St John Ogilvie Primary School

We have been learning all about sharks this week during Topic. We learned lots of facts and we labelled a diagram to show the parts of a shark. We used our cutting skills to make our very own sharks.

This week we have been learning the sound ‘th’. This is a cheeky sound and we have to remember to stick our tongues out. We have been reading words with this sound and trying the write words too. In writing, we wrote an information report about sharks and we had to remember to use the words have, can and are.

In maths, we have been playing lots of games to practise paying for things with different coins. Miss Stebbing was very impressed with the confidence of some people who were able to make amounts by using their number bonds.

For Outdoor Learning, we spent some time at the Outdoor Classroom. We also measured the length of the longest shark using a piece of string. It was very long!

In RE, we coloured in a picture about the creation story.

On Friday, we had an assembly where the Reader Leaders told us all about our School Book Week and World Book Day celebrations. Mrs McKissack then talked to us about the Stations of the Cross and we were very respectful when we were saying the prayers.

Some of our personal highlights this week are:

Dawid – I enjoyed playing outside.

Eliza – I enjoyed reading Stick Man.

Daisy – I enjoyed making the sharks.

Maja – I enjoyed playing with the under the sea toys.

Ollie – I enjoyed playing with the plus plus pieces.

Zuraib – I enjoyed playing outside.

Miss Stebbing – I was very impressed with how confidently everyone recalled facts about sharks.

Congratulations to Dawid who is this week’s Hot Chocolate winner.

Primary 5b are please to finally be in March! We have been busy over the last few weeks getting used to Mrs Ross. We already miss Mrs Miller and hope she is feeling better soon.

P5 has a lot to do at this time of year. We are working in groups to research eco friendly ways to build and run a school. We are working to design an Eco-school model.

We have been learning to crochet with Mrs Ross and some of us are really patient and trying hard to not give up. It can take a lot of practice!

In literacy this week, we have been learning about and looking for homophones. Words that sound the same to say but have different spellings and meanings. Some people shared some of their finds on TEAMS. Layla and Ishani M, especially, found so many!

Today we heard about the plans for celebrating Book Week next week. Everyone is looking forward to it. We also talked about some of the Stations of the Cross in assembly.

On Monday we will have some visitors from the Climate Smarter team to talk to us about our eco school model project.

Great work everyone

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From Mrs Ross

“Have a lovely weekend everyone and well done to everyone who has tried to put a message or comment on TEAMS this week. A well done to Matteo (our Reader Leader) for taking part in the assembly and a big congratulations to Alexa for being the Hot Choc at home winner. She joins Shelby and Paige who have also won over the last few weeks.”

Dear Parents,

Here’s an update from Lead Learner Myles on our learning from this week…

On Monday we did our weekly prayer service then spelling for our homework. After snack we did some Speed, Distance and Time for Maths. After lunch we did some reading then work on Evacuation in WWII. To finish off we all did Basketball for PE.

On Tuesday we worked on identifying language features in an information report on space telescopes and we answered questions on it. After snack we did some Maths. After lunch we did some reading then had music. After that we did HWB.

On Wednesday half the class went to St. Maragret’s for transition while the rest of us wrote our information report on Evacuation. After snack we did some more RLPS for Maths. After lunch we did some reading then more learning on Evacuation. Then we did Basketball.

On Thursday we did work in our reading groups for literacy. Then we listened to episode 3 of The Machine Gunners. After snack we did some probability for Maths. After lunch we did some reading then Spanish. Then we painted ‘The Scream’ for Art.

On Friday we did Stations of the Cross for RME. Then we did our St. Margaret’s transition then more RME. After snack we did Outdoor Learning then we had Fun Friday.

Hope you all have a lovely weekend. Signing off,

Myles.

PS Elizabete won this week’s Over and Above award and took home the hot chocolate!

Hi P6A families,

Recent teacher highlights:

• Starting to look at information reports for writing. We looked at an example and marked this then put it against the genre targets to get an idea of what to include and from this created our own. This weeks writing was all about our school.
• Exploring and solving percentages of an amounts and using this knowledge to look at current sales and discounts online.

Pupil highlights:

• Being able to make a whole that is big enough to fit 2-3 people in it from one piece of A4 paper – a fun STEM challenge.
• Creating a fake information report poster about ‘the wild haggis’ after our Scotland learning.
• Beginning our new topic, ecosystems. It has been very productive getting into groups and creating posters and PowerPoints about our chosen ecosystem. Later, each group will teach the rest of the class about their one.
• Starting volleyball in PE.

Well done to Max for winning the hot chocolate this week. Max has gone over and above, particularly in maths.

Have a great weekend,

Miss MacGregor

Hello P3A families,

Here are this week’s highlights from the Red table:

Jack enjoyed football with Miss White and scored a penalty!  Well done Jack!

Tvisha and Caiden both said the best part of their week was learning about the 4 Times Tables.  The children are improving at counting by 4s from memory and have especially enjoyed the song with the tune from ‘I’m Still Standing’ found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QU_E0u-tP4

Hafsah has liked the start of our new ‘Conservation of Wildlife’ topic.  We learned that some animals are in danger of becoming extinct and that means they are ‘endangered’.  Through the WWF website, we discovered the top ten endangered animals.  This week we researched two, mountain gorillas and African forest elephants and wrote information reports about them.  Hafsah enjoyed the videos we watched were we took notes to inform our reports.   These can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHhSCO5-3Pg and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk3VdpuFx0Q

Grace loved listening to a story called ‘The Singing Mermaid’ as we cooled down with our water bottle after PE.

Tadwia has continued to enjoy the heroes of Troy lessons during music with Mrs Morrison.

Deveena loves our new ‘Word of the Day’ resource.  We practise saying the word and discuss its meaning during our snack.  She loved Friday’s word,  ‘impeccable’.

Zion continues to enjoy lessons about Lent.  The children were reminded what their Lenten promise was and are working hard to sacrifice this as they remembered Jesus’ time in the desert.

Jiade loved benchball.  For the remainder of the term, P3A will be developing their bat and ball skills during PE.

My highlight was our visit to St Peter’s Church on Friday.  The children were very respectful and were amazing ambassadors for our school.  Mrs McLaughlin was very impressed that the children knew the words to the Our Father so well and could say the prayer reverently, conveying the meaning in their slow pace.

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

Lead Learners were Ollie and Caleb.  They had the important role of looking out for people who were demonstrating our school rules of being Ready, Respectful and Safe.  They also get to say something extra for the blog:

Caleb: “I liked learning about mountain gorillas.”

Ollie: “Me too!

Regards

Mrs Brown

Dear Readers,

We hope you have had a great holiday and a good week back.

Although this was a shorter week, we still managed to do lots of interesting things and our highlights were the following:

• Celebrating World Social Justice week, which links to Rights number 26 and 27. We have learned what the United Nations are, their role in the world and the role of the Security Council. There are five countries permanently in the Security Council and ten which are elected for two year periods in an attempt to give all the countries the opportunity to experience taking part in its decisions. The class didn’t agree with the fact that there are five permanent countries which always get to be there and decided that it was unfair regarding the other countries. Also, after a big class discussion, we have concluded that unfortunately, given the fact that there are currently at least two big wars happening in the world, the Security Council is not being successful, since its role is to promote peace and social justice.
• Reading Comprehension about thunderstorms, what causes them and how we can prevent being in danger during one. This task was a bit tricky to the class and so we are going to continue working in our reading and understanding skills, as well as our predicting skills. Before reading the texts, or reading a chapter of our novel, we have been practising our prediction skills by trying to make educated guesses about what the text/chapter might be talking about. For example, if it is called Thunderstorms, what will it tell us about them? Why they appear? What are their consequences and so on. As this is not always easy, we are trying to get better at it every week.
• Our Writing lesson was about John Muir so, after having learned even more facts about him, we have written independently our Information Reports about his life. It was very enjoyable to see how well most of us knew how to structure an Information Report and how to organise our ideas.
• In Maths, we have continued working with decimal numbers and have practised putting them in the correct order from the smallest to the largest and identifying what each digit represents in a decimal number.
• We have also used our knowledge on decimal numbers to measure the diameter of our trees in the woodlands. This was linked to our Science work in the Climate Smarter Project.
• Learning about Lent and what it represents. We have thought about what we would give up for Lent, not only regarding food but also things we very much enjoy doing and that are not really needed. Praying more and Giving to Charity are also particularly important so we have thought about doing this as well.
• Going litter picking in the community – We all enjoyed the opportunity to once again help the environment but were very much shocked at the huge amount of rubbish collected in such a small area right beside the school! We have collected more than 30kg of rubbish in around 30 minutes! People do need to get better and stop littering!
• Free writing Friday – We were super enthusiastic and have asked Mrs Valente to share almost all our stories at the end! Super creativity!

We particularly congratulate Jemima, our Hot Chocolate of the Week, for her hard work and positive attitude throughout the week! Well done, Jemima!👏👏👏🥇

We would also like to congratulate the Cursed Child Table for always following our rules! Well done, Cursed Child Table!!!!👏👏👏👏👏👏🏆

That’s all for now, we say goodbye wishing you all a lovely weekend!

P5A and Mrs Valente😘😘