St John Ogilvie Primary School

Hello it’s Lili and Farrah,

We all had a blast at dynamic earth. We learned lots and were involved in different activities. We touched a huge iceberg and visited a room with shaky floors which were pretend earthquakes during the formation of Earth. We even went back in time by 8 billion years! We did a workshop and got to make tornados using two bottles and some coloured water, we also had to find meteors and compare them with rocks. We explored volcanic rocks too.
We got to watch a 3D movie which took us on a journey through different climates and we saw a range of living species.

Over all we had a great time and really enjoyed ourselves!

Have a great weekend

Hello P3A families,

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

Diana and Laura said the best part of their week was making our new role-play jewellery making shop.  Our previous cinema was not getting as many visitors so we decided to change it and the next most popular vote was a jewellery shop.  A group who was interested in making this, including Diana and Laura, had a £10 budget.  They worked together to shop on Amazon for beads and elastic string.  They calculated what was too expensive and what items totalled their £10.  Their shop sign looks very sparkly and I’m sure they will get lots of visitors to their shop.

Riley loved football with Miss White on Thursday.

Vivien’s highlight was teaching the class how to draw a house using one pencil movement.  You were not allowed to lift the pencil from the page.  She started it off as a challenge.  She showed the children what she wanted them to draw and they practised it on whiteboards.  It was so tricky!  Even Mrs Brown could not do it!  In the end, she revealed the steps.  Thank you Vivien for this super problem-solving lesson!

Linda loved the story from our ‘Read, Write, Count’ bags called ‘The Worry Tiger’.  In this story, Rory came out of his den to discover a  jungle had grown in his bedroom!  We decided we wanted to transform our classroom into a jungle too!  Mrs Brown already had lots of vines so the children drew different jungle animals and put them all around the room.

Hasika said that her learning highlight was note taking.  For our writing this week, we continued to examine description writing.  As an extension to ‘Honey Bees’, we had a choice of writing about a ladybird or a dragonfly.  The children watched a short documentary piece on each and while they did, they jotted down some notes which would support them when they came to write their own descriptive piece.  What fascinating creatures these bugs are!

Aadya also enjoyed writing a descriptive piece about ladybirds.  She included all of the features:  title, introduction, characteristics and evaluation.  Well done Aadya!

Angel absolutely loved playing bench ball!  We finally moved on to playing this game after acquiring all the skills needed.  The score was 3-0.  We look forward to game two on Monday!

Olivia liked creating a piece of art called ‘Circles’ that Diana showed everyone how to do.  It involved drawing around various sized circles that overlapped and colouring each section a different colour.  Everyone managed to draw their circles and has made a start on the colouring.  To be continued…

My highlight was watching the confidence of the two young ladies, Diana and Vivien as they delivered their lesson to the class.  As the class carried out the tasks, they went around supporting.  This has sparked the interest of some others who want to teach the class something too!  Some future teachers in the making perhaps?

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

Regards

Mrs Brown

Hi all,

This week we have a had a big focus on reading for Book Week and had purposeful discussions for Anti-Bullying week. On Monday we watched an Authors Live about World Environmental Day – we talked about the different ways we could be more sustainable. We have also written book reviews and enjoyed regular opportunities to take part in ERIC.

Our theme for Anti-Bullying week was how to stand up and make noise against bullying and we had discussions about how not to be a ‘bystander’.

For RE, we have been looking at heritage and identity and will continue this next week and create our own family trees.

Our class highlight was having the first run through of our Burns performance – we all did a fantastic job, well done again!

Have a great weekend,

Miss MacGregor

This week has been Anti-Bullying Week. There are three articles that provide a particularly strong link this week:

Article 2 – Non-discrimination: The Convention applies to every child without discrimination, whatever their ethnicity, gender, religion, language, abilities or any other status, whatever they think or say, whatever their family background.

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, for example during immigration proceedings, housing decisions or the child’s day-to-day home life.

Article 13 (freedom of expression) – Every child must be free to express their thoughts and opinions and to access all kinds of information, as long as it is within the law.

Article 19 – Protection from violence, abuse and neglect: Governments must do all they can to ensure that children are protected from all forms of violence, abuse, neglect and bad treatment by their parents or anyone else who looks after them.

We used the petals of our kindness flower to write rhyming poems to tell people to be respectful and kind. Next week we are going to film them and put them into our rights conversation padlet. Hopefully we can then share them with you.

As it was also Book Week we created a mini library from the books we are currently reading. We also had a trip to the local library to hand in St. John Ogilvie PS, Anti-Litter Poster Area winners which they are going to display for the local community to see. Our winners were announced for classes and area winners in Assembly this morning. Our School Campaign to improve our local environment and raise awareness of Climate Change continues.

We are working hard on creating wonderful Christmas gifts and learning our Christmas songs to entertain everyone at our Christmas Enterprise Show.  In science we have started the challenge to build the most effective wind turbines with boxes, straws, paper clips, string and tubes. Hopefully we can film working models next week to share with you.

Have a great weekend everyone.

This week we have been celebrating Book Week Scotland with lots of different activities linked to our Bookbug Bags. We were very excited to get our bags and to see what was inside. We read our books in lots of different places in the school. We went to the staffroom, the school library and even in Mrs McKissack and Mrs McLaughlin’s office. On Thursday, we watched a special reading of The Bongles and the Crafty Crows and we joined in the chat to answer the questions. We were very excited when the presenters at Education Scotland said our names. We made special magnifying glasses just like Penelope Snoop and made sock snake puppets. On Friday, we met up with our Buddies to complete some activities with them.

We have been learning the number bonds for 6 and 7 in maths this week. We were very confident in recalling the facts and trying to use the ten frames to show the different addition sums.

In RE, we have been discussing the Christian value of friendship and linked this with one of the books in our Bookbug Bags called Five Bears. We have also discussed what bullying us and made posters to remind people to be kind to each other.

Some of our personal highlights this week are

Peyton – I liked working with the buddies.

Sophia – I liked getting the books.

Ollie – I liked playing with the blocks.

Bella – I liked being with the buddies.

Miss Stebbing – I loved seeing everyone enjoying playing in the space station role play area and wearing the astronaut costumes.

Well done to Bella who is our Hot Chocolate winner this week and to Maksymilian who is our Reading Champion.

Dear Readers,

We hope you are all doing very well and the cold hasn’t been preventing you from enjoying walks in the sun.🌞

This week’s highlights were:

• Our work on writing –  we continue to develop our knowledge on how to structure and write a balanced argument.
• Our work with conjunctions and other words that we can use to vary our writing.
• The work with money and giving change up to £2. We are really enjoying this and have made it a priority to be good at giving change so that we can all do it in the Enterprise!

It is very interesting to see the different ways different children organise their ‘fake’ money.😄

• We have dedicated a good amount of time to our Climate Smarter Science lessons and this week we have learnt about the renewable wind energy and how it turns into electricity. We have also learnt that it has been used for thousands of years to help sailors navigate, which show that people have started understanding wind energy’s potential for many years. After learning about the maximum efficiency of wind turbines and how there are so many off-shore wind turbine’s projects in Scotland, we have surveyed the wind speed in our own playground with the anemometers from our Science kit. The results were then analysed by us and we have concluded that the readings made in the middle of the playground, on the little hill, were the highest, which means that would be the best place to install a wind turbine in our school and use the wind energy for our own consumption. Who knows if we will manage to convince the authority to do it!😄

• Our Enterprise work has been continuing and we are very excited to see how nice some of our products are! We are already very proud of them!😊
• To celebrate Remembrance Day and its link to Article 38 of the Rights of the Children, we have made beautiful posters that were noticed by all who came into the classroom, including other teachers, because of how amazing they are!🖼😃
• Finally, for our big Rights Respecting Schools Project all the classes of the school went litter picking, the little ones from the infants area in the playground and the middle and upper school around the school, in the community! We were truly proud of ourselves and, to make things even better, when P5s went litter picking they were seen by one of the members of the Carmondean Community Council who shared what they saw with all the other members. They were so thankful that the next day, on Friday, the school got an email with a Thank You letter and an Official Certificate to all the boys and girls of St John Ogilvie Primary school for their great work cleaning the community! We got even prouder!🏆🥇👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏😍

We say goodbye for now wishing everyone a great weekend!

P5A and Mrs Valente😘😘