St John Ogilvie Primary School

Another fun week of learning in P1C.  This week we have been learning about the letter c and the sound it makes.  We were able to recall lots words that begin with ‘c’ and we made cats and had to find ‘c’ in story books.  We practised writing the letter c and wrote a sentence using ‘I can’ as these are the common words we have been learning.

This week we have been learning all about the numbers 6 and 7 counting out the amount using lots of different items and also showing different ways to make them 7 = 3 +4 or 5+2.  We continued to practise counting to 30 and counting backwards from 20.  We also used 10 frames and Numicon to help us learn about the numbers.

This week we learned about the sense of hearing.  We listened to different sounds and had to guess what the sound was, it was lots of fun.  We also made our own shaker to take home.

We looked at the yellow Zone from the Zones of Regulation and discussed how we feel in this zone.  We completed a black pen drawing of when we are worried.

In RE we learned about Mary and celebrated her birthday.  We made birthday cards and flowers and made a beautiful wall display.

On Wednesday we had our first House Group were we got to meet lots of different people and wear our school lanyards.

Today we were very excited to meet our P7 Buddies.  It was great fun chatting to them and they read us a story.  We can’t wait to meet up with them again.

Our Weekly Learning Highlights:

Falyn ‘I loved making my shaker’

Ruaridh ‘I enjoyed making the cat craft for ‘c’

Mikolaj ‘I liked writing number 7’

Vedha ‘I loved reading a book during ERIC Time’

Georgie ‘I liked being the register monitor’

Samuel ‘I liked playing with the marble run’

Hamza ‘I liked looking in books to find ‘c’ and ‘m’ and the words ‘I’ and ‘can’

Mrs Russell ‘I loved watching you all meet up with your Buddies and the big smiles on all your faces’

We’ve had a busy and brilliant week in Primary 5A!

In maths, we continued our work on place value and explored rounding numbers to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000 using our BTC strategies. We also revisited our learning in time, practising reading both analogue and digital clocks and using AM/PM in 12-hour time. We’ll be moving on to 24‑hour time next week.

In literacy, our spelling focus was ‘ur’ and ‘ure’ words, and we completed comprehension tasks on Part 1 of ‘Wonder’, seeing the story through August’s perspective.

During R.E., we learned about ‘The Canticle of Creation’ by St Francis of Assisi. Working in groups, we created posters based on different verses of the prayer.

In topic, we continued our journey into Ancient Rome, learning about Roman society and government. We researched roles such as emperors, senators and soldiers, and even held a lively debate on whether life would be better in modern Scotland or Ancient Rome. To finish the week, we explored Roman statues and created our own clay busts, inspired by traditional Roman sculpture.

Pupil Highlights

• Cameron, Owen, Lillian and Katie really enjoyed rounding in maths.
• Tiya, Ruth and Alex loved learning more about Ancient Rome and creating their Roman busts.
• Enso and Faye had great fun playing Mind Reader on Friday, working in partners to choose different answers to prompts given.

A huge well done to our Stars of the Week: Rose, Aaron, Alex and Kacper, and congratulations to our Hot Chocolate Winner: Fergus!

Wishing everyone a lovely weekend 😊 Miss Mushet

Dear Parents and Carers,

Here are P6’s learning highlights of the week:

Ethan, Amy, Chikamso, Inaaya, Theo and Nandu all thought PE was their highlight this week, “We had dodgeball and Mrs Lafferty made sure it was so fun.”

Ishaan, Iha and Elvin put Maths as their highlight, “We completed our diagnostics so we can take part in the Sumdog competition soon.”

Ollie and Ciara, “HWB was my highlight because we made ‘Rights’ posters.”

Lilly, Diyon, Amariah-Grace, Reesa and Sofia all had Mass at St. Peter’s as their highlight of the week, “…because Mrs Timmins said we have been the best behaved class at church so far.”

Blair and Maja chose Topic, “I really enjoyed learning about Natural Disasters.”

Caleb and Mahathi said the reading comprehension for Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo was their highlight.

Olivia and Karina picked drama for being fun and working well with their groups on roleplay.

We had a few people muck in on the Lead Learner’s tasks this week so we’ve still to decide who should get the Hot Chocolate at Home!

Have a great weekend,

Mr McGurn and Primary 6B

This week we have been learning all about the numbers 6 and 7. We enjoyed watching Numberblocks to meet the characters for these numbers. We used Rekenreks this week to show different numbers and tried to do this in only one push.

In Literacy, we have been learning all about the letter c. We made cats and we have a cupcake cafe role play area which has been very popular. We enjoyed sorting words by the sound at the beginning and we had to move around the classroom to show which sound was at the start. We wrote a sentence using ‘I can’ as this was our new common word and we had to remember a finger space and full stop.

We continued to learn about our 5 senses and this week we looked at our sense of hearing. We had to shake little cups and listen to the sound. We then had to match them to the correct picture. We also played a game on the smartboard when we had to listen to an animal sound and match the picture. Some of the sounds were very funny!

in RE, we learned about Mary and made birthday cards to celebrate her birthday.

We had our first House Groups meeting on Wednesday and we got to wear our lanyards which was very exciting.

On Friday, we spent time with our P7 Buddies. We got to read some books together and we had a great time!

Here are some of our personal highlights from this week:

Michael – I enjoyed learning about number 6.

Cai – I enjoyed writing the letters.

Yahya – I enjoyed going to House Groups.

Maya – I enjoyed making the cats.

Rio – I enjoyed learning about number 7.

Congratulations to Moses who is our Hot Chocolate Winner. He has been trying so hard with his writing and works well with others.

Hello families of P1A!

We have had another action packed week of learning at school!  Here are our highlights from the Blue table: (Only 4 reporting this week due to absences)

Luke said the best part of his week was playtime with his friends!

Vinayak liked forming ‘m’, our phonic sound this week and was very careful to ensure he wrote down and up on the same line.  Well done Vinayak!

Ellie loved placing marshmallows on the shape that ‘m’ made and then getting to eat them!  This was followed by the ‘mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm’ sound.  Yummy!

Leah really liked looking at the contents of the Mystery Box!  The Mystery Box this week had a meerkat, a marble, a marble run piece, a mask, magnets and a capital and lower case m.  Next week, we will move on to learning the ‘c’ sound.

My highlight was when we went up to the woodlands.  The children had remembered how to keep safe up there and enjoyed working together to form the numbers we have been learning about so far in P1.

You will have noticed that some homework ideas were sent home this week for September.  Feel free to post any photos of your child’s super home learning on Seesaw.  I will access Seesaw at various points throughout the week.  Also, look out there for some photos I will post of learning experiences I may have captured of your child! ☺️📸

I hope you all have a lovely weekend and enjoy the photos below.

Mrs Brown

Hello Everyone, 

We have had a brilliant few weeks settling into Primary 2 and have had lots of fun learning new things! 

This week in Primary 2 

In maths we learnt about 2D shapes, we made shapes out of playdough, paint and even went outside into the woods to make shapes out of sticks! 

We started our topic ‘when our parents were young’ and created houses we thought our parents would have lived in when they were in primary 2! 

We had fun in Spanish learning about colours. 

We loved playing different games of tig in P.E 

Our Weekly Highlights 

Lincoln – Playing toilet tig in P.E. 

Bella – Going to the woodlands to make shapes. 

Eloran – Printing 2D shapes with paint. 

Niall – Starting our new topic and looking at photos of old technology. 

A huge well done to our hot chocolate winners Monika and Arire. Each week a child will be chosen for showing our school values. Congratulations! 

Have a great weekend, 

Primary 2