we need to try to remember it next time.

In maths, we have been practising our adding sums. We know different strategies to use when we are adding. We can use a number line, we can use finger patterns and we can put the number in our head and count on. We also practised telling the time using digital clocks.

In RE, we learned about St Andrew. He was one of Jesus’ friends and he was a fisherman. We celebrated St Andrew’s Day by making flags and having shortbread and Irn Bru. It was delicious! We also learned about Advent and we made an Advent Wreath for our classroom.

This week we practised on the stage for our Nativity. We were singing beautifully and we remembered when to move around the stage.

On Friday, there was a special visitor in our classroom. It was an elf! He even had a St John Ogilvie school tie on.

We went up to St Peter’s Church to go to Mass on Friday morning. Fr Clement said we were very good and Mrs McKissack gave us special stickers as were so respectful.

Some of our personal highlights this week are:

Sophia – I loved making my flag for St Andrew’s Day.

Peyton – I liked playing with the marble run.

Leah – I liked going to the Church.

Joseph – I liked playing with the blocks.

Tyler T – I liked playing with the marble run.

Alfie – I liked the shortbread.

Ollie – I liked playing with the blocks.

Miss Stebbing – I was very proud of everyone when we went to Mass. Everyone was very respectful and listened very well.

Well done to Sophia who is our Reading Champion and to Ollie who is our Hot Chocolate winner this week.