St John Ogilvie Primary School

Dear Parents,

Here are some pupil highlights of this week’s learning:

Leah said, “We drew huge display pictures of Prospero and Caliban from our Shakespeare play ‘The Tempest’.

“This week is Book Week Scotland and our class have been reading ‘The Tempest’. Some of the class are performing the play. The acting was pretty good and they had lots of props,” said Benita.

Paige said, ” At PE we all wee all played tennis with the nets set. We all had very good fun.”

“This week we went in the woodlands with the P3/2 class and we read books as part of Book Week. It was cold but really fun,” said Leah.

Our Over and Above Winner this week is…

Amelia!

Have a great weekend,

Mr McGurn and Primary 7B

Dear Parents and Carers,

Primary 7 have had a productive week! We have started to revise for our SNSA assessments and have been working on fractions and how to simplify them using the highest common factor.  In literacy, we continued with our discussion writing based on the rainforests. We designed anti- bullying posters using colourful graphics and appropriate slogans for health and wellbeing and linked our work to the relevant children’s rights articles. Our class took a trip to the UFO site at  Dechmont Law. We researched the case and learnt that even after many years, it still remains one of the most important UFO encounters in the world !  During topic lessons, we used atlases to highlight the areas of the world where rainforests exist and appreciated how quickly they are diminishing!!   Here are some of our learning highlights:

” Outdoor Learning was fun!”  Logan

” We enjoyed our transition visit to the High School.” Pixie and Sophia

” Creating our rainforest posters was enjoyable.” Ameya and Zofia

” Learning about the grid method in multiplication was interesting.” Hamnah

” Creating our anti bullying poster and learning about the articles was fun!” Ishaan

Congratulations to Mason on being our reading champion for the next two weeks!

Congratulations to  Ailsa on being nominated for our hot chocolate award this week!

Have a super weekend.

Mrs Lea and Primary 7A

Hello P3 families! Here are this week’s learning highlights from Polar Bears:

Vakashini has loved learning about how to take care of our pets.  We discovered that pets need the care that we need too!  They need somewhere to live, sleep, eat, drink, exercise, be able to play, receive health care if sick etc.  Thank you to everyone so far who has sent in a photograph of their pet.

Danvith liked making cards for our parents during RE to thank them for the love they show to us and telling them we will try harder to make better choices at home.

Oscar LOVED our lesson on tree identification.  We were wondering if we had a sycamore in our school woods (linked to our learning about Zacchaeus).  We used Google Lens and discovered we had a range of trees (see photos below) but not a sycamore.

Sophia liked our learning Anti-Bullying Week.  The children made little mini superheroes with Miss Hunter to help those being bullied.

Daisy enjoyed our learning about the importance of not spreading germs in this season of colds and flus.  The children know to cough and sneeze into their elbow and the correct step to wash their hands thoroughly.  We played ‘Pass the glitter’ and watched how black pepper (representing germs) moved away from soap.

My highlight was our learning about Remembrance Day.  The children sang a beautiful song and made poppies in an Ancient Roman mosaic style with some P6 friends.

Congratulations to our hot chocolate award winner this week, Maya.

Just a little reminder that we have our Sharing the Learning whole school event on Thursday 20th November either between 2-3pm or 6-7pm.  We hope you can make it.

Dear Parents and Carers,

Here’s what P7 have been saying about this week’s learning.

“On Wednesday the people from SMILE came and talked to us about how there will be SMILE counsellors at St. Margaret’s Academy when we go there so we can talk to them if we need to. She also spoke about mental health. I found it nice and calming and reassuring.” Emily

Leah: “On Thursday we were doing flint and steel. We put some cotton wool in the fire pit and set it on fire, adding small twigs. It was really fun.”

“The prayer service was nice. We do it weekly with the whole Upper Area. We were learning a hymn to sing the next time we go to mass at St. Peter’s.” Ishani M

Our Over and Above winner this week was Srihaun, enjoy the Hot Chocolate!!!

Have a great weekend,

Mr McGurn and P7B

This week we have been learning the sounds ‘o’ and ‘e’. We are very excited to have more vowels so that we can make lots of words. In writing, we wrote a sentence about the cat on the mat and used lots of common words.

In RE, we learned about Remembrance Day and made some artwork to display outside the classroom.

In Maths, we have been continuing our work on addition and we have enjoyed playing games to use our skills.

We started our new topic all about robots. We sorted pictures to show which were robots and which were not. We then read the book ‘Robot Rumpus’ and designed our very own helpful robots.

For Outdoor Learning, we went to the Woodland. We used the flints to make sparks all by ourselves.

Here are some of our personal highlights:

Lincoln – I enjoyed doing the robots.

Carson – I enjoyed making the robots.

Hanna – I enjoyed doing writing.

Tejasvi – I enjoyed doing PE.

Mikayla – I enjoyed making the poppies.

Ignacy – I enjoyed playing as a robot.

Congratulations to Eloran who is our Reading Champion this fortnight. He has shown a lot of interest in finding common words in books during ERIC time. Well done to Victoria who is our Hot Chocolate winner this week. She always has fantastic manners and tries her best in all tasks.