St John Ogilvie Primary School

Hi Families of P2

The children have all worked very hard this week. We have learned to use ‘er’ and ‘est’ in the correct places within sentences and short texts. We used ten frames to add within 20 and did a super job learning half past times. To help look after our environment and keep our school clean, we went into the woodlands to collect all of the litter, using our brand new litter pickers.

Highlights

Summer Rose – I liked the Friday assembly where we talked about our school values.

Aaron – I liked parents night.

Cameron – I liked learning ‘er’ and ‘est’ words.

Luca – I liked learning about half past times, on the I-pad.

Olga, Faye and Azmeer – We loved learning and singing the kindness song.

Owen – I liked the assembly practise.

Rose – I liked learning the hymn ‘Follow me’.

Huge Congratulations to Eve, our hot chocolate winner!

Have a lovely weekend!

Hello P3A families,

Here are this week’s highlights from the Blue and Red tables:

Alicja liked PE this week where we continued to practise the 3 passes needed for bench ball.  We also practised having the ball travel from one side of the hall to another, with our partner, using these passes and not moving our feet when we held the ball.

Caleb and Caiden both report that playing football with Miss White was the highlight of their week.  The children could not get outside for football the last number of Thursdays due to the weather.

Ethan loved litter picking this week.  We walked around the local community picking up litter.  We co-operated well with our partner as one person had the picker and one had the bag.  They swapped regularly especially as the bag continued to get heavier.  Great job P3A!

Chahiti has been enjoying learning about boats from the past, present and having a think about boats in the future.  We saw one design online we were impressed with.  We thought it looked like a fish and thought the design allowed for it to go underwater and above the water too!  We then used tinfoil to make our own boat.  We manipulated the foil.  It had to hold the weight of 5 cubes and float for 10 seconds. We had a few that sunk.  We then thought about why it might of sunk and how we could of designed it differently.

Zion liked learning about germs with Mrs Callaghan.  We know to sneeze and cough into our elbow if a tissue is not available.  The children then practised washing their hands for 20 seconds (the length of time it takes to sing ‘Happy Birthday’).  We then rubbed bread onto different surfaces in our classroom to investigate which one had the most germs.  We choose: clean hands, a table surface, the carpet, a device and a pencil.  We will watch with interest over the coming weeks!  Watch this space!

Jiade enjoyed going to the Book Fair.  The children took home a slip with 3 titles of books they wanted.  They hoped Santa might bring them or indeed, as a treat, they might get 1 ordered.

Tadwia and Deveena both said the learning highlight of this week was listening to the Parable of ‘The Lost Son’.  We learned that Jesus used stories with a message.  We listened to ‘The Lost Coin’, ‘The Lost Sheep’ and ‘The Lost Son’.  The children were overjoyed to hear that the angels rejoice in Heaven when one sinner returns to God and repents.

Jack loved sharing his maths jotter with his family last night during Parent Consultations.  He was very proud of how he managed to put each digit in the small squares.  Well done Jack!

My highlight was our RE lesson on November being a month when we especially pray for those who have died.  The children went around in a circle and shared who they would like to pray for.  We had a lovely flickering candle on the Smartboard and music playing.  It was a reverent, special time.

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

Regards

Mrs Brown

Dear parents,

Here are some highlights of our week:

Literacy: We have been enjoying our new class novel ‘Millions’ together we read the book and answered questions to show our understanding.

Numeracy: We had a visit from the math teachers in St Margaret’s and enjoyed taking part in the primary math challenge. We worked as part of a team and enjoyed the challenge!

Art: We created some firework art using a mix of resources including paint and pastels.

Music: We have been learning our new songs for our Christmas show.

Rights respecting: We have been creating posters about litter picking to help improve our community.

To end the week we visited St Peter’s Church and took part in the Mass.

Our hot chocolate winner this week is Aeryn! Well done Aeryn, keep working hard!

Have a great weekend,

Mrs Roy and P7B

This week we have been have been discussing – Article 38 (Governments must not allow children under the age of 15 to take part in war or join the armed forces. Governments must do everything they can to protect and care for children affected by war and armed conflicts). As we prepare for Remembrance Day on the 11th of November. We discussed the impact of war on families and places that they live. We reflected on the importance of the poppy to remember those soldiers who died or were injured in wars.

As part of our RE lessons this week we explored the importance of Diwali to people of Hindu, Sikh and Jain religions. We made rangoli patterns and some of our pupils shared their experiences of celebrating Diwali in their homes and prayer centres.

In our Outdoor Learning we took part in a whole school litter pick as part of our school campaign to take care of our local environment.

We received a wonderful surprise this morning. Some one from the local Carmondean Community Council spotted us yesterday and send us this note in an email and a wonderful certificate. It is so nice to be noticed for the right reasons as we try to improve our local community environment.

Our writing we have been exploring logo’s and catch phrase slogans for our Enterprise Groups. We are using persuasive vocabulary to create posters for our first products we are making.

In math we have been learning more about Time, Money and Measuring different angles.

Our Science project explored different areas of Solar and Wind Energy. We had practical experiments to complete over the next few weeks.

Thank you to all the parents who came to visit this week. We hope to see everyone again on Friday, 15th of December for our Christmas Enterprise Show. Primary 5B hope that everyone has a great weekend.

This week we have been learning the sounds ‘o’ and ‘e’. We have been practising reading and writing three letter words and we have enjoyed playing games on the smartboard to help us. Some of us have also been writing words during our Choosing Our Own Learning time. In writing, we wrote a list of all the things we would take with us on a trip to space in a rocket. We had very interesting ideas of what we would take!

In maths, we have been learning all about the number bonds for 4 and 5. We can use our finger patterns to help us to make them and we have been good at identifying the ones that have been switched around.

In RE, we learned about Remembrance Day and watched a video about poppies. We made some special poppy artwork to be displayed in the hall on the Rights Respecting Schools wall.

On Tuesday, we went out with P2/1 to pick up the litter in the school playground. We were very excited to use the litter pickers and we were very good at taking turns with our partners. We didn’t find too much litter in the playground which made us very pleased.

Some of our personal highlights this week are:

Lewis – I enjoyed playing with the marble run.

Leah – I liked playing outside.

Maja – I liked playing with the rocket.

Joseph – I liked playing with the cubes.

Tyler T – I enjoyed playing in the area.

Matteo – I liked playing outside with the ice.

Peyton – I liked playing with the paper aeroplanes.

Bella – I liked going litter picking.

Alfie – I liked going to assembly.

Miss Stebbing – It was lovely to see all the P1 families this week for parent consultations and to share all the great learning and achievements of all the children.

Well done to Maksymilian who is our Hot Chocolate Award winner this week.

Hello P6A families,

We have had a great, productive week!

We have been continuing to develop our division skills and have made excellent progress! As well as practicing our sums, some of us chose to create division posters showing the steps involved, with the plan of using these to teach others. We also discussed our new writing genre, Response, and talked about creating food reviews for our new snack advertisements.

Pupil highlights:

– Inaayah – litter picking! I loved going out around the community and helping the environment.

– Lili – I enjoyed creating the 3D poppy art. We talked about our rights (article 38, protection from war) for Remembrance Day.

– Farrah – I liked making the division posters.

– Leo, Akshaj and Bentley – We loved creating the geodesic domes for the STEM project. We discussed the importance and strength of triangles in different structures.

Well done to Vijval for winning this weeks hot chocolate. They have been actively trying hard to demonstrate our rules, ready and respectful.

Have a great weekend!

Miss MacGregor (with the help from Inaayah).