St John Ogilvie Primary School

This week we learned all about the letter ‘m’. We listened for words with the ‘m’ sound and we practised writing the letter correctly. Some people decided to make ‘m’ using the blocks. We also learned the common word ‘I’.

In maths, we have been learning to write the numbers 6 and 7. We used the ten frames and the Rekenreks to show the number in different ways. We also learned about 2D shapes and discussed how many sides and corners each had. We then coloured in a shape pizza.

In Health and Wellbeing, we discussed why it is important to wash our hands. We sequenced the pictures in the right order to show how to wash your hands correctly.

Ogilvie Bear has been visiting Greenland this week and we have learned some facts about the country. We wrote a sentence about the animals that Ogilvie Bear could see. We followed instructions to draw a polar bear and learned about the Northern Lights. Everyone was very impressed with our art work.

On Monday and Thursday, we were practising dribbling, blocking and passing which helps us to develop good basketball team skills. On Monday afternoon we discussed  This year’s International Day of Peace will focus on “Actions for Peace” and how the Sustainable Development Goals are essential to preventing conflict and maintaining peace. We will be continuing to research our Rights through Article 38 (war and armed conflicts) Governments  must do everything they can to protect and care for children affected by war and armed conflict) and Article 39 (recovery from trauma and reintegration) Children who have experienced neglect, abuse, exploitation, torture or who are victims of war must receive special support to help them recover their health, dignity, self-respect and social life.

We sketched Peace Posters in our Jotters which show there should be peace around the world not war.

As part of our Consecration Journey we are learning more about the prayers of the Rosary.

We also drew pictures of Our Lady and displayed them around our Altar area.

The daily link to our Consecration Journey for each day over the holiday weekend.

Consecration Journey Day 12             Consecration Journey Day 13          Consecration Journey Day 14    Consecration Journey Day 15             Consecration Journey Day 16

On Wednesday we wrote instructions for corner bookmarks. We made our lovely bookmarks first so we could remember the steps.

We also completed our 2D shape Information Posters. We put a few of them on our Math Working Wall to remind us of our learning.

As it was Thursday today we were outside for Outdoor Learning. We had wonderful volunteers working to clear up different areas of our school grounds so we went to admire the Vegetable and Fruit growing area at the back of the school and had a quick chat about fruit and veg we would like to plant there soon.

Then we planted the last of our flower bulbs along the fence and trees around the front of the school grounds. Look out next year for snowdrops, crocus, bluebells and tulips amonst other types of flowers we planted in the garden areas outside the classrooms. We hope everyone has a happy, healthy weekend break and we will see everyone on Wednesday 20th September.

Dear Readers,

We hope you are all doing very well and also that you are looking forward for the Holiday weekend to enjoy some quality family time!

This week the highlights were:

• Our ‘creepy’ tale of the Warlock’s Hairy Heart.
• The learning in Maths about 3d shapes and place value.
• Our origami bookmark.
• Our Instructional Writing about how to make an origami bookmark.
• Planting the rest of our bulbs around the school grounds.
• We have continued our Consecration Journey and have started to Pray the Whole Rosary for the first time. So that you can continue your Consecration Journey, here are the links to the next days, Friday- day 12 , Saturday- day 13, Sunday- day 14, Monday – day 15, Tuesday – day 16.

Many congratulations to our Hot Chocolate winner! 👏🌻🏆🥇🥰Things like super kindness, readiness, respect, being and keeping others safe and being caring always get rewarded! You are an absolute ✨😊!

That’s all for this week!

We say goodbye wishing all an amazing weekend!

Mrs Valente and P5A🥰❤

Hello P3A families,

Here are this week’s highlights from the Yellow table:

Riley said he enjoyed learning our long i vowel sound.  We know this can be made up of the spelling patterns: ‘igh’, i_e (magic e), ie and _y.  Look out for this sound in next week’s Literacy homework.

Hasika recounts how the best part of her week was learning about the ‘Ten Commandments’.  The children know that all the Commandments can be divided into loving God and loving our neighbour.

Aadya liked learning about hieroglyphics, the ancient Egyptian way of recording numbers and letters.  The children made their own papyrus looking paper by tea staining paper and when it dried they chose their own number and wrote it using this ancient way of recording.  They also wrote their name using their symbols.

Zion liked learning about the Great Pyramids.  The children made their own pyramid using a square based net.  Some P6s were on hand to help.

Alicjia loved our lessons about tiling 2D shape.  After an unsuccessful attempt at tiling random sized shapes, the children came to the realisation that tiling can only be done if the shapes are the same size.  We demonstrated this using shapes printed on paper and also through duplicating shapes on Seesaw.

Diana loved a PE co-operative game called ‘Crossing the River’.  Ask your child to explain to you how to play it.  Why not try it as a family and see if you can cross the river!  If possible, it was be great to see a photo or video on Seesaw for the class to enjoy!

My highlight was seeing the enthusiasm of two pupils who were very focused on mixing paints together to find out what other colours could be made.  They have started a discovery book and hope to share their findings with the class!

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

Regards

Mrs Brown

Good Afternoon Families,

We are not sure if the children have told you, but our very own Ogilvie Bear is travelling around the world.  He arrived in America this week and has been sending us messages about where he is and what he has been doing.  The children coloured American flags, took a virtual trip to Disney and decorated their own Mickey Mouse ears.

In Literacy, we focused on the ‘sh’ and ‘th’ sounds.  We also did a piece of writing about our favourite place.  We continued to work on trying to remember to use full stops, capital letters and finger spaces.  We also asked the children to use a joining word to connect their ideas.  We were very impressed with the writing produced!

In Maths and Numeracy, we continued to investigate 3D shapes.  The children were naming and sorting different 3D shapes, and we went on a 3D shape hunt around the school grounds.

Highlights of the Week:

Vedansh:  I liked trying to join my letters together in handwriting.

Lillian:  I loved decorating my Mickey Mouse ears.

Luca:  I enjoyed free writing Friday, I wrote about monsters!

Enso:  I liked learning new words in Word Boost.

Filip:  I liked working with Miss Smith on my literacy.

Connor:  I liked searching for 3D shapes outside.

Summer: I liked getting letters from Ogilvie Bear.

Huge congratulation to our hot chocolate Friday winner this week, Vasilisa!  She is always hard working and extremely helpful!  We are very proud of you Vasilisa!

Have a great weekend everyone!

Dear Readers,

Welcome to our P5A Blog!

We hope you are all well and very much used to the idea that our ‘babies’ are already big Primary 5s!😄

This week has been a bit different because Mrs Valente has been ill and had to be off Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday but we are still going to try and tell you about the things P5a have loved the most about the week, the highlights:

• Many people said they absolutely loved planting bulbs with their P5B friends in the school grounds and they were so good at it that they came today in the morning and were able to write instructional texts about ‘How to plant bulbs’, so that anyone who doesn’t know can follow their texts to learn and actually do it!🌹🌻🌺
• Most pupils have enjoyed our Consecration Journey where we start by praying the ‘Come, Holy Spirit’ prayer, followed by the daily reading, its discussion and then, the Rosary. We are becoming very good at praying the Rosary and have been enjoying it a lot.
• Playing basketball was also one of the week’s favourite activities and we will hopefully continue next week.
• Learning about really advanced 2d shapes, their names and properties was very interesting and the children were very good at them.
• The Tale of the Fountain of Fair Fortune was very much enjoyed and our Word Boost words from the week have been chosen by us from this interesting tale which has lots of tricky but wow vocabulary!

Regarding the 2 previous weeks, we would like to congratulate Miss Julia for having been the first Hot Chocolate of Primary 5 on the 25th of August!!!!!!👏👏👏👏👏👏🏆🥇

We would also like to send Miss Marie, who sadly had to say goodbye to us to move to another school in Edinburgh, all our love and all the luck for her new adventure! We know how lovely you are and are sure you will be much loved in your new school! 🥰Also, congratulations to Miss Marie for having been the 2nd Hot Chocolate of Primary 5, on the 1st of September! Well done!!!!!🥇🏆👏

We will let everyone know about our 3rd Hot Chocolate next week, since Mrs Valente will need to ask for some advice on that…😊

Here you can find the link to the Consecration Journey clips for days 6, Saturday, and 7, Sunday. It would be very good if you could help your child with the days they are not in school, including weekends and holidays, if possible.

That’s all for this week, we wish you all an amazing and sunny weekend filled with happiness!😍🌞🌄

P5A and Mrs Valente😘

This week we have been learning all about the numbers 4 and 5. We have used ten frames to make the numbers in different ways and we are getting really good at showing the correct finger patterns. We have enjoyed playing the games on the smartboard to help us with our counting.

In Literacy, we have been listening for animal sounds at the beginning, the middle and the end. We know we have to start from the left hand side. We pretended to line up for the bus and talked about who was at the beginning, middle and end of the line.

Ogilvie Bear visited the USA this week. We made our own flags and we learned about some landmarks. We really liked watching the Go Jetters episode where they visit the Golden Gate Bridge. We wrote about where Ogilvie Bear was and Miss Stebbing was very proud of all our drawings. On Thursday, we had a Disney Day. We visited Walt Disney World and got to watch some videos of the rides. We loved pretending to be on the roller coaster! We made our own Mickey Ears and voted for the snack that we would like to try. Then we watched the parade and the fireworks.

On Friday, we met up with our P7 Buddies and we did a Disney character hunt. There were posters all around the playground and we had to write the number on our clipboard when we found them.

Here are some of our personal highlights:

Peyton – I liked the roller coaster.

Dawid – I liked playing with the toys.

Eliza – I liked being with the buddies.

Sophia – I liked making the ears. I was Minnie Mouse.

Miss Stebbing – I was so proud of everyone for designing their own Mickey Ears. They were very creative.

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