St John Ogilvie Primary School

Dear parents,

A very busy but fun week in P7,

Here are some highlights:

This week our first group visited St Margaret’s High to begin our transition process. We had a fantastic time in Science and also making truffles. Here are some pictures.

The group that stayed enjoyed taking part in a STEM challenge together working as part of a team using science, technology, engineering and maths skills. We are very proud of our finished results.

We had successful show rehearsals this week and are looking forward to performing to our families very soon.

St Andrew’s celebrations on Thursday: We learned about our Patron Saint and enjoyed some Irn-Bru and shortbread.

To begin advent we had took part in a transition morning with a St Margaret’s R.E teacher on Teams and also enjoyed a prayer service in the upper area.

Next week we are looking forward to our trip to Hopetoun house!

Our hot chocolate winner this week was Amelia, well done!

Have a great weekend,

Mrs Roy and P7B

A very fast week with lots of things to learn and take part in for Primary 5B.

On Monday we practised our Christmas party dances (after completing our Spelling and Literacy Tasks)

Monday afternoon we continued to learn about money in our math lesson. We then became Santa’s Helpers by creating lovely Christmas gifts to sell at our Enterprise Show on Friday the 15th of December. On Tuesday we joined with Primary 5A to rehearse for our Show. On Wednesday we had our Recorder practise with Mrs Morrison.

In RE this week we have continued our Novena to St. Margaret. We also learned about the life of St. Andrew, in preparation for his feast day on Thursday. Both of these saints are patron saints of Scotland and set us an example of how to live by caring for others. We also led the first Advent service for Primary 5 and Primary 4 classes. It was a lovely service with great singing.

On Thursday we had our Scottish Country Dancing with Primary 5A . Lots of fun with Mrs Callaghan and Mrs Miller joining in. On Thursday afternoon we had our Flu immunisations and then went off to the library. This time we were able to settle down and spend time reading in the lovely space. Mrs Miller has library registration forms for anyone who is not already a member. The best part was that it was snowing a little bit as we were walking to the library.

We continued learning about Hydro Power in Science and began a challenge which we hope to complete next week.

We also made a fantastic christmas display on our classroom doors. Amazing surprises hidden in some of these presents.

As part of our Journey towards Rights Respecting School Gold Award we focussed on Article 12 (respect for the views of the child): Every child has the right to express their views, feelings and wishes in all matters affecting them, and to have their views considered and taken seriously. This right applies at all times. As part of our house groups on Friday pupils from all classes came together to create postcards about how their rights are respected,  protected and supported in Our School community. We hope everyone has a fantastic weekend. God bless.

This week we have been learning about money. We were using subtraction to work out change. (SoF) We have been working with money. (EM)

In music, we were learning about A,B,C AND G notes on the recorder. We also practised for the surprise. (SaF)

We have been learning some Ceilidh dancing in PE to practise for our Christmas Party. (JR)

In preparation for the Christmas door competition, we have been drawing and creating the picture. (LW)

On Thursday it was St Andrew’s day. We learnt about who he was and some interesting facts. (AOD) I enjoyed finding out about St Andrew. (MM)

We have prayed a Novena for a very special intention. (BS)

Today we had an advent service to mark the start of advent. The first candle was purple and is a symbol of Hope. (DM)

The class has been working hard on our Enterprise project.

The Hot Choc at Home winner is undecided because everyone is amazing.

Hello P3A families,

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

Caleb said the best part of his week was playing the maths warm up game, ‘Counting Cowboys’ were the children had to shoot the answer to the other cowboy.  The focus was subtraction.  The cowboy who did that first (correct and fastest) got to have another turn.  Caleb won!  We have water pistols for our cowboy guns and hope that Santa will bring the class 2 cowboy hats for Christmas!

Alicaj liked music with Mrs Morrison where the children were singing a Viking saga song.

Ollie has enjoyed our second PM description story called ‘My Grandma’.  The class discovered that this piece of writing, compared to our last piece, ‘Honey Bees’ had a lot more characteristics!  Next week we will compose a whole class piece of writing about a different grandma and then go on to write a descriptive piece called, ‘My Teacher’.  This can be about their current teacher, a previous teacher or they can make up a story about a teacher.

Rory loved making nature perfume and collecting sounds in the woodlands.  He collected 3 sounds.  The children also had the opportunity to take a shoe off and like Rory from ‘The Worry Tiger’, feel the wet leaves under their feet.  There were some brave girls but no boys who wanted to take part.  The perfumes smelled beautiful!  ‘Eau to Woodland’.

Ethan said his highlight was making cards for our parents as part of our lessons on forgiveness.  We will bring these home on Monday.  The children have written a lovely message inside.

Chahiti  has really enjoyed our learning about the history of aviation as part of their topic, ‘Inventions’.  The children were fascinated to watch clips on early flying machines and gave their opinions about what they liked about the designs and why they thought some may have failed.  We look forward to measuring 36.5 meters in the playground next week which was the distance the first successful flight took place by the Wright Brothers!  The managed to keep their flying machine in the air for 12 seconds the first time!

My highlight had to be our lesson in the woodlands where the children made the perfume.  They were so enthusiastic about it and kept wanting me to smell their creation.  We had leaves, berries, sticks, petals, nuts and mud.  Emmmmmm!  Nice!

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

Regards

Mrs Brown

This week we have been learning about the ABCDE of our rights, learning about the key words which explain how important Children’s Rights are :A =  Universal for ALL children, B = Inherent – There from BIRTH, C= Inalienable CANNOT be taken away, D = Unconditional DO Not have to be earned (enjoy them) and E = Indivisible EQUALLY important.

We have been taking part in a novena to St. Margaret of Scotland. She was a devout Christian, and dedicated much of her time and energy to charitable works. We trust in God’s help in the dark moments of our lives, and we pray for our families, peace in the world and the strength to repair Climate Change.

This week we started learning some Scottish Country Dances. We have also been rehearsing Christmas Songs and Recorder music as we prepare for the P5 Christmas Enterprise.

We are continuing to carry out Science Challenges investigating Wind and Hydropower. One of the challenges was creating a floating wind turbine.

We are also developing our literacy by creating persuasive writing and product posters. In math skills we are practising using money so that we can give the correct change. We are also working on measuring angles as this is important for where we put our solar panels and the rotors for our wind turbines.

A few very busy weeks to come as we prepare for Christmas. Have a great weekend everyone.

Hello Families of P2

This week the children had a great time getting everything ready for their fantastic assembly. We designed kindness posters, created Scotland flags, learned some Scottish dancing and worked as a team to build St Andrew’s fishing boat.

The children were all amazing performing in the assembly. They loved taking part and were all so proud. Thank you to everyone who came along to watch and take part in the fun activities.

Highlights

Everyone – We loved doing our assembly.

Vasilisa – I liked making my kindness poster.

Faye – I loved doing my seesaw work.

Azmeer – We learned the ‘ai’ sound and practised writing words with this sound.

Cameron – I liked learning the ‘zz’ sound.

Layla – I drew a bee for ‘buzz’.

Last week we all created posters to encourage people not to litter. These were entered into our Rights Respecting School competition. Huge congratulations to Faye, who won this competition with her beautiful poster design. Well done Faye!

Huge Congratulations to Alexander, our hot chocolate winner.

Have a lovely weekend!

This week we have been practising for our Nativity performance. We are very good at singing all the songs and saying the lines we need to. We all now have our parts and we are looking forward to practising in the hall next week.

In maths, we have been learning different strategies for addition. We can use our finger patterns, a numberline and we have learned to keep a number in our head and count on. We also learned the number bonds for 8 and 9.

In literacy, we have been learning the sounds ‘h’ and ‘u’. We have been practising building words with the magnetic boards and trying hard to remember the middle sound. In writing, we wrote a sentence about a cat in a hat. We used our common words and tried to sound out and write the words.

Well done to Lewis who is this week’s Hot Chocolate Winnner!