St John Ogilvie Primary School

Hi everyone,  we have had another busy and fun filled week in P1.

In Literacy we have been learning our first sound m.  It is a long, stretchy, red coloured sound and we use our lips to make it.  We made m using chalks and whiteboards  and markers and we also practised forming it in rice.  We are able to recall lots of words that begin with m.  We used our cutting skills to cut out a monster and piece him together and today we designed and drew our own monsters.  Mrs Russell was very impressed with the detail in our drawings.

In Maths and Numeracy we have been looking at the numbers 4 and 5, what they look like as a quantity and as a number and we practised forming the numbers 0 to 5.  We have been exploring 3D shapes learning their names and trying to identify some in the environment.  We made some amazing structures with the shapes. We are continuing to enjoy counting forwards and backwards and we use a 100 square to help us look at the numbers as we count.  We are also enjoying using the Promethean Board to play maths games.

This week we have been learning about our senses and the sense of touch.  We had to feel different objects inside of balloons and try to work out what the object was and match it to the correct pictures.

We also learned different words to describe the feel of things and completed a hand activity.

In Religion we are continuing to learn our school prayers and we also discussed our talents and gifts.

In Spanish we played a game we had to listen to the colour in Spanish and jump on to a circle that colour.  We also used our listening skills to colour parts of a dog red, blue, green and yellow in Spanish.

Weekly Highlights:

Myra ‘I liked when Mr Pentland read us a story’

Tiara ‘I liked tidying up’

Cerys ‘I liked colouring the Teddy Bear’

Daniel and Guhan Kumar ‘We liked everything’

Alfie and William ‘We liked playing with then Marble Run’

Well done to this weeks Hot Chocolate winner Emilio.  We are very proud of you.

Hello to our P4A families!

We have had a super week of hard work and of course lots of fun too.

Throughout this week we focused on our new genre of writing which is procedure writing. P4A shared great step by step writing pieces about how they make popcorn. Some of the great work is displayed below.

Primary 4A also had the opportunity to trial our new Better Thinking Classrooms approach, which promotes the children to problem solve, think, communicate and work in a pair or trio to complete the problem.

Laura said that this task “really made her brain work” which we love to hear as she tried so hard to complete the question.

Ethan used his mental maths and knowledge of multiplication to help him battle the problem.

Alicja also worked very hard by trying lots of different ways to answer the question until she reached her correct answer.

Our hot chocolate winner of this week goes to Bodhini- she always tries her very best and is a super friend to everyone in the class. Well done Bodhini!

P4A have shown great engagement with their topic, Scottish Inventors and we look forward to welcoming you all to our assembly in the coming weeks.

Another great week, Well done P4A 🙂

Miss Maxwell

Please see some of the learning experiences your child will engage in during Term 1 of Primary 5:

Hello families of P5B!

Here are our highlights this week as recorded by the Blue table:

Anthony and Sean enjoyed playing Counting Cowboys!  This game involved shooting the answer to your partner while wearing a cowboy hat and pointing a water pistol (I have told the class that one day when they least expect it, water will be in the pistols!).  We played the game to revise some of the maths learning from P4.

Georgia and Amelia said the highlight of their week was when Mr Pentland took the class and the children played SumDog.  P5 SumDog logins, along with any others needed for homework (starting on Monday) will be issued on Monday.  Please keep these in a safe place.

Flynn and Scott LOVED the M&M production of The Railway Children.

Haadiya liked our learning on the ‘ea’ sound.  We practised our spreading skills, linked to this sound (spread on bread) with cherry and blackcurrant game and blew feathers in the air, having to say a ‘ea’ word in between breathes.

Nicolas also enjoyed blowing the feathers.

Olek liked learning about the Ten Commandments.  His writing of them on stone templates was chosen to go on the alter.  Well done Olek!

Addison liked joining in with the song that introduced the ‘ea’ sound.  We learned that it can be pronounced 3 different ways but we were just focusing on one of them this week.  Here is a link to the song in case your child wants to hear it again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDH0DOi9eHM

My highlight was our learning about the Ten Commandments.  This learning was not planned for this week but through some twists and turns, led to a discussion about it.  The children asked if they could find out more about God’s rules for our lives.  We had some in depth, meaningful discussion.

Congratulations to our hot chocolate award winner, Nathan!  Amelia also won it last week.  Well done you too!

I hope you manage to enjoy some of the lovely sun due this weekend

Mrs Brown

Another fun and busy week in P1.  This week we have been looking at where a noise or picture is located, if it is at the beginning, middle or end.  We also used hoops for the children to jump in to the hoop at the beginning, in the middle or at the end. We revised same and different vocabulary as well as loud and quiet.

We read the story A Little Spot of Sadness and the children made talking sentences of something that makes them sad.  We drew black line drawings of this and tried to scribe and mark make about our picture.

In Maths we looked at the numbers 2 and 3, what they look like as a quantity and as a number and we practised forming the numbers 2 and 3.  We looked at pattern in the environment and made our own patterns using loose parts.  We also stated to look at and name 2d shapes and sorting shapes.  We practised our cutting skills by completing a cut and stick shape activity.   We are continuing to enjoy counting forwards and backwards and we use a 100 square to help us look at the numbers as we count.

We watched a story about feeling angry and discussed what makes us feel angry and strategies to help us calm down.  We did talking sentences about what makes us angry.

We looked at photos of people who help us in school Mrs Mc Kissack and Mrs McLaughlin and the jobs they do.  We looked at our school crest and made our own.

In Spanish we are learning to say hello and the colours red, green, blue and yellow.  We sing a song to help us.

Today we got to meet up with our buddies for Outdoor learning.  We have lots of fun and used lots of equipment we even got to go on the bikes and scooters.

In Religion we learned how God loves all of us and that we are all special to God.  We are continuing to learn how to bless ourselves and the daily prayers.

Our Learning Highlights:

Alfie: ‘I liked doing our school badges and the marble run’

Tiara: ‘I liked reading’

Myra: ‘I liked drawing’

Ava: ‘I liked outdoor learning with our buddies’

Daniel: ‘I liked every single part of school’

Emilio: ‘I liked playing with my buddies and wearing my birthday crown’

Franek: ‘I liked playing with the toys’

Cerys: ‘I liked playing on the pirate ship’

Well done to Lena our Hot Chocolate winner this week.

Have a lovely weekend everyone and enjoy the sunshine.

Dear  Readers,

We hope you have had a good week and are getting ready for a sunny weekend!😀🌄

This week in Primary 6B we have done many different things but the highlights were the following:

• Our first spelling work with Word Boost words from our novel Nowhere Emporium.
• Our work on place value which  was very interesting since we had numbers up to the millions to find the value of.
• In RE, after having learned and worked on the Assumption of Mary, we have been developing our knowledge on the life of Moses, the Exodus and Jewish traditions which date back from the time of the Exodus. We will be continuing this work and will be locating and reading the Scriptures of the Book of Exodus directly from the Bible and discussing them.
• We have learned about the difference between literal and inferential questions and have had the chance to work in pairs to ask our own literal questions about the class novel. At the end, all groups have asked their questions to the class and all of them have been correctly answered, which was brilliant!🤩
• In Maths we have revised many 2d shapes and their properties and will continue working on them next week.
• Our week has finished with Free Writing Friday and most of the children enjoyed that time to express themselves. Many children have asked to share their pieces of writing with the class and all had fun listening!😉
• The adventures in the Nowhere Emporium continue and we are always wanting to know what happens next! It’s really addictive!📚🤔
• This week is the 3rd and last for our Jobs Monitors which means that we will be choosing new ones on Monday so we would like to thank to all our Monitors for their super competent work! Well done!👏👏👏
• We would like to congratulate our Hot Chocolate of the Week from last week, Miss Leah, for her excellent behaviour and focus on the learning. She was an absolute star✨ and, as a Line Leader, has tried to lead the class the best possible way! Well done, Leah!🥇
• Many congratulations as well to the Hot Chocolate of this week, Miss Ishani M, for being a true example of good listening, participation in class and kindness! Thank you very much for all the help you have given when one of our IT monitors wasn’t well and you have covered for them in the most competent way ever, by helping all to get on their laptops, have the correct passwords and usernames and even swapping laptops when they ran out of battery! Well done, Ishani M!🥇👏

That’s all for this week, we say goodbye for now wishing everyone a lovely weekend!

P6B and Mrs Valente 😘😘

Hello families of P4A!😁

Welcome to our Glow Blog!.

Over the past three weeks we have been settling back into our routine and working super hard alongside our new teachers Miss Maxwell and Mr Pentland. We have completed some amazing work and we have begun displaying this on our walls.

We have generated our classroom expectations and designed our class charter which we have also displayed in our room to highlight what we believe makes a great, equitable and safe classroom for all.

Some of our highlights from the past three weeks;

Linda shared a great writing piece when we completed our ‘Letters to our future self’. Here she showed she has retained knowledge of what we should always include in our writing such as good grammar and punctuation.  Well done Linda!

Zion showcased his incredible maths skills as we played some interactive games on the board which help us revise our multiplication. Amazing work Zion!

Tiwa and Bodhini, both of our new starts have settled in well to our classroom and are great friends to all of the children in the class. We are delighted to have them join us as part of our family at St John Ogilvie.

Our hot chocolate winner of week 2- Diana- For always being so kind to everyone and for consistently focusing on her work.

Our hot chocolate winner of week 3 – Caiden- For being responsible and making good choices and also completing his work to an amazing standard!. Keep up the great work Caiden!.

P4A have spent some time in the nursery over the past two weeks, to which they really enjoyed and took great pride in being positive role models for their younger peers.

Miss Maxwell really enjoyed meeting some of the parents at meet the teacher  and is looking forward to working alongside them as the year goes on.

P4A have established a firm routine of which we will carry into next week as we progress to following on our curriculum and kick starting our P4 work for the year!

Well done P4A keep up the hard work!