St John Ogilvie Primary School

Dear P6B families,

It’s Miss MacGregor again for this weeks blog!

What an exciting week we have had with meeting our new teacher for P7 and presenting our house captain speeches. I am incredibly proud of everyone – they did a fantastic job after weeks and weeks of hard work and preparation.

Along side of all the exciting activities, we have been busy recapping some key skills from across the year. We have looked at symmetry and the Fibonacci Sequence in nature (I have included some pictures below of our findings!) Keep an eye out for what else you can see when you are out and about.

We also brushed up on our understanding of regular and irregular polygons and looked at applying our reading strategies for a visual text. For R.E, we explored ‘The Story of the Naming of the Animals’ in Genesis and then reflected upon the benefits of and our dependence on animals.

The new school captains for next year (Urwa and Patrick from 6A) got a taste of their new roles when they took over for P7 in the lunch hall and helped out Mrs Timmins. This was a lovely opportunity for them.

Well done to Siddharth for being the hot chocolate winner this week – Siddharth was very resilient when it came to presenting the house captain speeches.

Have a lovely weekend everyone,

Miss MacGregor

This has been another very busy week. As part of our learning about Children’s Rights we focussed on child labour in its many forms around the world. Over 170 million children under 16 work full time and receive no education. We had interesting discussions and created posters opposing child labour.

Article 32 Child labour – Governments must protect children from economic exploitation and work that is dangerous or might harm their health, development or education. Governments must set a minimum age for children to work and ensure that work conditions are safe and appropriate.

Article 35 Prevention of sale and trafficking -Governments must protect children from being abducted, sold or moved illegally to a different place in or outside their country for the purpose of exploitation.

Global goal 8 (8.7) Take immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking and secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour, including recruitment and use of child soldiers, and by 2025 end child labour in all its forms.

The children finished their letters to their new teacher and on Thursday morning the children found out that their teacher next year was a lovely new teacher Ms Mushet and Mrs Callaghan. They were able to discuss things that concerned them and what they were looking forward to. We are hopeful that Ms Mushet will be able to come in and visit the class in a few weeks. Also on Thursday afternoon we had House Groups where the Primary 6 pupils presented their speeches to become House Captain or Vice Captain next year in Primary 7. They were all wonderful and we should hear the results soon.

Next week we are looking forward to having a fire in the woodlands to cook and eat our vegetables with some of the herbs we have been growing. I even heard a rumour there may be some marshmallows and hot chocolate. Have a lovely weekend everyone.

Dear Readers,

We hope you have enjoyed your week and have been enjoying this sunny day as well.

It was a pleasure having had the opportunity to catch up with so many Parents and Carers during the week.

In P3A our highlights of the week were:

• Our new spelling words of the week, their practice and our weekly spelling assessment.
• The fabulous class recount about the P3 Assembly, where you can read about all the things that happened.

Here is a copy for you to take a look at, since we are very proud of it!

Recount P3A collective work

• The Maths work on greater than, less than, equal to that we are going to make even more challenging next week by comparing fractions.
• The outstanding work that is being developed about the Rights of the Child to be displayed in our school’s Rights Respecting Wall in a couple of weeks and that is already looking super!
• In order to have things ready for Parents and Carers to see, we had to have many things handed out by our amazing class helpers and we also had to tidy up and organise our trays which is always very good!
• The Music story Midsummer  Night’s Dream was the chosen one and we absolutely loved it!

Because we were too busy at the end of the day we didn’t have enough time to find the Winning House of the Week or the Hot Chocolate but will let you know about this next week, don’t worry!

Wishing you a lovely Sunday, we say goodbye for now.

Mrs Valente and P3A😘😘

Another busy week in P1B.  This week we received a letter to tell us the Dragon’s favourite book was about huffing and puffing.  We guessed it was ‘The Three Little Pigs’.  We read the story and sequenced pictures in to the correct order.  We worked in groups of 4 and acted out the story.  We all worked well in our groups and confidently performed for the rest of the class.  We made our own masks as well.  In writing we wrote what happened in the story using picture cues and a word bank.  We are getting very good at writing sentences now.

We made our own house for the pigs using cocktail sticks and marshmallows then we tried to blow them down like the big bad wolf using a hairdryer.

to try and blow We also completed a huff and puff challenge left by the Dragon where we had objects and make them move.  We also read the story of The Three Little Wolves’.

In Numeracy and Maths we continued looking at sharing and division.  We were able to successfully share amounts.  We also had great fun using the Bee Bots.  We programmed in directions and made them move.

In Health and Well Being we discussed the effect exercise can have on the body and discussed how the three little pigs would have felt running away from the big bad wolf.

Our Learning Highlights

Rose ‘I liked doing group work’

Faye ‘I liked acting out the story of ‘The Three Little Pigs’

Luca ‘I liked watching the three little wolves’

Martyna ‘I liked writing about the wolf and the pigs’

Khaleesi ‘I liked testing the houses’

Victoria ‘I liked reading books’

Azmeer ‘ I liked when the three little wolves built a cement house’.

Well done to Azmeer  our Hot Chocolate winner this week.

Have a great weekend everyone and enjoy the sunshine!

Well, we’ve come to the end of yet another busy week!  It was lovely to see so many parents and carers on Tuesday and Thursday and to celebrate all of the brilliant progress the children have made this year.

We’ve been learning about bees this week, and everyone has been so very engaged and enthusiastic!  We’ve learnt about why bees are important, the different types of bees, the life cycle of bees and how bees make honey.  Everyone has had so many questions and been such curious learners!  We’ve presented our work beautifully and particularly enjoyed making mini books to show how honey is made.

We’ve been continuing with measurement in maths, specifically learning about mass and capacity.  We’ve done really well with this topic and are now much more confident at working out the intervals on different scales.

Highlights:

Amelia: I enjoyed doing the how bees make honey mini book because I love the gluing and my partner helped.

Jude: I enjoyed doing bulldog in PE and the bee mini book as well because I enjoyed learning about bees and I like bulldog.

Ishani M: I also enjoyed learning about bees because it was fun to make the books and to talk to different people about it.

Well done to Maeve, our hot chocolate winner.

Have a lovely weekend everybody!

Mrs Brown

Hello P2B families!

Here are our highlights from the Blue Table:

Maya enjoyed making the paper mache planets.  She made Planet Earth with a group.  The children did fantastic teamwork to create the planets.  I hope you all enjoyed them when you came to visit this week.

Lilly loved visiting the library on Wednesday.  The lovely librarian, Jo, gave us a talk about what you can do in a library, how to join the library, read us a story and then the children were free to look at the various books.  Lilly looked at a book about mummies.

Theo said the best part of his week was playing outside with toys.  On Monday, it was so hot that we took some toys outside and enjoyed them in the shade.

Blair liked completing the different activities the class made for the ‘Create an Activity’ homework task.  We used berries (Maya’s idea), beads (Lily’s idea), ipad (Karina’s idea) and wrote our words in colour and in pencil (Amy’s idea).  It is not too late to submit an idea for P2B to complete in class as they learn to read and write their phonics!  We look forward to Olivia and Ishaan’s ideas for next week.

Tharun loved music with Mrs Morrison, where they used the ‘Incredibox’ app to make some music.

Mrs Devlin’s favourite part was of course welcoming our parents for consultations on Tuesday and Thursday.  It was so lovely to see you all again.  It is so hard to believe that we are coming to the end of our time together and your child will be in P3 soon!  How time goes in quickly.

Congratulations to Lewis, our Hot Chocolate award winner for this week.

This week the dragon left the story of the Three Little Pigs. We have completed lots of activities based on this book and had lots of discussions about the characters and setting. We had to build a house for the little pig using marshmallows and cocktail sticks. We worked with a partner and our teamwork was fantastic! Then the Big Bad Wolf (a hairdryer) blew down the houses. It was very funny. The dragon left us a Huff and Puff Challenge. We had to huff and puff to move different items across the floor and we had to record how many puffs it took. Some were very easy but some were challenging. For writing, we wrote a description of the Big Bad Wolf and we used lots of adjectives to describe him.

In maths, we have been learning about the division sign and we used counters to complete the division sums. We have also continued to practise making fact families using three numbers and we are more confident with this now.

Some of our personal highlights are:

Vedansh – I enjoyed making the little pig’s house.

Filip – I liked playing with the blocks.

Connor – I enjoyed making the houses and seeing the Wolf blow them down.

Summer Rose – I enjoyed the Big Bad Wolf blowing down the houses.

Lillian – I enjoyed doing the Huff and Puff Challenge.

Congratulations to Connor who is our hot chocolate winner this week.

This week we have been discussing article 29 – Goals of Education -to develop every child’s personality, talents and abilities to the full. It must encourage the child’s respect for human rights, as well as respect for their parents, their own and other cultures, and the environment. We discussed the fact that talent needs to be practised to become even better. We discussed different types of exciting and interesting careers your children could take by developing their unique talents and gifts.

We continue to work on developing reading skills to clarify, predict and summarise whatever text they read as well as developing a wider word/vocabulary. In math, Algebra is a big hit with most children very enthusiastically taking part in lessons. We are also working on applying our knowledge of time to use train and bus timetables as well as improving data handling skills.

We continue to explore different body systems and how we keep our bodies healthy.

We continue to take care of local environment by taking care of the school gardens and growing our flowering plants and vegetables.

Next week the children will be meeting their new Primary 6 teacher which they are all very excited about. It was lovely to meet the parents again this week. Your children are a credit to all of your love, dedication and hard work. Thank you for all your support. Hopefully everyone will enjoy a lovely, sunny, relaxing weekend.