St John Ogilvie Primary School

Dear Parents,

Here’s an update on what we’ve be doing this week in p7A.

In maths we have finished our work, for the moment, on fractions decimals and percentages and will complete an assessment on Monday to identify any final gaps to work on before high school. We completed some practical work, measuring the perimeter, area and volume of the classroom, upper area and cloakroom.

In literacy we have continued our reciprocal reading work on A Monster Calls, and we got to visit Carmondean Library on Wednesday afternoon. Joining application forms were sent home as a parent or guardian has to sign for an under 16 year old.

In RME we made Lenten promises and sealed them and will check them at the end of Lent to see how we got on. We visited St. Peter’s church on Wednesday for the Ash Wednesday service. Most of us who were taking part, managed to get our PFFA booklets handed in for the Friday deadline. Monday would be the very last chance!

We enjoyed using acrylic paints to try and paint in the style of Van Gogh and always enjoy our drama lessons.

On Friday we met in our House Groups, discussing what affects our local environment and what we can do to change it. This fits in with Article 13 – I have the right to find out and share information.

Our Hot Chocolate at Home Winner this week was…

Adam!

Great job Adam, keep it up.

As always, have a great weekend,

Mr McGurn and P7A.

A fun filled week doing lots of different activities.

We had Ash Wednesday and lots of us has ashes on our foreheads as a reminder to try to be loving and kind people.

We had pancakes today because we didn’t have them on Pancake day (IS)

Our Hot Choc Winner is Lily.  Our reading Champion is Ignacy.

We went to house groups today and talked about Article 13. Our right to an opinion and we learned what it can mean for us.

We used them Ipads to play on Sumdog.  We did some times tables work and looked at words with a magic ‘e’.  It is now Lent and we are going to learn more about what it means.

In Lent we should try to pray, fast and give to others.

Here are our highlights from the Yellow Table:

Lewis said, his favourite learning this week, was halving numbers.  We used ladybirds and two leaves to help us.  We know that half means dividing, or sharing between two.

Thuran shared that he loved Pancake Tuesday.  He tossed a pancake on the 2^nd try.  He thought it was good fun.

Ollie liked when we planted carrot seeds as part of our learning about farms.  He watered the seeds.  Thank you for your help Ollie.  We look forward to watching them grow, measuring them and then finally enjoying them as part of the ingredients in a healthy vegetable soup.

Isabella said, singing ‘Miss Polly had a Dolly’ with Mrs Morrison was her best part of the week.

Musa loved writing an Information Report.  We have been studying an Information Report about Ducklings.  The children then chose their own title for their own report.  Musa chose to write about scissors and he did a super job.  Well done Musa!

Ishaan has been enjoying watching ‘Down on the Farm’ episodes (https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08pj9xv/down-on-the-farm-series-3-2-cows-in-spring-and-cauliflowers) during snack time.  His favourite one so far, has been about cauliflowers being planted and harvested. Ishaan hopes to be a farmer one day when he is an adult and grow broccoli!

Mrs Devlin’s favourite part of the week was our lessons about Lent.  The children have made a Lenten Promise and have asked God to help them carry it out for 40 days.  We had a beautiful Ash Wednesday service in the Hall with Fr Simon.

Congratulations to Isabella, our Hot Chocolate award winner this week and to Eli, our Reading Champion!

Hello P2B families!

Here are our highlights of the week from the Blue Table:

Theo has been enjoying our Number Talks.  For the last 2 weeks, we have been focusing on estimations.  Each day, the children were shown an image of a jar full of different things and working with a partner, (last week it was whole class for modelling purposes) they estimated how many they thought the jar held.  Then I called out different clues, such as: ‘The number is smaller than 40’, then they marked off all the numbers bigger than 40 on a 100 square.  ‘The number is even,’ so they marked off all the odd numbers and so on, until we found the correct number!  The children have been improving at this skill as the 2 weeks have progressed!  I am so proud of them!  Each Number Talk lasts about 10 minutes as are out with the maths lesson.

Blair loved our weekly Word Boost corners game!  It is a big favourite among the class and a super way of revising that week’s words.  Sometimes instead of calling out the word, I call out the meaning of the word.  Blair was a winner this week when his game ended on ‘haul’.  Sofia was another winner this week also.  Well done guys!

Olivia said the best part of her week was our visit to St Peter’s Church.  She enjoyed dipping her fingers in the Baptismal Font.  I hope you enjoyed the pictures that were uploaded on Tuesday.

Evana was eager to share that the Judo Taster session during PE on Wednesday was the highlight of her week.

Amariah-Grace loved making Valentine cards today.

Mrs Devlin’s favourite part of the week was how enthusiastic the kids were when they first heard this week’s Word Boost story ‘Unfortunately’ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HbmO11wiD8).  The story was about the dangers a boy fell into when he was walking through a jungle.  Each time he was rescued, another danger happened!  The story ended with him in danger.  The children DEMANDED to know what happened next?  Was he rescued?  Was there a part 2?!?! We decided to make our own Part 2 in a comic book version and then, if we wanted to, we shared the story with the class on the Smartboard.  I was so impressed by ALL of the stories!

Congratulations to Evana, our Hot Chocolate award winner this week!

I hope you all have a good mid-term break and I will see you all on Tuesday 21^st.

This week has been another busy week.

In art, we’ve been drawing castles.  We drew and coloured one castle in the style of Paul Klee, using shapes filled with bold, bright colours.  We also developed our pencil sketching skills through a drawing of Edinburgh Castle.  We looked at how we could use lines to show depth, light and texture and we thought carefully about which direction the lines were facing and looked for the shapes we could see in the photograph.

In literacy, we have written a narrative using Scots language.  Our story is based on the adventures of Hamish McHaggis and we took our characters on an adventure to Edinburgh Castle.  We really enjoyed using Scots language and we have worked hard to build our understanding on how to punctuate speech correctly to show it being said by our characters.

In numeracy, we have moved on from multiplication to division.  We are applying our times table knowledge to solve problems and Mrs Brown has asked us to keep practising our times tables at home so we become even more confident with our multiplication and division skills.  Mrs Brown also says please remember to go onto Sumdog to do your maths homework.

Our highlights:

Jonah: I liked doing PE because we played Piggy in the middle with basketballs.

Leah: We got to write stories about Edinburgh Castle and I enjoyed doing this.  In mine, they had marshmallows and a big sleepover at the end.

Daniel M: I enjoyed making the PowerPoint about Edinburgh Castle because it was fun.

Mariam: I liked doing art with Mrs Lea because I liked using the bold colours.

Zac: I liked doing art as well because I like using the different shapes.

Well done to Dhanvi, who is our hot chocolate winner this week.

Have a very restful break everybody and I look forward to seeing you on the other side.

Mrs Brown 🙂

Super work going on in P4a, we are exploring Scotland with Hamish McHaggis and will learn more about Edinburgh Castle after the break. Mrs de Luan is a singing specialist from NYCOS and she has been visiting us on Thursdays. We are doing lots of practise with our times tables and using different strategies to help us learn new ones. For writing we have been writing some fantastic Teddy Tales and are hoping to create a P4 book with the super adventures.

We have been playing ‘around the world’ with our times tables fingers. (JK) We are doing challenging times table sums. (SF) We played basketball in PE. (SK)

Our Wellbeing Wednesday monster tells us to never give up and keep trying. (MM) The monsters name is Sproot. (DM) He lives at no. 3. (JK)

We did some music with Mrs de Luan. (JR) We learned ‘ta’, ‘tete’, So and Mi. (DM)

We went on laptops and played Sumdog. (BP) We have done our 4 times tables. (AS)

Sam was out Hot Choc winner this week and Samanvi won it last week.

Bailey has been our Reading champion and Jemima will wear the medal next term.

Hope everyone has a great break and a super rest.

Happy Friday!

We are done for another week! The children have been brilliant. A great way to end before the February break.

Pupil voice:

Caleb and Daisy enjoyed our spaghetti structures. The children showed good resilience and team work throughout this challenge.

Olivier, Myles and Filip liked the sumdog competition this week! Everyone has tried so hard. Well done.

Josh and Aoife enjoyed going outside and putting plotting coordinates into context! It was cold but fun!

Myles (and a few others) loved participating in Judo for PE this week! Thank you to Destination Judo for that lesson!

Thank  you P6 for a great week! Well done to Emmanuel for getting the hot chocolate at home! You had a fantastic week and really pushed yourself!

I hope you all have a good week (and a day) off! See you all next Tuesday! Can’t wait to hear about your time off! Remember to be safe and relax!

some photo highlights:

In maths, we have been learning about doubles.  We did a valentine worksheet where we had to put the numbers in the correct place. To help us with our subitising and take away skills we played a game called Splat.

In literacy, we have been learning the sound ‘wh’. We read the story ‘Norman the Slug with the Silly Shell’. We had to draw our own shell and then we wrote sentences using colour and texture words.

In RE, we read a story called ‘The Widow’s Mite’. The widow put all her money in the box at the temple. This helps us to remember we have to give love with all our hearts.

In topic, we finished our Local Area work by going on a walk to Morrison’s. We looked for technology in our local area that helps us. We found the talking bin, cameras and cash machine. We bought some things in Morrison’s and the staff let us scan them. When we were coming back to school, we got to play at the park. Back at school, we drew a map to show where we walked.  While we were on our walk, we spotted some snowdrops. Spring is on its way!

In PE we had a session with Destination Judo. It was great fun and we got to wear special jackets.

Some of our personal highlights are:

Filip – I enjoyed playing with the trains.

Joshua – I enjoyed playing with the hearts in the purple tray.

Vedansh – I enjoyed playing with the marble run. It was hard work to build it.

Lillian – I enjoyed making the Love Bugs.

Summer Rose – I enjoyed playing in the shop.

Aarav – I enjoyed playing with the marble run.

Miss Stebbing – I was very proud of everyone when we visited Morrison’s. They had marvellous manners when we were walking round the shop and at the checkout.

Congratulations to Layla who is our Hot Chocolate Winner this week.

Dear P6B families,

We have had a excellent last week before the February break – full of lots of learning.

Teacher highlights:

• Starting the research for our new writing topic, Information Reports. Everyone was very engaged and managed to find great facts about their chosen Ecosystem.
• Getting outside on Wednesday morning. We have been looking at coordinates and map reading so we had an excellent opportunity right in our playground to consolidate our learning.
• We got together with P6A and began the work for our research groups about Ecosystems.
• Constructing a floor plan model in maths for our learning of Area.

Pupil highlights:

• Siddharth – Judo session for PE on Friday.
• Summer – Taking part in the STEM challenge. “I enjoyed working together with my team and trying to solve the problems to create a racecourse for the bouncy ball”.
• Alex – Working with P6A for the ecosystem research activity.

Photo highlights –

Well done to Reece who was this weeks hot chocolate winner. Reece has taken ownership in his own learning this week by creating a resource which will help him in an area of maths he is working on and trying to improve. Very impressed!

Have a lovely, well deserved break P6B!

Miss MacGregor