St John Ogilvie Primary School

This week Ogilvie Bear visited Australia. We were very interested in the different seasons and that at Christmas time it is very hot. We did a google search and liked seeing the photos of Santa surfing. We also learned about different animals that are found in Australia, did you know that Koalas sleep for 18 hours a day? We did a seesaw task to label the parts of a Koala and made the flag of Australia.

In maths, we have been using the Numicon to show the numbers before and after. We also made teen numbers and we knew that each time we needed the ten piece. As part of our work on subitising we watched a video where the finger patterns and dot patterns appeared and we had to shout out the number. We were very quick!

This week we have been learning all about the letter ‘a’. We know how to write it correctly and we were able to use ‘a’ to make some words using the magnetic boards. We learned all about the Vowel House and we were very good at remembering what sound each character made.

We had an assembly on Friday where we learned about Mary.

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

Dear Parents,

Here’s an update of what we’ve been learning this week by Grant, this week’s Lead Learner and Myles, Grant’s helper.

Tuesday- the class was learning all about Ted Hughes poems and having a math scavenger hunt and finally we finished the day by doing a bit of French.

Wednesday- First the class were writing poems in the morning. Then we were on the RLPS Second Level Learning. After we did programming using the Pro Bots and finally for PE we were doing handball practice.

Thursday- Today we got our new Reading book, ‘Millions’ by Frank Cottrell Boyce. Afterwards, we did Real Life Time Problems reading timetables. Then we had Mrs Broadly For Spanish. After that we Practiced our Assembly songs.

Friday- The class had an assembly in the hall then we did our Frank Miller drama then we did our Scotland through the Decades topic and finally we had Fun Friday,

Here are some thoughts from some of our P7s:

Aoife- I was a confident individual when I spoke in the assembly.

Caleb- I was a responsible citizen because I volunteered to help the P1s at break times.

Emily- I was an effective contributor because I answered a lot of questions in maths when we were learning about percentages.

Joshua- I was a successful learner when I made lots of slides of information for the group PowerPoint.

This week’s Over  and Above winner who takes the hot chocolate home was…

Lily who had a great approach and attitude to her learning all week.

Have a great Weekend!

PS

Here is the P7 Overview for Term 2:

P7 Forward Plan Overview Term 2

Dear Readers,

Another great week of learning and kindness for P5A!

The highlights of the week were the following:

• Our super interesting spelling words and their practice.
• Continuing our Scottish Wars of Independence work and the learning about all the Battles, where they took place and who won.
• Our shields which are already looking absolutely amazing!👏
• The Maths work on place value to 10000 and 3d shapes.
• Learning again about the watercolour technique to paint with vibrant colours.
• Our introduction to poetry when we have learned about how many different kinds of poems we can have and what poems are.
• Highlighting verbs and nouns in a big text.
• Our learning about similes.
• The Consecration Journey which has ended today and how independent we have become when Praying the Rosary after our reflection on the daily Readings.
• Our daily Prayers for the end of the war in Ukraine so that every child in the world can experience their right to live in peace and to be happy.🥰

Many congratulations to our 1st Kindness Champion of Primary 5, Miss Ailsa! Well done for following on Jesus’ footsteps of kindness and love for our neighbours! So proud!❤

That’s all for now! We say goodbye wishing all a very good October holiday filled with all kinds of good things!

P5A and Mrs Valente ❤

We spent this week reflecting on the different childrens rights we have and how we know that we are getting them. e.g. in class we drink water and we can fill up our water bottles (article 24 a right to clean water) We also created posters to show the key things having rights gives us – LIFE, PROTECTION from harm,  PARTICIPATION (to join groups and share our opinions) and DEVELOPMENT (help to build our talents & skills as we grow up)

On Friday we had a fabulous collection across all classes for the local foodbank.

Layla also donated her preloved Halloween costumes. 

This week we have been practising our hockey skills, dribbling and passing. After the October break we will be building game skills before we take part in a hockey competition at the end of October.

Tomorrow is the final day for our Consecration to Jesus through Mary. Day 34with Bishop Keenan.

Thank you to everyone who has participated at home as well as in class. We will arrange a class mass when we come back from our holidays.

Have a great Holiday everyone. We will see you all on Tuesday, 17th of October.

This week we have been practising ordering numbers up to 10 and also up to 20. We used number cards to help us and completed a task on Seesaw. We played a game on the board where we had to put the caterpillar’s body back together by ordering the numbers.

Our new sound this week was ‘p’. We had to feed the panda with the pictures that started with ‘p’ and learned to write the letter correctly. We set up a pizza shop and we have been writing the orders and making pizzas for each other.

To finish our work on the 5 senses we made popcorn. We tasted 3 different types of popcorn to see which one we liked the best and then made a graph to display the results.  We also had a turn of the feely box and we were very good at guessing what was inside.

This week Ogilvie Bear visited Japan. We learned all about Bullet Trains and we were very impressed with how fast they went. We also designed a Kimono and Miss Stebbing was very impressed that we put lots of flowers on them just like the ones we saw in the pictures.

Some of our personal highlights this week are:

Peyton – I enjoyed playing with marble run.

Leah – I enjoyed drawing.

Alfie – I enjoyed playing in the pizza shop.

Lewis – I enjoyed playing with the blocks.

Bella – I enjoyed playing with my buddy.

Maksymilian – I enjoyed tasting the popcorn.

Well done to Vikashini who is our Hot Chocolate Winner this week.

Hi Families of Primary 2

Ogilvie Bear was in Japan this week, exploring lots of wonderful sights. We learned all about life in Japan and made some beautiful blossom trees and Kimono’s.

In Literacy we learned all about singular and plural nouns and practised our common words. We continued to work on place value in numeracy and did some great counting on and back in 2’s, 5’s and 10’s.

Weekly Highlights

Faye, Lillian and Aarav – We loved making the blossom trees.

Rose and Connor – We liked making Kimono’s.

Enso – I loved learning about Japan. My favourite part was learning about bullet trains.

Huge congratulations to Connor our hot chocolate winner.

Have a lovely holiday!

Dear Parents,

Here’s an update on what we’ve been doing this week in P7A:

On Monday we started Handball in P.E and we had a prayer service to St. Vincent de Paul.

Tuesday we wrote an animal poem, and had a scavenger hunt maths edition.

On Wednesday we played real life problem solving (RLPS), handling data to seat people on a plane.

Thursday we watched ‘Skellig’ the movie because we finished reading the book.

Friday we enjoyed our drama on Frank Miller .

Here’s what some pupils thought on this week:

Aoife – I liked doing our new decade

David – I enjoyed doing math time problems

Filip – I liked health and well being

Nehal – I enjoyed doing drama

Joshua – I enjoyed playing cluedo

Inaya – I liked watching the movie Skellig and eating popcorn

Elizabete – I liked writing the poem about animals

Sylvia – I liked writing my story on Monday

Nilaya was this week’s Over and Above winner.

By Lead Learners Aoife and Adam.

Have a great holiday,

Mr McGurn and P7A.

This week, primary 4 have had a very busy week. In numeracy we have been learning how to estimate using interactive games on the smart board and using the whiteboard. We also started to have a look at adding 9 using the trick add 10 takeaway 1. Some of the the boys sat in the area doing their maths work on Thursday and had so much fun they stayed out there working whilst eating their snack, they said it was one of their top 10 days of primary school!

In literacy, the children have been writing the instructions for the Malteser traybake they made last week, we focussed on the ‘ea’ sound this week in our spelling, and have been reading our books some more. The children have been working really hard on using verbs and time conjunctions to enhance their instructional writing, some of the children even asked for their work to be photocopied so they can make it over the holidays!

For primary 4’s Scottish inventors topic, we have been learning how to research John Logie Baird and Alexander Fleming. We started to look at Steven Browns art, we coloured in our own McCoos, using line and colour to do this. The children even named them and came up with some very unique names!

Nicolas’ highlight of the week this week was making the McCoos, he enjoys art and liked using all of the different colours to create the shaggy hair.

Olek’s highlight of the week this week was everything! He had a great week at school this week.

Ksawery’s highlight of the week was sitting outside playing Sumdog during technology with our s4 helpers on work experience.

Scott’s highlight of the week was everything just the same as Olek! He thought the week was fab.

Ava’s highlight of the week this week was maths when we did our times tables, she loved watching everyone compete with each other to get the fastest time.

Our hot chocolate winner this week is Scott.

Our secret student winner this week is Jayden. Well done boys.

I hope you all have a fun and restful October week !