St John Ogilvie Primary School

Hello families of P3!

This week’s update is brought to you by The Ferrets:

Ellie enjoyed House groups activities today.  The children separated into their different Houses and completed activities centred around the idea of ‘relationships’.

Eliza reports how she liked our Daily Mile each day.  After break time, the children in P3 walk around the playground 4 times.  This health initiative is to help foster a healthy lifestyle from a young age.

Izaan said the best part of his week has been learning about 2D shapes.  New shapes we focused on were pentagons, hexagons and octagons.  I gave the children little stories to help remember their names.  Ask your child if they can remember these stories.  Izaan thought the octagon was “really cool” as it had 8 sides like 8 legs of an octopus.  We discovered that each of these shapes had the same number of sides as vertices (pointy parts).

Sofia loved continuing to learn about Creation.  If your child wishes to rewatch the beautiful little video clip about this, click (or paste the link) here: Bible Story Series: Genesis The Creation of World

Matteo has continued to enjoy playing Benchball!  Super co-operation P3!

Vihaan has loved our learning so far about the Vikings.  He liked it when we looked at a real one in a museum in Oslo: The Collection – Museum of the Viking Age

Joseph’s highlight of the week was listening to our class novel, The Twits.  His favourite part was when the boys escaped from being stuck to the branch of the big dead tree.  They wiggled out of their trousers and ran away (Joseph was giggling at the pictures of their bums).

Tyler liked revising common words (reading and writing of them) from P2.

My highlight has been learning about the Viking longboats.  It was fantastic for the children to visualise the length of an actual boat.  The children have been eating up the facts about these boats and about the Viking burials.  We discussed what we would be buried with if we had of been Vikings.  The children said I would need to be buried with my laptop to be a teacher in the next life!  I wonder if I would have had wifi!

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

I hope you all have a great weekend!

Mrs Brown

We have had a fantastic first full week of school! The staff have been so impressed by how quickly we are picking up the routines of the class.

This week in Literacy we have been learning all about same, different, loud and quiet. We enjoyed using the musical instruments to practise same but had even more fun using them to be loud! We worked well during group tasks to colour in the same items and then find the item that was different.

In Maths, we have been learning all about 0 and 1. We can write these using the correct formation and have been able to represent the numbers in different ways. We used ten frames to show the number and we are very quick at showing these numbers with our finger patterns.

In RE, we have been learning all of our Daily Prayers and we are becoming more confident in saying these together.

We have made our Class Charter and have thought carefully about how we can show we are Ready, Respectful and Safe. We have been keeping the classroom safe for everyone by tidying it up and we have earned some House Points for this.

In Health and Wellbeing, we learned about what to do when there is a fire. We lined up and walked out to the MUGA very sensibly. We have learned all about the Happy and Sadness spots and what zones they live in. For writing, we drew pictures about things that make us happy and told our sentence to the staff.

In PE, we have been learning to safely find a space in the hall and to listen to instructions. We enjoyed playing traffic lights, tunnel tig and the fruit game to help us practise these skills.

We met up with our Buddies for some reading time on Friday and enjoyed sharing the books with them.

Here are some of our personal highlights from this week:

Victoria – I enjoyed playing in the Ice Cream Shop.

Hanna – I enjoyed writing 0.

Carson – I enjoyed learning about Sadness Spot.

Ignacy – I enjoy playing with the marbles.

Oliver – I enjoyed running around at PE.

Freya – I enjoyed playing with the toys.

Miss Stebbing – It was lovely to meet some of the families at our Meet the Teacher event on Wednesday. I enjoyed seeing the excitement of all the children to show their families around our classroom.

Hello again P3 families.  This has been our first full week together and I think we are all starting to get used to our early mornings again.  This week, we hear from The Polar Bears:

Maks loved playing Benchball during PE.  He was chosen to stand on the bench and caught a ball from his team and won a point!  Super catching Maks!  The children are improving with their 3 different passes and remembering to not walk with the ball.

Oscar enjoyed ‘Meet the Teacher’ and showing his proud parents around our classroom and some of his work so far.  For those families unable to make it this time, please check your child’s homework bag for the information that was sent home.

Daisy liked listening to music from Treasure Island with Mrs Morrison during music leesons this week.

Vakashini said her highlight this week was making her little ‘mini me’ for our ‘We are children of God’ display.  She gave herself a beautfuil outfit and matching purse!

Dawid continued to enjoy listening to our class novel, The Twits.  The children worked in pairs to come up with a trick that Mr Twit could play on Mrs Twit to get revenge for putting worms in his spaghetti.  Dawid and his partner’s involved a bin!

Umaez said he loved playing Scrabble with me during ‘Choosing our own Learning’ time.  We both drew!

My highlight this week was meeting the parents and seeing how proud you all were of your child.

Congratulations to this week’s hot chocolate winner, Daisy!

Homework will begin week beginning 1^st September.  Please return the homework packs in the school bags each morning.  Thank you.

Below, as well as seeing some photographs of your child’s time in school this week, you will also find a brief overview of some of the learning for the term ahead.

We have had a busy and fun week getting into a routine with Miss Mushet and Mrs Ross. We have been

talking about emotions and the Zones of Regulation and we met Roger the routine rooster who reminds us to look after ourselves and have a routine to help us feel safe and prepared as well as help us get a good nights sleep.

We are practising place value with 2 and 3 digit numbers and we are trying to order and sort them

and find them on a number line. Mrs Ross enjoyed meeting some of our parents on Wednesday.

Have a great weekend everyone.

A big hello to all the families of P3!  What fantastic children you have!  We have had a lovely few days together, having fun and getting to know one another.  As each day passes, we will incorporate more and more learning.  This week we have been getting refamiliarized with school life; the routines and expectations of behaviour.  The layout of the classroom means that your child is in one of 3 table groups.  The names they chose for them are: The Red Pandas, The Polar Bears and The Ferrets.  Each week one of the table groups will share what they have enjoyed most about their week.  I hope you enjoy looking at the photographs together and discussing what you see and read.  This week we have The Red Pandas:

Daniel enjoyed learning about ‘The Feast of the Assumption’.  We learned that Mary ascended into Heaven and this is remembered each year on the 15^th August.  We learned about the meaning of the words of the Hail Mary prayer and next week we will learn actions to accompany the words.

Alex said he really enjoyed playing with the blocks during ‘Choosing our own Learning’ time.

Leighton liked the lesson with Skittles.  Depending on what colour the children chose, they had to answer a question before eating it.  The questions were either: What job would you like to do when you are older?   Who lives in your house/s? or Would you like to be a tiny horse or an enormous chicken?  Leighton thought she would like to be a tiny horse as she liked the idea of being really small.

Laaibah has enjoyed playing with some LOL dolls with her friends.

Viaan loved PE where the children have been practising the 3 different passes required for Benchball: chest pass, bounce pass and overhead pass.  We had a little practise of playing the game after developing these ball skills but will properly learn next week.

Danvith has loved listening to our class novel, The Twits.  So far, we have learned about one trick that Mrs Twit played on Mr Twit and afterwards we learned about the different parts of the eye and drew our eye.  Ask your child if they can remember the trick involving an eyeball!

Amelia liked colouring in and has been a frequent visitor to the craft area this week during ‘Choosing our own Learning’ time.

Maja enjoyed drawing Mr and Mrs Twit.  At first, the children listened to the character descriptions in the novel and using their imagination, they had to draw them.  Afterwards I revealed what they looked like to see if they were close.

Tyler F has loved playing Connect 4 with friends.

Nathan liked the feelings check-in each morning.

I look forward to seeing you all at Meet the Teacher next Wednesday after school.  Don’t worry if you cannot make it as I will send a copy of any slides home the following day.

Just a little reminder about labelling your child’s jumper and water bottle.  Thank you.

I hope you have a lovely weekend and manage to enjoy some of the lovely weather.

Mrs Brown

We are now in the final month of P1 and what another busy week we have had.

This week the Dragon sent us the story of ‘The Three Billy Goats Gruff’, we read the story together and the Dragon set us a challenge, we had to try and make a bridge using loose parts and junk materials for the goats to cross over.  We all successfully completed this task.  We also made Billy Goat and Troll masks.  We practised our sounds and completed some dictation sentences about the Billy Goat Gruff.

In maths we practised addition and subtraction and quick mental recall.  We also practised counting in 2s, 5s and 10s.

In Religion we listened to the story of Pentecost and learned how the disciples received the gift of the Holy Spirt.

In Gym we practised the activities we will complete on Sports Day.

Today we have our Fairyland Showcase Assembly.  It was a great success and our teachers were very proud of us.  It was great fun having a family member in school to complete Fairyland tasks with us.

After break time we received a letter from the Dragon to say well done on our amazing Assembly.  As a treat we got to watch the CBebbies Pantomime Hansel and Gretel and also got a bag of popcorn to eat.

We all had a wonderful week and everyone agreed our Assembly was the best part.

Well done to Sourya our Hot Chocolate Winner and Franek our Reading Champion.  Have a wonderful weekend everyone.

Happy Friday primary 3 and families!

This week has been great and fun-filled in primary 3. We started off our week with our literacy and we are continuing to practice our common words and reading our books. We started planning our dear future teacher letters by thinking about our goals for next year, highlighting our strengths and next steps for primary 4.

We have been focussing on fractions in numeracy and began to explore fractions of an amount. In beyond number, we have been looking at weight, focussing on heavier and lighter.

In health and well-being this week, we have began to think about transitioning to primary 4, we talked about some of the changes which will be happening, as well as things which will stay the same. We also had time to think about and write out our thoughts on what we are looking forward to and excited for in primary 4.

Topic has been really interesting this week, we got to look at the first moon landing and talked about what we would say if we were the first person to step foot on the moon. We designed our own rockets and then made our own planets with materials from the woodlands during outdoor learning.

We learned about Pentecost Sunday and what this celebration is for. We drew pictures of Jesus’ disciples after they had been blessed with the Holy Spirit by fire.

We had lots of fun practicing our sports day events with Primary 7 during PE and joining Miss Mushet’s class for music this week.

Well done to all of our winners this week.

Have a lovely weekend and I will see you all next week.

Miss Duddy