St John Ogilvie Primary School

Hello P5 Families,

I hope you had a lovely Easter holiday and enjoyed some of that lovely sunshine we had in the first week.  I believe it will return next week!  It was so lovely to see all of the children again and to welcome two new pupils, Olivia and Aadhya, who have settled well in to St John Ogilvie.

Here are our learning highlights from the Blue Table:

Flynn liked learning about the life of Pope Francis.  Some interesting facts about his life: he was one of 5 children, he was born Jorje Mario Bergoglio, he was the 266^th Pope and chose his name as he admired the life and work of St Francis of Assisi.

Ellie-May and Amelia both report that they are continuing to enjoy our class novel.  This week the children were excited to have it read by Mrs Lafferty’s PE student, Miss Howe.

Nathan liked playing  Rounders for PE.

Nicolas and Addison have LOVED making their sustainable school for the Climate Smart Award.  A big thank you to everyone who brought in recyclable materials for this project!  The models are starting to take shape now.  This will be our learning focus between now and the in-school judging on May 16^th.  The teamwork, enthusiasm and ideas from the children are AMAZING!  I am so proud of everyone for their contributions.

David enjoyed maths this week were we learned how to find the Area of irregular shapes.

Aaeryn-Leigh liked PE today with Miss Howe.

Olivia was introduced to the recorder this week with Mrs Morrison and has listed it as a favourite learning experience this week.  Olivia shared that she plays other instruments too including the ukulele!

My highlight was welcoming everyone back to school after our 2 week break.  I always miss the children terribly when we have a holiday.

Congratulations to David, our Hot Chocolate Award winner this week!

I hope you have a lovely weekend!

Mrs Brown

What a fun-filled first week back we have had!

We have been having lots of fun whilst doing some great learning this week. We are also very lucky to have had a new pupil who joined us in P3 this week and has settled into the class really well. Thank you all for being so welcoming!

For literacy this week, we revisited our books from before the holidays as it was a short week and will be back to our regularly scheduled reading next week! We learned about paragraphs which we will be using next week in our final week of narrative writing, we will be trying to include paragraphs in our stories! We made posters for some of our word boost words from throughout the year.

We revisited multiplication for a final time before moving on to division next week, we did a short recap of arrays and played some fun multiplication games.

We went to the woodlands and had lots of fun playing in the woods for our outdoor learning this week. We also did some hot-seating as a fun drama activity, we pretended to be characters from the book ‘The Gruffalo’ and it was quite popular amongst the children! It was lovely to see everyone having fun.

We have been working on our teamwork this week, we worked in groups to do a general knowledge quiz where we all worked together to get the right answers. We also had a chance to play capture the flag, we worked in our teams to come up with a tactic that would help us to win!

Well done to this weeks Hot Chocolate winner!

I hope you all have a lovely weekend!

Miss Duddy

Welcome back everyone, we were so glad to see each other after our Easter Holidays and had lots of news to share.

This week we have been learning the sounds igh and ng.  We have also been practising all the sounds taught so far and our common words.

Tuesday was Earth Day, we read books about helping to look after the earth and had discussions about what we can do in our homes and schools to play our part to look after the earth.  We then wrote our ideas down for writing.  We made a paper plate craft and added these to our writing to make a display in our area.

We looked at the importance of recycling and sorted household items into the different coloured bins.  We watched a clip about recycling and where our rubbish goes to.

In Maths we looked at numbers to 30 recognising and writing the numbers.  We looked at tens and ones and how many tens and ones were in different numbers.

In Religion we discussed Jesus rising from the death on Easter Sunday and we made an empty tomb craft to show Jesus had risen.  We have also been thinking about Pope Francis may he rest in peace and learning the Eternal Rest Prayer.

Today we went up to the Woodlands for outdoor learning we used the materials of the woodlands to create pictures on paper.  We didn’t stick them down and when we were finished we returned the natural materials to the woodland floor.  We also litter picked as part of Earth Day and to help look after our planet.

Some of our personal highlights for the week are:

Emma ‘I am proud of my writing’

Cerys ‘ I am getting better with my counting’

Oskar ‘I liked learning new songs with Celtic Croft’

Franek ‘I liked learning about recycling’

Tiara ‘I liked learning about tens and ones’

Guhan Kumar ‘I liked making the Earth Day craft’.

Antosh ‘I liked playing in the woodlands’

Well done to   our Hot Chocolate Winner Dawid and Congratulations to Guhan Kumar our Reading Champion.

Have a lovely weekend everyone and a well-deserved rest after our first week back to school.

Hi Families of P2

We have had a fantastic last week of term. The children were amazing performing their assembly. Well done everyone, we are very proud of you all!

The children had great fun taking part in lots of Easter activities, including crafts, baking and an Easter egg hunt.

We wish everyone a lovely Easter break and well deserved rest!

Happy Friday to all primary 3 families!

I hope you all had a lovely week this week. We were very busy this week in primary 3.

We started the week off on Monday with lots of spelling and fun maths outdoors!

On Tuesday we were lucky enough to go to Deans High School for our multisports festival, what a great day we had. The sun was shining and we had lots of fun.

On Wednesday we went for a lovely walk in the sun and enjoyed our day seeing different kinds of wildlife, we even got a chance to have a look in the reservoir at Eliburn park. We seen lots of lovely animals and some of us even seen some animals we had never seen before! To round off our conservation of wildlife topic we watched the animals in Edinburgh Zoo on a live stream! Unfortunately the lions and koalas never made an appearance but we got to see a sleepy tiger, some giraffes and penguins.

On Thursday we had a fun day and got a chance to play a new game called capture the flag and learned the end of the Easter story. The children made and hid eggs then wrote clues to find them, they sent me on a hunt to look for them.

Today we enjoyed a morning of making Easter crafts and watching team Scotland playing in the Transplant European Football Championship! We learned about what a transplant is and how this can help save someone’s life. The kids all cheered on team Scotland who were playing Spain!

You can also have a look at the children’s great habitat creations from last week!

Well done to this weeks Hot Chocolate winner, table point winners and reading champion!

I hope you all enjoy your much deserved two weeks off.

Miss Duddy

We have had a super busy and fun week in Primary One.

On Monday we had an outdoor learning session Kids Gone Wild with Rob and his therapy dog Jax.  We got to play sticky boots and we walked along a slack line.  It was very wobbly and we had to use our balance to help us stay up right.  Mrs Russell was very proud and impressed with us all for walking across the line and being so brave.

In Religion this week we learned about Holy Week, we made palm leaves and acted out the Palm Sunday story.  We also heard about what happened on Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday.

In Literacy, we have been learning the ‘igh’ and ‘ng’ sounds and revising our common words and all sounds taught.

As part of our Health and Well Being and a follow up to our baby visit last week Mrs Carlyle brought in a doll that is the same weight as a real baby. We got to hold it and practise holding a baby correctly. We all really enjoyed holding the doll and giving it cuddles.

We have been making lots of Easter crafts and we particularly enjoyed making Easter nest cakes and baskets. We also made Bunny Ear Headbands and hopped around like bunnies.

This week we brought home our little sunflowers to look after at home.  We know they need sunlight and water.

For Outdoor Learning today, we had an Easter Egg Scavenger Hunt and we wore our bunny ear headbands to complete this.  We had lots of fun finding all the pictures.

We made Easter Gifts for our Buddies and they gave us all a lovely Easter basket with eggs.  Our Reading Buddies in P6 organised a special Easter Egg Hunt for us in the area. They had made beautiful crochet chicks for us.

Today we took our door stops home with a wee message to let our families know about them.  We had them on our class altar and now we will take them home to display at home.

Our weekly highlights:

Daniel ‘I loved the slack line’

Cerys ‘I liked making buddy cards’

Tiara ‘ I liked seeing the dog’

Emilio ‘I liked when I found the egg and the chick with p6

Alfie ‘I liked palying in the woods’

Oskar ‘I liked to play in the playground finding the pictures’

Felix ‘I liked drawing’.

Well done to Tiara our Hot Chocolate winner and to Antosh our Reading Champion for this fortnight.

We wish everyone a wonderful holiday with your family and Friends. Hopefully the weather stays nice and the sun continues to shine.

Hello P5B Families

We have reached our final week of term!  What a super week it has been with all of our Holy Week learning.  The children participated in some very special re-enactments of these Biblical events.

Here are our ‘best bits’ according to the Red table this week:

Jayden enjoyed checking to see what level the rain gauge reached.  Due to all the lovely weather we have been enjoying this week, we were not able to see much collected.  We are hoping for those April showers upon our return after the holiday.

Olek and Scott loved the Last Supper drama.  After each day in Holy Week being dramatized, the children then recounted the story in their jotters.

Ella has continued to enjoy our class novel.  Elsie, the main character has captivated us with all of her antics!

Matthias liked learning about the Smart tech, microbit with Miss Smith.  Microbits will be used in our Climate Smart models.

Cohen LOVED working with his group to brainstorm some ideas for the model his group will be building after Easter.  Everyone wants to win to go forward to Heriot-Watt but unfortunately only one model per class will attend.  A real architect will decide who goes forward.  Each group will make a presentation to them.

My highlight (apart from the obvious Holy Week learning) was the joke I played on the class!  I pretended that school budget cuts meant that we had to cut the grass with scissors!  As they started to cut, I revealed it was an April Fools!  They were so disappointed as they wanted to do it!  Flynn and Rowan played a super prank too by covering the door entrance with cellophane so the kids would bounce off it.  It went down a treat!

Congratulations to Addison, our Hot Chocolate award winner and to Ellie-May, our Reading Champ!

I hope you all have a restful break and I will see the children back on Tuesday 22^nd.  We look forward to seeing what materials the children bring in on this day for building their Climate Smart models.  If you have misplaced your letter, please see below: