St John Ogilvie Primary School

We have had a great week in Primary 3 this week doing some fun learning activities.

Our literacy this week has been very active, we learned how to do pyramid spelling and have been practicing our words using pyramid and rainbow spelling, as well as practicing using playdoh and spelling hangman. We have been reading our word boost book ‘The Obvious Elephant’ and learning all about words like ‘bewildered’ and ‘curious’.

In our numeracy and maths, we continued to practice our skip counting in 2s, 5s and 10s, and had active opportunities to explore and think about skip counting in different numbers and try to work these out for ourselves, using our knowledge we already have. We also played a fun game out in the playground with Mrs Garvin.

As it is Fairtrade fortnight, we revisited what we already know about Fairtrade and shared what we already know about it. We will continue to explore this next week.

Our RE this week has been talking about Gods creations and we got the chance to go outside and explore, noting down everything we could see that was created by God.

We revisited out class charter and our school rules and values as the last session of our topic this week, and next week we will be beginning our new topic!

On Thursday, we had a reward afternoon as a thank you for being so awesome so far this year, the children got the chance to choose which activity they wanted to do from a wide selection, including painting, playdoh, games, games on the board, colouring and drawing and playing with the toys.

Rhains highlight if the week this week has been everything! He has had so much fun at school this week.

Aarons highlight of the week has been playing the skip counting game on the smartboard during our active numeracy session. He had lots of fun skip counting in 5s with his friends.

Olgas highlight of the week this week was during our reward afternoon on Thursday, she loved drawing with the oil pastels and lucky for me she made me 2 pictures!

Olivers highlight of the week this week was using the playdoh for spelling and during reward time today.

JJ enjoyed doing maths this week and in particular the maths game we played outside.

Khaleesi and Hameedah both agreed their favourite part of the week this week was learning how to do pyramid spelling.

Well done to our prize winners this week, Connor, Owen and AbdulHameed.

Thank you all for the lovely pictures and drawings I got today and throughout the week, I am a really lucky teacher!

I hope you all have a lovely long weekend!

Miss Duddy

Dear Parents,

P7A have settled in really well to life in Primary 7, working hard and meeting high expectations whilst enjoying the learning experience.

So far this year there’s been a lot going on…

In maths there’s been a focus on revision of maths topics in preparation for the upcoming NSA assessments to give children more confidence and opportunity to achieve their best.

Mental maths has been using New Wave resource but we will switch things up to Big Maths after the September break.

We’ve also had our first transition event with teachers from Maths teachers from St. Margaret’s visiting to teach a maths lesson with this to continue throughout the year as we prepare for high school.

In Literacy we have been writing Recounts and have now just started work on Information Reports, this has been in preparation for our upcoming topic as Non-fiction writing will be the most useful preparation for this.

We are reading the excellent Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo, using this for comprehension tasks and looking forward to watching the newly released animated movie when we finish the book.

In HWB we have established our Class Charter identifying how we will be Ready, Respectful and Safe in class and throughout the school. We’ve revisited Zones of Regulation and done some work on Fairtrade Fortnight. Fingers crossed for our competition entries.

In PE we aced the delayed P6 Deans Cluster Cross-country event, winning 1st place school for both boys and girls with so many top 10 places, but everyone gave it their all and represented the school with distinction. We now get to send children to the P7 event though that will be tougher with longer distance and hillier course! Best get in training now.

We have also had taster Judo sessions and they proved a big hot and lot of fun …

P7A have also been outside quite a bit, clearing up our own woodlands and trips to Deans Woods for conkers. We will be playing a game of conkers at some point soon though Mr McGurn hasn’t explained yet how the game is played… pictures for that to follow.

Here is the Forward Plan Overview for P7 in Term 1…

Lots of exciting learning opportunities lie ahead for P7A in the coming weeks and months, and we will share them here with our Lead Learners taking on the responsibility of blogging our learning journey.

Have a lovely September Weekend,

Mr McGurn and P7A

Welcome families of P4A!.

This week we have been working on lots of exciting things in class!.

Throughout this week we have continued on our place value topic within our maths and are all very confident in placing our numbers in their correct places. We have worked with concrete materials to help us position our numbers correctly and also used technology to help us learn through play. Top Marks and Sum dog are a hit in our class and by more engagement with these platforms, pupils are showing increased confidence in their maths.

Pictured below is P4A working collaboratively to help one another build 2,3 and 4 digit numbers! with thousands, hundreds, tens and ones on the interactive board.

Our topic as you all know is inventors and inventions. P4A have researched inventors of their choice this week on the laptops. They worked hard independently to create a bank of facts on some of the inventors that we have covered already and also some new inventors that they discovered during this time. Pupils are confident in using technology and therefore we are implementing this into our learning to enhance it even more.

Pictured below is some of P4A researching on their laptops.

P4A have shared that a highlight for them this week was getting their parts for their assembly which is approaching very fast!

We practiced as a class and we are super excited to have you all share this special time with us very soon.  We each have our parts home with us along with our inventors song.

Just to mention: We do not have hot chocolate this week as it is our September weekend.

Thank you P4A for another great week! I hope you and all of your families have a very good September weekend and I can’t wait to hear all about it when we come back next week.

Miss Maxwell 🙂

Please click on the link for details of our plans for this term.

Term 1: August -October 2024

P4 Overview Term1a

P4B are working hard on our learning. We have started to learn how to crochet this week and would be grateful if anyone has any spare wool they could share with us for this.

Aarav, Elvin and Diyon have all been winners of our Hot Choc at home as they showed bravery and didn’t let anything disturb their learning opportunities.

We are learning lots about Scottish Inventors and the things that they invented.

Dear Parents and Carers,

Please click on the link to have a look at Primary 6A and B Learning overview for Term 1.

Overview Term 1 P6SDQ

Thank you.

Mrs Lea and Mrs Valente

Hello families of P5B!

Here are our highlights this week as recorded by the Yellow table:

Moseez and Daniel liked playing dodge ball during PE with Mr Pentland.

Ksawery and Nathan loved their session with ‘Destination Judo’.  Information leaflets of classes (with free trails) where sent home.

Alex has been enjoying mindfulness colouring in during Choosing Our Own Learning time.

Aayush said the highlight of his week was playing ‘Number Nap’.  This game can be used for any learning context but we used it to revise P4 learning of Time.

Ella liked our lesson on Prediction with Inference.  The children had 2 book covers to examine and using the clues on the cover, had to guess what the story may have been about.  The 2 titles we looked at were, ‘Peaceful Private’ and ‘Northern Lights’.  It was interesting to hear the different conclusions that were reached and why.  The ‘why’ was important.  The children had to put in to words why they came up with those conclusions.

Aaeryn-Leigh liked our lessons on procedure writing.  We started off examining writing of this genre and making observations on the layout.  We then wrote a procedure piece together as a class followed up with the children deciding upon and writing their own piece.  The use of a thesaurus was encouraged to up level vocabulary.  Mrs Brown was impressed with how one replaced replaced ‘dig a hole in the soil’ with ‘hallow out some soil’ (Nicolas) and how another used one of our Word Boost words(Addison). P5 will be working hard his year to up level the vocabulary in their writing.

Michael has continued to enjoy listening to our class novel.

My highlight was the Destination Judo session.  It was great to see the children work together to complete the different sequence of movements as well as having good fun!

Congratulations to our hot chocolate award winner, Aayush!

I hope you enjoy the weekend.

Just a reminder that next week is a short week, with the children finishing up on Thursday at 3.20pm and returning on Wednesday.

Mrs Brown