St John Ogilvie Primary School

Hello P3A families,

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

Angel has enjoyed our learning about 2D shapes.  His favourite was a circle.  The children learned a little trick to help them remember the name of a ‘pentagon’.  They now visualise it as a hotel and see the penthouse suite at the top!  We will continue to learn about shape next week.

Ollie said the best part of his week was adding within 100.  The children have been using Dienes maths resources to support them with addition.  We will be doing much addition and subtraction within 100 throughout the year.  The children made a good start on their understanding of it this week.

Caleb also loved maths this week.  The class has a counting teddy, which they named ‘Lila’.  Lila helps us count to warm up our brains before our maths lesson.  This week we have revised counting in 2s, 5s and 10s, forwards and backwards (revision from P2).

Laura loved the production of ‘The Jungle Book’.  A big thank you to the PFA for this annual treat!

Vivien liked PE with Mr Pentland this week.  They played some getting to know you activities.  Vivien shared her love of gymnastics.  Mr Pentland takes the class on a Monday for PE and I take the class on a Tuesday for PE.

My highlight was an activity we did as a follow up to our class novel, The Twits.  The children had to work in pairs (one being Mr Twit and the other, Mrs Twit) and using a stimulus, had to play a trick on the other person (The Twits are always playing tricks on one another).  We had some creative ideas from P3A!  Ask your child what trick they played!

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

Homework will begin next week and will be found on your child’s Seesaw account.  I ask that homework packs remain in the school bags to protect the reading books and are brought to school everyday.  Thank you.  Can your child also take a water bottle and snack with them to school each day to help keep them hydrated and provide energy between meal times.  Thank you.

Regards

Mrs Brown

Here is an overview of some of the learning experiences that your child will engage in during the coming term:

Week 2 in P2/1 and our teachers are very impressed with how well we have settled into routines after the summer holiday. We are all working hard to show we are Ready, Respectful and Safe.

This week we have been doing lots of number work, recognising numbers and putting them into order. We have enjoyed counting songs and games.

P2 have been revising their initial sounds and have focused on middle vowel sounds to build cvc words. P1 have been working on recognising quiet and loud sounds and the vocabulary same and not the same/different.

We are focusing on emotions/feelings and this week have looked at the green and blue Zones of Regulation in preparation to begin our daily check ins.

There has been lots of play throughout the days and it has been lovely observing all the children interacting with their peers and showing off their knowledge.

Hi everyone,

We have had a very busy week. We continued to create our own Children’s Rights Display and have begun to talk more about our emotions through Zones of Regulation. We are beginning to find out what SHANARRI means (Safe, Healthy, Achieving, Nurtured, Active, Respected, Responsible and Included) and how that impacts us at school and at home.  In Science we invested a Lunar eclipse and created some solar system artwork. Our big highlight was the visit from M & M Productions and we enjoyed their performance of the Jungle Book. Our other big highlight this week was being out in the school gardens beginning our journey of caring for the environment by weeding some of the overgrown gardens in preparaton for planting bulbs in a few weeks. We have selected two fantastic Lead Learners who have demonstrated how to be an effective contributor and responsible citizen in our class learning environment. The first Hot Chocolate Winner in P5B was Alexa.

We look forward to more exciting activities next week.

Good Afternoon Families,

We have had a very busy week in Primary 2!

In Literacy, we focused on the ‘a’ and ‘e’ vowel sound in the middle of the word.  We also did a piece of writing all about ourselves, trying to remember to use full stops, capital letters and finger spaces.  The children produced some fantastic work!

In Maths and Numeracy, we continued to work on 2D shape.  The children were naming and sorting different 2D shapes, including Pentagons, Hexagons and Octagons.  We also continued working with numbers up to 100.

In Health and Wellbeing, we looked at how we can be ready, respectful and safe when we are at school and are in the process of making a display for our classroom.  We can’t wait to show you all!

Highlights of the Week:

Lillian:  I liked free writing Friday because I liked using my imagination to write a story.

Cameron:  I liked playing operation.  It was hard to try and get the pieces out without setting of the buzzer!

Aarav:  I liked making electrical circuits and trying to light up the bulb.

Summer:  I loved the Jungle Show in the hall.  It was fun!

Faye and Azmeer: We liked learning the sounds a and e.  They are both vowel sounds.

Last week we welcomed a new pupil into our class. His name is Zaroon and the children have made him feel very welcome!

Our hot chocolate Friday winner was Aarav! Huge congratulations to him! He has been working very hard and is always kind and helpful to the other children in the class! We are very proud of you Aarav!

We are very sorry that we have no photographs this week.  We have had some technical problems with our class I-pad.  We hope to have this fixed for next week.

Have a great weekend!

Dear Parents,

We’ve had a busy week in P7A after the return from the summer holidays.

We’ve had PE and Music, Literacy and Mathematics, and met our buddies in P1.

P7A have been learning Spanish and French, HWB and RME, and started a fun Drama lesson.

We’ve settled in very well to the routines of the class and the school and created our own Class Charter.

We’re looking forward to school trips, the P7 show and school camp.

Here are a few comments from the pupils about this week:

“I liked playing/doing mental maths because it makes me feel active.” Adam

Aoife “I liked drama because it was interesting.”

“I Liked meeting my buddy. And drama because everyone got confused.” Joshua

Anastasia “I liked meeting my new buddy.”

“Meeting our buddies was fun! And getting to know everyone.” Cordelia

Amelia “I really enjoyed meeting my buddy because we got to learn different things.”

“The best things about the week were meeting our buddies and getting our new reading book Skellig.” Sam

Sylvia “I really enjoyed meeting my buddy because we played together and chatted a lot.”

“Meeting my buddy because it is their first year in school and we get to show them around and help them.”

Hello P3A families,

The children have settled back in to school well and have enjoyed their learning experiences so far and getting reacquainted again.  Here are their highlights according to the Yellow table:

Tadiwa enjoyed playing ‘Chaos Tig’ as part of our warm-up during PE.  PE for P3A will be on a Monday and Tuesday.

Olivia liked designing what our new classroom charter will look like.  The class had some lovely ideas that involved a rainbow, raindrops and clouds that would display the important messages of being Ready, Respectful and Safe.  We will work on creating this next week.

Zion has loved our class novel ‘The Twits’.  He has read it before at home.  His favourite part was when Mrs Twit played a trick on Mr Twit by putting worms in his spaghetti!  The children had a sensory experience of feeling cooked spaghetti if they wanted.

Jaide said the best part of his week was ‘Boogie break-time’ when the whole school had music to enjoy at break-time.

Riley liked drawing what he thought Mr and Mrs Twit looked like after hearing their description read out.  The children then compared them with what they actually looked like afterwards.  Super listening Riley! Your drawings were similar.

Aadya liked learning about different parts of the eye.  This was a follow up to hearing the chapter about Mrs Twit playing a trick on her husband with her glass eye!  We discovered that the majority of the class have brown eyes!

Allah said she loved playing with the barbies during ‘Choosing Your own Learning’ time.

My highlight was meeting everyone on Monday morning and seeing how the children had grown!  I had some lovely hugs that morning and big smiles.

We welcome our new pupil, Tvisha to our St John Ogilvie family and hope she feels welcome.

I look forward to seeing those families who can attend our ‘Meet the Teacher’ session on Tuesday at 3.30pm.  Slides will be sent home to everyone the following day to remind you of what information was presented or to inform those unable to attend.

Regards

Mrs Brown