St John Ogilvie Primary School

This week we have been celebrating Book Week Scotland with lots of different activities linked to our Bookbug Bags. We were very excited to get our bags and to see what was inside. We read our books in lots of different places in the school. We went to the staffroom, the school library and even in Mrs McKissack and Mrs McLaughlin’s office. On Thursday, we watched a special reading of The Bongles and the Crafty Crows and we joined in the chat to answer the questions. We were very excited when the presenters at Education Scotland said our names. We made special magnifying glasses just like Penelope Snoop and made sock snake puppets. On Friday, we met up with our Buddies to complete some activities with them.

We have been learning the number bonds for 6 and 7 in maths this week. We were very confident in recalling the facts and trying to use the ten frames to show the different addition sums.

In RE, we have been discussing the Christian value of friendship and linked this with one of the books in our Bookbug Bags called Five Bears. We have also discussed what bullying us and made posters to remind people to be kind to each other.

Some of our personal highlights this week are

Peyton – I liked working with the buddies.

Sophia – I liked getting the books.

Ollie – I liked playing with the blocks.

Bella – I liked being with the buddies.

Miss Stebbing – I loved seeing everyone enjoying playing in the space station role play area and wearing the astronaut costumes.

Well done to Bella who is our Hot Chocolate winner this week and to Maksymilian who is our Reading Champion.

Dear Readers,

We hope you are all doing very well and the cold hasn’t been preventing you from enjoying walks in the sun.🌞

This week’s highlights were:

• Our work on writing –  we continue to develop our knowledge on how to structure and write a balanced argument.
• Our work with conjunctions and other words that we can use to vary our writing.
• The work with money and giving change up to £2. We are really enjoying this and have made it a priority to be good at giving change so that we can all do it in the Enterprise!

It is very interesting to see the different ways different children organise their ‘fake’ money.😄

• We have dedicated a good amount of time to our Climate Smarter Science lessons and this week we have learnt about the renewable wind energy and how it turns into electricity. We have also learnt that it has been used for thousands of years to help sailors navigate, which show that people have started understanding wind energy’s potential for many years. After learning about the maximum efficiency of wind turbines and how there are so many off-shore wind turbine’s projects in Scotland, we have surveyed the wind speed in our own playground with the anemometers from our Science kit. The results were then analysed by us and we have concluded that the readings made in the middle of the playground, on the little hill, were the highest, which means that would be the best place to install a wind turbine in our school and use the wind energy for our own consumption. Who knows if we will manage to convince the authority to do it!😄

• Our Enterprise work has been continuing and we are very excited to see how nice some of our products are! We are already very proud of them!😊
• To celebrate Remembrance Day and its link to Article 38 of the Rights of the Children, we have made beautiful posters that were noticed by all who came into the classroom, including other teachers, because of how amazing they are!🖼😃
• Finally, for our big Rights Respecting Schools Project all the classes of the school went litter picking, the little ones from the infants area in the playground and the middle and upper school around the school, in the community! We were truly proud of ourselves and, to make things even better, when P5s went litter picking they were seen by one of the members of the Carmondean Community Council who shared what they saw with all the other members. They were so thankful that the next day, on Friday, the school got an email with a Thank You letter and an Official Certificate to all the boys and girls of St John Ogilvie Primary school for their great work cleaning the community! We got even prouder!🏆🥇👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏😍

We say goodbye for now wishing everyone a great weekend!

P5A and Mrs Valente😘😘

Hi Families of P2

The children have all worked very hard this week. We have learned to use ‘er’ and ‘est’ in the correct places within sentences and short texts. We used ten frames to add within 20 and did a super job learning half past times. To help look after our environment and keep our school clean, we went into the woodlands to collect all of the litter, using our brand new litter pickers.

Highlights

Summer Rose – I liked the Friday assembly where we talked about our school values.

Aaron – I liked parents night.

Cameron – I liked learning ‘er’ and ‘est’ words.

Luca – I liked learning about half past times, on the I-pad.

Olga, Faye and Azmeer – We loved learning and singing the kindness song.

Owen – I liked the assembly practise.

Rose – I liked learning the hymn ‘Follow me’.

Huge Congratulations to Eve, our hot chocolate winner!

Have a lovely weekend!

Hello P3A families,

Here are this week’s highlights from the Blue and Red tables:

Alicja liked PE this week where we continued to practise the 3 passes needed for bench ball.  We also practised having the ball travel from one side of the hall to another, with our partner, using these passes and not moving our feet when we held the ball.

Caleb and Caiden both report that playing football with Miss White was the highlight of their week.  The children could not get outside for football the last number of Thursdays due to the weather.

Ethan loved litter picking this week.  We walked around the local community picking up litter.  We co-operated well with our partner as one person had the picker and one had the bag.  They swapped regularly especially as the bag continued to get heavier.  Great job P3A!

Chahiti has been enjoying learning about boats from the past, present and having a think about boats in the future.  We saw one design online we were impressed with.  We thought it looked like a fish and thought the design allowed for it to go underwater and above the water too!  We then used tinfoil to make our own boat.  We manipulated the foil.  It had to hold the weight of 5 cubes and float for 10 seconds. We had a few that sunk.  We then thought about why it might of sunk and how we could of designed it differently.

Zion liked learning about germs with Mrs Callaghan.  We know to sneeze and cough into our elbow if a tissue is not available.  The children then practised washing their hands for 20 seconds (the length of time it takes to sing ‘Happy Birthday’).  We then rubbed bread onto different surfaces in our classroom to investigate which one had the most germs.  We choose: clean hands, a table surface, the carpet, a device and a pencil.  We will watch with interest over the coming weeks!  Watch this space!

Jiade enjoyed going to the Book Fair.  The children took home a slip with 3 titles of books they wanted.  They hoped Santa might bring them or indeed, as a treat, they might get 1 ordered.

Tadwia and Deveena both said the learning highlight of this week was listening to the Parable of ‘The Lost Son’.  We learned that Jesus used stories with a message.  We listened to ‘The Lost Coin’, ‘The Lost Sheep’ and ‘The Lost Son’.  The children were overjoyed to hear that the angels rejoice in Heaven when one sinner returns to God and repents.

Jack loved sharing his maths jotter with his family last night during Parent Consultations.  He was very proud of how he managed to put each digit in the small squares.  Well done Jack!

My highlight was our RE lesson on November being a month when we especially pray for those who have died.  The children went around in a circle and shared who they would like to pray for.  We had a lovely flickering candle on the Smartboard and music playing.  It was a reverent, special time.

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

Regards

Mrs Brown

Dear parents,

Here are some highlights of our week:

Literacy: We have been enjoying our new class novel ‘Millions’ together we read the book and answered questions to show our understanding.

Numeracy: We had a visit from the math teachers in St Margaret’s and enjoyed taking part in the primary math challenge. We worked as part of a team and enjoyed the challenge!

Art: We created some firework art using a mix of resources including paint and pastels.

Music: We have been learning our new songs for our Christmas show.

Rights respecting: We have been creating posters about litter picking to help improve our community.

To end the week we visited St Peter’s Church and took part in the Mass.

Our hot chocolate winner this week is Aeryn! Well done Aeryn, keep working hard!

Have a great weekend,

Mrs Roy and P7B

This week we have been have been discussing – Article 38 (Governments must not allow children under the age of 15 to take part in war or join the armed forces. Governments must do everything they can to protect and care for children affected by war and armed conflicts). As we prepare for Remembrance Day on the 11th of November. We discussed the impact of war on families and places that they live. We reflected on the importance of the poppy to remember those soldiers who died or were injured in wars.

As part of our RE lessons this week we explored the importance of Diwali to people of Hindu, Sikh and Jain religions. We made rangoli patterns and some of our pupils shared their experiences of celebrating Diwali in their homes and prayer centres.

In our Outdoor Learning we took part in a whole school litter pick as part of our school campaign to take care of our local environment.

We received a wonderful surprise this morning. Some one from the local Carmondean Community Council spotted us yesterday and send us this note in an email and a wonderful certificate. It is so nice to be noticed for the right reasons as we try to improve our local community environment.

Our writing we have been exploring logo’s and catch phrase slogans for our Enterprise Groups. We are using persuasive vocabulary to create posters for our first products we are making.

In math we have been learning more about Time, Money and Measuring different angles.

Our Science project explored different areas of Solar and Wind Energy. We had practical experiments to complete over the next few weeks.

Thank you to all the parents who came to visit this week. We hope to see everyone again on Friday, 15th of December for our Christmas Enterprise Show. Primary 5B hope that everyone has a great weekend.

This week we have been learning the sounds ‘o’ and ‘e’. We have been practising reading and writing three letter words and we have enjoyed playing games on the smartboard to help us. Some of us have also been writing words during our Choosing Our Own Learning time. In writing, we wrote a list of all the things we would take with us on a trip to space in a rocket. We had very interesting ideas of what we would take!

In maths, we have been learning all about the number bonds for 4 and 5. We can use our finger patterns to help us to make them and we have been good at identifying the ones that have been switched around.

In RE, we learned about Remembrance Day and watched a video about poppies. We made some special poppy artwork to be displayed in the hall on the Rights Respecting Schools wall.

On Tuesday, we went out with P2/1 to pick up the litter in the school playground. We were very excited to use the litter pickers and we were very good at taking turns with our partners. We didn’t find too much litter in the playground which made us very pleased.

Some of our personal highlights this week are:

Lewis – I enjoyed playing with the marble run.

Leah – I liked playing outside.

Maja – I liked playing with the rocket.

Joseph – I liked playing with the cubes.

Tyler T – I enjoyed playing in the area.

Matteo – I liked playing outside with the ice.

Peyton – I liked playing with the paper aeroplanes.

Bella – I liked going litter picking.

Alfie – I liked going to assembly.

Miss Stebbing – It was lovely to see all the P1 families this week for parent consultations and to share all the great learning and achievements of all the children.

Well done to Maksymilian who is our Hot Chocolate Award winner this week.