St John Ogilvie Primary School

Dear Parents,

A busy week before the holidays with lots going on in P7B:

We have continued to prepare for the upcoming SNSAs  and take part in the MathsBURST STEM project from Glasgow Uni in maths.

We finished reading Kensuke’s Kingdom and very much enjoyed it and are looking forward to seeing the similarities and differences in the film. We will start our new book ‘Millions’ by Frank Cottrell-Boyce after the October break.

For IDL we were printing using paint and polystyrene – results were oaky but would have worked better with printing ink.

In PE we had a visiting coach take a football session where we worked very hard and did very well.

Paige said, ‘We did Football with Steven and he taught us how to do more cool tricks and we had a match.’

For outdoor learning we went to Deans Woods to continue building our Deans with found materials.

Twinnie said, ‘I think it is lovely to build dens and is really fun.’

We also did a bit of Food Technology as Mrs Dwane asked us to use up some resources.

Ishani M said, Baking cookies is super fun and eating them was even better. It was fun making them with my friends. They were super tasty.’

Our Hot Chocolate winner this week is Paige who really showed her kind and empathetic nature towards others.

Have a great October break,

Mr McGurn and P7B

What a wonderful week we’ve had in class!

This week’s highlight for the children was our outdoor learning session. We took a lovely walk to St. Peter’s where we gathered to say a Memorare and a Hail Mary. It was a peaceful and reflective moment, especially fitting for our Day of Prayer for Peace. The children showed such respect and calm during our visit, a beautiful reminder of how thoughtful they can be.

My own highlight this week has been continuing our work for Black History Month. We explored African-inspired patterns and began planning our own artwork inspired by these vibrant designs. The children already have so much knowledge and enthusiasm about this topic, and I can’t wait to see their creativity shine through in their finished pieces!

It was also lovely to meet so many families during our parent consultations. Thank you to everyone who was able to attend; it was wonderful to catch up, share how well the children have settled into the year, and talk about our plans ahead. Your support makes such a difference!

We’re looking forward to another exciting week of learning ahead!

At St. Peter’s

Collaborative work

A group’s own problem

collaborative work

Hello P3 families,

Here are our highlights this week from The Polar Bears:

Vikashini enjoyed lying down on the carpet of leaves in the woodland and looking up, as a bug would, to see the lovely trees above.  Next week we plan to make autumn pictures of trees from the perspective of a bug.

Oscar loved learning about the Sacrament of Baptism.  Alex kindly brought in the symbols of Baptism from his sister’s recent service.  Alex confidently spoke about the meaning behind the holy water, holy oil, Baptismal candle and white blanket.  P3 are learning about the Seven Sacraments at the moment so Alex started us off.  Thank you Alex!

Daisy liked instruction writing about how to make Fair trade lemonade.  We pretended to be writing to an alien so had to be very clear on the instructions and include lots of descriptive vocabulary.

Sophia shared that the highlight of her week was making the autumn mindfulness leaves for our display outside of the classroom.  The children worked hard on these along with their autumn acrostic poems.  Keep up the super work P3!

Maks and Dawid both agreed that PE was their favourite lesson.  The class love playing bench ball.  Next week we will continue with our ball skills using bat and balls.

My favourite highlight was having the opportunity to share with you how wonderful your children are and share their learning with you.  We had a few tears from proud parents when we looked at their work together.

Congratulations to Laaibah our Reading Champion and Danvith, our hot chocolate award winner.

I hope you all enjoy the weekend.

Mrs Brown

In Literacy we have been learning the sound ‘t’. We read The Tiger Who Came to Tea and we made tiger masks. We had fun pretending to be the tiger and eating all the food. We wrote a sentence all about the Autumn trees and used the word ‘and’.

In Maths, we have been practising counting and writing our numbers the correct way.

We looked at a piece of work by Kandinsky and then we used Autumn colours to make a piece of Autumn Art.

We had fun in the Woodland with our Buddies and we practised sitting at the fire pit. Mr McGurn was very impressed with us.

Here are some of our personal highlights from this week:

Mikayla – I enjoyed drawing.

Alayha – I enjoyed writing about the trees.

Hanna – I enjoyed reading the book.

Alfie – I enjoyed doing our sentence.

Oliver – I enjoyed drawing the trees.

Victoria – I enjoyed doing the sounds.

Miss Stebbing – It was lovely to meet all the families during parent consultations this week.

Congratulations to Mikayla who is our Hot Chocolate Winner this week. She has been trying hard to read words and write the letters the correct way.

Well done to Aria who is our Reading Champion. She has shown confidence when reading captions and matching the pictures.

This week in Literacy we were learning the sound ‘t’ we listened to the story of ‘The Tiger Who Came to Tea’ and we then sequenced pictures to retell the story.  We made tigers and tiger masks. We practised writing t and could recall words that begin with t.

In maths we looked at the numbers 13 and 14 we practised writing them the correct way.  We also worked on numbers before, after and inbetween within 10.

In Religion we have started learning the ‘Hail Mary’ prayer.

We looked at a piece of work by Kandinsky and then used Autumn colours to create a piece of Autumn art.  They turned out amazing and we have them proudly displayed outside our classroom.

Our highlights this week:

Conall ‘ I liked making a tiger’

Elina ‘ I liked playing with my buddy’

Mashal ‘I liked outdoor learning’

Willow ‘I liked making leaf rubbings’

Zaaran ‘ I liked making the tiger masks.

Flo ‘I liked rubbing the leaves on with the crayons.

Stephen ‘I liked playing with the bicycles’.

Inioluwa ‘I liked meeting up with my buddy’

Arire ‘I liked playing with my friends.

Zahra ‘I liked riding on the bikes’

Mrs Russell’s highlight: ‘I liked reading the story The Tiger who came to Tea and sequencing the pictures to retell the story.  Everyone did super well.

Well done to Marley our Reading Champion and congratulations to  Conall our Hot Chocolate winner.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

Dear Parents and Carers,

Here’s a quick update on what’s been happening in Primary 7 this week:

On Monday we continued our comprehension work on our class novel Kensuke’s Kingdom – we now have only one chapter to finish in the book. The bus has been confirmed for our cinema trip on the 17th of November and details will be sent out nearer the time.

We have been continuing the STEM maths lessons and working hard on this new approach to our learning.

Aiden said, “STEM made us learn in a different way and I really enjoyed it.”

We went to Deans Woods for our Outdoor Learning this week, using found materials to build dens. We will have two momre sessions to get them completed.

“I enjoyed outdoor learning, it was very fun.” Matteo

We met our Buddies in the school woodlands on Friday to see how sfae they are at being at the firepit and then we had some free time to play.

Benita said, “Today we played with our buddies in our woodlands. It was very fun. Me and my friend Ashley and our buddies played hide and seek.”

Hot Chocolate winner this week was too hard to pick so I picked two!

Both Twinnie and Matteo demonstrated outstanding kindness and empathy and both received the prize for Over and Above behaviour.

Have a wonderful weekend,

Mr McGurn and P7B

Class highlights:

Aadya- I enjoyed drawing vertical and horizontal images in our symmetry work.

Chaihiti – I enjoyed writing my instructions How to Make My Dad’s Byrani.

Vivien: I enjoyed going to the Spidy Park because we could just chill and move our bodies.

Angel: I enjoyed Literacy, especially our spelling tasks.

Skyler: I enjoyed learning about Queen Victoria and I loved how I could draw her and Abeeha did the facts with Allah.

Hasika: I enjoyed doing our Queen Victoria Posters.

Deveena: I enjoyed doing Capture the Flag in P.E this week.

Caiden: I liked doing maths this week.

Grace: I enjoyed doing dictation with Miss Smith this week.