St John Ogilvie Primary School

Welcome families of P4A!.

This week we have been working on lots of exciting things in class!.

Throughout this week we have continued on our place value topic within our maths and are all very confident in placing our numbers in their correct places. We have worked with concrete materials to help us position our numbers correctly and also used technology to help us learn through play. Top Marks and Sum dog are a hit in our class and by more engagement with these platforms, pupils are showing increased confidence in their maths.

Pictured below is P4A working collaboratively to help one another build 2,3 and 4 digit numbers! with thousands, hundreds, tens and ones on the interactive board.

Our topic as you all know is inventors and inventions. P4A have researched inventors of their choice this week on the laptops. They worked hard independently to create a bank of facts on some of the inventors that we have covered already and also some new inventors that they discovered during this time. Pupils are confident in using technology and therefore we are implementing this into our learning to enhance it even more.

Pictured below is some of P4A researching on their laptops.

P4A have shared that a highlight for them this week was getting their parts for their assembly which is approaching very fast!

We practiced as a class and we are super excited to have you all share this special time with us very soon.  We each have our parts home with us along with our inventors song.

Just to mention: We do not have hot chocolate this week as it is our September weekend.

Thank you P4A for another great week! I hope you and all of your families have a very good September weekend and I can’t wait to hear all about it when we come back next week.

Miss Maxwell 🙂

Please click on the link for details of our plans for this term.

Term 1: August -October 2024

P4 Overview Term1a

P4B are working hard on our learning. We have started to learn how to crochet this week and would be grateful if anyone has any spare wool they could share with us for this.

Aarav, Elvin and Diyon have all been winners of our Hot Choc at home as they showed bravery and didn’t let anything disturb their learning opportunities.

We are learning lots about Scottish Inventors and the things that they invented.

Dear Parents and Carers,

Please click on the link to have a look at Primary 6A and B Learning overview for Term 1.

Overview Term 1 P6SDQ

Thank you.

Mrs Lea and Mrs Valente

Hello families of P5B!

Here are our highlights this week as recorded by the Yellow table:

Moseez and Daniel liked playing dodge ball during PE with Mr Pentland.

Ksawery and Nathan loved their session with ‘Destination Judo’.  Information leaflets of classes (with free trails) where sent home.

Alex has been enjoying mindfulness colouring in during Choosing Our Own Learning time.

Aayush said the highlight of his week was playing ‘Number Nap’.  This game can be used for any learning context but we used it to revise P4 learning of Time.

Ella liked our lesson on Prediction with Inference.  The children had 2 book covers to examine and using the clues on the cover, had to guess what the story may have been about.  The 2 titles we looked at were, ‘Peaceful Private’ and ‘Northern Lights’.  It was interesting to hear the different conclusions that were reached and why.  The ‘why’ was important.  The children had to put in to words why they came up with those conclusions.

Aaeryn-Leigh liked our lessons on procedure writing.  We started off examining writing of this genre and making observations on the layout.  We then wrote a procedure piece together as a class followed up with the children deciding upon and writing their own piece.  The use of a thesaurus was encouraged to up level vocabulary.  Mrs Brown was impressed with how one replaced replaced ‘dig a hole in the soil’ with ‘hallow out some soil’ (Nicolas) and how another used one of our Word Boost words(Addison). P5 will be working hard his year to up level the vocabulary in their writing.

Michael has continued to enjoy listening to our class novel.

My highlight was the Destination Judo session.  It was great to see the children work together to complete the different sequence of movements as well as having good fun!

Congratulations to our hot chocolate award winner, Aayush!

I hope you enjoy the weekend.

Just a reminder that next week is a short week, with the children finishing up on Thursday at 3.20pm and returning on Wednesday.

Mrs Brown

Dear Readers,

Once again, welcome to our Blog!😀😀

As usual, this week was full of interesting things and these were just its highlights:

• The new spelling words, which have been chosen from our addictive novel ‘Nowhere Emporium’ have been practised throughout the week and, as a result, today’s spelling assessment scores were absolutely brilliant! 👏👏👏Well done, P6B!
• Revisiting the Narrative, its structure and identifying the different parts of the text ‘Rescue at Sea’.
• Our Reading Comprehension about the ‘Nowhere Emporium’, where most have demonstrated how on task they have been and how much they have been managing to ‘read between the lines’.
• In Numeracy and Maths, we have ordered numbers up to 7 digits, converted numbers up to 7 digits into their expanded form and converted numbers from their expanded form into their standard form. It was amazing to see how much children have enjoyed being more and more challenged. After, we went on to revisit the symbols for less than, greater than and equal to and have used them to compare numbers up to 7 digits as well. At the end of the week we have also had the opportunity to get our number skills tested on Prodigy through fun games and challenges.
• In RE, we have continued learning about the Book of Exodus, the meaning of Passover and what do Jewish people do to celebrate it. This included learning about the Seder and what is included in the Seder Plate. In our school we are always happy to find out about other religions’ traditions!😍
• Our new topic is Ancient Greece and we can’t wait to start working hard on it to find out as much as we possibly can. From what we have already watched, we’re sure it will be very interesting!
• The week ended with Free Writing Friday and many children have asked to share their writing with the class, which is always great!
• Last but not least, we would like to congratulate our Hot Chocolate of the Week for always following the school rules of Ready, Respectful and Safe! Well done, Renna, you are a ✨and a super good example to follow! 🏆👏😀

This is all for now, we say goodbye wishing all a happy weekend!

P6B and Mrs Valente 😘😘