St John Ogilvie Primary School

Hello P2B families!

Here are our highlights from the Red Table:

Maya said one of the highlights of her week was the daily Advent Reading event.  P7 pupils came at the end of each day to read us a Christmas/Winter themed story.  Not only did they enjoy reading to us but they enjoyed the questions the children asked them to get to know them better.

Musa enjoyed writing instructions about how to cross a road.  We sang the special instruction words: ‘First, Next, Then, Finally’ until they were embedded in our brains.

Ishaan liked hearing the story ‘Not a Stick’ in the woodlands.  The character used his imagination to pretend a stick was different things: a sword, a fishing rod, a spear (among others).  We then collected a stick and everyone had to guess what it was based on the actions.  We had a whole range of ideas ranging from a walking stick, a bow and arrow and wands.  What a creative bunch P2B are!

Isabella liked taking part in our Christmas door design competition.  Each classroom door (and others too) is now decorated Christmas themed.  Mrs Devlin decided to let the children present their ideas.  Isabella drew a super snowman!  Congratulations to the winner, Olivia!  I hope you get a chance to admire it when you come to the concert.

Tharun said he liked handwriting best.  This week we focused on ‘b, k and p’, letters that began with a downward movement and then bounced up and around.

Ollie has really been enjoying a new activity we started this week called ‘Today’s Number’.  This is a 3 digit number.  We read it and then discuss it.  Ollie was able to answer a very tricky question and the class and Mrs Devlin were very impressed!  Mrs Devlin was so shocked she had to sit down!

Mrs Devlin’s favourite part of the week was St Andrew’s Day!  Mrs Devlin LOVES bagpipes!  We listened to traditional music in the background while we did our super craft.  I hope you enjoyed the photos on Seesaw of the kilt and flag your child made.

Congratulations to Maja, who is our Hot Chocolate award winner this week!

I hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend and I look forward to seeing you at the Christmas Concert on Wednesday!  Remember that your child is welcome to bring a Christmas jumper or colours and a hairband or tinsel for the concert.

Pupil Highlights:

Olivier – “Wearing my Pyjamas to school!”

Sylvia – “Learning the Christmas party dances”

Josh – “Converting decimals fractions and percentages!”

Nilaya – “Starting December with Christmas Music.”

Inaya – “I loved our Advent art”

Grant – “I liked doing the multiplying and dividing 10, 100 and 1000 maths game.”

Caleb – “I liked Sumdog!”

Mr Pentland’s Highlight: 

This week was brilliant. The children have worked very hard! We came 2nd out of hundreds of classes in the Sumdog competition. It was lovely to see everyone come together and offer their support with such passion. Apparently we have a very competitive class. I loved reading the children’s expositions this week and hearing their very interesting points of view. We are working very hard on our critical literacy skill and viewing the world. The children are justifying their thoughts with great skill.

Over and Above Award:

The over and above this week has worked so hard and has always kept a positive mindset! Thank you for helping and offering support to your peers this week!

Nilaya! 

Patrick, “whenever you need help with maths  Nilaya is very supportive and is so happy when you knows that you’re comfortable!”

Grant and Natalie say, “she’s amazing!”

Photo: PJs to school! 

Photo: Creating our Christmas door display

Video: Getting into the Christmas spirit whilst we wait for the rest of the class to get their flu vaccine. 

Video: Mixed reception to Mrs Lafferty announcing the start of the Christmas party dances! They are all doing very well! 

Photos x4: Poverty at Christmas discussions

Photo: Some of our climate action work! 

Have a lovely weekend!

This week we have discussed International Day of People with Disabilities, which will be on the 3rd of December. This is a global event promoting equality for people with disability and celebrates their achievements. It is also a day to promote awareness of the challenges faced by over 1 billion people living with disabilities, and the role communities and societies play in breaking down barriers to inclusion. We discussed hidden disabilities like deafness, blindness, anxiety, ADHD, Autism and other disabilities which although can’t be seen from outside they are important to recognise and be respectful with these conditions.

Article 2 states:  The Convention applies to every child without discrimination, whatever their ethnicity, gender, religion, language, abilities or any other status, whatever they think or say, whatever their family background.

Article 23 states: A child with a disability has the right to live a full and decent life with dignity and, as far as possible, independence and to play an active part in the community. Governments must do all they can to support disabled children and their families.

Global Goal 10 – reduce inequalities and promote equity

We are continuing to create imaginative Christmas Gifts and rehearsing our performance for the  Christmas Enterprise Show on the 9th of December. On Wednesday we celebrate the Feast of Saint Andrew the Patron Saint of Scotland.

One of our highlights of the week was decorating our classroom door and try to win the best christmas door competition. This morning we had a full rehearsal in the school hall for our Enterprise Show next week. We also practised for our Advent Service on Monday afternoon which the Primary 5A and Primary 4A &4B will attend. Looking forward to seeing our families at our Christmas Enterprise next Friday 9.15.

Hello families of P2A

We have had a very busy and fun week, which included the beginning of Advent, St Andrews Day and Pyjama Day.

We are super excited to perform our Christmas Concert and have spent lots of time learning our new songs and actions this week.

In topic, we have been checking the rain fall and outside temperature everyday this week. We record this on a chart in our classroom.

Some excellent numeracy work:

Our Highlights:

Diana – I loved maths. I like learning all of the number bonds.

Zion – My favourite thing was learning about Advent and I loved making candy canes for our Christmas door.

Jiade – I liked learning about St Andrew. His cross was the same as the Scotland flag.

Angel – I like learning to write stories.

Grace Pyjama day was great fun!

Deveena – I loved the shortbread and Irn-bru on St Andrews day.

Aadya – I loved silent reading on pyjama day because we were so comfortable.

Everyone – We loved making gingerbread people, wreaths and candy canes to decorate our door.

Some photos from our St Andrews day celebrations:

Huge Congratulations to Aadya, this weeks hot chocolate winner.

Huge Congratulations to our Reading Champions, Angel and Vivien.

Have a lovely weekend!

Well done to Primary 4b for reaching the end of another lovely week.

We celebrated the start of Advent by singing Away in a Manger and Little Donkey and listening to some readings by Primary 4a.

In maths, we continued with subtraction and Big Maths.  We are becoming much more confident at exchanging when subtracting now and Mrs Brown is very proud of us!

We wrote our own castle poems this week.  We looked at The Magic Box by Kit Wright and we then used this style to write our own The Magic Castle poem.  We’ve been publishing them in our neatest writing and we will soon be able to bring a copy of this home.  Some of us also wrote a poem called The Magic Christmas Present, all about Christmas.

Additionally, we used our amazing art skills to paint and decorate our door.  We wanted to create a Christmas fireplace scene.  We designed baubles and stockings for a tree too.  Those of us who wrote Christmas poems also added these to the display, with a picture of a present over the top.

Our highlights from this week:

Aiden- I enjoyed learning the dances for the school disco in PE.  We learnt three dances.  The third one was the funniest one because we had in a circle.

Mariam- My favourite activity this week was decorating the door for Christmas.  I made snowflakes and stockings to add to this.

Jonah- I liked doing the Gay Gordons because we had to go in a circle and move backwards and forwards.

Stefi- My favourite was decorating the door because I enjoyed painting.

A big well done to Leah who is our hot chocolate winner this week.

Have a lovely weekend everyone and see you on Monday!

Mrs Brown

Dear Parents,

Another busy week for Primary 7 as we head into advent.

On Monday afternoon P7a led our Area Advent Service where all 4 classes got together to hear the start of the Advent story, the meaning of the wreath and candles and sing some Christmas Carrols. It was lovely being able to have all 4 classes take part again and P7b will lead next Monday’s Service.

In maths and literacy we have continued to write explanation reports and work with Fractions Decimals and Percentages.

We were working with maps on Wednesday’s outdoor learning and next week we will use these skills to complete some orienteering courses.

We have been painting as part of the school’s Christmas Door Competition and managed to get it all finished for Friday’s Deadline.

In PE we have begun our Scottish Country Dancing to prepare for our Christmas party.

And on Friday we enjoyed getting to wear out PJs to school and brought in donations to help out our local foodbank.

Ruqayyah’s highlights of the week were:

“I have really enjoyed orienteering and trying to figure out how to use a map. i have also liked doing Scottish Country dancing for our Christmas party. We have also been learning about angles and their names.”

Alessio’s highlights of the week were:

“I really liked all of the things we did this week but I liked PJ Day, it was very fun.”

This week’s Hot Chocolate at Home Winner was….

Joshua! Great job Joshua who was also our Reading Champion this week so he’s a double winner!!!

Have a great weekend,

Mr McGurn and P7a

Hello P6B families!

We have had another great week.

Miss MacGregor’s highlights:

• Creating the Christmas Door Display together
• Starting to understand how to calculate percentages of an amount and using our knowledge of division.
• Exploring different expositions and marking them against the genre targets in our Learning Groups.

Pupil highlights:

• Vivien – I enjoyed doing the Nativity Star of Light artwork
• Jayden – I enjoyed trying to catch up to P6A in the Sumdog competition. I am very glad that we managed to get to 15th place after starting in 102nd in 2 days!
• Praise – I enjoyed learning how to calculate percentages of an amount and understanding the real life skill.
• Jude – I liked creating the fraction walls to better understand equivalent fractions.

Well done to Jude who was this week’s hot chocolate winner. Jude has been working really hard across all areas this week!

Here are some photo highlights – exploring the different expositions, creating fraction walls and our finished door display!

This week we have been learning the sounds ‘l’ and ‘r’. We have used these sounds to read words and we even read a whole sentence! In writing, we wrote about our aliens and were able to describe them very well.

In maths, we have been practising our subtraction skills. We are getting very good at using our finger patterns to help us. We also talked about quick ways to read the ten frames so we do not have to always count from one.

We celebrated St Andrew’s Day by making Scotland flags and eating some delicious shortbread.

We have been learning about Advent and we have made an Advent Wreath in our classroom. We also have an Advent Calendar and we will each get a turn to reveal the picture. We also have a book Advent Calendar to open.

In Health and Wellbeing, we discussed what we do when we cough or sneeze. We took photos of each other and uploaded them to Seesaw to make an information poster.

Today we went to St Peter’s Church to visit the Planetarium. We went into a special dome and watched Ted and Plant visit the planets. We also learned about astronauts and the moon. It was great fun!

Our personal highlights this week are:

Lillian – I enjoyed being in the dome and seeing Ted and Plant crash.

Summer Rose – I enjoyed watching Ted going to space.

Vedansh – I enjoyed learning about being respectful.

Joshua – I enjoyed watching the astronauts.

Vasilisa – I enjoyed watching the planets.

Eve – I enjoyed watching the astronauts.

Miss Stebbing – I was very, very proud of P1A when they visited the Planetarium. They were very respectful and listened so well. It was great fun seeing all the stars and the planets.

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