St John Ogilvie Primary School

Dear Readers,

Welcome to our blog!

We hope you are all having a great weekend. This week has been a busy one for P6B, as usual!😂

The following highlights of the week have been chosen by the children and they don’t reflect everything that we have done but the things they have enjoyed the most and that they could still remember, since they tend to forget a lot about what happens throughout the week and remember mostly what they have done in the final two days of the week, which is when they are asked about the highlights for the blog.

Here are the highlights of our week in P6B, according to P6B:

• All the activities with the Spelling Words of the Week, including looking up for the meanings in the dictionary, sentences with more than one of the spelling words in the same sentence, word families, root words exercises, rainbow writing and finally, on Friday, the Weekly Spelling Assessment, to check who is going to get 14 out of 14!
• Maths adding with whole numbers to a million and decimal numbers to the thousandths, although some still need a lot more practice to feel confident doing it!
• Big Maths, Beat That! on Friday, to check who managed to beat their last week’s score and, in some cases, move on to the next level! They love to dance to the sound of Big Maths, Beat That!🤣🤣💃🕺
• Learning about what a Narrative is and the features needed to write good quality narratives. We have used a Mountain to exemplify the different parts of the Narrative: Opening, Build-up, Dilemma/Problem, Resolution and Closing. They felt this made sense and have planned their narratives which they will write this coming week during our writing session.
• Participating in the Upper Area Service to honour the Holy Name of Mary with P6A, P7A and P7B and colouring in the pictures of Mary to participate in an Area challenge where the five best from each class will be displayed in the Area’s RE display during the month of October, one of the months that we dedicate to Our Lady.
• Gardening in the school grounds, which was hard work but left many feeling very proud of themselves!🌱🌿
• The whole class seemed to have enjoyed a lot accessing the Pixton.com app to create their avatars and become part of our avatar class! It is very funny and when everyone joins in, something that hasn’t been possible yet due to technical issues, we will be able to make stories with the children as characters, which we all think will be amazing! We got the idea from P6A and Mr. Pentland, to whom we thank a lot!😊
• On Friday we have had the football trials and almost everyone from the class participated, so good luck to all!
• Finally, we would like to congratulate the Hot Chocolate of the first three weeks of school:
• Miss Olivia! 🥇Well done! Super behaviour and lovely attitude towards learning!😍
• Miss Georgia ! 🥇Well done! Always willing to help with a beautiful smile!😍
• Mr David! 🥇Well done! A sweet ‘gentleman’ always kind and willing to do the best he can!😍

We would also like to congratulate the winning tables of the last three weeks and remind all boys and girls to keep up with the good work, tidiness and good behaviour!

We say goodbye for now wishing everyone a super weekend with their loved ones!

Mrs Valente and P6B😘😘

First of all we would like to thank everyone who came along to watch our class assembly this morning.  We think you will all agree that the children were amazing!  They have been working really hard over the past few weeks to learn about famous inventors and their inventions, and they were very excited to share their knowledge with you.

We have had a really busy week getting ready for the assembly but we also managed to fit in lots of hard work too.

In Literacy, we learned about ‘bossy e’ and practised spelling lots of words with this spelling pattern e.g. bike, time etc.  We also continued to read our class novel ‘The BFG’.  We found some words that we didn’t know the meaning off and looked them up in the dictionary.

In Maths, we have been working on place value up to 1,000 and we have also been learning more about the properties of 3D shapes.  We made some fantastic posters to demonstrate our work.

Since we have been learning about Scottish inventors, we thought it might be a good idea to learn about some famous Scottish artists.  We have been looking at the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and created some water colour pictures in his style.

Huge congratulations to Cameron who was our hot chocolate winner this week.  Cameron has been working very hard all week and has been kind and helpful to others.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Miss Reilly and Mrs Craig

Term 1 Overview PDF

This week we have been learning all about the numbers 6 and 7 in Numeracy and Maths. We have been practising forming the numbers by rolling dice and looking at the pattern. We also sorted different pictures to show 5,6 and 7.

In Literacy, we have been learning all about the ‘c’ sound and the common word ‘can’. We had to sort picture cards and feed them to the monkey if they had m at the beginning or the cat if they had c. We also completed a worksheet to show which pictures began with m or c. In writing, we wrote a sentence with I can. We were all able to find and write the two common words correctly. We have been learning about putting a full stop at the end of the sentence and we tried to remember to put this at the end of our sentence. We have started ERIC time after lunch and we have been very good at getting a book and reading it quietly.

In RE, we have been learning about the sign of the cross and how to do this correctly. We are getting very good at remembering our daily prayers.

In Science, we have been learning all about our sense of hearing. We looked at what the inside of our ears look like and how they work. We then completed a Seesaw task to match the sound with the correct picture.

In PE, we had the hula hoops out again and we were pretending they were bubbles. We had to move round the room carefully so that we didn’t burst any bubbles. We then had to put different parts of our bodies in the hoop and try to keep our balance.

For Outdoor Learning this week we were in the playground. We got to use the different equipment during choosing our own learning time. We made bridges with the planks, snakes with the skipping ropes and enjoyed playing with the giant connect four. After break, we met up with our P7 Buddies and completed a listening walk. We drew different pictures of what we could hear inside and outside. It was great fun!

Some of our personal highlights this week are:

Oliver – I enjoyed doing the writing.

Mikayla – I enjoyed drawing.

Alfie – I enjoyed doing the letter ‘c’.

Eloran – I enjoyed learning about ears.

Ignacy – I enjoyed reading the books.

Aayat – I enjoyed playing with the numbers.

Well done to this week’s Hot Chocolate Winner Niall. He has been working very hard in maths and completed the task with his buddy really well.

This week we have had a super week of learning.

In Literacy we were learning the sound ‘c’ we know it is a yellow, short, bouncy sound.  We were able to recall words that have the ‘c’ sound at the start of the word.  We also practised the formation of ‘c’ and made cats and caterpillars.  We differentiated between m and c.  This week we looked at the common word can and we tried to write it in a sentence.

In maths we looked at the numbers 6 and 7.  We used numicon to order numbers and then show different ways to make a number – for example 6 can be made by adding 2 + 4 and 3 +3.  We were introduced to 5/10 frames and made different amounts remembering to fill the top line first.

In Health and WellBeing we finished learning about the zones of regulation and looked at the colour yellow and the words worried and silly.  We discussed what makes us worried and what we can do to try and not worry.  We also made silly scribbles.

For our sense of hearing we listened to noises/sounds and we had to guess what they were.  We listened outside and drew pictures of the wind, the leaves rustling, an aeroplane and a seagull.  We played guess the instrument game and also made our own shakers.

Everyone agreed this week our learning highlight was playing out in the Woodlands.  We discussed risk assessment at ground, eye and high level and how to keep ourselves safe.  We took a tour of the woodlands discussing the boundaries of where we can play.  We got to pracitse entering and exiting the firepit safely.  We listened for sounds and drew what we heard.  Then we had time to choose our own learning.  We were so excited to find a fairydoor on a tree but we didnt see any fairies.

Well done to St Francis our winning house this week and congratulations to  Amelia  our Hot Chocolate winner this week.  Amelia works very hard and always tries her best.

We look forward to a shorter week next week full of fun and learning.

Dear Parents and Carers,

We have had a busy week in Primary 7!

During numeracy and maths, we have continued to learn about place value and coordinates. For writing, we have been creating information reports, based on Japan’s traditions and cultures. We also worked in pairs using an atlas, to plot the major cities in Japan.

During outdoor learning we used the slack line, zip wire and hammocks! Rob also showed us how climb trees safely, always having three points in contact! It was great fun! We are all looking forward to our session next week!

We continued to read our class novel ” Skellig” and answered literal questions based on the text. Our class have been learning French and this week we concentrated on colours!

Some of our class took part in the cross country championships on Thursday. Everybody did amazingly well with Ailsa and Jude winning first place overall!

Congratulations to Mason on being nominated for our hot chocolate award this week.

By Baibua and Hamnah

Ameya and Zofia-  ” Outdoor Learning was great fun!”

Ben and Sam ” We enjoyed writing information reports based on Japan.”

Hamnah and Pixie ” Answering the reading comprehension questions on our class novel was interesting.”

Sophia and Mason ” We really enjoyed competing in the cross country event.”

Ishaan and Liam ” Plotting the major cities in Japan using an atlas was good fun.”

Have a super weekend

Mrs Lea and P7A

This week has been a busy week in Primary 1B. We have started learning sounds and have learned all about the letter ‘m’. We have been using red pencils to write the letter, sorting pictures to show the m sound at the beginning or the end and also listening carefully to hear the sound in words. At the art table we could make a mouse picture using the letter shape and this was a very popular activity. For writing, we wrote a sentence about what makes us sad and everyone was able to write our common word for this week which was ‘I’.

In maths, we have been learning about numbers 4 and 5. We have been using Rekenreks to represent the numbers and we were showing confidence in using one push to show the correct number of beads. We have also been developing our subitising skills using ten frames.

For science, we have started to learn all about the five senses. We started with our sense of touch this week.  Ask us what part of the body we use for our sense of touch. We had to use our sense of touch to identify items hidden inside balloons and this was really fun. We also looked at different textures and made a picture to sort different materials by their texture.

This week we started our Outdoor Learning sessions. We were working in the Woodland this week and we used our sense of touch to find different textures in the Woodland. We also learned all about Sticky Boots, ask us what we need to do for this. We then had some time to explore the Woodland.

Here are some of our personal highlights:

Mikayla – I have enjoyed drawing and helping my friends.

Amelia – I enjoyed doing ‘m’.

Niall – I enjoyed doing the hand task.

Irha – I enjoyed doing writing.

Aria – I enjoyed drawing.

Eloran – I enjoyed doing the hand task.

Congratulations to this week’s Hot Chocolate Winner who is Aria. She has been working very hard on her literacy tasks and has been a fantastic friend to others.

Hello P3 families!  Here are our highlights this week from The Red Pandas:

Leighton has been enjoying our learning about Viking longhouses.  She thought the fact that they used animal horns for cups quite fascinating!

Amelia has continued to like playing benchball at PE.

Maja said the highlight of her week were the lessons on 2D shapes and she made a lovely picture of a house  using these shapes.

Laaibah loved our 3D shape learning.  Our new 3D shape learning in P3 is the square-based pyramid and triangular prism.  We explored the 2D links and how many faces, edges and vertices they have.  So far, we have made the square-based pyramid using it’s Net.

Tyler F also liked learning about 3D shapes.  We played a game called ‘Pass the Shape’ to some music.

Daniel has chosen our lesson on revising the ‘ai’ sound that is found in the middle of words as his favourite.  Next, we will be revising the ‘ay’ sound found at the end of words.

Viaan thought our lesson on question words was interesting.  Our theme was what animal we would like and had to think of different questions to ask someone if we did not know how to look after it.  Viaan  wanted a cat and his questions were: Who can feed a cat?  Where can you keep it safe?  Do you wash a cat? and Who will put it to sleep?  He remembered to use a question mark at the end of each written question.  Well done, Viaan!

Alex loved the lesson about The 10 Commandments and was able to recall many of them the next day.

Danvieth said his favourite learning was with Mrs Morrison were the children continued to listen and join in with the singing for ‘Treasure Island’.

Nathan said that the teamwork games during PE was his favourite part of the week.  The children got in to teams and it was a race to see who could pass the ball over and under in a pattern first.

My highlight was our lesson on the longhouses.  The children did their own research using nonfiction books.  We looked at Contents pages and located the longhouses from that information.  Mostly we looked at the pictures and there was a lot of rich discussion around what they saw.  Laaibah spotted that some of them were a triangular prism!  Well done, Laaibah!

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

Unfortunately, Seesaw codes were unable to be printed this week after all (cyber attack implications) but we have our fingers crossed for next week.  Also, reading assessments for P3 should be finished by next week also, so the hope is for reading books to be able to go home as part of homework after the September weekend.

I hope you all enjoy your weekend!

Mrs Brown

What a fantastic week we have had in P1a.

We started to learn our first phonetic sound ‘n’ and had great fun making a monster craft and giving a monster a haircut. We all worked really hard on how to form the letter ‘m’ correctly.

In maths we continued to explore numbers thinking about ordering them, identifying before/after and trying to work out what numbers are missing. We have enjoyed not only counting in English but also in Spanish, so far up to 6.

We looked at the red zone of regulation this week, thinking of things that make us angry and also scared. We drew fantastic black line drawings to show this.

Friday is our outdoor learning day and today we looked at 2D shapes and tried to find them in our environment. Mrs Meikle was so impressed with how well we worked with our partners and we found so many 2D shapes. She let us get some playground toys out the shed, some of us were lucky to have a turn on the bikes and scooters.

We are looking forward to our weekend with our families and coming back to school on Monday all refreshed.